Is this within Codex? What region and timezone? I wonder if you could be seeing something similar to the stories we see here on HN of Anthropic losing quality in US timezones.
> It’s not that hard to picture people spending 8+ hours a day going through these windows for years if not decades to come, and it’s not hard to add and multiply all...
This is key to being a product manager, as well as a UX designer. It is the single most important lesson to learn for anyone managing stable, longterm software.
I used to be the PM for the Delphi IDE (RAD Studio, C++Builder) and we did a UX refresh. The software needed it, it wasn't arbitrary (there is an old product management joke: if you don't know what to do, do a UX refresh. Same as a CEO: don't know what to do, do an acquisition.) But it was needed, and IMO we did a good job.
This specific view -- that people use our software eight hours a day and we need to respect that through retaining expected behaviour, not arbitrarily moving things, and so much more -- was the guiding principle through that work. Toolbars stayed with the same contents; when settings pages were reorganised, it was with thought and care and we communicated why so that people would understand; UI was more adjusted than redone.
It was not perfect work, but it was done with an attitude of respect for users, and an attitude of minimising surprise. I hope and believe that was visible.
None of it lost functionality like this, which looks like they used an entirely new UI framework under the hood. I wouldn't be surprised to hear Photoshop was using some web renderer these days to render their UI.
I was a heavy user of Delphi from when it first appeared in the 1990s until 2010, and I can't remember ever being annoyed by a UX change across all the versions I used over all those years, so thanks for your efforts! I guess this is one of those things that you only notice when someone doesn't respect it, like in this case (or Microsoft feeling obligated to do a UX refresh for the bundled applications with every new Windows version), but when you notice it, it annoys you even more...
That was before my time, so I am the wrong person to thank! :) But I am in weekly contact with at least one PM overlapping that time so I will pass that on. Kinds words, I appreciate it.
If I understand this: the issue is that mouse physiology doesn't really represent human physiology, so they have a mapping from one to the other used to predict what happens in mouse experiments to know what the effect would be on humans?
But this specifically is an AI model (like a LLM) not trained on text, but on specific medical data: "18,963-plex spatial transcriptomics" [0].
Somewhat, we are assuming that a model trained on human data entirely is able to 'project' mouse data into a human transcriptomic space. It feels like something that should obviously fail (isn't it out of distribution?), but it works surprisingly well according to the perturbation controls we had! Morphology of tissue may simply be a rather universal substrate.
And yes, it is trained on 18,963-plex spatial transcriptomics :)
This is sad. A while back I updated my SE, and considered either a second-hand Mini (since they weren't being made) or a 16. I got the 16 Pro.
Plus side: great camera, love the zoom.
Minus side: worst iPhone I've ever owned. Heavy. Big. New flashy camera touch sensitive button is really annoying (you can slide along it by accident and it changes things, it's not just a button; also, sometimes you click it once to bring up the camera, sometimes twice, it's not clear when or why.)
I miss the smaller, physical button SEs. I desperately miss compact, usable hardware.
> DRM authors and implementors know it doesnt work
Really? I thought Denuvo (this one) and maybe others were famous for being genuinely effective. Unless I'm muddling them up (I have memory from reading articles a few years ago) this was a library that outright prevented piracy as well as cheats for significant periods of time for a wide variety of games.
> But I have friends who used to self publish some small esoteric fiction. This commonplace theft has basically made them stop
If you're writing for money, maybe. If you're writing for the love of writing, it won't.
More, you hear of authors who encourage their books to be made available without DRM, who know or silently encourage their books to end up on torrent / library sites. They want their books to be read.
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