About this episode

The episode discusses various technology topics including Home Assistant integration, AI watermarking, and recent Apple product updates.

Pre-show: Marco may have to dance with the devil Daikin Home Assistant integration Home Assistant Green Follow-up: The OpenAI doughnut What if it’s an eye? (via Elijah Yap) Or perhaps red blood cell shaped? (via Chris Lawrence) Biconcave disc Time Capsule was to solve the laptop-backup problem Multiple Apple IDs with the same number (via Adam Wunn) RAMageddon Apple gets lower display prices Apple raises trade-in values 🎉 Unforgetful is out! 🎉 E-Mail Addresses That Would be Really Annoying to Give Out Over the Phone Skybridge Mac Power Users #861: Stephen Builds a New Task App Kanban Quitter Forecast AI watermarking Steganography How Claude’s text watermark works Pseudorandom number generator A wonderful visual guide Some 3Blue1Brown homework LLMs explained briefly Next-word prediction probabilities Transformers, the tech behind LLMs Temperature gives more weight to the less-probable Image Gruber’s take Some responses to Gruber Dan Moren Daniel Jalkut Gruber’s reply to the rebuttals Dithering, 14 August: “Watermarks” I Made This Post-show: Casey has news CarMax Previously on ATP… BMW i4 San Remo Green A Better Route Planner EV Stupidity…

People in this episode

Hosts: Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa

Topics covered

• Home Assistant
• Apple products
• AI technology
• watermarking
• EVs
• podcast news

Keywords

• Home Assistant
• OpenAI
• Apple
• watermarking
• EV
• podcast
• technology

Sponsors

Tailscale

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: OpenAI, Apple

Books & works: Unforgetful, Mac Power Users #861, Dithering, 14 August

Places: BMW

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