At the end of the day you often need to consider the energy efficiency of a system which is also reflected in the cost of operating it. For use cases where this is relevant the suggested MCP approach potentially offers large benefits compared to what's probably meant here by "AI".
However, the disadvantages of public access discussed in other threads need to be considered as well, therefore, I expected this only to be used for certain niche use cases. Testing and retro fitting non-public websites come to mind.
Once we have the thing working, optimization can come later.
Also MCP is not really optimal. Every prompt in a sequence of chat gets an injection of MCP capabilities. Its just simply not scalable with lots and lots of MCP servers. Not to mention the protocol changes every month and breaks things.
Furthermore, you can already do MCP like behavior, in a better way, on pretty much any model by basically writing a wrapper around the chatbot and using a system prompt which guides it to print specific text (like "action:load file"), and the wrapper can detect that text and inject the prompt. I have an agent that runs at home using this, which I also use to self improve and define actions on the fly - I ask it to write code, it writes code, then the wrapper takes that code and makes it part of the library and appends it to the system prompt on every new chat.
The point is that we should be able to take the latter, and build something that can do this automatically. Once we have the full loop complete, then we can optimize it down to minimum compute.
I never hated on Signal, on the contrary I recommend it too many people but I can say that the energy consumption on Android is in many cases abysmal for multiple years now and related issues in the Github issue tracker are being ignored. This is for me unacceptable for someone claiming to build high quality software and accepting my donations.
This Ian guy's shoe-tying tip you've linked is one of the most universally useful life-improving pieces of knowledge I have, which I try to evangelize to anyone I know who will listen. The only facts whose impact comes close are mostly household tips:
- cheap liquid dishwasher detergent including in the prewash cup instead of costly pods that deprive the prewash cycle of soap
- Put bleach in the washer's bleach dispenser and use hot water for any light sheets, no, it doesn't hurt prints or fade light colors
- cook anything you can fit in the air fryer to decrease total time ~70% vs an oven
Feature request: In the top/overview view I would like to be able to tap on each room and then the pivot point should move to the center of that room. After a double tap or tap on the top view button the pivot point should move back to the apartment center point. This will help zooming easily into each room from above.
I did this back in the day using a ublox LEA-M8F module for my PhD work following the instructions posted here:
http://www.opendigitalradio.org/lea-m8f-gpsdo
I also experimented with RTK which this module is capable of.
Now there's probably a more up to date ublox module available which could provide even better results using multi frequency GNSS etc.
ASUS Zenfone 8. One of the very few relatively small Android phones with 5G connectivity, good camera and a flagship CPU (Snapdragon 888) and not way too expensive.
This sort of thing is pretty annoying to procure. Imagine you have 20 suppliers and they all have bespoke pricing arrangements, vs you have 20 suppliers, who each charge you X per active user per month.
