602: A Glimpse of a Better World

Accidental Tech Podcast

• Pre-show: Apple’s packaging is still ★★★★★
• Join us in raising money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
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• Follow-up:
  • Overcast 2024.8.2 update
  • Downsides to visual screen capture indications (via Josh Hattersly)
  • John makes it through the Apple Intelligence waitlist
  • Getting Apple Intelligence to create a memory of dirt-covered children (via Simon)
  • Prompt-injection on Apple Intelligence by Evan Zhou
  • Adding grammar constraints to LLMs
    • Llama documentation (via Stephen Tierney)
    • LLM Generation with Grammar Augmentation
      • More from an author
    • A summary found on Reddit
    • OpenAI’s “structured outputs”
  • Android’s superior notification history vs. iOS (via Nate)
• Apple’s Fall 2024 iPhone Event
  • Apple doubling RAM in Macs?
    • Desktop RAM history
    • Laptop RAM history
  • iPhone 17 (2026) to feature 12GB RAM?
  • iPhone 16 camera improvements
    • Halide
      • Process Zero
    • JPEG-XL
• Ask ATP:
  • Restore a new phone from backup or start anew? (via Tom Thorpe)
  • What happens to Apple Intelligence training for next year? (via Michael Quinn)
• Post-show: It’s time for fall vaccinations
• Members-only ATP Overtime: Foldable all-screen MacBook rumors
  • Concept art

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