{"channel":"misc","content":"ONE. https://computer.rip/2025-06-08-Omnimax.html - the history of Omnimax (one form of IMAX).\r\n\r\nThe TLDR - never profitable; it's amazing a project kept afloat by \"science museums\" for decades did as well as it did.\r\n\r\n----\r\n\r\nTWO. - [# LLMs are Cheap #] (<resource> https://www.snellman.net/blog/archive/2025-06-02-llms-are-cheap/ ) \r\n\r\nIt may be time to start a \"LLM-powered widgets\" business.\r\n\r\n<red> <<< The word << widgets >> is a bit of << legerdemain >>; it distracts from the details. the process would be:\r\n* choose a vertical (education, \"personal productivity\", law, medicine, etc.)\r\n* get a team of about five (one designer, two developers, one quality-assurance, and me)\r\n* build a suite of tools (for \"education\", not just \"a reading game to learn -op\", but \"reading games for everything in the 1st grade curriculum) (<orange> for \"law\", my cheapest estimate includes $500k to train models on specific corpuses of government legal codes and court decisions.  for education and \"personal productivity\", the regular APIs are enough.)\r\n* get to an MVP within 3 months\r\n* sell sell sell >>>\r\n\r\n----\r\n\r\nTHREE https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2025/6/8/fifa-club-world-cup-why-is-yamal-salah-ronaldo-barcelona-not-playing\r\n\r\nThere's a new soccer tournament (<green> the Club World Cup), and it probably will suck.\r\n\r\nbut: it is a dry-run for the World Cup next year.  and, for \"does Trump blow up border-control to the point this doesn't work\". (<green> we invoke Guild Law: no discussion of politics or religion)","created_at":"2025-06-09T14:52:00.858663","id":577,"llm_annotations":{},"parent_id":null,"processed_content":"<p>ONE. <a href=\"https://computer.rip/2025-06-08-Omnimax.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https://computer.rip/2025-06-08-Omnimax.html</a> - the history of Omnimax (one form of IMAX).\r</p>\n<p>The TLDR - never profitable; it's amazing a project kept afloat by \"science museums\" for decades did as well as it did.\r</p>\n<hr class=\"section-break\" />\n<p>TWO. - <span class=\"inline-title\"> LLMs are Cheap </span> <span class=\"colorblock color-green\"><span class=\"sigil\">\u2699\ufe0f</span><span class=\"colortext-content\"> <a href=\"https://www.snellman.net/blog/archive/2025-06-02-llms-are-cheap/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https://www.snellman.net/blog/archive/2025-06-02-llms-are-cheap/</a> </span></span> \r</p>\n<p>It may be time to start a \"LLM-powered widgets\" business.\r</p>\n<div class=\"mlq color-red\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"mlq-collapse\" aria-label=\"Toggle visibility\"><span class=\"mlq-collapse-icon\">\ud83d\udca1</span></button><div class=\"mlq-content\"><p> The word <span class=\"literal-text\">widgets</span> is a bit of <span class=\"literal-text\">legerdemain</span>; it distracts from the details. the process would be:\r</p>\n<p>* choose a vertical (education, \"personal productivity\", law, medicine, etc.)\r</p>\n<p>* get a team of about five (one designer, two developers, one quality-assurance, and me)\r</p>\n<p>* build a suite of tools (for \"education\", not just \"a reading game to learn -op\", but \"reading games for everything in the 1st grade curriculum) <span class=\"colorblock color-orange\"><span class=\"sigil\">\u2694\ufe0f</span><span class=\"colortext-content\"> for \"law\", my cheapest estimate includes $500k to train models on specific corpuses of government legal codes and court decisions.  for education and \"personal productivity\", the regular APIs are enough.</span></span>\r</p>\n<p>* get to an MVP within 3 months\r</p>\n<p>* sell sell sell </p></div></div>\n<hr class=\"section-break\" />\n<p>THREE <a href=\"https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2025/6/8/fifa-club-world-cup-why-is-yamal-salah-ronaldo-barcelona-not-playing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2025/6/8/fifa-club-world-cup-why-is-yamal-salah-ronaldo-barcelona-not-playing</a>\r</p>\n<p>There's a new soccer tournament <span class=\"colorblock color-green\"><span class=\"sigil\">\u2699\ufe0f</span><span class=\"colortext-content\"> the Club World Cup</span></span>, and it probably will suck.\r</p>\n<p>but: it is a dry-run for the World Cup next year.  and, for \"does Trump blow up border-control to the point this doesn't work\". <span class=\"colorblock color-green\"><span class=\"sigil\">\u2699\ufe0f</span><span class=\"colortext-content\"> we invoke Guild Law: no discussion of politics or religion</span></span></p>","quotes":[],"subject":"three links for a Monday"}