And now it’s all this

Apple’s *OS 26 icons have been getting some well-deserved criticism over the past couple of months. There was Jim Nielsen’s complaint about menu icons in macOS. Then came Nikita Prokopov’s more detailed criticism of those same icons.1 And a lot of fun...

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The inability of Claude and (especially) ChatGPT to extract data from the chart discussed in the last post gnawed at me. It seemed like the sort of thing an LLM should be able to do pretty well, but Claude’s table of values needed some careful editing...

Paul Krugman included a terrible plot in his Substack post this morning. It’s meant to support his contention that Kevin Warsh, Trump’s soon-to-be nominee for chair of the Federal Reserve, is a political hack. It does, but it’s still terrible.
Krugman’s not to blame—at least not entirely—for how bad the plot is. It was given to him by Neil Dutta, who apparently had Claude assess the monetary hawkishness of Warsh’s statements, assign a number to it, and plot those numbers against the dates...

A few days ago, I was poking around in Apple’s Weather app and came across some interesting stuff hiding behind the sunrise/sunset box. First, there’s a plot that shows the movement of the sun throughout the day, followed by sunrise and sunset times...