Marco Torrente

Service designer, helping companies to improve and create services their customers love to use.

[Marco Torrente @mtorrente]

My first Medium post 👇

[Goodpatch Global @GoodpatchGlobal]

We just published Marco Torrente's blogpost on what a #Designathon is and how you can run one successfully: https://t.co/XoNa8NfwNz

[Marco Torrente @mtorrente]

Anyone working with .md files that are stored in Google Drive? Good news!

Finally you can open and edit them natively in Google Docs 😉

I'll still use Obsidian as my main interface for .md files but this one is handy if you want to collaborate with your team!

[Terkel @terkelg]

made a rug for your desktop so you can sweep your mess under it

[Marco Torrente @mtorrente]

@arlogilbert @thsottiaux As far as I have experienced browser tabs do remain open (even when restarting the machine) without logging in again (e.g. to social platforms). But I do agree bookmarks would be great!

[Ole Lehmann @itsolelehmann]

Uh oh. Agents will likely break the entire subscription economy.

Stanford research shows ~50% of all subscription revenue comes from people simply forgetting to cancel.

But agents don't forget.

Muse, Instinct, and Grok Bot can already go through your accounts, find every subscription you forgot about, and make you decide if you want to keep it.

And the same research found people are 4x more likely to cancel when they're forced to actively decide.

Once personal AI agents are on everyone's phone, a lot of subscription companies are going to really feel it.

[Vidit Bhargava @viditb]

Duo-Man offers the complete walkman experience on the iPhone Duo. Open the Duo to pick and 'insert' the cassette, Close the Duo to start listening.

Yes, I actually recorded the button clicks and static noise from a real Walkman!

It was fun making this at @bitrig hacks today.

[Marco Torrente @mtorrente]

This is so cool!

[Cole @colderoshay]

The life of a button... 🔊

[Linus ✦ Ekenstam @LinusEkenstam]

An analog man in a digital age.

This is Karl Lagerfelds iPod collection.

He loaded specific albums and songs onto each iPod, and put numbers/info on small stickers on each.

what’s your analog grift?

[Ole Lehmann @itsolelehmann]

there’s actually an Australian startup building AI drone shark alarms

it's called Ripper Corp, and they have this thing called SharkSpotter tech that:

1. continuously scans live drone footage for sharks across entire beaches
2. relays detections to lifeguards
3. then lets them decide whether or not to clear the water

and Australia is now scaling this shark-drone surveillance way up:

> just announced $34M in new funding (AUD)
> 70+ beaches monitored year-round
> 500k+ drone flights per year

hopefully this means fewer attacks

but it also creates a weird second-order problem

because a study in california found that sharks are around swimmers/surfers literally 97% of the time (with bites remaining extremely rare)

so once we can spot every shark near a human...

when do you clear the beach? every time? seems like there'd be evacuations every day

i think the tough part will be deciding which sightings are actually dangerous enough to clear the water

[Shashank Tripathi @sha2nk_t]

Got sick of Deutsche Bahn delays, so I built DelayBahn.

It uses historical train delay data to answer the questions that matter:
- How late is this train usually?
- Is there a more reliable alternative?
- Is that 7-min transfer actually realistic?

https://t.co/pTcGB3L5eI

[Marco Torrente @mtorrente]

@cathrynlavery My daughter’s all time favorite: My very hungry caterpillar 🐛

[Marco Torrente @mtorrente]

@fortelabs Scratch is really straight forward and easy to use https://t.co/SHlTR92HvU

[Dave Morin 🦞 @davemorin]

The global split we are seeing at OpenClaw is wild:

In America, installing OpenClaw on your work computer gets you fired.

In China, not installing OpenClaw gets you fired.

Two completely different theories of the next decade.

[Marco Torrente @mtorrente]

@JamesBuildsTech @openclaw @steipete Same here…

[Marco Torrente @mtorrente]

@NotebookLM Wow this is great news, thanks a lot!!!

[Marco Torrente @mtorrente]

Great idea!!

[Jason Fried @jasonfried]

Zoom/Teams needs a feature that lets you replace your screen with a full screen "I'll be right back" sign for those times when you have to leave for a minute (someone's at the door, Fedex delivery, kid calling for you, etc).

Right now you have to turn off your camera which doesn't convey why you aren't there. Are you there but don't want your camera on? Are you away for a minute and will be right back? Something else?

A fun twist could even be one of those signs small retailers sometime put on their door that says "Out to lunch" or "Back in a few" with the little clock that shows when they'll be back. This could be similar but you'd have a simple dial (or button selection) to say something like "3 minutes" or whatever.

Anyway, just an idea based on constant real-world experiences.

[Marco Torrente @mtorrente]

@elizlaraki I can’t wait until I finally can sort my saved items as “most recent”

[Marco Torrente @mtorrente]

@Galileo_AI #bensbites

[Linus ✦ Ekenstam @LinusEkenstam]

If it’s not clear yet, this is what I think will happen soon.

Every major tech company except Apple has announced their own LLM.

Apple have spent years perfecting their on-device neural engine. Capable of some absolute insane operations. Loads of compute in a small and energy efficient form factor.

With M1, M2 & soon M3 the neural engine is even more powerful than their A series mobile chipsets.

While we currently need the cloud to run ChatGPT and it’s clunky, I think Apple is going to blow everyone out of the water here. Both on desktop class hardware and mobile.

I think Apple will be launching their own secure and private LLM that runs on device (edge compute). And when necessary it offloads more heavy workloads to a cloud based LLM that’s optimized for heavier tasks. So we will initially have some hybrid.

Personal, with tight hardware and software integration this AI will be omnipresent. Apple will probably use this to sell a lot of new hardware that they claim is needed to run this. They will make a lot of moneys.

For me the LLM’s will form the new protocol level technology upon which most new software will be built. We will have to re-wire our core understanding about what an application is.

Single-use apps will be a huge thing. If you need to solve a unique problem, and nobody has ever done software for that because not enough market. With an LLM even a problem with only one user, will be doable, enter your ask, and code gets written, problem gets solved. Runtime ends, app dies. Done. Single use apps are born.

It’s hard to predict or try to understand how the world will look just 10 years from today. It will be very different, we have passed the inflection point, the rocket engines have been lit. We’ve taken off.

Add to all the above that every single field, category and market will be disrupted at the same time. And not only with text/coding but with any multi-media we have. Images, video & audio. Anything we can come up with can and will be enhanced or disrupted by AI.

Once we got more people that will have their AI A-ha moment the rate of change and adoption will continue to increase. This will continue until we have global access and coverage.

People will get left behind, and this will be one of the most important things to try to combat. Having a 0% left behind policy. We need to make sure AI benefits all.

We’re living through a paradigm shift, and we’re witness a new protocol level technology. We’re seeing it arrive in real-time and most people have no clue about what’s about to happen.

I’m not an AI alarmist, I’m an AI gardener, and optimist.

We will have time to adapt. Not as long as we had during the Industrial Revolution, but enough time to make sure we have a chance at a positive outcome.

We’re moving away from the Information Age into the Age of Intelligence. With unlimited access to intelligence anywhere, anytime.

18th Mars 2023 - Linus Ekenstam

[Marco Torrente @mtorrente]

@heyeaslo Skipping snacking altogether to ensure a healthy diet 😉

[Marco Torrente @mtorrente]

@ModestMitkus 👋