• \cdot for vectors and in some cases, scalar variables, e.g., x \cdot y
• \times for numbers, e.g., 2 \times 8
• nothing for combination and scalars, e.g., 2x or xy

This is incredibly beautiful!

I can’t imagine the countless days/months spent to capture this giant squid in a very specific point of its lifecycle in the black vastness of the ocean.

The GitHub copilot example seems to indicate it’s a pricing problem. In fact this situation might indicate that users are finding it so useful that they are using it more than MS expected when they set up their monthly subscriptions. Over time, models are going to be optimized and costs will reduce.

Expecting AI to take over all human intensive tasks is not realistic but eventually it’s going to become part of a lot of repetitive tasks. Though I hope that we see more open source base models instead of the current situation with 3-4 major companies providing the base models behind most of the AI applications.