705: Relentless in a Gentle Way

• Pre-show: Marco may have to dance with the devil (home-assistant.io)

• Daikin (daikincomfort.com)

• Home Assistant integration (home-assistant.io/integrations/daikin)

• Home Assistant Green (home-assistant.io/green)

• Follow-up:

• The OpenAI doughnut

• What if it’s an eye? (via Elijah Yap)

• Or perhaps red blood cell (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_blood_cell) shaped? (via Chris Lawrence)

• Biconcave disc (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biconcave_disc)

• Time Capsule was to solve the laptop-backup problem

• Multiple Apple IDs with the same number (via Adam Wunn)

• RAMageddon

• Apple gets lower display prices (macrumors.com/2026/08/12/iphone-18-pro-lower-o…)

• Apple raises trade-in values (9to5mac.com/2026/08/06/apple-raises-trade-in-v…)

• 🎉 Unforgetful is out! (marco.org/2026/08/14/unforgetful) 🎉

• E-Mail Addresses That Would be Really Annoying to Give Out Over the Phone (mcsweeneys.net/articles/e-mail-addresses-that-…)

• Skybridge (github.com/marcoarment/Blackbird/tree/fable)

• Mac Power Users #861: Stephen Builds a New Task App (relay.fm/mpu/861)

• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban

• Quitter (marco.org/2016/05/02/quitter)

• Forecast (overcast.fm/forecast)

• AI watermarking (support.claude.com/en/articles/16266773-how-cl…)

• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography

• How Claude’s text watermark works (anthropic.com/news/claude-text-watermark)

• Pseudorandom number generator (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudorandom_number_gene…)

• A wonderful visual guide (declaude.org/watermarking)

• Some 3Blue1Brown (3blue1brown.com) homework

• LLMs explained briefly (youtube.com/watch?v=LPZh9BOjkQs)

• Next-word prediction probabilities (youtube.com/watch?v=LPZh9BOjkQs&t=6m6s)

• Transformers, the tech behind LLMs (youtube.com/watch?v=wjZofJX0v4M)

• Temperature gives more weight to the less-probable (youtube.com/watch?v=wjZofJX0v4M&t=23m55s)

• Image (cdn.atp.fm/images/20260816-llm-temperature.png…)

• Gruber’s take (daringfireball.net/2026/08/anthropics_watermar…)

• Some responses to Gruber

• Dan Moren (sixcolors.com/post/2026/08/llms-arent-writing)

• Daniel Jalkut (bitsplitting.org/2026/08/17/ai-cant-adulterate…)

• Gruber’s reply to the rebuttals (daringfireball.net/2026/08/follow-up_thoughts_…)

• Dithering, 14 August: “Watermarks” (daringfireball.net/2026/08/follow-up_thoughts_…)

• I Made This (hypercritical.co/2024/01/11/i-made-this)

• Post-show: Casey has news

• CarMax (carmax.com)

• Previously on ATP… (atp.fm/290)

• BMW i4 (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_i4)

• San Remo Green (individual.bmw-m.com/G26-41HD-C4E)

• A Better Route Planner (abetterrouteplanner.com)

• EV Stupidity Checklist (hypercritical.co/2026/05/29/ev-stupidity-check…)

• Members-only (atp.fm/join) ATP Overtime: Other people’s phones (based on Stephen Robles’ video (youtube.com/watch?v=mRT_YVdAgB0))

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