There might be a really good conclusion in this article but I had to give up halfway through. The LLM-writing chapter after chapter is unbearable, full of short sentences leading into paragraphs that read like LinkedIn posts.
> AlphaFold solved protein structure prediction, a fifty-year problem, not in decades but in a fraction of the time traditional research would have required. Not by thinking like a biologist. By finding patterns at a scale no human could reach. That is a domain detonation. Not progress. A before-and-after. The same logic is now moving through radiology, legal research, financial analysis, drug discovery, software engineering.
If you have good ideas, good insights and good stories, they deserve your own words. If you can't respect your own ideas enough to spend time writing them down and forming them into paragraphs and sentences, why should I respect them any more?
I have an XT-1 from 2015 (still working!) and recently started considering upgrading to an XT-5 but I'm a little hesitant to buy a "new" camera first released in 2023 that still retails for almost the same price as two years ago. I'm so torn between just going for it and waiting (who knows how long) for the X-T6 to come out. Perhaps I should just try to find a good deal on an X-T4.
Innovation is very slow in photography world these days, X-T5 made a big jump in MP count compared to X-T4, but resolution aside image quality is pretty much the same, and other improvements were marginal.
I still use X-T2, and it has not really aged, even when compared to my X100V. Infamous Fuji AF is where they progress slowly but steadily, so that's the primary feature that I'd look into when choosing between generations.
If it helps, I pay reasonably close attention to Fuji rumors because I'm deep in the ecosystem, and at present there appears to be no indication that an XT-6 is coming any time soon. They just released the GFX100RF and XE-5, plus there are rumors of an X-T30 III soon, and with all that in the pipeline I doubt they are also finishing up an XT-6. The -4 and -5 are still great cameras, I would just go for whichever of those you think is a better deal.
How much does Apple pay every networking equipment manufacturer, ISP or carrier upon which its market depends on? Last time I checked Apple devices don't operate on an Apple-exclusive worldwide mobile internet network.
Apple users pay carriers so much money that for half a decade there was substantial competition to be the exclusive carrier for iPhone and even still carriers will pay Apple users to become their customers through device subsidies.
> AlphaFold solved protein structure prediction, a fifty-year problem, not in decades but in a fraction of the time traditional research would have required. Not by thinking like a biologist. By finding patterns at a scale no human could reach. That is a domain detonation. Not progress. A before-and-after. The same logic is now moving through radiology, legal research, financial analysis, drug discovery, software engineering.
If you have good ideas, good insights and good stories, they deserve your own words. If you can't respect your own ideas enough to spend time writing them down and forming them into paragraphs and sentences, why should I respect them any more?
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