Absolutely! I have both the AirPods Max and the Bose QC Ultra and even though my whole ecosystem is Apple, the QC Ultra is a lot more comfortable reliable on day to day usage. Comfort is due to weight, and reliability is the batter is predictably on the QC Ultra, but on the Max I never know if the battery went all down because I can't turn it off.
So Microsoft is actually using 2 bits instead of 1.58. In this case they could represent -1, 0, 1, 2. As inhibitory synapses account for 20%-30%, this could map well to how biological brains are structured.
In the human brain most synapses are indeed excitatory, while a minority is inhibitory.
No concise HN comment will give you a complete picture of whats currently known about the human brain, so a platitude necessarily follows:
We call the nearly touching interfaces between neurons synapses, small packets / droplets of neurotransmitter are sent across this interface from the source to the target neuron. Such signals can be excitatory (promote the probability of excitation of the target firing soon) or inhibitory (inhibits the probability of the target firing soon). There are 2 types of sensitive areas on your average neuron: the dendrites (long branching tentacles, that receive excitatory signals) and the cell body where all the signals are accumulated to a local instantaneous "sum" is also sensitive to synaptic activation, but the synapses on the cell body are inhibitory, when sufficiently inhibited the neuron will refuse to fire its axons, so the inhibitory synapses on the cell body can gate the cumulative signal and prevent it from triggering this neuron temporarily. If the neuron does fire, this propagates along the axons (another type of branching tentacles, which lead to yet other neurons, sometimes touching them excitatorily at their dendrite, sometimes touching a neuron inhibitorily at their cell body.
It is really truly incredible that this mess of microscopic meat plumbing encodes everything we see, think, and do. Terrifying and amazing all at once.
I did not realize all the dendritic synapses were excitatory, I always thought it depended on the specific neurotransmitters released. Thanks, this is cool. I am curious what will happen when we build LLMs that have the equivalent of chemical diffusions between synaptic release areas as well as the temporality of spiking neural nets.
"Dye also contributed greatly to the design language of iOS 7 in 2013. In 2015, Dye became the head of Apple's user interface design team. In 2022, he played an integral role in the creation of the Dynamic Island, a feature on iPhones and then in 2025, he led the design of Liquid Glass."
Left for Meta in Dec 2025. Hopefully things normalize a bit? Wishful thinking, I suppose.
Liquid Glass is less performant, and the interactions are less reliable due to the bouncing and wobbling. Also all the transparency makes it harder to read.
A bad "upgrade", but thankfully the designer who fathered this is gone from Apple.
Not paying attention on the train, even in 2025 girliepop-influencer-Instragram-latte-art New York, is not the smartest. You're probably better off during rush hour, but being aware of your surroundings is never a bad idea, even in "safe" New York.
Meanwhile, on another news website:
"Cops still searching for ‘volatile’ activist whose death threats shut down OpenAI office
The ChatGPT maker’s HQ was locked down after a former member of the protest group Stop AI allegedly threatened murder."[1]
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