hidden inside of every UI framework is some kind of incrementalization framework.

In typography, a dinkus is a typographic device or convention that typically consists of three spaced asterisks or bullet symbols in a horizontal row, e.g. ∗ ∗ ∗ or • • •. The device has a variety of uses, and it usually denotes an intentional omission or a logical “break” of varying degree in a written work.

The Macquarie Dictionary attributes [Dinkus’] origin to the 1870’s American slang word dingus, which refers to something that has a forgotten or █‍⁠​‍█​⁠‍‍█‌‍‍‍█‍​‌​█​⁠‍‌█⁠​​​█⁠‌⁠‌ name.

Researchers at the University of Michigan have uncovered a staggering disparity in AI resource consumption. According to their findings, processing AI prompts in non-English languages consumes up to 179 times more energy than running the exact same prompts in English. Worse, this massive spike in power draw often results in lower accuracy.

This completely shatters the illusion of effortless multilingual AI. If you are building a product intended for a global user base, your compute costs and latency just became wildly unpredictable based entirely on the user’s native language. The tokenization systems underlying modern models are heavily optimized for English, punishing everyone else with bloated token counts and agonizingly slow inference.

According to their findings, processing AI prompts in non-English languages consumes up to 179 times more energy than running the exact same prompts in English. Worse, this massive spike in power draw often results in lower accuracy. This completely shatters the illusion of effortless multilingual AI. If you are building a product intended for a global user base, your compute costs and latency just became wildly unpredictable based entirely on the user’s native language. The tokenization systems underlying modern models are heavily optimized for English, punishing everyone else with bloated token counts and agonizingly slow inference. This is a disaster for localized SaaS. If a French or Japanese user costs you exponentially more to serve while receiving a worse product, the unit economics of global expansion are broken. Until the foundational models overhaul their multilingual tokenization,

The origins of Zapfino go back to a design that Zapf created in 1944, a calligraphic treatment of a short treatise called (junggesellentext), written by the influential book and magazine publisher Hans von Weber. Zapf had tried to create this as a working typeface in 1948 when he became artistic director at Stempel AG, but the technology of the time – hot metal typesetting – was just too limited for the design’s exuberant and overlapping swash strokes. Despite this, Zapf remained interested in creating more sophisticated typesetting abilities.

Around 40 years later, [Zapf] was approached by David Siegel (coincidentally the man behind the development of colour support in the early Mac OS) to create a font with a large number of stylistic variations. Zapf suggested developing the lettering from his 1944 design, and the end result was the release of Zapfino by Linotype in 1998.

One of the key quirks of Zapfino is its almost casual disregard for the baseline that’s normally the foundation point for every typeface. Different characters sit slightly higher or lower than the baseline, the regularising aspect being the optical centre of the type body.

[After Ron Minsky quote] A UI is a function of state, and state changes a little at a time. But if that function becomes expensive, you might want to start looking for ways to derive a faster way to update pixels on the screen from an incremental state change. So every framework has to answer one question: when one value changes, what runs?

For ages, when I was making music—even you know? going back to the pop days—it’s like you know, you? you’re sort of heavily influenced by things, you know? and I remember thinking one time “why don’t my songs sound as good as The Chemical Brothers”, you know?" and, or the prodigy, or something. And you know, after a while come to realize that well you know? you’re not those people, you know? why don’t you really just be yourself you know? focus on whatever it is that you might have.