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Thus the “time thieves” act and how to recover your productivity

April 22, 2025 by usatoday24

Starting from the humble basis of accepting that We are not robots but peoplewe can rarely be 100% efficient throughout the day, both when meeting the workday, studies or personal tasks. However, it is very likely that at the end of the study or the study session you have the feeling that You have not advanced In your most important tasks, even if you have not stopped for a moment. According to explained in the podcast Write About Now The writer and productivity expert Laura Vanderkam, this occurs because there are certain habits and routines that act as authentic time thievesremoving minutes and hours without you realizing. Identify and face them can make a difference between A productive day and one full of frustration that affects both your work performance and your personal well -being. Time escapes in small distractions The simplest thing is that the time you dedicate to a specific task ends by diluting, drop by drop, In other distractions. It may be that while you work in a project, you are distracted when you receive a notification, answer a message or check the mail. As they commented on the Asana productivity blogeach interruption can make you lose up to 20 minutes to recover the initial concentration levels. Thus, the minutes are added and, At the end of the day, you have lost a significant amount of time In activities that were not in your plans and, what is worse, that you don’t know where all that time has gone. These time leaks usually go unnoticed because they occur as short interruptions but, in reality, the sum of all of them has a huge impact throughout the day. How to discover what you waste your time The first step to combat time thieves is to become aware of them. Sometimes you know exactly what steals your timebut other times you need to analyze it thoroughly. A simple strategy is to write down for several days in what activities You use your time. This will allow you See patterns and detect habits They make you less efficient. Check the mail As soon as the notification appears on the icon, see a video on YouTube and realize that you have been 10 in a row or send a fast message to a friend and that, without realizing it becomes a 20 -minute conversation. All sum. Detecting and being aware of such behaviors is the first step to minimize them and avoid time leaks during Concentration periods. Another useful tool is the Automatic monitoring. In most cases, we are not even aware of the amount of time we use in tasks. Luckily, Technology does know. Currently, All operating systemsboth smartphones and computers, have a monitoring function of the use of applications. This function tells the time you spend daily (or weekly) in a certain application, which will help you discover if that time is reasonable Or, on the contrary, it is a time thief. The selfish side of time Discover that you spend several hours a day communicating with your classmates with Slack or Microsoft Teams, or seeing in a weekly graphic the time you have gathered are also ways to become aware of the time you dedicate. But much more important, an opportunity to adopt measures and reduce that time applying a “more selfish” profile. After all, Your time is a finite resource And it is necessary to learn to say no and impose limits. If you can’t avoid certain distractions by establishing the “monk mode” for deactivate all notifications And stimuli outside your task, at least limit your access during working hours. For example, you can adopt the strategy of “Ulysses contract“, establishing specific schedules to check emails and social networks, instead of doing so continuously. This helps avoid the habit of entering” just a moment “and end up wasting much longer than expected. On the other hand, nonlinear communication of slack or other professional messaging applications allow to adapt the rhythm of communication to your needs. Just let your colleagues know that You need concentration breaks in which you are going to concentrate on getting your job, and that you will answer as soon as you finish it, so that they do not expect an immediate response during those periods. Reduce meetings time can Look like a chimerabut being aware of the time you spend in video call applications such as Google Meet, Zoom or Teams can make you see the working time that takes you per day and if it is possible to reduce it. A first step is to cut in 10 minutes the usual 30 -minute stripes offered by default calendar applications. On average, attention remains for 23 minutesso if you manage to scratch those 10 minutes to each meeting, at the end of the day Time gain is very remarkable. In Xataka | Lack of motivation is a problem for productivity. The trick to avoid it is simple according to science: start In Xataka | If your chair holds in a job interview, it is no accident: they are evaluating more than your curriculum Image | Unspash (Maxim Ilyahov, Lala Azizli)

How the conversation is moving to recover the lost terrain

February 12, 2025 by usatoday24

These days in Paris there was an international congress that had as an absolute focus the development of AI. The relevance of this meeting can be exceptional for the European Union, which announced an investment of 150,000 million euros in AI In the coming years, but above all it seems to have changed its position regarding the Law of AI. Less regulation, more innovation. As they point out In ReutersEurope intends to soften the regulation of AI to facilitate that the development of technology can be promoted in EU member countries. Simplify the regulation. Henna Virkkunen, the head of sovereignty, security and democracy in the European Commission, stressed that the European bloc will simplify the standards and implement them more friendly for companies. In comments to Reuters Virkkunen admitted that the regulations had to be reviewed because “there is too much regulation that overlaps. We will reduce the bureaucracy and administrative burden of our industries.” You have to catch up. French president Emmanuel Macron reaffirmed in the simplification message of Virkkunen’s regulation and added that “it is very clear that we have to resolve with the rest of the world” in the field of artificial intelligence. Even so, he stressed that “a reliable AI is necessary.” The Big Tech Council is unanimous. Like Pichai, CEO of Alphabet, commented in the event that “Europe’s productivity depends on using this emerging technology.” In Financial Times The words of Eric Schmidt stand out, I exceed Google, who said that Western countries should develop Open Source AI models so as not to lose the race with China. “Europe has to put the batteries,” he said. “The application layer is very powerful, and will make your Europe more efficient.” And that of US politicians, too. JD Vance, United States vice president, highlighted that the “massive” regulations of the EU in the matter of AI could “strangular” technology. Neither US nor the United Kingdom signed the agreement to develop a more open, inclusive and safe the AI internationally. Is it too late? The change of speech in the EU arrives more than two years after Chatgpt initiated its particular revolution, and it remains to be seen if the words of European leaders are effectively translated into an impulse for the development of AI in Europe. The French startup Mistral and the Spanish Freeepik They are good examples that there are options to be competing with the best in this field, but the regulation of AI has not facilitated at all the advance of this segment in the old continent. Hopefully the words end in effect backed by facts … and that this support is immediate. Image | Wikimedia In Xataka | France has just sealed its great play in AI: the largest campus in Europe will arrive with a multimillion -dollar Emiratí investment

If ‘the snow girl’ has left you wanting, you can recover this 6 -episodes miniseries in Netflix with a similar argument

February 12, 2025 by usatoday24

The second season of ‘The snow girl’ has become one of Netflix’s recent successes. If you have already finished with it and look for similar series, it is possible that this co -production between the United States and Germany that premiered in 2023 (curiously, very close in time to the first season of ‘The snow girl’) You are interested in its similarities with the adaptation of Javier Castillo’s novel. It’s about ‘my sweet girl’, It is also in Netflixand shows us a woman who has a curious relationship with her two children, with whom she lives retained under conditions of great security. His routine is very similar day to day and they have an order that must be fulfilled under any concept: to follow all the orders of a man who sometimes enters his room. One day, the mother manages to escape and has a car accident in the flight. In the hospital he will meet his parents, who have been looking for her for more than a decade. As you can see, a series full of turns and that is told from the perspective of the injured and semi -amnesic mother, the girl who knows endless secrets of her past life and, of course, the couple of police officers investigating the case. I inevitably remember films like ‘The Room’ and ‘Lost’that also handle issues related to disappearances for a long time and kidnappings that completely disconnect the victims of their families. If you still have any questions, a couple more data: on the one hand, it has a 100% critical score sweet In Rottren Tomatoeswhich undoubtedly makes it a very attractive proposal. In addition, it only extends by six episodes, so it is perfect for a high intensity suspense discharge that can be practically consumed of a sitting. Header | Netflix In Xataka | Only five episodes has needed this miniseries of suspense to permit to the most watched of Netflix

Amazon lost the AI train, but wants to recover it. The new Alexa with ia will arrive this month to try

February 6, 2025 by usatoday24

Something happens to Amazon. He has been delayed in the AI segment for more than two years. At least that is what seems to the user: it does not have a chatgpt rival, and although it has developed some own models, they do not compete at the moment with those of OpenAi, Google or goal. However, it seems that it will finally try to catch up. There will be news on February 26. We will have to mark that date on the calendar, because it will be when Amazon will finally present its strategy in this area. The company led by Andy Jassy He has sent invitations To various means to notify them that he will celebrate an event with a single protagonist: Alexa. Hello, new Alexa. The event will be presented by Panos Panay, who directed the Microsoft hardware division and will now present the renewed Amazon voice assistant. According to Reuters On February 14, the company’s managers will go to a special meeting to finally decide whether that new version of Alexa is prepared to come to light. Project development It has been chaos according to sources close to it. Waiting for a “remarkable” assistant with a lot of AI. We have been talking about that new version for months that some point to the call “remarkable Alexa” (“Alexa”). The great jump will be provided by the generative AI that will be available in the product and that will theoretically enhance its conversational capacity. Anthropic as a partner? It will be interesting to know which model of AI will be behind the new Alexa. Amazon has invested Friolera of 8,000 million dollars In Anthropic, Claude developer, so it seems feasible to be based on that model. But be careful, because Google too Invested 1,000 million dollars In that company of AI and they also have their own model, Gemini, which could also be an option in the renewed Alexa. There are other possibilities, of course: it is known that Amazon was working In its colossal LLM, Olympusthat it is rumored that it would have two billion parameters, approximately twice as much as GPT-4 of OpenAi. An opportunity for echo. Amazon has a spectacular opportunity here to give a new life to its smart speakers, the Amazon Echo, who were the great excuse to try to take advantage of Alexa. Achieve it, of course, will depend a lot on the quality of the service and if it really represents a substantial improvement of its options. Alexa promised to get us to speak much more with our machines (specifically, with the Echo speakers), but the truth is that few users took advantage of them for something other than establish alarms or ask about time. And for Amazon. Achieving, for example, using Alexa in a “agricultural” way, would make them not only respond to things, but did them for us. They are already able to reproduce a song or a series on the Fire TV Stick, for example, but here the possibilities grow. For example, when combining those AI models with the immense catalog of Amazon products. Ask him to make the purchase or find a certain product and save us thus time (and perhaps money) are some obvious possibilities that could take advantage of this new version of Alexa. Subscribe to Alexa. Rumors suggest that Alexa’s renewed version will be available only through a subscription. That imposes clear doubts About its success, especially when so many other models are available for free and are already very powerful for certain scenarios. If we effectively have a “premium” payment, Amazon will have to have powerful arguments to convince us that it is worth paying for that service. In Xataka | “Telephone, come my life”: Anthropic’s agent wants to change our real lives

Chips that recover energy when working

January 26, 2025 by usatoday24

Michael Frank has been working in a technological discipline that seems like science fiction for more than three decades. One that apparently pursues something impossible. And yet, it may not. The goal? Than using a chip manages to recover energy. Chips have always done the opposite. They consume energy. A lot. More and more, especially now that we are immersed In the era of glottone artificial intelligence. And yet Frank is immersed in the development of the call “reversible computing“As they explain In IEEE SpectrumLast summer Frank left his work as a scientific engineer in Sandia National Laboratories to join a very special startup called Vaire Computing. It is there where he intends to become what he has already estimated in his studies: according to his investigations, reversible computing could Allow energy efficiency 4,000 times higher to that of alternative options. In Vaire Frank and his team are working in a chip prototype that will be manufactured in the first quarter of 2025 and that is very ambitious. Even so, for the first time a chip is expected to recover energy when used in an arithmetic circuit. Then, in 2027, they hope to have a supply processor designed for artificial intelligence inference. The advanced version of said chip, which will theoretically be 4,000 times more efficient than the current ones, It will take 10 or 15 years to arrivetheir creators warn. What is reversible computing In 1961 Rolf Landauer, an IBM engineer, discovered that deleting a bit of information on a computer had an energy cost and produced heat. For him there was a solution: try to compute tasks without erasing information. A traditional xor door is not reversible: you cannot recover entries just knowing the exit. If an additional output is added, a copy of one of the inputs is reversible. Thus, the two outputs can be used to “disassemble” the door Xor and recover the entrances and, with them, the energy used in the calculation. Source: IEEE Spectrum. Landauer made clear that it seemed unchanged, because store all the information You would fill the memory With unnecessary data. More than a decade later Charles H. Bennett, physicist and information theoretical in IBM, discovered a solution. Instead of storing intermediate results in memory, you could reverse the computing process, “disbelieve it” to store only the final inputs and outputs. “Almost 100% of the energy used by a chip ends up being dissipated as heat, so we are basically evil. But in a reversible chip you never dissipate energy. Do not allow energy to become heat, and recycles internally.” The idea was taking shape in academic environments, and in the 90 Frank ended up being one of those who immersed themselves in their promises. The problem is that when developing that concept they saw that although energy was recovered in the circuit, it was lost in the external power supply. Vaire Computing was founded by researcher Hannah Earley and entrepreneur Rodfo Rosini. Earley explained In TechCrunch How “almost 100% of the energy used by a chip ends up being dissipated as heat, so we are basically missing it. But In a reversible chip you never dissipate energy. Do not allow energy to become heat, and recycles internally. “ In Varie they have apparently propose na solution with traditional CMOS transistors. To do this, they use the so -called “resonator”, a system that manages to recover energy by changing a bit from 0 to 1 so as not to turn it into heat and store most of it into the transistor itself. That idea has already been explored in the past, but in Vaire they seem to have managed to integrate that resonator into the chip. They will start with a little ambitious chip and then work on those chips for inference to which they will be theoretically what will be what will be theoretically really demonstrate How far can you get with reversible computing, also well explained in this small essay published in the Newsletter Exponential View. Of course, It is one thing to promise those efficiencies and another very different to achieve them. The proposal is very interesting and of course could raise a revolution that accelerated the development of much more powerful chips and that were not so voracious in terms of energy consumption. It remains to be seen if they will achieve it. Hopefully yes. Image | Wu Yi In Xataka | The 2 Nm chips race will start in 2025. And it will be the most fierce of all

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