exmadscientist

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by exmadscientist 4d ago
We may or may not have hit the physical point of no return. It doesn't really matter, because we obviously hit the point of political no return a long time ago. In too much of the world, nobody with any kind of power cares. (My own cou
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by exmadscientist 5d ago
Fair point on BS 1363 not being EU, and about UK electricians not being incompetent (I actually didn't know they were careful unlike the continent -- that's just one of those things that once you have to deal with the insanity tha
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by exmadscientist 5d ago
They're all horrid to step on, so that's not really worth discussing. The US plug (NEMA 1-15P is the 2-prong version, or 5-15P for the most common 3-prong grounded) is actually pretty decent. They stay in sockets pretty well if
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by exmadscientist 11d ago
Really? I thought they were trite and not particularly engaged with the source matter. Why did you like them? The one at the beginning was far more interesting.
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by exmadscientist 11d ago
> (I'm guessing) Please don't do this. It's not helpful.
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by exmadscientist 16d ago
One of the most basic safeguards -- necessary, not sufficient -- for AI and even general technology in healthcare should be transparency. Keep the model a black box (if you really must ), but every single input, output, and decision should
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by exmadscientist 19d ago
> bipolar I think this is more relevant than people give it credit for. While bipolar depression and unipolar (major) depression might generally be functionally indistinguishable from the outside, they seem to have genuinely different or
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by exmadscientist 26d ago
The nice thing about "ranking" stuff for yourself and not for anyone else is that some years can have three "best of the year" and some can have none. Embrace the fuzziness inherent in the system. Because, man, some year
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by exmadscientist 26d ago
That's part of why I like the fuzziness. And why it's a really great system looking back retrospectively. I don't keep a reading journal, but if I glance over physical books in my house or reading history on my ereader, ranki
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by exmadscientist 26d ago
I'm not sure if you're just choosing not to engage fully with what I wrote or if you're trying to make some other point, but for what it's worth I do not and did not write any of my comments here with AI. So that wasn&#x
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by exmadscientist 26d ago
Oh, that's great! I'm going to have to remember that!
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by exmadscientist 27d ago
> Why this word, this scene, this character, and not some other one? The "why this not that , even when it looks like that would do just fine" style of differential analysis is an exquisitely powerful analytical to
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by exmadscientist 1mo ago
Exactly. And if an appellate court got involved and somehow found a judge outsourced their judging to an AI, it's hard to imagine them accepting that. A "polite suggestion" that the relevant bar or judicial association look
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by exmadscientist 1mo ago
Are you trying to get to a working simulator, a working core in HDL/FPGA, a thoroughly debugged and validated core in HDL, a fast core in HDL, a validated fast core in HDL, or functioning silicon in hand? I'd guess low six figures
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by exmadscientist 1mo ago
Very true... but I can't help but note that basically every person I've ever met with significant experience with multiple architectures at this level, and not connected in some way to RISC-V, utterly hates the thing. That feels l
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by exmadscientist 1mo ago
I said "me" and "four weeks" because laying out an ISA is a pretty straightforward job for one person in one month. The deliverable would be a (theoretically) complete specification PDF like RISC-V's. I have little
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by exmadscientist 1mo ago
It is the easy part. Four weeks is plenty of time. That's why it's so bizarre that the RISC-V design is so awful . The hard part is the software support side (though, as comments elsewhere in the thread point out, AI is pretty
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by exmadscientist 1mo ago
> You don't need to probe what hardware you're running on because you know being the manufacturer. The code is bespoke for your solution and nothing more. No foreign code is going to run on it. In practice, this is not the case
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by exmadscientist 1mo ago
> After being asked for the Nth time to explain, I decided to put it all down in one place so that I could simply link to it when asked next. Bookmarked, because I've needed the same. The worst part of all this is that they really
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by exmadscientist 1mo ago
I haven't served in the military, but I have been onsite in awful places at someone else's schedule and whim. Getting extended arbitrarily is horrible. The only thing worse is when they let someone else go home early, and force
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by exmadscientist 1mo ago
There's massive differences between "my site isn't hugely popular, but I get some readers", "my site is up and findable but genuinely no one visits except scraping bots" and "it's available, people wo
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by exmadscientist 1mo ago
It knows you, but it doesn't know me. Perhaps you are legitimately noteworthy enough to not worry about this! My experience being on the searching end is that these things are terrible about attribution of where they find anything
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by exmadscientist 1mo ago
The danger that's concerning people (rightly or wrongly) isn't that LLMs are going to be an intermediary to your website. It's that they'll be the only thing reading it. No one will ever read your post or know what you
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by exmadscientist 1mo ago
The problem is that (we have every reason to believe) models like Claude were trained on existing translations. Now they're being used to generate things that are direct replacements for those translations in the marketplace. This is
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by exmadscientist 1mo ago
That shield is a drain wire combined with either a woven braid (most effective at lower frequencies) or a solid aluminized mylar foil (most effective at higher frequencies), or, for the best cables, both together. A USB-C cable really shoul
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by exmadscientist 1mo ago
We had good results testing Cable Matters stuff here at work, but that was for non-critical use so I didn't go too hard on the tests. (Actually, I didn't go too hard on any of it since it was mostly make-work from a manager trying
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by exmadscientist 1mo ago
I'm not so sure about cheap. All the cheap ones I've tried have been pretty flaky, and ended up in the junk bin. I picked up this guy for work: https://bit-trade-one.co.jp/en/adusbcim/ and it's been
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by exmadscientist 1mo ago
I wish there were more domestic assembly companies that catered to high-mix/short-run. The few there are are mostly terrible or unaffordable. But it's a tough business to be in. Your competition is JLCPCB on the one end and the bo
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by exmadscientist 1mo ago
No, I mean all LEDs. The cathode marks are basically randomly assigned. This is because each company more or less designs one leadframe/package structure per size or type of LED. Sounds reasonable, right? But LED dice aren't mad
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by exmadscientist 1mo ago
> If the assembly fab had access to the schematic (I know a lot of people wouldn't want to share the schematic, but if we suppose that's not a problem), would that clarify most situations? Haha, no, not at all; that's a di

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