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I personally have been trying to get a financial security cushion for the last ten years or so (and failing) so I don't take my own feelings into account; AI hasn't made me more fr…

Hmm. Forget about desktops. I'm programming a microcontroller which is actually reasonably priced and has gotten all its 32Mb of RAM in the same die as the processor, but I'm getti…

> Both premises seem laughably unlikely to me. Yeah, that's not gonna happen. > The AGI-pilled must think one of two things; I'm cynical and I believe that AI will be our undoing. …

I think the guy is right on point at least when it comes to therapies. But he is also missing one major angle: we are no longer in control; our systems are. If we were to vote on t…

Replace "books" with "human brains" and you have a "warehouse" ready for a grim science fiction project. Or, increasingly likely, a prophecy.

I like the "cognitive debt" term. With the latest models, what I've observed is that they are really good, but I don't use them to write main code because I need to know what I'm d…

> What am I missing? Their marketing department :-) . I'm only half-joking; those guys are hard at work finding the best product-market fit for ChatGPT/Claude. "Product market fit"…

This is AI-writes-too-well is a problem with many solutions. Here's a slightly unconventional one: if an author has enough skin in their book, they could just do as Tolkien and sin…

Hmm, those are some worrying news for Zephyr, but also for Linux. For reasons that escape my full understanding, a lot of embedded hardware needs Linux to work. If Zephyr, which I …

I loved the video. Also, I had a lot of fun watching it while imagining I was living in 2051 and this whole progression had ran its course. It's impossible to predict the future, b…

It's a movie for theaters and not a flashback edgy post; the success of the work is about pleasing the audience. That is already a thing in Homer's original Odyssey, at least as I …

A bit tangential, and in the topic of nostalgia for old ways, remember when every block had a photo shop? Couldn’t we get a “PCB shop” in our bright near future? I wonder if the de…

There's often an issue of perspective. Imagine you visit an 11th century monk in the occupation of copying manuscripts by candle light. This is a guy that spends long cold winters …

Interesting that you bring daydreaming to the conversation. I've got an issue with it, and it's that I get interesting ideas then. But nothing comes out unless I sit in front of a …

I have had, and continue having, way above average use for my handwriting. It works for all sorts of math, quick diagrams on anything from geometric reasoning to electronics, compo…

It doesn't make me happy to say it, but the American LLM companies were first. Capital in the rest of the world is way more conservative, and I can't imagine the mega-investments O…

This. Forgetting is the biggest crime. Anything in the other direction is atoning.

Well if AI destroys bad music videos by making them cost $25, I say it's a win. What will be left will be seriously scripted productions.

Another day, another model and another pelican :-) I can't help but wonder where is the trend going? What will we have in five years? Maybe it will all have puttered out, and we wi…

PCBs are very neat, but that shipping time is a boomer when you are prototyping and you really don’t know what you are doing.

Honestly, I don't take offense at the joke. There's a reason freedom of expression has some degree of protection in many countries, and it is so that people can slander each other'…

A few years ago I bought a SUP and there was a motto on it "life is easy: just add water". I've done enough with that SUP to learn that the motto is actually true. I can imagine so…

Deeply disappointed to read it doesn't work for iconoclasts.

Up to five years ago[^1], we lived an age of pure speculation about intelligence and minds. That age brought about multiple theories of the mind, and to me, their finest legacy are…

So, we are giving up privacy in all our electronic communications because a bunch of companies can’t stop running algorithms to drive up engagement? From the article above, it seem…