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I created an open-source Hardware Hacking Wiki – with tutorials for beginners

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Post by 0xEF »

Over2Chars wrote: post #115
0xEF wrote: post #88

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The Pinecil is great, but is definitely a terrible recommendation for anyone new to soldering. If you're trying to encourage people to learn to solder, they should be doing it with a proper station that can handle and maintain temp for extended periods. I have a Pinecil, but it's really only useful for quick on-the-fly jobs (which it excels at, in my experience) so it stays in my tool bag for work. It suffers from ov…

Ok, next time I'll do it like this So I'd like to introduce the non-sponsor for this comment, "Pincel" the open firmware soldering iron https://pine64.org/devices/pinecil/ It's running a risc-v chip on open firmware so you'll have cool points with when you whip it out at Richard Stallman's next BBQ. So it's 10000000% clear I am making the joke.

Well, I feel stupid. Apologies!

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Post by gregwebs »

I know of one family that’s doing homeschooling. It’s not because of classmates, it’s because of curriculum failures. Their school district has messed up both reading (not doing phonics) and math. So if their kid goes to school they still have to go home and spend a lot of additional time learning. If they stay home, they learn everything they need in much less than a school day. This is only possible for them due to modern education software that lets them know exactly where their kid is at and where tutoring is needed.

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Post by CamperBob2 »

numpad0 wrote: post #89
mindcrime wrote: post #60

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I have no position on whether or not CamperBob is a chat-bot, but they are definitely not being silly. Their point, as I take it, is that it's dangerous to look at the state of "AI" as it is today and then ignore the rate of change . To their stated point from above: > Otherwise, you're going to spend the rest of your career saying things like, "Well, OK, so the last model couldn't count the number of Rs in 'Strawber…

> it's dangerous to look at the state of "AI" as it is today and then ignore the rate of change . It's self driving all over again!

Self-driving cars are a social and political problem, not a technical one. If it were a technical problem, it would have been considered largely solved even in the pre-2017 era of ML.

Re: I created an open-source Hardware Hacking Wiki – with tutorials for beginners

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Post by Joel_Mckay »

CamperBob2 wrote: post #125
numpad0 wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> it's dangerous to look at the state of "AI" as it is today and then ignore the rate of change . It's self driving all over again!

Self-driving cars are a social and political problem, not a technical one. If it were a technical problem, it would have been considered largely solved even in the pre-2017 era of ML.

Imagine a tramway train car that branched its rail-line at every intersection, person, animal, lane, or obstacle it detected.

1. What would that rail system look like?

2. How reliable would that service become after (6^(4+p+a+l)) per km branches?

3. Given #2, how much computing power is needed to evaluate that state always-mutating SLAM environment?

4. Ok... now throw out GPS (don't work in cities), Lidar (don't work in direct sunlight), and Machine vision cameras (fooled by weather and environment surfaces)...

5. Peoples wishful thinking tends to hijack common sense when someone else pays the price.

Easier to redefine what "autonomous vehicle" means with "levels", rather than to recognize how difficult the problem actually is inside an unconstrained system.

I would never claim to know anything about the subject, but I did help build working platforms when I was more interested in robotics for a time.

Making them "safe" is a whole different problem domain, =3

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