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Jimi Hendrix was a systems engineer

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Re: Jimi Hendrix was a systems engineer

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Post by SJC_Hacker »

alephnerd wrote: post #11

This is why I feel the recentish (last 10-15 years) shift in decoupling CS curricula from EE and CE fundamentals in the US is doing a massive disservice to newer students entering the industry. DSP, Control Engineering, Circuit Design, understanding pipelining and caching, and other fundamentals are important for people to understand higher levels of the abstraction layers (eg. much of deep learning is built on top o…

I guess it depends on where you went. I was a CS student at Virginia Tech in the late 90s. The CS department wasn't even in the engineering school. We did have to take computer architechture which was the only courses other than math/physics we had in common with EE/CE

I know at MIT it was (and I think still is) one major - EECS, and students had substantial latitude on how much they wanted to concentrate into hardware or software at least after the intro courses.

Re: Jimi Hendrix was a systems engineer

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Post by ForOldHack »

stewarts wrote: post #68
consumer451 wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just wanted to relate a story. I was speaking with my 14 year old nephew via messaging last month. It was about a deep topic, synthetic consciousness. He wrote such an intelligent reply that I asked him: hey, was this from an LLM? He was insulted. I did research with his parents and found out that 90% no, he's just a very smart kid. Is there a name for this this mode of confusion yet?

Strikes me as an opposite of the Uncanny Valley.

The last person who said that to me we John Klinenburg, Cornell.

Re: Jimi Hendrix was a systems engineer

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Post by ForOldHack »

nerdsniper wrote: post #16
yayitswei wrote: post #8

This is one of the few articles where I noticed a bunch of LLM-isms and still read to the end because it was interesting.

LLM-isms are tolerably bad. LLM's narrative ability is intolerably terrible. As others said, because a human actually wrote the overall narration for this, it was still compelling to read. The mistake would be skipping a well-narrated and thoughtful article just because of a few bad LLMisms. I think LLM's lack of "theory of mind" leads to them severely underperforming on narration and humor.

Ahh... Someone well read who has taste. Thanks.

Re: Jimi Hendrix was a systems engineer

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Post by ForOldHack »

mkehrt wrote: post #63
yayitswei wrote: post #8

This is one of the few articles where I noticed a bunch of LLM-isms and still read to the end because it was interesting.

It doesn't read like an LLM to me. What are you seeing?

Look for a tiny mistake, like someone who is a native speaker of another language would NOT make. Eustomer. What?

Re: Jimi Hendrix was a systems engineer

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Post by xcf_seetan »

jrm4 wrote: post #103
solomonb wrote: post #86

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Haha that is a great highly expressive counter example! However, as far as versatility of sound I still think the guitar+tube amp wins as you have access to all of western music theory and techniques as its still a traditional string instrument.

Oh I'll fight you there. Turntable wins because you have access to LITERALLY ALL RECORDED MUSIC EVER :)

Instantly? Out of your head? Also for something really new and creative? ;)

Re: Jimi Hendrix was a systems engineer

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Post by grougnax »

purplekohav wrote: post #24
yayitswei wrote: post #8

This is one of the few articles where I noticed a bunch of LLM-isms and still read to the end because it was interesting.

Hi! I work at IEEE Spectrum and there's no way an LLM wrote this. We have a pretty strict Generative AI use policy (bottom of this page https://spectrum.ieee.org/about ). I'm guessing this is from writers using actual writing techniques that Gen AI stole from...

Even this commentary looks like it's written by an LLM.

Re: Jimi Hendrix was a systems engineer

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Post by zigman1 »

mark_l_watson wrote: post #125

The amazing thing is that Hendrix during live performances has the same wonderful effects as he got in the studio. I only saw Hendrix play live one time, that was in San Diego a few weeks before he died in England.

> I only saw Hendrix play live one time

I love how nonchalantly you threw this one in. I am proper jealous, how was it?

On your first remark, I agree. This is why I love Dire Straits and Mark Knopfler. The studio recordings are amazing, and then you listen to their live stuff and it's even better.

Re: Jimi Hendrix was a systems engineer

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Post by sehugg »

purplekohav wrote: post #24
yayitswei wrote: post #8

This is one of the few articles where I noticed a bunch of LLM-isms and still read to the end because it was interesting.

Hi! I work at IEEE Spectrum and there's no way an LLM wrote this. We have a pretty strict Generative AI use policy (bottom of this page https://spectrum.ieee.org/about ). I'm guessing this is from writers using actual writing techniques that Gen AI stole from...

That policy doesn't explicitly disallow writers from using LLMs as part of their process, nor does it mention reviewing submissions for content that could be LLM-generated.

I like some of the ideas in the article but there are some very "it wasn't just A, it was B" sentences in there. IEEE has a higher standard.

Re: Jimi Hendrix was a systems engineer

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Post by zigman1 »

tclancy wrote: post #78
RyanOD wrote: post #46

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Oh wow! This is incredible...thanks for sharing.

Ha, you won’t be thanking me once it consumes your life. Join us. We all float down here.

Omg man, thanks for ruining my life! I wish I would have this when I was obsessed with it as a teenager in 2010s, and no one else liked similar music.
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