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by XRG 7d ago
Heh, when I read the symptoms: “Some exhibited “haunted” behavior, seemingly jumping to random sections of the mcu program code, outputting messages on the display that made no sense given the context. One of them appeared to work in slow m
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by XRG 12d ago
As someone who does both hardware design (mostly high precision analog electronics) and software engineering, the difference between both fields in AI capability is striking. Models like Fable and Astra can provide lots of interesting insig
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by XRG 13d ago
Here’s one crucial difference: there’s overwhelming evidence that human emissions have an effect on our climate. The mechanisms are generally well-understood and the research is widely disseminated and easily available to anyone that’s inte
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by XRG 25d ago
Boredom may cause teenagers to commit acts of vandalism; it’s not a typical cause for revolution. (That would be things like famine, gross inequality, severe injustices and so on.)
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by XRG 27d ago
From the article: “For well over a decade, the reliability data that exists (and I think this is backed up by the anecdotal experience that mechanics who work on Volvos have) is that Volvo reliability is mediocre to poor, but of course Volv
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by XRG 1mo ago
There is a confounding variable, however -- the person is most likely a good dev. It stands to reason that they've had a decent career at least since then.
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by XRG 3mo ago
It is not necessarily untrue (source: am currently involved in battery R&D). However, the degree to which it is true will vary strongly based on the particular choice of chemistry, what sort of additives/agents are used (e.g. scave
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by XRG 3mo ago
Goes to show that having a creation date placed somewhere near the top of an article or blog post is a good idea.
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by XRG 3mo ago
Dear ChatGPT, how can I patch a hole in my sock?
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by XRG 3mo ago
As a side-gig I taught within the doctoral education program for several high-ranking universities in Europe for about a decade (over a thousand PhD candidates). My impression is that nearly all funding for PhD projects flows to fields like
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by XRG 8mo ago
My first guess was that they used an external brick for the power supply with a relatively low output voltage--that would eliminate a lot of the CE test load. However, a cursory glance at the product photos suggests the power supply sits wi
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by XRG 10mo ago
Cells specialize based on the presence of certain chemical gradients, for example. These types of 'signals' that guide specialization already become apparent in a very early stage of embryonic development. I don't think that&
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by XRG 1y ago
I can’t imagine anyone in my environment becoming really angry over this. Some of them would have to find new time sinks though—-hopefully ones that actually benefit them instead of turning them into commodities.
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by XRG 1y ago
Don’t agree with this take; software doesn’t need repairs when you drop your phone, when it is submerged, when it is charged/discharged daily for a few years, and so on. Freedom to use your hardware however you like is more of an ideol
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by XRG 2y ago
If we assume the indicated 400 W load with a total processing time of 20 s per user query, and 20 mio queries per day (‘daily users’), shouldn’t the daily consumption be closer to 44 kWh? (20 mio x 0.4 kW x 20 s / 3600 s/h) Other