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I became significantly better at electronics soldering by learning to do glasswork (stain glass fixturing, etc). It wasn't intentional and it isn't even the same solder chemistry, but having to do broad asthetics on large pieces meant I "got it" better for the small scale electronics connections.
Good old fashioned machine learning (GOFML?) Using mixes of different sensor data from industrial 3d printing processes to production quality. Not as fashionable as LLMs at the moment but there's new innovations to make in the space, so it's honest work.
Yeah I had the same question. I suppose you could put the project+plan text into the commit message?
12 years here, agree that this is one of the best communities still active. Thank you HN team!
I feel seen
Your profile reads like a 'Hacker News Bingo' card: NASA, PhD, Python, 'Ask HN' about cheating, and a strong opinion on Reddit's community. The only thing missing is a post about your custom ergonomic keyboard made from recycled space shuttle parts.
I worked on this about a decade ago, but just updated it in order to learn to use Gradio and HF as a platform. Enjoy!
I end up asking the same question when experimenting with tools like Cursor. When it can one-shot a small feature, it works like magic. When it struggles, and the context gets poisoned and I have to roll back commits and retry part of the way through something, it hits a point where it was probably easier for me to just write it. Or maybe template it and have it finish it. Or vice versa. I guess the point being that best practices have yet to truly be established, but totally hands-off uses have not worked well for me so far.
Another reason why the idea of AI agents for science hasn't made much sense to me. Research is an extremely collaborative set of activities. How good would a researcher be who is very good at literature review, but never actually talks to anyone, goes to any conferences, etc?
Voynich is one of my favorite unsolved puzzles. This approach looks fascinating, so thanks for sharing your work here!
You and I have matching stories, unfortunately. I've made a point of sending my sons to public school for this reason. Now, of course this also means that I shopped for a district that aligned with my expectations. But would never want a repeat of my own experience.
I think being accountable for your work to a person who isn't in your family is actually an important thing to learn. It also turns out, parents aren't really qualified to be teachers just because they believe that they are.
This is still how the aeronautics portion of NASA operates. Though since it is the direct successor to NACA, I think its unsurprising.
In my area, every controls engineer says "we can just use a PID".
99% of the time it seems they're not wrong, despite control engineering being a pretty large area of research.
I'm thinking about what I've read on social media (twitter, reddit, etc) about the event. The posts getting the most engagement/traction are convinced this is larger than Chernobyl. However, relevant authorities do not seem to agree with this.
But I have no environmental sciences credentials to speak of.
I'm finding it difficult to find objective assessments of the impact of what has happened in East Palestine. It seems like there are interests in dismissing the impacts entirely, but there are others that seems to want to overstate the impacts significantly. Does anyone else feel this way?
Interestingly, ChatGPT seems capable of predicting this approach:
I absolutely had this issue most of last year, but the Gmail spam filter seems to be catching things more effectively for me in the last two months.
My 2011 MBA needed a new battery a few years ago, but still works amazingly well as a daily-driver computer for my wife
But the majority of harmful errors happen in handing over patient care from one provider to another
I've heard this claim before, but this seems like a communication problem more than anything else. Keeping insane work schedules as a means to address it seems really suspect to me.
Don't bullets also "expire" after a certain period of time?
Modern powder and primers (and thus an assembled ammunition cartridge) easily last decades, almost indefinitely if stored well.
My dad used to be a security guard at the Cleveland Museum of Art. What's funny is that often guests would ask him and the other guards about specific pieces or artists as if he was a subject matter expert (although he has always been an art enthusiast, he doesn't have a professional art background). Eventually, he started doing his own background reading, because he really enjoyed these conversations.
After years of viewing exhibits (both permanent and temporary), many on the non-curator staff do end up with a substantially deep view of the art that they protect. This exhibit should be really fascinating.
I think this is related to why I got into stain glass window making as a pandemic hobby. As everything I was working on felt ephemeral and physically disconnecting, it was refreshing to take on something both creative and tangible.
Congrats on launching. I'm not Christian, but this does remind me a bit of the Sefaria project, which aims to bring together a library of Jewish texts for scholarship, and has a great mobile app. This project also seems to have a deep scholarly focus, so it might be worth having a look at as well for some ideas.
Great read!
In comparison, I have to wonder why the "intelligence estimates" were so bad/severe over estimates.
I've come to internalize the Fourier transform as a type of sparse matrix algorithm. I.e. something that implements a particular matrix-vector product without requiring explicit construction of said matrix.
Maybe life originated during the habitable epoch in the very early, very small universe and spread from there?
It's interesting how few streaming stations there are in eastern Asia.
I live in Cleveland, and it sounds like they're considering the drive-thru testing approach as a possibility. Hoping this ramps up this month.
It's the lack of information and sense that there are no adults in the room among our leadership that is the most frustrating. It worries me more than the virus itself.
Related note: Strang's essay on the imbalance in education in favor of Calculus over Linear Algebra is (in my opinion at least) a great read, for those interested in the pedagogy of mathematics.
Interestingly, cities in India seem to be at a lower traffic level than 2019 too. Maybe it's related to other factors?