I avoid this with GrapheneOS
I know a few people who do this every time Iām in front of a computerā¦
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How about transplanting small fetal brain organoids into your skull? Sounds fun!
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These are all geared towards Ham / Shortwave, but the knowledge applies to alot of the same RFID topics we end up in.
Also:
How Tank Circuits Work
How Inductors Work
Thereās a BUNCH more. Have fun learning.
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Iāve tried those newfangled chatbots for things that are difficult to answerā¦ And the results are exactly the same as the ones you get by skimming the first page of Google search results.
I donāt know whatās the hype, those things struggle to see through things like culture, trends, and consensus. And if you think about it, this makes perfect sense.
Why do we have idiots fearing AI superintelligence and whatnot? The current state of those things is no more than a roundabout search engine combined with a mediocre reflection of humanity. ChatGPT truly is a parrot crying like a baby, like Amal said.
Real intelligence should at least be able to contemplate controversial ideas, criticize widely accepted practices, and question convention. Something that you canāt do with statistics about human written text. However, said statistics are great for determining what the consensus is on a certain topic.
Sorry, but if ChatGPT can do your thinking, you are simply not thinking. Which might be impressive in a society that discourages thinking, but itās not useful at producing innovationā¦
But perhaps humanity is too complacentā¦
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Occamās Razor, of a sorts.
- Big Sigh *
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I recently tried to get a chatbot to play chess with me. It was hilarious.
I think one of the big issues with chatbots is that we train them to produce personified narration, so it becomes easy to confuse the ML algorithm with the fictitious character and thus imbue the fictitious character with the ability to learn, or thinking that the fictitious character has a neural network for a brain.
An LLM is nothing more or less than an algorithm that spits out the tokens most likely to come next given a shuffled statistical analysis of the corpus it was trained on, and I think the best hope we have of making it useful is to explore how we can use it as precisely what it is. (Not that we need to look for a nail just 'cause we have a hammer. We already have better hammers for the nails we have.)
But, AI development has always emphasised the āArtificialā side of synthetic brains, aiming to create the illusion of an intelligent person rather than creating a true intelligent machine. So, adapting neural networks into their chatbots lets them add to that illusion, smoke and mirrors. Not only does it wow people by acting like a real player (like Counter Strike bots once did), but now you can tell them that it resembles a real intelligent person because it contains a simulation of a real brain! Throw in a fictitious personality and fail to clarify that the made up character that says itās an AI is not the actual machine built on brain inspired structures, and youāve got something thatās a great magic trick, great marketing, and a terrible obfuscation of the truth.
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Until the training data is skewed in order to distort the perception of consensus. Which happens either by bad actors (well intentioned or otherwise) or just by AI feedback learning from other AI in a loop in which the human factor is increasingly drowned out with each iteration.
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CoMmuter CoMmissioned! Getting installed on Friday hopefully.
Current plan is to pop my xG3 out of R3 and pop this in same day. Weāll see how that goes.
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Someone sent me this:
Iāll admit that 555 is a number thatās dear to my heart, but for reasons that are not related to scams or fantasyā¦
In fact, my love for that number is rather astableā¦
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Oh the oscillations 555 gives me 
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I love that quote!!
I also love the statistical irony that more AI jobs were lost to humans than human jobs got lost to AIā¦ 
Just to start with the Callcenter company that got disguised as an AI personal planner! and a few other similar scandals!
But here in UK we reached a managerial race to ābe the one who introduced AI to more companiesā, which is leading to some really concerning implementations!!
Dev: āboss, if we replace this system with an AI, it will cost twice as much, be wrong twice as much, and we will need to hire a dozen extra engineers to manage it.ā
Manager: ābut then can I say I introduced AI to this company? so do it!ā
(this is almost verbatim of a conversation I witnessed. ok, maybe the manager said: ābut then this company will enter the age of aiāā¦ but you get what that meant) 
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Quite sadly, thereās a lot of BS in management. Particularly in middle managementā¦
Let alone the huge number of standards, methods, and books that are vague, promote weird values, and other nonsense that doesnāt pass the sniff testā¦
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That is very true!
Yet, what is atypical in this āAI-crazeā thatās sweeping through management over hereā¦ is that Upper management seems to be the most affected at the moment.
Not quoting names, but on the same week I witnessed the new CEO of one of the largest UK companies and the new CTO of a quite large government body here say the exact same thing, almost Verbatim:
āIt is my number one priority to make sure we leverage AI as much as possibleā
Followed, in both cases, by a mandatory invite into a meeting whose sole purpose was to try and figure out where can we shove AI.
Itās not āhey, AI can improve this, so letās implement itā
Itās purely focused on using AI for the sake of having used it. 
but yeah, I agree with you on the management qualityā¦
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My favorite examples of, āsomething is new so letās use it for everything,ā include cocaine and radium.
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i hate a lot of the management style books because so many of them seem to be so off base of what a good manager should be.
There are 2 that i enjoy. The Dream Manager. and another isnt necessarily a management book but more a personality assessment called Success Factors. it comes with a quiz. it lets you understand your own style.
I do however find some talks around management more interesting. I myself am a manager by title but i prefer the term people leader. My style is more servant leadership than anything else. I dont work for my company as much as i work for my direct reports.
There was a great interview that Mike Rowe (Dirty Jobs) did with the Ceo of WD-40, Garry Ridge, i really enjoyed it and i felt it aligned with my own management style.
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