Fascinating psychological thing:

I’m playing around with having the heavier ChatGPT models design electrical circuits and after some back-and-forth I will reply with “Ok, now go update the whole design based on that” and when I do that I get this sinking feeling that they are going to reply “no”.

We’ve just lived through the collapse of the cost of an education to essentially zero and we are all just going about as if it didn’t happen.

This is a statement that I’ve been shouting at loud as possible to anyone who will listen since at least 2017 when I wrote it down in my notebook.
#education

You could bake all of DeepSeek R1 (671B params, FP16) into ~76 mm² of mask ROM at 5nm—smaller than an M4 chip. No DRAM, no loading, instant-on. Use PROM + overlay logic to patch yield defects. LLM as silicon. #llm #osh

Lesson learned: Don’t use a thermometer with an EInk screen to determine whether your pipes are going to freeze and burst. Apparently the battery died when it was 13C in the garage. 🤦‍♂️

TIL that in Python you can use map with a string join even though it's a method instead of a function:

map(''.join, s)

I guess I intuitively new that ''.join is a callable object but I didn't realize you could do this without a lambda or using functools.partial. Cool!