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I’ll have nothingburger for $100, Alex.

AI Overview patiently taught me Autodesk Fusion, designed the 3-phase wiring in my shop, pointed out scenarios where 3-HP motors would overheat, and attempted to counsel you on the sad demise of your relationship with Dario.

I have a hard time understanding the problem here. I view ai as a tool. Like a steam shovel, electric drill, etc. You can pick up any tool, and try to use it. With the the drill, you’ll have modicum of success, until the drill spins in the chuck. Then you’ll learn to tighten the chuck more, and have more success. Try to solo on a steam shovel with no training, and there will likely be trouble. Vibe coding without understanding underlying syntax is similar.

He was proof that the position is a figurehead.

I like the system. Every single time I talked to the human, and explained that the Times wasn’t worth the “regular” price, back came a much lower one.

“It made me feel powerless.”

Your problem. Read some of Michael Porter’s books on competition. In an economic interaction, all players compete with each other. The Times thinks it’s in its interest to try to brainwash you with some garbage.

And you look for Mommy.

It took Apple 42 years to kill the pc, but they did it.

The late Harold DuBose use to use the 555 as a power inverter as it could sink 200ma at the laser companies he worked for. Convenient and cheap.

I should add that analytical device applications of this technology look almost limitless, being able to simplify, shrink, and cheapen thousands of optical instrumentation types. This is a huge market, and will lead to better healthcare, pharmaceuticals and industrial monitoring. Displays are another area, and military, policing, criminology, another. Having a narrowband laser of your choice of wavelength is the holy grail here.

Just want to remind people that the deBroglie wavelength of light IS its wavelength, here 0.5-1.5 um. This is gigantic compared to that of electrons in semiconductors. So there is no VLSI for optical computation. None. Zero. Bupkis. Lasers, except perhaps for some very esoteric applications, will be confined to the periphery where waveguides and fiber are rapidly supplanting copper. By the way, at least $1B has been wasted by VC’s who did not understand the no-VLSI physics barrier.

The problem is right in the prologue. “Every piece of evidence we have for objective reality is itself a subjective experience.” But people do independent experiments. And the results agree. That’s a much stronger statement.

Iran recites a carefully curated list of American and Gulf States technology targets. 500,000 Nvidia GPU’s are one implicit bullseye.

I wonder if it is a PhD thesis to prove that the data prefiltering doesn’t bias the results.

The late Harold DuBose of Spectra-Physics, repeatedly used 555's as power inverters in the electronic design of a frequency stabilized ring dye laser. He liked the strength of the output transistor.

What would be most interesting is using optical illusions to help decode how brain visual processing is done.