Collaborate Disseminate
Beyond bothering large language models (LLMs) with funny questions, there’s the general idea that they can act as supporting tools. Theoretically they should be able to assist with parsing and …read more Continue reading Testing Large Language Models for Circuit Board Design Aid
The Apple iMac G4 was also lovingly referred to as the ‘Apple iLamp’ due to its rather unique design with the jointed arm on which the display perches. Released in …read more Continue reading Rescued iMac G4 Restored and Upgraded With Mac Mini M1 Guts
Most of us will probably have seen semiconductor wafers as they trundle their way through a chip factory, and some of us may have wondered about why they are round. …read more Continue reading TSMC’s Long Path From Round to Square Silicon Wafers
The first version of FreeDOS was released on September 16 of 1994, following Microsoft’s decision to cease development on MS-DOS in favor of Windows. This version 0.01 was still an …read more Continue reading Nearly 30 Years of FreeDOS and Looking Ahead to the Future
That students these days love to use ChatGPT for assistance with reports and other writing tasks is hardly a secret, but in academics it’s becoming ever more prevalent as well. …read more Continue reading Uncovering ChatGPT Usage in Academic Papers Through Excess Vocabulary
After Space Shuttle Atlantis’ drive-by repair of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) in May of 2009, the end of the STS program meant that the space telescope had to fend …read more Continue reading First Hubble Image Taken in New Single Gyro Pointing Mode
Recently ESA published the results of a proof-of-concept study into monitoring marine litter using existing satellites, with promising results for the Mediterranean study area. For the study, six years of …read more Continue reading Mapping Litter in the Oceans From Space With Existing Satellites
Although it’s generally accepted that synthesized voices which mimic real people’s voices (so-called ‘deepfakes’) can be pretty convincing, what does our brain really think of these mimicry attempts? To answer …read more Continue reading Human Brains Can Tell Deepfake Voices from Real Ones
Although there is a lot of space in Earth orbit, there are also some seriously big man-made objects in those orbits, some of which have been there for decades. As …read more Continue reading Astroscale’s ADRAS-J Satellite Takes Up-Close Photo of Discarded Rocket Stage
Everyone knows that you can never purchase enough projects off EBay, lest boredom might inadvertently strike. That’s why [Anthony Kouttron] got his mitts on an Agilent DSO-X 2014A digital oscilloscope that …read more Continue reading Recovering An Agilent 2000a/3000a Oscilloscope With Corrupt Firmware NAND Flash