Collaborate Disseminate
There is a persistent belief in the ‘AI’ community that large language models (LLMs) have the ability to learn and self-improve by tweaking the weights in their vector space. Although …read more Continue reading Why Model Collapse in LLMs is Inevitable With Self-Learning
An often overlooked section in the datasheets for popular humidity sensors like the BME280 and DHT22 is the ‘non-condensing humidity’ bit, which puts an important constraint on which environments you …read more Continue reading How to Kill Humidity Sensors With Humidity
After previously trying out low-tech compression molding with a toaster oven and 3D printed molds, [future things] is back with a video that seeks to explore some of the questions …read more Continue reading Recycling PLA and Other Plastic Waste with Compression Molding
It seems fair to say that pinball machines are among the most universally loved gaming systems known today, yet the full-sized ones are both very expensive and very large, while …read more Continue reading Can you 3D Print a Pinball Machine That’s Fun to Play?
Springs are great, but making them out of plastic tends to come with some downsides, for fairly obvious reasons. Creating a compliant mechanism that can be 3D printed and yet …read more Continue reading The Challenges of 3D Printing Reliable Springs
When it comes to software developers, there are t a few distinct types. For example, the extroverted, chatty type, who is always going out there to share the latest and …read more Continue reading Trying Pair Programming With an LLM Chatbot
Although the game Pizza Tycoon – known as Pizza Connection in Europe – probably doesn’t ring a bell for many folk, this 1994 DOS title is special enough for [cowomaly] to …read more Continue reading How Pizza Tycoon Simulates Traffic on a 25 MHz CPU
It seems to be becoming a bit of a theme that consumer electronics are dying not due to some critical fault, but due to Cooked Capacitor Syndrome (CCS). Case in …read more Continue reading Dyson Vacuums and the Curse of Cooked Capacitors
As unloved as IBM’s PCjr was, with only a one-year production run, it’s hard to complain about the documentation available for it. This includes the x86 assembly listing for the …read more Continue reading Building an IBM PCjr BIOS from Source Using Original Printed Source Code
A lot has been made about a post-quantum computer future in which traditional encryption methods have suddenly been rendered obsolete. With this terrifying idea in mind, it’s reassuring to see …read more Continue reading Quantum Computers Are Not a Threat to 128-bit Symmetric Keys