Same experience here. The more commonly known the stuff it regurgitates is, the fewer errors. But if you venture into RF electronics or embedded land, beware of it turning into a master of bs.
Which makes sense for something that isn’t AI but LLM.
I opened the article expecting to read about its use in plant breeding: colchicine is renowned there for inducing polyploidy. Never knew it has a history in medicine.
Humans have two copies of each chromosome. Plants in nature can have many more, and some can be induced to duplicate their chromosomes which sometimes gives them larger seeds and resilience to environmental conditions. Similar to hybrid crops but somehow containing the full genomes of both parents. Bread wheat is hexapoloid (containing sub-genomes from three varieties of wheat) and quinoa is tetraploid (containing two different species). There have been projects for ~100 years to make polyploid rice with heavier grain-weight, but they haven't been able to reproduce.
I wonder what the influence of wind is on survival of flying insects. Over here - W. Eu. - we’ve seen storms on a monthly base now. I don’t think the energy balance of foraging adds up if there’s too much wind.
Very true. I’d like to add that it appears to be common on chinese sites to use micro-payment systems. You want the modified code / device driver / pinout / datasheet or rom dump? Please pay 3 cents.
On the Russian fora I’m often hitting a wall with unfamiliar chip IDs in their schematics. But when looking up smd markings they often have a nice photo of the part in situ.
It's always amusing to me when I see full documentation packages and SDKs for Western parts on Chinese websites, offered for $5. While the Western company that actually makes those parts would demand a pile of NDAs and an agreement worth six digits just to see those documents and SDKs.
I’m in the process of cleaning out my “varia” parts bin. It’s a box of neat-looking chips with an id that looks easy to google for datasheets … but most are locked away as you state. There is a fixed barrier for hobbyists around the 100 to 200MHz bus rate area. From there on hardware that’s available for diy projects gets dumbed down or bottlenecked in some critical section. Every once in a full moon you get a glimpse of the product brief for a chip you desoldered from a docsys decoder and see what’s behind the NDA wall. Oh well, here’s to fpgas.
Last year was my first participation and did everything in javascript in the browser. It’s high level enough to not lose your time in details, you have a graphical output if needed (canvas), text output, threading, parsing, …
Looking at that list, collapse OS seems to cater to 8-bit only. It’s also aimes at “ built from scavenged parts” boards. I’ve often come across Hitachi h8, Blackfin, PIC, avr, the occasional ARM and other controllers in the wild. But they all have one thing in common: the flash is locked and inaccessible without some jtag tools. The only times you’ll see external flash (winbond & co) is with an fpga or a controller who’s had his otp memory configured with a bootloader.
I often re-purpose scavenged board because of their useful layout, but only after swapping the controller for a programmable one. The notion of scavenging the controllers themselves… far less practical as you think.
The iot devices are hacked on the application layer. You have a controller running some linux distro and you work your way in over tty/telnet/eth. That’s an entirely different ballgame than repurposing 8-bit avr or 32-bit STM microcontrollers.
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