I was part of Omaze and can definitely empathize with the amount of work charitable fund raising takes and the amount of heartache that come from seeing under needs. Thanks for your hard work!
Great article and it really takes me back to my past! I was fortunate enough to always have a VM700 or equivalent to assess the quality of my modulators but one low channel isn't it of reach. One quibble with:
> After realizing that broadcast television uses negative modulation ...
NTSC is actually vestigial side-band so while it's easy to notice the modulation below the carrier, the low frequencies which include the sync information are also present above the carrier with the effect of having twice the modulated power.
I designed a security dongle a long time ago ... Used properly, it did rotations and XORs like a CRC. You could definitely make it hard to defeat but it was still ultimately deterministic.
When I was in high school, we were not allowed to use calculator for most science classes ... And certainly not for math class. I'm ten years, will you want to hire a student who is coming out of college without considerable experience and practice with AI?
LLMs work best when the user has considerable domain knowledge of their own that they can use to guide the LLM. I don't think it's impossible to develop that experience if you've only used LLMs, but it requires a very unusual level of personal discipline. I wouldn't bet on a random new grad having that. Whereas it's pretty easy to teach people to use LLMs.
Kids need to learn the fundamentals first and best. They can learn the tools near the end of school or even on the job.
I loved computer art and did as many technical art classes at university as I could. At the beginning of the program I was the fastest in the class, because we were given reference art to work from to learn the tools. By the end of the class I couldn't finish assignments because I wasn't creative enough to work from scratch. Ultimately I realized art wasn't my calling, despite some initial success.
Other kids blew me away with the speed of their creations. And how they could detach emotionally from any one piece, to move on to the next.
Why would I want to hire such a student?
What makes him better the better pick than all the other students using AI or all the other non-students using AI?
Yes, it is much easier to train someone to use AI than to train them to have sufficiently baked-in math and language skills to be able to leverage the AI.
Should I, by some miracle, be hiring, I'd be hiring those who come out of college with a solid education. As many have pointed out, AI is not immune to the "garbage in, garbage out" principle and it's education that enables the user to ask informed and precisely worded questions to the AI to get usable output instead of slop.
We know the founder of this pretty well actually. It's not really an alternative. They are an MCP that is building an email-like layer for coding agents to talk to each other. We are an actual email inbox provisioned via API for agents to email agents or humans.
You can also install and run Zoom in FlatPak which secures your computer by running the executable in BubbleWrap. If you know what you're doing, you can also sandbox it directly.
When Zoom took the world by storm due to the pandemic, they're security was known to be horrible. They aquihired the keybase team who are crypto experts and this presumably had some measure of positive effect.
The advantage of Zoom was that it just worked. No more spending the first 10 minutes of a call making sure everyone is online and can see/hear you. Or at least greatly improved.
