I have found that AI is great for sorting out your libraries, drawing and helping double check footprints managing your BOM. I still draw my schematics and layout my boards. I haven’t found it any good for those tasks yet. There are too many stupid errors it makes. I do get it to review my work though and often it catches things I have missed.
I don't believe in any "God". I believe that only the universe is any "supreme being". Is that woo? Maybe. But it helps me be kinder than any religion seems to teach others.
The big religions of the world all explicitly teach kindness - personal and concrete kindness practiced by you, the follower.
Is that what they effectively teach? Or is it just window dressing on top of underlying hegemonisation?
A/B testing is likely impossible and i can't see how you would measure kindness. Nonetheless, my conjecture is that religion likely shifts people in the direction of kindness. I suspect that believers who are cruel would typically also be cruel without the religion.
I assert that there are more direct and effective waits of developing compassion, but that they require a base level of self-awareness higher than the median found in neoliberal nations. Perhaps religion is close to optimal for those who need extrinsic motivation to develop any self-government.
Furthermore, it looks to me like neoliberalism leaves a philosophical vacuum which demands filling with something, and that something is all too eagerly supplied by charlatans. We should evaluate religion relative to whatever philosophy would take its place. Tribalism, fascism, supremacy: these are perennially seductive. Religion is not incompatible with these, but it might crowd them out.
Autorouting PCBs doesn’t really give usable results on all but the simplest cases. It seems to be a very difficult problem to solve even though a human doing it is only following a relatively simple bunch of rules and goals in his or her head.
The only reason people use google apps is because they are cheap and reliable. The user experience is awful. Have you ever tried to find a document you had open yesterday in drive?
I am the same way. I am a music lover, I am good with pitch, can accurately tune a guitar from new strings to within a few cents with no reference. But I can barely clap along with a metronome for more than a few bars. I have had years of lessons but my lack of rhythm really makes it almost impossible to progress despite putting in a lot of practice. My wife who plays guitar for fun will walk up while I am laboring over a piece that I have been working on for weeks and do a better job after two tries. It’s really demoralising! It feels like most people can do rhythm like walking or breathing, but for me it takes 100% CPU and leaves little for anything else.
I am a color science and image expert and couldn’t make heads nor tails of the dark table UI. I wanted to like it but it is just so horrible to use that I couldn’t stick with it.
One flaw with this assumption is that images are available in literally counts of trillions to train on. With 3D models there are virtually no production quality models freely available to train on. Even companies like ILM or Weta have nowhere near the number of models that would be needed to train a robust modelling AI
The thing is CAD models look perfect. They are completely un-editable in that state however. You have to go back to the cad program to make edits to the original solid model.
No they don't. I am explicitly saying they often have the exact topology issues that are showcased here. They don't have some of the other issues - but a huge chunk of this article is about bad topology. I have imported hundreds of step files into CG software that have absolutely horrific topology, because one cares about producing real things and the other is about CG modeling.
> They are completely un-editable in that state however.
This is also untrue. I do plenty of hard surface modeling work on imported step files. Including the retopology I've talked about.
> You have to go back to the cad program to make edits to the original solid model.
If you need to modify it for production, yeah? But the whole use case here seems to be ecommerce website uses. In which case you can 100% take a cad file you've imported and modify it (if you managed to get a good topo out of it) for visual/aesthetic stuff.
(Some CAD software actually does a good job exporting - I have a moi3d license specifically because it has way better exports topology wise than solidworks or fusion. I build shit in solidworks and send it to moi before opening it in blender or houdini to do any render work)
That’s not really how 3D modelling works. You can’t just improve some of the model. You have to improve all of it. Fixing to top of the paddle also changes how the junction at the handle goes and so on. That’s why no one has solved ai 3D modelling yet. It’s like asking a gymnast to learn how to do the second half of a handspring first, and then for step 2 they can learn the first half. It doesn’t work like that.
