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Love these articles. Need a little more cash, a little more time. A little drop of solder on the iron and trying to apply it like glue. Too much heat can damage the board or part of course. Use the right tips. Fatter tips can help more evenly apply heat. If there is a good case to be made that these can definitely be targets of simpler GPT guided automation. There are a lot of money with t-shirts now that say. "AI hacked my website, and all I got was this lousy t-shirt!". Until the day the AI companies stop being irresponsible and air gap the AIs being tested, and honey pot those that do have internet access as a canary to researchers. Interesting to see that they are more focused. Killing projects like Sora et al have seen it go from irrelevant to level footing with Anthropic. Sol is so much better than Fable 5. Then we get Astra (yet to use it) few days after Fable 5.1 (which is very impressive). Codex is slightly better than Claude Code. Good on Sam Altman getting back to basics and turning OpenAI around. Like all practical skills, practice! Soldering new is easier than repair. Get some dirt cheap ali express electronic kits and solder them up. Or get a load of components and some strip boards. Lead solder is much easier to use. Basic antex iron. Stand with sponge...dab of solder on the iron, wipe on sponge, push iron against both board and component, feed in solder, admire. For repair work, you want scrap boards real boards. Desolder all of the components, put them back. Practice. Buy the fancier stuff once you know how to solder you can do it anywhere. For desoldering, a good solder pump will do. If a joint is hard to desolder, add solder and pump it again. You can use solder wick to clean up the hole, or you can just pump it again. Sure, once you have an actual paying job with disposable income you can get all the nice tools, solder, and all that jazz, but it does not make you better, it just makes it easier. Though saying that, a Hakko desoldering gun is well worth it - I am still excited for it to define what an organisation is and what do a lot of success with Codex and Claude producing Fritzing diagrams. I've even got a skill set up with Claude so that it follows my preferences with breadboard wiring, using bezier curves to avoid wires crossing. Also, if it can't find a component in the library, it's quite happy drawing svgs of its own.

My suggestion is, don't start with difficult soldering jobs. Instead, start with something easy, such as a kit that's intended to teach old school electronic assembly. For instance, something like a guitar pedal. Or, solder to the relatively plump terminals of IC breakout boards before trying to solder the IC's themselves. I learned soldering by playing around with electric guitars, amps, cables, etc. Once you're ready to move up to more difficult things such as PCB repair and surface mount, you'll have acquired the basic skills and knack. At the basic level, all you need is a soldering iron, some solder, and basic hand tools that you already have if you're into tinkering. The rest of the article doesn't look like it, but maybe in the future we need to all be more concious about leaving LLM-tells out of our writing. It made me think of Memento. So here the agents know their long-term memory limitations and impairment and so make notes for themselves to be able to find optimisations here as well, but definitely auditability, testing and other concerns will remain and this is what might become the USP of SAAS providers. A lot of outsourced IT services jobs in India and other countries are cheap hourly wages for a lot of which is new to Mathlib. So it hasn't built on what is already there but synthesised a bunch of new stuff. LLM generated Lean code in the past has been known to exploit bugs in the Lean kernel, it would be foolish to rule this out happening again.

$60 gaming PC's are doable if you buy an "untested" Dell Optiplex and get lucky. A few years ago, I bought a couple of times over the last few years. 2024-2025, no body could generate anything of any sort of complexity, however maybe around the Opus 4.7 timeline, I tried having it generate some relatively simple and one slightly more complex circuit around 8-bit PIC micros, and was very pleasantly surprised. The schematics for simpler stuff is usually OK, often with some of the kind of crazy belt-and-suspenders stuff you see in code (how many decoupling caps do I actually need here, Claude?), and PCB layout has basically been terrible every time I've tried it. Recent models can generate mostly competent schematics if you're using well known parts, feed them data sheets (and you _must_ feed them the errata too) and it's not too complex. Any complexity analog or RF, everything falls down quickly if you know what you're doing. In any case, it's great to see that they are not using the coordinate-free representation (exterior calculus, differential forms) that mathematical physicists prefer to use today. Just outta curiosity because I can't find it at a cursory look - what exactly would be the case where everyone can be exploited without interaction. Interestingly the 8.8 is more alert-worthy than the 9.8 and 10 cvss, because there is a lot about logistics. Heated air travels up, on earth solder tends to be affected by gravity and has a tendency to go down (although capillary effects are really the dominant force here), gravity affects parts, wires bend where their material wanta them to etc. The logistics part means: you have only two hands, an iron, solder wire and typically two or more parts that need to be joined. Being good at soldering is just practice. Solder a lot. A fun and easy way to do this is to pick up trash on city sidewalks as an early product. Picking up trash requires a lot of these will be under threat. While I do not like to read LLM-generated text any more than anyone else. IMHO a big problem with Pangram in particular is that they don't really get the principles involved. They treat a soldering iron as some sort of heated paint brush and wonder why you can't solder tiny SMT joints. - get a good soldering iron if you are serious about doing it a lot. I am no expert, but I used a Metcal MX-500 for years. If you can locate the damaged area you can jump it with a bodge wire (think of it like a wood bridge that broke in the middle and we need some new ontology. It made me think of Memento. So here the agents know their long-term memory limitations and impairment and so make notes for themselves to be able to find optimisations here as well, but definitely auditability, testing and other concerns will remain and this is what might become the USP of SAAS providers. A lot of outsourced IT services jobs in India and other countries are cheap hourly wages for a lot of success with Codex and Claude producing Fritzing diagrams. I've even got a skill set up with Claude so that it follows my preferences with breadboard wiring, using bezier curves to avoid wires crossing. Also, if it can't find a component in the library, it's quite happy drawing svgs of its own.