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Did you know that before LLMs, people sometimes actively sought "knowledge" and turned to so-called "books"? If you want a sense of how our ancestors lived, "The Secret Life of Circuits" is shipping in just a few weeks: lcamtuf.coredump.cx/electronics/?z ToC & sample chapter included.
The Secret Life of Circuits
The Secret Life of Circuits
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I recently refreshed my article on analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog conversions. Did you know that there are many different ways to convert analog voltages to bits and bytes, and that some of the methods are quite... unhinged? Check it out: lcamtuf.coredump.cx/blog/convers...
DACs and ADCs, or there and back again
A look at how digital-to-analog and analog-to-digital converters work - from resistor ladders to delta-sigma modulation.
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Cursed circuits #2: switched capacitor lowpass - lcamtuf.coredump.cx/blog/switched/
Cursed circuits #2: switched capacitor lowpass
Still using resistors? Get on with the times.
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October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month! Please be aware of cybersecurity. If you encounter cybersecurity, DO NOT APPROACH IT. Back away slowly. Protect children and pets. Make noises to scare it away.
Today I needed a bit of code, but instead of asking an LLM I tried writing it myself and wow, this could be a new paradigm
OK, here it is - the latest in captcha technology: lcamtuf.coredump.cx/captcha/
One more step
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My wife asked me some time ago to build an automated door opener / closer for the coop, and needless to say, our design firm takes this very seriously
Boss: hey Bob, our users are asking for an API to determine if a video can be played in the browser. Bob: yeah, I get it, but this is really complica -- Boss: go on now, git! You'll figure it out. Bob: [muttering to himself]
My position on the "doomsday" risk of superhuman AGI is that if IQ offered you a decisive advantage, the world would be run by nerds. I think it's essentially a geek power fantasy. The returns on puzzle-solving skills rapidly diminish past some modest threshold.
