Readit NewsFor context: non-traditional student who transferred to UCSD for college, two of those years were spent during Covid. Moved back to Bay Area. My network isn’t as big as someone who maybe went to San Jose state. And so they prob have an easier time finding jobs. I worked with other students through discord and so on, attended virtual office hours with professors and TAs (who were the reason many of us passed these classes, I’m sure) but never truly built a relationship that lasted beyond the quarter because zoom, essentially.
And if I go back to grad school, I would really love to build relationships with others around me. Wondering how others have managed with this regard?
(BTW, if you're an engineer who thinks you don't understand AI or are not qualified to work on it, think again. It's just linear algebra, and linear algebra is not that hard. Once you spend a day studying it, you'll think "Is that all there is to it?" The only difficult part of AI is learning PyTorch, since all the AI papers are written in terms of Python nowadays instead of -- you know -- math.)
I've been building neural net systems since the late 1980s. And yes they work and they do useful things when you have modern amounts of compute available, but they are not the second coming of $DEITY.
1. A furniture company that decides to integrate a purification system into their offerings can hit it big. Imagine a big, heavy dresser in your bedroom that sucks in air from the bottom and pushes up to the top or a TV stand that where different compartments are filter media. The mass of these reduces noise and vibration and allow for larger, slower spinning blowers and larger surface area of filter media (less static pressure, longer replacement intervals, easily hold pounds of activated charcoal).
2. One needs to pump in oxygen from the outside and exchange the indoor air with the outside air. Circulating and cleaning the air in the home, especially with modern doors and windows, will become unpleasant in a short while, especially during wildfire season. The positive pressure this creates also helps pollutants stay out, if done correctly.
I would absolutely go the diy route using large filters, activated carbon, housed in a wooden box with a blower and implement something like AC Infinity's in-line filtration systems to pull outside air in through a window, with a large carbon filter on one end. Or if a homeowner, set up a more permanent solution. https://acinfinity.com/inline-fan-systems/
I'm happy my Tesla does a decent job of having the screen be quite dark at night but the headlights are quite bad with the horizontal cutoff style that only lights the first few feet of horizontal ahead of the car. I need to see those deer and elk on the side of the road, damn it.
Don't get me started on lifted vehicles and their lights...Dept. of transportation needs to figure out a way to enforce a standard height for headlights from all vehicle shapes and heights. Driving after dark is getting more and more dangerous, not less.
Sometimes, I think government supply control isn't that much of a bad thing. That way, the government could force the availability of goods for the common market as well and not just for the really big dogs flush with ample VC money to burn who can pay any price.
[1] For the uninitiated: a cryptocurrency where the limiting factor wasn't CPU, RAM or GPU compute resource, but storage - in 2021, there was so much craze around it that HDD and SSD prices exploded, and after the bubble collapsed a lot of heavily abused drives flooded the markets.
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