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People are seriously going to plug $1-$5 USB devices from AliExpress into their computers? Seriously?

All the endless efforts and dollars spent on cybersecurity is just lol I guess.


> If you make many predictions at 70-80% confidence, as he does, you should expect 20-30% of them not to come true.

Yes that's the point, these people hedge like crazy to the point that they say nothing, they mean nothing, and effectively predict nothing.


There's nothing wrong with teaching like that. If the class is supposed to teach you something that isn't just "use the stdlib", then it makes sense to ban it.


I'm guessing the author is aware and just venting. It doesn't make it less frustrating though. It's almost like someone asking you to dig a hole with chopsticks.


Sometimes, the same name refers to multiple things.


The difference here is, Amazon's repurposing a Trade Mark it owned already for something else entirely.


Any plan to sell kits or pieces again? The biggest barrier for me (dunno about others) is the faceplate/enclosure.


There are 50 or so kits spread out all over the world, some in the hands of the world's best Thereminists, which has been quite gratifying. But the project has been in a bit of a hiatus while I do more R&D, and the current tariff situation isn't exactly filling me with enthusiasm. Enclosures and antennas have been a burden for some, a wine box build is probably your best bet. I don't mind supplying hand-wound coils and any guidance you may need. My contact info is on the support page.


> The latest innovations go far beyond logarithmic gains: there is now GPT-based software which replaces much of the work of CAD Designers, Illustrators, Video Editors, Electrical Engineers, Software Engineers, Financial Analysts, and Radiologists, to name a few

"Replaces". Uh-huh.


I don't think it's reasonable to ding them for the second part. She has to actually fund herself somehow, and doing it by promoting products that actually meet the standard is by far the least offensive way of doing it.

Watching this comment tick down with more and more downvotes from people who get paid cushy software engineer salaries is absolutely comical.


You could make either side of the argument, tbh. If you wanted a completely independent and unbiased testing, you wouldn't want the group to sell/promote the products they test. It definitely presents potential conflicts of interest.

But, I went on Consumer Reports recently looking for a good smoke detector and saw they are now using affiliate links for the products they test as well, and I consider them well established and above board. So, everyone will have to make their own ethical judgment on how to take the results.


Consumer Reports was not honest about their testing for the Suzuki Samurai back in the late 80s. https://www.motorbiscuit.com/the-90s-scandal-consumer-report...

Summary, the samurai passed all their standard rollover tests and got great remarks from the test drivers about its handling and maneuverability. So they changed the test specifically to make it fail, and kept trying until it failed. Then they presented that failure as happening under normal conditions, singled out the samurai by name, and said it easily rolled in cornering despite their own testing showing it was actually quite difficult to make it roll.

As a result, Suzuki and Isuzu both left the usdm. Today, the Suzuki Jimny is one of the most popular SUVs in the world and America can't have it because consumer reports lied deliberately to American consumers.


Sure, you would definitely want that in an ideal world, but that isn't the world we live in. An ideal world would have the government funding this research, but that's laughable now. So with the reality we have to live in, this research has to get funds somehow.


It's not that it's wrong, but when someone stands to make money the assumptions we make about their motives change. If their whole business relies on advocating a fringe position I will not start with an assumption of good faith, or that they are just misinformed.


Given that money is required to both live and do this research, I'm curious to hear what the alternative is.


I don't know the economics of it, but they could run ads on their site, become a non profit & only accept donations, etc etc.

This is slightly unrelated, but I remember in the 2000s, there was a vendor of protein powders who started testing his and other vendors protein powders to see if their labels were true & they weren't protein spiking (adding cheaper collagen instead of whey lying on the labels, essentially). He almost immediately got sued from several large mfgs and had to shut down.

So, for this group, and the fact that they're ignoring cease & desist letters from the toothpaste mfgs they're testing puts them in HUGE legal risk, I suspect, and would not be the least bit surprised if all the funds they're collecting are going to end up in lawyers pockets.


> but they could run ads on their site

My dude, what do you think those affiliate links are?


I mean like Google Adsense or any other type of advertising that do not use affiliate links for the specific products they mention.


As I said it's not wrong itself. They just have a steeper hill to climb in terms of evidence for their position.


The ppb numbers found are on the original website, linked in the article.


core.logic has a lot of limitations you pretty quickly run into, and they languish on their bug tracker for years now because nobody actually works on it.


Well this repo seems not to have had any commits for a year, so I'm not sure how much better this is:

https://github.com/bobschrag/clolog/commits/main/

Maybe this post will spark some interest and revitalise it a bit?


What DSP accelerator does Intel have?


my guess is Intel provides software windows uses to accelerate common dsp operations with simd/sse etc.


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