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Why AI Is So Dangerous & How It Could Destroy Humanity
Ah, click bait. Sign of the times! MEGATHREAT: Why AI Is So Dangerous & How It Could Destroy Humanity | Mo Gawdat.
Mo Gawdat is an Egyptian entrepreneur and writer. He is the former chief business officer for Google X and author of the books Solve for Happy and Scary Smart.
Mo says there are some things we shouldn’t waste time talking about because they are going to happen, inevitably. These are:
- There is no shutting down or reversing AI, we can’t stop it
- AI will be significantly smarter than humans
- Bad things will happen in the process of developing AI (the specifics to be determined)
…and the fourth inevitability? Utopia..?
Early Content #7: Sorting Soldering Iron Tips | Learning Electronics In The Lab With Jay Jay
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I was watching EEVblog #168 – How To Set Up An Electronics Lab and Dave suggested using chisel tips instead of conical tips, which inspired me to check what I was using and also to sort the tips I presently own into three categories:
- Chisel tips
- Other tips
- Conical tips
If you’re interested in soldering temperatures I wrote a follow-up post on that topic: soldering iron temperature.
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Electronic load cables
Well I figured out how to use my new my ZKE Tech EBD-A20H Battery Tester and Electronic Load. This video was really helpful: ZKETECH EBD-A20H first look . Also I managed to find the software mentioned in the comments for that video: ftp://randomdl:randomdl@oss.quindorian.org/Random/ZKE-EB_software_1.8.5-0320.zip
The reason I had trouble configuring this electronic load is that I thought the “cutoff voltage” was a maximum setting, but in fact it means cutoff if the voltage drops below this value. That makes sense of course, especially as the main use case for this device is testing batteries. Once the voltage drops below a certain level the battery is dead and you can stop testing.
The trick with the wiring is that you can just hook the voltage and current terminals up to the battery / power supply terminals. I think the idea is that you can put the voltage and current terminals in different parts of a circuit, but I don’t really understand that, and for simple battery or power supply testing it seems you can just connect them together.
There are two modes available: Constant Current (CC) and Constant Power (CP). I have managed to get the software working and connected so that should mean I can put this up the back of my bench and control it remotely, which will be handy.
My next video will be me making a cable to fix this mess. Once I have that cable I will make a video demoing the EBD-A20H.
Unboxing #1: Unboxing of ZKE Tech EBD-A20H Battery Tester Electronic Load | In The Lab With Jay Jay
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In this video I unbox my ZKE Tech EBD-A20H Battery Tester and Electronic Load. I don’t know how to actually use it yet, so once I’ve figured that out I will make another video to demo it in use.
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Server programming challenge
This looks like fun: protohackers.com. If I had more time I would definitely do this. If… :P
The VIC-II Kawari is a game changer for the NTSC Commodore 64
There’s a fun video over here about hacking the old Commodore 64 graphics system: The VIC-II Kawari is a game changer for the NTSC Commodore 64.
Early Content #6: Testing Riden RD6006 with 19.5V power supply | In The Lab With Jay Jay
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Today I confirmed I can successfully power my Riden RD6006 power supply with this 19.5V AC adapter I picked up from Amazon. Big thanks to my mate Rick over on the EEVBlog forum for his help with this one.
In this video I use a 100W 6Ω resistor to test my Riden RD6006 power supply at various voltages from 1V to 18V up to a maximum power of 54W.
I should note that in this video I tried to draw 54W of power from the power supply, but the power supply is only rated up to 45W so I probably shouldn’t have done that, and won’t have any reason to ever do that again, I was just testing the maximum. So maybe don’t do that at home. :)
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Lex Fridman interviews Andrew Strominger
Veritasium on Oppenheimer
A new video from Veritasium: Why Oppenheimer Deserves His Own Movie.