I'm using Widex Allure. I only need to use one ear for now, and the low latency from the Widex was what won it, tried a couple Oticons that had a disorienting amount of lag. Also the Widex has really great high frequency transient filtering, much better than the Oticons in my experience. With a house full of screaming kids, this was also critical.

Just imagine all the gigawatts cooked to just serve ads via LLMs

How's that different to all the time and effort spent on making television shows so that they can direct your attention to the next beer commercial, which also took lots of time and effort to make?

Printable PC/Nylon/ABS are not the same as the injection molded equivalents, you may want to research this more if that is an issue. I've printed every material under the sun trying to chase various material properties, and I usually just come back to printing in PLA due to it's excellent mechanical properties (up to a certain temp), excellent layer adhesion, and near 100% success rate. When you stray from from PLA, you will start running into warping, shrink, layer adhesion, and other issues. If you need parts in PC/Nylon/ABS, get the design dialed in in PLA (I as almost all others recommend bambulab), and then send the part to FirstCut/Protolabs to have it machined out of whatever you want.

I've found ChatGPT and Claude to be extremely helpful as guides for this sort of stuff. As long as the software has decent/good documentation for the features you are trying to create, the AI does a great job telling you how to do things. There's definitely deep end stuff that the AI doest have enough reference material for, but I find it much quicker than blinding clicking through stuff or speeding watching YouTube videos.

You can also ask it to build a study guide for you to help build foundational knowledge.

But as always, expect some hallucinations, so ask it to provide links/references.

Yes! And when you need advice on an electronic circuit you can export it in netlist format from KiCAD. This is a textbased representation of the schematic which is very understandable by LLMs

So exactly what language/paradigm is this brain modeling the problem within?

We literally don't know. We don't understand how the brain stores concepts. It's not necessarily language: there are people that do not have an internal monologue, and yet they are still capable of higher level thinking.

Rilke: "There is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a depth of formless feeling untouched by thought."

I am one of those for what it’s worth. I struggle to put my thoughts into words, as it does not come naturally to me. When I think internally, I do not use language at all, a lot of of the time.

Drive my wife crazy as my answer to her questions are always really slow and considered. I have the first think what thought I want to convey, and then think “how do I translate this into words?”

Author could spend a lot more time learning how to use Autodesk Inventor sketch environment. You can setup sketch dimensions as ‘driven’ and use equations to comply to whatever exterior box dimensions one chooses. His creating assembly from parts and arranging is silly. All parts /solids should come from same master sketch.

And then also how to use Autodesk CAM, you can use sketch geo to set paths, define offsets, etc.

Are there places that follow the research that speak to the layperson?

That can be disabled [0] (and I feel like has been on option for many years now).

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go4x9sIGEg8

99% (or more?) of human written work is filler/fluff. LLMs seem to doing a great job of reducing this by actually getting to the point.

There is still a limit at which “points” can be groked, humans can only read so fast.

What is the problem here?

Yup, ok with all of those.