#video of an IBM Selectric II typewriter serial terminal being used to log into Linux, run ChatGPT, and caption what someone is saying with #LiveCaptions. Apparently adding serial I/O to Selectrics was a common thing to do back in the 01970s.
"LiveCaptions" #speech recognition application that apparently isn’t just a wrapper around Whisper but is supposedly a little more accurate (with English only) for live audio. Instead it uses something on the CPU called #aprilasr by Fangjun Kuang. #neural-networks
#video on #woodworking hacks, mostly jigs for cutting.
Soma Ether lets you examine the electromagnetic fields around you.
#video on a conference presentation on the “state of libre graphics” including a new “boring” #file-format for #fonts.
#EEVblog #video #toread on constant-current sources. #electronics
#electronics distributor in #India.
Brad Rodriguez explains how multitasking works in #Forth. #operating-systems
bar chart of #wind #energy windmill #pricing from 02012 to 02022 shows a decline from about US$1.10/Wp down to about US$0.90/Wp in 02015, holding steady there until 02020, and then rising back to US$1.10/Wp in 02022!
#Titans-of-CNC #video about #autism in #machining, promoting Spartan-CNC.com. Turns out Titan Gilroy’s son is diagnosed with Asperger’s.
#machining #video recommending not using cast iron from weights because it’s too porous and falls apart when you try to machine fine threads in it.
#Applied-Science #video on #bootstrapping “insanely powerful” planetary ball mill grinder to make α'' iron nitride filled epoxy for magnets, which did work somewhat; he tested it in a 1.6-tesla vibrating sample magnetometer he built using a lock-in amplifier to plot its B–H curve.
LP2178 three-terminal buck converter chip for direct conversion from rectified line voltage! No pricing given. #electronics