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  • There’s a huge difference between “Creates intelligible single-use text that’s good enough that I can understand what the text is roughly about” and “Creates text at a quality high enough to work as a quotable source”.

    For the first use case, infrequent hallucinations are no problem. I read it, if I understand a bit about the topic I might catch it, if not it probably doesn’t matter too much either. Especially if it’s about non-critical topics.

    For the second use case, infrequent hallucinations are a massive problem. Most people who use Wikipedia use it like a primary source. Even though sources are linked, they don’t go hunting for sources but instead rely that the information in the article is accurate. Every article is read not only once by one person, but thousands or hundreds of thousands of times. That means every single line is read and believed. You can bet that if there’s a hallucination in there, someone will read it and believe it. That’s requires a completely different level of accuracy, and doing that kind of crap translation work on such a large scale as OKA is a massive disservice.




  • The process for this is usually like that:

    • Software dev team lead: “We need another senior frontender.”
    • HR person: “Ok, what are you looking for?”
    • Software dev team lead: “Someone who knows how to use Angular.”
    • HR person: “Great, so which version of Angular are you using?”
    • Software dev team lead: “Version x.y.z”
    • HR person (thinking, not saying): “Ok, so senior means 5+ years, so 5+ years of version x.y.z it is!”
    • Also HR person: “Why can’t I find anyone who’s qualified?”

  • Friend of mine applied for a job where they asked for at least 5 years of experience with Angular version x.y.z (can’t remember the exact version). The friend responded that he had 10 years of experience with versions x-3 to x+1.

    The HR person doing the hiring asked back “But do you have 5 years of experience with the exact version x.y.z?” to which he answered “Version x.y.z has only been out for 3 years so it’s impossible to have 5 years of experience with it.” HR wrote back saying that he was rejected because he didn’t have 5 years of experience of experience with that exact version.




  • The only mistake here is that the author switched the term “tools” for “extruders”. They did list four tools (FDM extruder, Pellet Extruder, Ink extruder, Heater).

    This sounds to me much more like a human error than an LLM one, because the source material calls them “tools”.

    In this work, three out of the four original filament extruders were swapped for a pellet extruder, an ink extruder, and a heater. The tools that make up the final configuration of the machine are:

    Filament extruder (Figure 1a): one of the original E3D Hemera direct drive filament extruders of the E3D Motion System and ToolChanger was kept in place. It features an E3D 24 V 30 W heater cartridge, an E3D thermistor cartridge, and a 0.4 mm nozzle.

    Pellet extruder (Figure 1b): a Mahor v4 70 W Pellet Extruder (Mahor.xyz, Spain) was incorporated to the system to enable 3D printing from pellets. A custom case was designed and 3D printed to adapt the pellet extruder to the E3D ToolChanger. The case wraps around the extruder and provides anchor points to the E3D toolhead plate and docking port, necessary to allow the pick-up and drop-off of the tool by the robotic arm.

    Ink extruder (Figure 1c): a syringe pump was custom-built from scratch, combining an E3D Hemera XS stepper motor, a lead screw, a linear rail, and custom-designed, 3D-printed parts, to enable 3D printing with inks. The syringe pump is designed to be compatible with the docking system of the E3D ToolChanger and accommodates a three-milliliter syringe that can be easily swapped, enabling seamless material exchange.

    Heater (Figure 1d): an E3D Hemera extruder with its nozzle and silicon insulation sock removed was installed to enable the curing of inks on the printer bed. During operation, the ink extruder and the heater can be used sequentially: first, the ink extruder prints a pattern; immediately afterward, the heater reproduces the printing trajectory of the syringe, drying the deposited ink as it hovers over it. This strategy enables the drying of ink while printing, facilitating the deposition of subsequent layers on top of the dried ink.

    https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17452759.2026.2613185#d1e378

    They don’t use metal-infused filament as a conductor but conductive ink.


  • I agree, but to be fair, this is not a new problem, nor is it one limited to the US.

    I’m from Austria, and during the London riots (IIRC, that was in 2010 or 2011) I lived in the UK.

    My parents frequently sent me news articles and snippets from TV news about things happening in the UK, and it was constant horror stories, almost apocalyptic. They claimed that all of UK was in riot and specifically also mentioned the area where I lived in.

    In fact, all that I noticed of the riots was one peaceful demonstration on one afternoon and that was it.




  • I tried it on a Quest 2 and a 3DS.

    Since the VB only stationary 3D and not 6DoF motion-tracked VR, I don’t think it translates well to the Quest. It did work really well on the 3DS though. At least it worked good enough to spend half an hour figuring out that none of the 16 or so VB games were good enough for anything more than a quick curious glance at them.

    At least not for someone who has no nostalgia for the system. I guess if you had one as a child it might be more interesting.