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Educational Intelligence. Electronics & Mechatronics. No problems, no fun.

Perth, Western Australia
Joined February 2026
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The worlds collective cortisol/stress per capita has probably never been higher
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I suppose it’s time to enter manufacturing
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my entire personality is a system prompt
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Altering an LLM’s communication is still done via the system prompt. That means there’s a ton of opportunity in truely communicative AI able to adapt to user preferences on the fly. I guess this is your reminder that we are still early
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Has any checked in on the next generation?
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There’s so much potential in LLM empowered recommender systems.
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The number of approvals and authorisations you need to achieve anything in a large-corporation is mind blowing
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Anthropic really is going to IPO.
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Am I the only one amazed by this?
Asking my AI teacher how to spell seventeen
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The 9-5 really leaves you with no time for personal development
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Exactly, education will fundamentally change with AI
the old education system is like dead dead there's literally never been a better time in history to homeschool your kids with AI you can now just prompt it to create an entire curriculum for your kid, give lessons, generate interactive quizzes to see what they're actually learning, explain things in a hundred different ways until they understand, adapt the difficulty and pace to their progress, generate videos, etc etc you could probably give your kids a much better education in a fraction of the time they'd otherwise spend sitting in a classroom learning the same things at the same pace as 30 other kids and then spend all that extra time playing with them, exploring, doing sports, reading, traveling, whatever it's actually insane when you think about it
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Working inside one of Australia’s mining companies has made me realise how behind Australia is
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Australians take note
PCBs made in America. Twice as fast as Shenzhen. Today @CircuitHub is unveiling The Grid, our factory-scale robot in Massachusetts that builds circuit boards on demand. No changeovers, no per-design setup. Prototypes and production batches, fully automated.
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Does anyone have tips on starting a newsletter. It’s damn hard
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I think we may have an education problem
This first-grade teacher says 100% of her students went to kindergarten, and almost all of them have both parents at home. A bunch of them even went to pre-K. Yet somehow these kids still can’t write the alphabet or count. She can’t fail them. She can’t hold them back. So they just keep getting pushed to the next grade, year after year. No Child Left Behind was the biggest disaster the education system has ever produced, and parents have stopped parenting, expecting schools to do it all for their children.
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The newest arrival for the build: PH2.0 2P 3.7V 2200mAh Polymer lithium ion / Li-ion battery. It took about 3 weeks to arrive, I suppose batteries have more customs to clear
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The next generation is in safe hands
Hardware looks scary until you break it down into small steps. So I built an app that takes you through Arduino one circuit at a time. Made with Opus 5.5 learn-arduino-red.vercel.app
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The Digital Wild West
Thieves on the Gold Coast are using Wi-Fi jammers to disable wireless security cameras before targeting homes and vehicles. The illegal devices emit radio signals that drown out Wi-Fi connections, leaving no footage of crimes in progress.
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Destroying education is insidious
Mon école est ce matin saccagé. J ai plus de salles pour mes etudiants. Plus d écrans ( juste cassés). Plus d ordinateurs . Clim cassé ( oui on avait la clim) Des Tags 1312 dans chaque salle. Les câbles de liaisons coupés, tirés, défoncés. Je n en dis pas plus.
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Grok bot and Cursor have just set up an entire newsletter/mailing campaign for me.
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Display connected. I’ll be working on bootloaders, OTA updating, and PCB Design next.
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