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aleph-zon Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots

Are LLMs easy to "dupe"? E.g. by placing provably wrong "information" somewhere on the internet? If so what countermeasures can help?

aleph-zon Voluntary attention regulates acute immune responses in humans

Attention is all we need ;)

aleph-zon What I learned selling 2,500 MIDI recorders: Hardware is not so hard

Congrats! Happy for your success. Your mix of ingredients is impressive (the hardware alone is probably simple). Your product idea came from actual personal need (validation!), and you are able to tie the hardware to your software to widen the moat -- which is great.

Your anti-counterfeiting tech hopefully / probably prevents your Chinese manufacturers / suppliers / related entities from free-riding on your work. (If your volumes start hitting say 50K+, things may change, you may be entering dangerous territory then, so I'd suggest you spend some time on beefing up the moat).

Good luck towards 10K volume!

aleph-zon Stenchill: 3D Printable Solder Paste Stencil Generator

I mean, why not laser cut a mylar sheet? That's an existing method and works well for 0603 footprints and similar, and is also quicker.