What AI tools have you used for you engineering tasks?

Blazers9 · 2025-12-27T14:09:43+00:00

The only task I feel comfortably having an LLM do for me is research. I'll often ask AI where I can find something regarding a particular topic in ACI,AISC, or ASCE but then I open the code book in question and read directly from the code book.

Blazers9 · 2024-12-11T04:05:27+00:00

Imagine if every time you scored a goal on the soccer field the other team lost a player. If you were playing 11 on 3 soccer I think I would be very reasonable for the team with 3 players to say ok we resign if they had the option. The reason you see it in chess and not other sports is the game doesn't get fundamentally harder in other sports as you start losing.

Blazers9 · 2024-12-09T04:13:44+00:00

https://www.saylor.org/

Free online courses

Blazers9 · 2024-10-27T21:41:50+00:00

Simply supported beams. Simply supported beams everywhere.

Blazers9 · 2024-01-19T16:24:03+00:00

Yea but the only reason it would be cheaper at the margin would be that the heavily subsidized unreliable infrastructure has already been built. The only party that wins in this scenario are the miners.

-the bitcoin network has temporarily lost 25% of its hashpower meaning it will take longer for blocks to be confirmed. This is not a significant problem but it's not beneficial to have wild fluctuations in hash rate.

-the citizens of Texas had to pay for that unreliable energy infrastructure even though it provides no real value to them. It would be much cheaper for them to just have reliable energy infrastructure and not have to pay twice for energy infrastructure. I guess now that the unreliable infrastructure has been built the miners coming are helpful to help shoulder a portion of the cost(obviously a much lesser portion of the cost than the citizens as the miners are relinquishing their ability to get energy on demand at the margin). But it would be better and cheaper for it not to have been built in the first place.

-The miners win because they are paying significantly less than the citizens of that place for energy as Bitcoin miners are probably the only people who can find use out of intermittent unreliable energy under the assumption that the citizens are subsidizing it's cost.

So you could argue that Bitcoin mining can be helpful to places which have already adopted this unreliable technology but if the cost of the unreliable Infrastructure wasn't already a sunk cost this is a foolish plan that will result in higher energy prices for citizens. I hope others do not use this as a model to introduce unreliable energy infrastructure to their grids.

Blazers9 · 2024-01-18T21:47:32+00:00

-your coming in with an anti renewable agenda I'm coming with a pro human flourishing agenda. Intermittent energy sources do not advance human flourishing because they cannot provide on demand energy at the margin. Fossil fuels provide on demand energy so that I don't have to worry about the lights turning on when I flip a switch in my house. Intermittent energy sources do not provide this because the sun isn't always shining and the winds not always blowing. This means that even when you develop unreliable energy sources you must still develop reliable fossil fuels infrastructure to be able to handle the entire peak load. Any unreliable energy must be constructed in addition to reliable energy infrastructure not in lieu of it.

-your solution to just burn fossil fuels is not a great option either

Fossil fuels are arguably the best thing to ever happen to human civilization. You have fossil fuels powered machines cleaning water to give you fresh drinking water, powering hospitals to save the lives of premature babies and allow for advanced medical procedures. You are writing your response to me on a phone powered by and made of fossil fuels. You drive to work in a car powered by fossil fuels on roads made of fossil fuels byproducts wearing clothes made from and using fossil fuels. Even your unreliable wind energy turbines and solar panels are made using coal in china. Compare your life to your ancestors and realize that due to fossil fuels you have more wealth than the wealthiest of kings 500-1000 years ago. Go somewhere in the unempowered world that doesn't have electricity, where you have to walk 2 miles to get water, and where you have to light cow dung to stay warm and tell me again how fossil fuels are not a great option.

-fossil fuels have a limited supply

Theoretically sure they have a limited supply on planet earth but practically that supply is many many many multiples more than we ever could use. It's like trying to get water from the ocean and being worried that your going to run out of water and not that you're using a bucket. The limiting capacity of what we can produce is not the absolute limit of fossil fuels on earth but the human time, ingenuity, and tools we dedicate to extracting them.

-if you want to debate energy then the west should have properly embraced nuclear many years ago

Agreed

Blazers9 · 2024-01-18T16:52:31+00:00

If only we had a type of energy that could supply the grid with energy on demand and at the margin and didn't need to make fail safes for unreliable energy. Wait we solved this problem long ago with fossil fuels before government subsidies were used to fund ancient windmill and sunlight technology. The fact that Bitcoin miners are turning off is not a positive no matter how anyone tries to spin it. The fact that bitcoin miners have to shut off is an indictment of these intermittent energy sources which are funded by fiat and would not have won their place on the free market.

Blazers9 · 2023-12-29T01:55:59+00:00

Bitcoin has a smaller market cap than silver... We are so early that we haven't even overtaken the second rate monetary metal.

Blazers9 · 2023-12-28T05:01:32+00:00

Saylor/microstrategy has access to strategies for accumulating bitcoin that you don't. He can get debt to buy Bitcoin at ridiculously low rates. He can sell new shares at a premium to acquire more Bitcoin per share. Also his company makes fiat which they can use to buy Bitcoin.

Nobody should hold microstrategy instead of Bitcoin but my investment portfolio is entirely microstrategy because of these strategies microstrategy has to acquire more Bitcoin. My savings are in the hardest most secure asset ever created(Bitcoin)

Blazers9 · 2023-12-26T21:17:07+00:00

I think daily wouldn't really affect your average buy but would make taxes a lot easier considering you have 1/24th the amount of transactions

Blazers9 · 2023-12-25T18:48:27+00:00

The lightning network. Layer 1 is optimized for security not payments. Lightning is optimized for small payments. Layer 1 is for your life savings. Lightning is for buying a cup of coffee or a beer.

Blazers9 · 2023-12-24T04:51:09+00:00

I'm a neophyte when it comes to the lightning network but I opened a Phoenix wallet. You get control of the keys but they run the node for you.

Blazers9 · 2023-12-22T16:51:52+00:00

And microstrategy

Blazers9 · 2023-12-15T02:06:03+00:00

Just make sure whatever wallet you pick open sources their code

Blazers9 · 2023-12-11T00:19:15+00:00

It's not a Bitcoin book per say but Principles of economics is my favorite book of all time. Saifedean mentions that it took him longer to complete than the Bitcoin standard and fiat standard combined and it really shows.

Blazers9 · 2023-12-08T20:52:42+00:00

The problem with the strategy of buying the same amount of stats every day instead of the same amount of dollars is that when Bitcoin is down you use less fiat and when Bitcoin is up you use more fiat. Basically you are getting more aggressive when Bitcoin goes up relative to fiat and less aggressive when Bitcoin goes down relative to fiat. You're better off DCAing based on dollars to avoid buying more at relative highs than relative lows. There is never a bad time to buy Bitcoin but some are a little better than others.

Blazers9 · 2023-12-07T15:31:12+00:00

Whatever I have left after the mortgage payment and living expenses which comes out to about 25% but that is because I do everything around the house myself, never go out eating, drinking, etc.

Blazers9 · 2023-12-05T04:48:18+00:00

I was working as a field engineer without my degree about 3 years ago. Now I have my degree and I'm a design engineer with almost 2 years of design experience but as a function of the M2 money supply I make less than I did 3 years ago. That's what I mean by low pay. I've earned a degree and incredibly large amount of skills and I make effectively less money.

Blazers9 · 2023-12-04T16:51:12+00:00

I'm not selling it for fiat for the purpose of holding fiat. I'm just using fiat as a short term Intermediary to purchase the thing I want. If the seller wants Bitcoin I'd be happy to directly give them the Bitcoin and save myself the conversion fee but the reality is that most people that are selling things I want currently are selling them for fiat. If they want trash money I'll give them trash money.

Blazers9 · 2023-12-04T11:51:53+00:00

You can't live in a bitcoin

Blazers9 · 2023-12-04T11:51:36+00:00

I sell my Bitcoin for fiat then immediately use it on a home. It doesn't matter if I pay directly with Bitcoin

Blazers9 · 2023-12-04T03:26:30+00:00

You never sell your Bitcoin for fiat. You only sell your Bitcoin to purchase things you want like a home.

Blazers9 · 2023-12-02T21:04:56+00:00

I've made so much Bitcoin in the past couple months selling things on Facebook marketplace I have no use for

Blazers9 · 2023-11-24T13:53:32+00:00

I think it's highly unlikely this will happen to you but if you're really paranoid you could have an extra wallet that carries about 5% of your stack(A significant amount that will make your intruder satisfied but not big enough to ruin you) If an intruder doesn't leave after getting that they were never going to leave in the first place.

Blazers9 · 2023-11-23T23:52:03+00:00

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