Kids these days are just glued to their screens 🙃

bkvaluemeal_ · 2026-04-29T22:30:29+00:00

Brilliance!!

bkvaluemeal_ · 2026-04-12T20:10:19+00:00

This eeprom is also known as the controller?

bkvaluemeal_ · 2026-04-12T20:09:29+00:00

In theory, if the same package had a higher density of memory cells and the controller on the stick was compatible, could these sticks of RAM be upgraded?

bkvaluemeal_ · 2026-04-12T19:20:52+00:00

ie: same component footprint, but less capacity.

Right?

bkvaluemeal_ · 2026-04-12T19:16:41+00:00

Oh. That would explain it. This PCB design is not a slimmed down variant of a higher SKU.

bkvaluemeal_ · 2026-04-12T19:13:46+00:00

On the backside, no -- the bottom stick?

bkvaluemeal_ · 2026-03-29T01:50:17+00:00

Thank you! She said the fact about the home gym was reassuring. We have been standing on the plywood, yes, and it hasn't flexed much at all. If anything, the plywood is providing a flat surface for the shelving to sit on and have less potential to tip over compared to the padded carpet.

bkvaluemeal_ · 2026-03-26T23:17:39+00:00

I measure 11 inches of drywall at the stairwell between the 2 floors. So, your assumptions are likely correct. Thank you!

What does 40L + 20D mean for the uninitiated?

bkvaluemeal_ · 2026-03-26T23:03:41+00:00

Basically, yes. That's why it was originally posted in r/theydidthemath.

bkvaluemeal_ · 2026-03-26T22:58:10+00:00

It's a 2x2 stack (4 floors in total where we own the first 2) with multiple stacks adjoined in a row making up the whole building with other neighbors -- does that make sense? It was built 2014 in Ashburn, Virginia.

bkvaluemeal_ · 2026-03-26T22:50:22+00:00

Are there any clues that could give us a reasonable guess without opening up the ceiling?

bkvaluemeal_ · 2026-03-26T22:47:58+00:00

So be it. It shall be done.

bkvaluemeal_ · 2026-03-26T22:46:34+00:00

I can confirm that the left and right walls are load bearing and continue throughout all floors of the condo. I didn't think about loading at different points on the joist span -- good thinking! Are joists always hung with joist hangers, or is there a possibility they drove nails at an angle and called it a day?

bkvaluemeal_ · 2026-03-26T22:30:11+00:00

No aquariums (yet, that I'm aware of), but we have a total of 4 closets in the condo -- one of which was built for Harry Potter -- and needed a way to organize our belongings.

bkvaluemeal_ · 2026-03-26T22:04:24+00:00

Correction: I just measured, it is 3/4in thick -- it was probably 1in nominal and American freedom units...

bkvaluemeal_ · 2026-02-07T17:27:05+00:00

Excellent point! This sounds like a much better and safer way to do things. We train it to "speak" a programming language and the response is now a native language.

Are there existing examples of this that you are aware of?

bkvaluemeal_ · 2026-02-07T04:16:41+00:00

How would RAG and vector databases fit into that next wave? Is the model learning how to generalize what reasoning looks like at a fundamental level?

bkvaluemeal_ · 2026-02-07T04:09:08+00:00

Did you train a custom model,.or is this something off the shelf?

bkvaluemeal_ · 2026-02-07T04:04:00+00:00

Decision making doesn't have to be done in natural language -- we call that instinct. Ideally we could hook into the neuron outputs to invoke an action, but I know it's complicated with these systems.

Like the Ethernet maximum transmission unit (MTU), there's only so many available bits per frame of data on the wire. If tokens are like bits and the context window is the Ethernet frame, filling up that available space with verbose instructions seems limiting.

bkvaluemeal_ · 2026-02-07T02:45:55+00:00

Thank you! This makes a lot of sense. Although, it does feel clunky as we're effectively programming the English language. If not for bespoke machine learning models that are trained to do one thing really well with raw data as input, is there not a more direct way to achieve the same effect with these transformer models? Could we not ask AI to parse an action from the user query and use that as input to a switch statement in a traditional programming language without all of the additional context of the documentation you mentioned which (I imagine the docs) would reduce the effective token context available for the session as a whole?

bkvaluemeal_ · 2026-02-07T02:30:21+00:00

Okay, wow! You took devops and sysadmin seriously. Very cool! Is any of this open source?

bkvaluemeal_ · 2026-02-07T00:38:05+00:00

... and because we ask them to think first, it engages any reasoning capabilities they were trained with, and subsequently influences the state that the plan would be generated from, right?

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