The Tech Compass: Navigating AI's Waves, Securing Our Foundations, and Optimizing Every Byte Welcome to your latest dose of cutting-edge insights! As we hurtle further into 2026, the technology landscape continues its breathtaking transformation. This week's trending talks offer a fascinating snapshot of where we are and where we're headed. From the pervasive, sometimes perilous, influence of Ar
The task at hand is drawing the circuit schematics for a robot I'm working on. I had already written down the components and the connections, all that's left is to draw it in KiCad. I had already started doing that, but then... I got sidetracked forcing Gemini to create the circuit using KiCad. I would have made progress if I had continued doing it by hand. I spent yesterday trying to generate an
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We debate endlessly about whether AI will ever achieve consciousness, but we forget how consciousness actually compiled in the first place. It wasn’t spawned in a vacuum; it was forged by the brutal necessity of survival. For millions of iterations over millions of years, early cognition was nothing but pure instinct and bloodlust—refined only by the fight for the right to exist. Humanity is not
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This is part three of a series on display consistency in embedded systems. The first two parts were technical. This one is about why the technical parts worked. The picture: ATtiny85 thermometer. Neural network inference. QUAD7SHIFT display. Built from datasheets. He had datasheets. No Stack Overflow. No libraries to install. No AI to generate boilerplate. No tutorials that abstracted away the in
If you've ever used a bottleneck calculator, you've probably seen a simple percentage telling you whether your CPU or GPU is holding your system back. But here’s the truth most people don’t realize: Bottlenecks are not fixed numbers — they are dynamic, workload-dependent behaviors. In this post, we’ll go beyond basic tools and break down how CPU and GPU bottlenecks actually work in real-world scen