What have you 3D printed for your TJ?
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I was just lamenting about how long it took to design the punch holder trays over the weekend. This could potentially speed up that process...
I thought of your post when posting that but since Trevor feels the same way about both AI and YouTube that Zorba does about smartphones I figured I’d gear it towards him.
I share Trevor's disdain for AI (I think it's evil, and that's not hyperbole), but I think YouTube is pretty awesome. Try learning a new task where you have no mentors in your acquaintances group (a la 1990) with no YouTube, compared to today with YouTube. YouTube has made gaining knowledge so much more efficient! AI does the opposite. It encourages people not to gain knowledge, instead having computers do the thinking for us. But the most evil part is that it pits computers against us, eventually (yeah, I really believe that). But, I digress...
I share Trevor's disdain for AI (I think it's evil, and that's not hyperbole), but I think YouTube is pretty awesome. Try learning a new task where you have no mentors in your acquaintances group (a la 1990) with no YouTube, compared to today with YouTube. YouTube has made gaining knowledge so much more efficient! AI does the opposite. It encourages people not to gain knowledge, instead having computers do the thinking for us. But the most evil part is that it pits computers against us, eventually (yeah, I really believe that). But, I digress...
AI is better at doing what I tell it to than my employees. AI can be a good tool.
I share Trevor's disdain for AI (I think it's evil, and that's not hyperbole), but I think YouTube is pretty awesome. Try learning a new task where you have no mentors in your acquaintances group (a la 1990) with no YouTube, compared to today with YouTube. YouTube has made gaining knowledge so much more efficient! AI does the opposite. It encourages people not to gain knowledge, instead having computers do the thinking for us. But the most evil part is that it pits computers against us, eventually (yeah, I really believe that). But, I digress...
Although I agree that using AI to produce "fake" images and movies, especially when doing so with actual people, is not good, I have found a great use for it.
As I'm learning Fusion 360, when I come across something I don't know how to do, I keep a small window open to Google, type in my question, and 99 times out of 100 it simply gives me the answer, as well as the detailed steps to accomplish it. Before AI, after posting the question you then had to wade through a bunch of links to get to the answer. For me, this is a tremendous time saver, and it is a huge benefit in my learning process given this style of usage.
Hire better people.
that task gets harder every day
100% - which is why I took this new job as "just an engineer" again to ride into retirement after decades in management! Burn out is real...
That is one benefit of AI that I both agree with and in which I partake. However, it's not perfect. Mainly, it will give advice that's based on an old version's workflow, so the prompts it gives make no sense. In those rare cases, I have to use Google old-school. But that is rare. It's a pretty good tool for learning quickly.
Which was started by the smartphone, AI will make it worse on a logarithmic scale!It encourages people not to gain knowledge, instead having computers do the thinking for us. But the most evil part is that it pits computers against us, eventually (yeah, I really believe that). But, I digress...
Just like the smartphone. Oh so conVEEEEEENient when its really a pain in the ass!
Today I picked up a new toy to try out with Fusion and elsewhere. Spacemouse Enterprise and CadMouse Pro from 3DConnexion.
Pretty cool so far.
Pretty cool so far.
Well worth it. Been using them for 20 years. Have a couple I took from my last engineering job floating around the house.
What does the cad mouse do?
Darnit, you two are going to get me to spend more money...
Man, those speakers are a throwback! We got those same ones with a Dell desktop over 20 years ago.
... and the matching 20 year old sub!
They're Harmon/Kardons, and they still sound great.
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Haven't gotten too far into the mouse. It was a package deal with the Enterprise. It is a nice, 5-button + wheel programmable version, and is a bit bigger and heavier than the mouse it replaces. "It feels nice" is about all I can say about it at this point...