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Few-Shot Spice Electronics Maker


April 4-20, 2025

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Electronics learning and development are an underserved market for Generative AI. In a handful of tests, I determined that leaders in the market do not do a good job of creating valid circuits when the information is readily available on the internet. Generative AI has most of the capabilities necessary to achieve this substantial goal of generating valid circuits from description. In this code I use few-shot prompting with hand-written circuits tested by a hobbyist. The project also demonstrates the opportunity to use image understanding in the context without needing a different provider. Indeed in tests, we found it possible to get Gemini to generate a netlist based on an image.

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Quantum Mechanics 1

by Javantea
April 8-9, 2025

This problem comes from Griffiths’ Introduction to Quantum Mechanics. It’s problem 2.1a.

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Duolingo 2

by Javantea
March 18, 2025

Duolingo has a lot of problems. I know this because I've spent 1232 days learning Portuguese, Spanish, and a little bit of Finnish and Klingon. I have a 1232 day streak and am in obsidian league. I'm hoping that the developers at Duolingo who are watching for negative sentiment find this post. Here ...

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Forever Young

A conversation between Javantea and Gemini (artificial intelligence by Google). Javantea's prompts are labeled.

Elixir of Life

Javantea: Do you have any opinion on the meaning of the song Forever Young by Alphaville?

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