u/Grouchy_Plastic9087

Well this may sound a little out of context and a bit crazy but I want to know what your relationship with AI is like and how much self knowledge you gained since you started using it more

I’ve been using ChatGPT since 2023, and it helped me a lot with university, solving problems, studying, etc but since 2024 I’ve also been using it to help me understand my mind. Yes I basically shared everything about my personal life with it to better understand why I feel the way I do and it actually helped me a lot with my diagnosis (I’m 2e, with autism, ADHD, and giftedness) because it was so hard to find professionals in my country specialized in all three conditions at the same time, and the few I found were extremely expensive

But as time passed I became more and more comfortable talking with AI, to the point where I now find myself asking for advice every time about what to do in certain situations. Of course, I don’t follow the advice 100%, but I use it a lot because it helps me organize and understand my thoughts

But the thing I actually wanted to talk about is Claude AI. I visited San Francisco for the first time some weeks ago and before that I had never even heard about Claude in my life. But in San Francisco EVERYONE was talking about it so I decided to test it and damn I think this is what I had been looking for for such a long time

The biggest problem for me with ChatGPT was that it didn’t really have persistent memory and couldn’t fully understand the whole context of my life. Every time I wanted insight about something, I had to explain the entire context again, and it sucked. But with Claude, I can integrate notes from my computer, and it can access those notes. It literally feels like a second brain.

It helps me remember important things, like sending a message to someone I met at a conference to stay in contact and even prepare the message based on my projects updates, activities, information about the person, and our previous interactions. It also helps me track how I’m feeling based on many factors that influence my mood. For example, because of autism, if I don’t have a routine, if the weather is too hot, if my period is close, or if I haven’t socialized for a long time, it affects me a lot, I’ll probably feel terrible, but having all this personal data integrated helps me understand exactly why I’m feeling bad and based on patterns of what usually helps me feel better, it can suggest things like calling a certain person or doing a certain activity

Well, I probably sound like a crazy person right now (sorry about that) but I just wanted to know if other gifted people who work with technology are also integrating AI into their lives the same way I am

I’m F24 and I’ve never had a real serious relationship. I had some situationships, but the longest one lasted 3 months.

Since my first year of university I’ve been really focused on building my career and spent most of my time on that (I’m an aerospace engineer with a minor in computer engineering, just for context) so most of my time and energy always went to studying, projects, internships, and trying to build something. Because of that, when I had free time, usually I didn’t have energy for much besides just staying quiet and resting.

Dating became complicated because during lighter periods of college, when I didn’t have so many exams or work to do, I could actually invest energy into a relationship. And in the beginning it always worked really well. I have a lot of subjects to talk about, I like learning new things, I’m curious, and I genuinely enjoy connecting with people.

But then responsibilities came back again, and my focus shifted completely to work and projects. There was usually a point where the other person started getting bored of me because I stopped being the energetic, curious, spontaneous, and fun person who always wanted to do things and talk about everything, and became almost like a boring robot version of myself, with my mind completely focused on goals and responsibilities. So it usually ended after 1 month.

At first I thought this would change after college. I thought maybe university was the problem. But after graduating, the ambition stayed even stronger. I realized I just couldn’t feel satisfied with the idea of simply getting a stable job, finding a partner, and living a normal comfortable life. I started working on building my own business, and honestly dating now feels even harder than during college.

Now I’m much more selective about who I allow into my life because I realized time and emotional energy are probably my most valuable resources. And I also noticed something uncomfortable about myself. I can’t be with a man who is less ambitious than me. I need someone who dreams big, works hard, and takes care of himself at least at the same level I take care of myself. Otherwise I start feeling deeply misunderstood and disconnected.

I tried the opposite once. Instead of dating adventurous and ambitious men, I tried dating calmer men who were okay with a simpler life. But honestly it felt even worse, because I constantly felt alone in the way I see life. Wanting to build something meaningful, wanting more, wanting growth all the time.

And then there’s the other side, which is honestly the hardest part for me. I’ve met ambitious men before, but many times I ended up feeling like I became their main ambition instead of just their partner. The relationship starts feeling like the center of their life, and that pressure suffocates me because I feel like I have to constantly perform instead of just being myself. I just want someone who is deeply focused on his own goals and sees me as a companion, not as his entire purpose.

Well I guess this was a bit of a vent, and honestly maybe I am just avoiding dealing with some internal issues and blaming ambition for everything. So maybe ambition is not the only reason. Maybe there’s something else that I still don’t fully understand about myself and relationships. Maybe I’m afraid of letting people truly enter my life.

But I genuinely wanted to know if there are other people who feel this way too, not only women.

Sorry if this is a dumb question, I am very new to FPGA development so I might be missing something basic here.

I just bought a brand new Tang Nano 9K and I cannot flash it on Linux Ubuntu. I am using openFPGALoader 0.12.0 and also tried the official Gowin Programmer V1.9.12.02. The board is brand new and has never been flashed before. The power LED is on when I plug it in so it is getting power.

When I plug the board in, lsusb correctly shows 0403:6010 Future Technology Devices International FT2232 but no /dev/ttyUSB* devices appear. I have to manually run sudo modprobe ftdi_sio and replug the board for /dev/ttyUSB0 and /dev/ttyUSB1 to show up. I am already in the dialout group.

When I try to flash with openFPGALoader I always get this:

$ sudo openFPGALoader -b tangnano9k blink.fs
empty
Jtag frequency : requested 6.00MHz   -> real 6.00MHz  
Error: no device found

$ sudo openFPGALoader -b tangnano9k blink.fs --verbose-level 2
empty
Jtag frequency : requested 6.00MHz   -> real 6.00MHz
Raw IDCODE:
- 0 -> 0xffffffff
found 0 devices
Error: no device found

I tried OpenOCD too. Channel 0 config:

cat > tang.cfg << 'EOF'
adapter driver ftdi
ftdi vid_pid 0x0403 0x6010
ftdi channel 0
ftdi layout_init 0x0008 0x000b
adapter speed 6000
transport select jtag
jtag newtap gw1n tap -irlen 8 -expected-id 0x0900281b
EOF

sudo openocd -f tang.cfg

Result on channel 0:

Open On-Chip Debugger 0.12.0
Licensed under GNU GPL v2
For bug reports, read
    http://openocd.org/doc/doxygen/bugs.html
Info : Listening on port 6666 for tcl connections
Info : Listening on port 4444 for telnet connections
Info : clock speed 6000 kHz
Error: JTAG scan chain interrogation failed: all ones
Error: Check JTAG interface, timings, target power, etc.
Error: Trying to use configured scan chain anyway...
Error: gw1n.tap: IR capture error; saw 0xff not 0x1
Warn : Bypassing JTAG setup events due to errors
Warn : gdb services need one or more targets defined

Result on channel 1 (same config but ftdi channel 1):

Open On-Chip Debugger 0.12.0
Licensed under GNU GPL v2
For bug reports, read
    http://openocd.org/doc/doxygen/bugs.html
Info : Listening on port 6666 for tcl connections
Info : Listening on port 4444 for telnet connections
Info : clock speed 1000 kHz
Warn : Haven't made progress in mpsse_flush() for 2001ms.
Warn : Haven't made progress in mpsse_flush() for 4001ms.
Warn : Haven't made progress in mpsse_flush() for 8001ms.
Warn : Haven't made progress in mpsse_flush() for 16001ms.
^C^X^

Channel 1 hangs indefinitely and never responds.

I read on https://github.com/trabucayre/openFPGALoader/issues/206 that JTAGSEL_N is connected to the S2 button and needs to be held down to enable JTAG. I tried holding S2 during every single flash attempt with every tool and it made no difference.

I also tried removing the ftdi_sio driver before flashing, blacklisting it with udev rules and nothing changed.

Here is what dmesg reports when I plug the Nano into a USB port

[110358.963032] usb 3-2: USB disconnect, device number 76
[110364.948556] usb 3-2: new full-speed USB device number 77 using xhci_hcd
[110365.074924] usb 3-2: not running at top speed; connect to a high speed hub
[110365.075962] usb 3-2: New USB device found, idVendor=0403, idProduct=6010, bcdDevice= 5.00
[110365.075972] usb 3-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[110365.075975] usb 3-2: Product: JTAG Debugger
[110365.075978] usb 3-2: Manufacturer: SIPEED
[110365.075981] usb 3-2: SerialNumber: FactoryAIOT Pro

Is this a defective board or am I missing something obvious? Has anyone seen 0xffffffff on a brand new Tang Nano 9K and managed to fix it?

Thanks a lot

Hello everyone,

I work with embedded software for aerospace applications and I was recently selected for an internship focused on implementing AI engine-based algorithms to select physical events directly on hardware before sending them to software.

I would really appreciate suggestions on how to prepare for this internship. If anyone has experience programming AI algorithms for hardware or working with AI on FPGAs, I would be grateful for any tips, resources, or recommendations on how to start studying for this.

Context: During my studies, I worked on some FPGA projects using VHDL, but that was about two years ago and I also worked with machine learning development around three years ago, so there are a lot of concepts I don’t remember anymore. I have experience with event detection, but mainly in C. I have also done some HLS projects with SystemVerilog, but it was mostly in guided or supervised settings, such as following step-by-step tutorials.