u/sincle354

For documentation and logs. That's it, really. I'm never letting it touch consequential RTL in my life. Sorry for the bait.

But seriously, if you haven't tried giving an LLM access to the full documentation of whatever tool you're using, try it. Doubly so if you have an agent. I gave it Questasim documentation and the path to my latest run and I said "this compile crashed, tell me where and why". It was able to tell me the exact line where my coworker flubbed a patch he pushed to the compile script. His runs worked because he had existing libs in the simulation directory, but I was saved an hour of anguish grepping and chasing other errors my testbench was throwing. It's great at telling me all the flags and commands I need for Vivado, adding waves to a waveform window, and some limited success at diagnosing testbench bugs from a csv exported from said waveform. It's way better at grepping than I ever could be. Its tcl is good tool, so if you want a good set of signals to probe, it can give you a good starting position.

Seriously, if you look up the actual ways they fingerprint your identity, you realize that We. Are. Cooked. Those tracking cookies are no joke, dawg. They know your browser, the size of your screen, the time of day, the approximate IP/location of your desktop PC, your motherboard and CPU model, your browser version, your extensions, your search history, your associated logins, when you work, when you tap to pay at Starbucks, when you look at an ad short for too long, where you go to the store (gps), your traffic violation history, your elementary, middle, highschool, your first girlfriend, your plans to buy her a ring, your favorite time to make a sports bet, your gpa, your political affiliation, your best vacation photos on Facebook, your beliefs on vaccination (COVID searches), your bookmarked spice mix recipe, your gas mileage, and more.

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And if you hide your privacy and cut all this junk, well, your momma posts your face on her timeline :)

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Go buy a better razor. I assure you that your beard is not bold enough to be like Vaush's, and that Gillette is running your wallet dry.

TL;DR: IQ test diagnosed my undiagnosable mental disorder and also FUCK AUTISM SPEAKS

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Forgive the antagonism, just wanted a good bait for a title. Alright, so here's my deal. Took gifted test in elementary, right? I didn't know it, but the proctors thought I was being coached. My parents never told me what the result was. The entirety of school was a shitshow, regardless. I remember crying trying to fill in a coloring page for homework and writing ten sentences. I remember the anguish of delaying a math packet I could finish in an hour. I remember the loneliness of being weird.

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I graduated highschool at the top of my class, and I had done nothing but drill college credits. I felt empty. I felt like I couldn't do anything out of my own accord. My other smart buddies, they went to MIT, ran for county representative, and they made memories with the math olympiad. I did NOTHING but waste away playing flash games in the summer.

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And guess what? Second year in college, I'm about to lose my scholarship. I begged and pleaded the health system and I got a consultation for anxiety, depression, anything. I had straight As in college, but I was on the verge of a mental breakdown. They gave me a reaction speed test that I passed. Then they gave me an IQ test, the Weschler-IV. It's kinda perpendicular to any normal test you take. It's timed, it ramps up, and it expects you to fail. And I did fail in parts!

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So it turns out my math and spatial processing is 3 orders out magnitude positive. But my processing speed? Straight average, 100. They instantly knew what was wrong with me. One titration into non-stimulant ADHD medication later, and I'm able to sit still for hours. I'm loaded with planners and note taking apps and I realize that if you just yap to an LLM, it will take your notes way better than I ever could type it out. It's all because of my diagnosis.

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Do you know how much it hurts, to know that I could have saved so much strife, so much lost confidence if I knew what was wrong with me? Why my family is full of drunkards and gambling addicts and neurotic hoarders? I'm not cursed! I'm not lazy. I'm. NOT. Lazy. My grades would have never revealed the nature of my mental delays. I'm better because of IQ, so you and your armchair historian, DSM-V-ignoring, reductionist little peanut gallery can get off the guys case for saying things that make me feel seen and good!!1!1

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Also my gf has the 'tism and I don't really respect his idea that it can 'come and go' like he says but he is ΩMEGA BASED for saying you can't 'improve' or 'fix' being autistic, down with autism speaks, up with tbh. Vaush, you're welcome on the neurodivergent side, you can bring the rice and beans since they're better than the tendies and fries.