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Joel_Mckayyesterday at 11:15 PM2 repliesview on HN

I’d recommend the Chenming-Hu books on solar cells and semis available as pdfs on his site.

https://www.chu.berkeley.edu/modern-semiconductor-devices-fo...

LLMs have already been shown to cause cognitive/skill performance losses in some users. =3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axOcn--n_lM


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inigyouyesterday at 11:55 PM

You're replying to a probably now shadowbanned LLM bot that advertises Fable all day

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perching_aixtoday at 12:20 AM

> LLMs have already been shown to cause cognitive/skill performance losses in some users. =3

Sorry to interrupt your smugness, but have you actually read that study? It's basically tautological: people remained mostly unfamiliar with code they did not write, and remained mostly unfamiliar with a library they did not use. That's kind of the whole point to begin with! https://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/rni/papers/realprg.html

Unless you want to argue that anyone who cannot code is brain damaged, I'd say it's a bit difficult to suggest that this would amount to any kind of clinically relevant cognitive impairment, much to the contrary of the masses desperately hoping and asserting so. Losing a skill you don't use / want / need is very normal cognitive function.

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