Everything Is BOM: Bill of Materials Encyclopedia(bomwiki.com) |
Everything Is BOM: Bill of Materials Encyclopedia(bomwiki.com) |
I like the idea implied by the name, but this is more like a "Vaguely How Stuff Works dot com" than that.
EDIT: Expanding on this a bit, because I want this comment to be more productive and less old-man-yells-at-cloud.
When I saw the link I got curious. It reminds me of the old skdb[0] project and of Open Source Ecology[1]. The idea is cool: a DAG of civilization from David Gingery[2] basic tools to jet planes and turbofans and rocket engines! Imagine that!
If it was real, it would be world-changing. The creator would be a personal hero of mine. But it's not real. It's a vague suggestion of the real thing.
Who is the creator? No-one knows. These vibeslop websites never have an About page, or contact info. No-one is putting their reputation on the line, regarding the quality or accuracy of the content.
It's a useful litmus test current to quickly evaluate new websites/services/projects, if there is no names/profiles attached to it that you can find some history about, it's well likely to be hastily put together with not much concern for quality. People who care about quality usually end up proud of the thing they make public.
I think it's fine to be pseudonymous, like Gwern, because while your government identity is protected, the pseudonym is a persistent store of reputation across time.
Also the "BOMs" are provided for such generic objects as "Excavator", which makes no sense. Different excavators will be made of different parts. If you want to get the general idea you can ask an LLM yourself instead of going to that website.
Actually a lot of this is garbage AI hallucinated info, eg. https://bomwiki.com/item/drone-docking-station/ authoritatively combines USB devices with fanciful drone installations.
Seems bit rushed in the parts I already know, so guessing that applies to all of it. The idea is quite neat though, maybe makes more sense as a humanly edited and curated wiki instead of "automatic publish of 10K articles no one reviewed".
At that level of abstraction, this is useless.
I particularly like that almost everything contains "1 x wire bundle", including a city bus and a potato planter.