BillBohan

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by BillBohan 8y ago
I agree with afarrell that lying is not advisable. Lying is a very bad thing. Convincing someone else to do a bad thing is even worse. The method I used when I was Software Development Manager was to ask one of the programmers how long he t
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by BillBohan 8y ago
I am more trusting of naturally occuring substances than I am of chemicals that do not occur in nature cooked up in labs of big pharmaceutical companies.
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by BillBohan 8y ago
These are some interesting observations regarding music and machine learning. It has been my experience that the majority of the output of ML music generators falls into the category I would classify as noise. I briefly experimented with pr
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by BillBohan 8y ago
You might want to try the free game Minetest [1]. It is very similar to Minecraft but the basic version, minetest_game, has no animals. You can add mods that give you animals if you want them but they are not necessary. There are hundreds o
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by BillBohan 8y ago
I had considered this as a possibility following much the same train of thought expressed by abakker but because it diverges from most common practice (and from mathematics) and because I was unsure whether anyone would actually want it, I
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by BillBohan 8y ago
For the rest of the article start by reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datapoint_2200 Datapoint allowed Intel to continue development with the same architecture but required all future processors to have a shuffled
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by BillBohan 9y ago
I tried getting friends to play RPG's in the early 1980's but they didn't show much interest until I came across a supply of 6" (150 mm) square pieces of styrofoam (discarded packing material from work) which I painted w
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by BillBohan 9y ago
Modular arithmetic is mentioned but base 6 is not well covered. I started gforth and entered: 3 3 + base ! ( avoiding 6) I was in a world where there was no 6. 5 1 + . gives 10 as a result. 6 1 - complains that 6 is an undefined word. Decim
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by BillBohan 9y ago
This is very interesting but does not appear to be helpful for the development of my TTA processor design. It appears that this project aims for more parallelism similar to VLIW than my simple MOVE architecture targets. I would very much ap
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by BillBohan 9y ago
I always log out. I cannot think of any advantage to remaining logged in. I can easily envision disadvantages to remaining logged in whether those reasons are real or imaginary. I also lock the door to my apartment when I leave. There are p
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by BillBohan 9y ago
I have a simple strategy which has allowed me to win every game of Nomic [1] which I have ever played. My strategy is to propose rule changes which allow every player with a nonzero score to be declared a winner. [1] https://en.w
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by BillBohan 9y ago
One of my favorite numbers is 355/113 but it's still hard to guess.
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by BillBohan 9y ago
When I worked for a company that made label printers we had a potential customer who wanted us to print labels with human readable and barcode fields with 4 random letters and 4 random digits but did not want the letters to spell any obscen
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by BillBohan 10y ago
Only two days ago I learned that was the way to get a line break in my README.md file on Github.
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by BillBohan 10y ago
I am designing a Single Instruction Set Computer and working to take it beyond the 'that's interesting but useless' stage and make it very useful. https://github.com/BillBohan/NISC
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by BillBohan 10y ago
I see one of the advantages being that it is very easy to learn due to its simplicity. There is also no need for complex instruction decoding placed on the hardware designer. For software there may be a slight increase in complexity for con
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Show HN: NISC processor design specification(github.com)
14 points by BillBohan 10y ago|0 comments
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by BillBohan 10y ago
OK https://github.com/BillBohan/NISC
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by BillBohan 10y ago
Thanks for this link. I will read it when I have time. I currently have an accumulator at an address. Moving to the next address ANDs with the accumulator. Moving to the following address ORs with the accumulator. Subsequent addresses XOR,
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by BillBohan 10y ago
I am currently waiting for my MATRIX Voice to arrive. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/matrix-voice-open-source-... I have a Spartan 3AN dev board, another Spartan6 board, and an Arty. I was using Xilinx ISE free ver
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by BillBohan 10y ago
This explains some digital logic but does not actually explain how a CPU works. It does not explain an XOR gate, but references them. It also does not explain flip-flops, but references them also. There should probably be an explanation of
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2017 Hackaday Prize Begins Right Now – Hackaday(hackaday.com)
2 points by BillBohan 10y ago|0 comments
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by BillBohan 10y ago
Interesting. It sounds good at the start but becomes cacophonous shortly thereafter. Another war story here: I used to run a 16 track mixing console with a rock band. The guitar player played with 2 different bands. He got a gig in a club o
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by BillBohan 10y ago
Just some personal observations here. I have read that most software breakthroughs occur around 1:00 AM and have found this to be true in my personal experience. In the military I worked in a shop which was manned 24/7. Normally the sh
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by BillBohan 10y ago
My first program compiled and ran in the summer of 1967. It was not unusual for a computer to have 4K of core memory. We all knew that it was 4096 bytes. The first computer I owned came with 4MB of memory. It was really 4194304 bytes. My cu
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by BillBohan 10y ago
I skip past articles and their comments if I know that I will not understand them, e.g. details of a language which I do not know. Sometimes I will look at articles which are about things I have never heard of just to find out what that is.
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by BillBohan 10y ago
leereves is correct. The sequence is 2/3 + 2/9 + 2/27 + 2/81 + 2/243 + ... and it does approach 1 In your second term you should take 2/3 of the remaining 1/3, not (2/3)^2
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by BillBohan 10y ago
I saw some odd concepts in this article. Robots are stealing jobs? Maybe they are used to replace humans in a job which they can perform better, faster, and more economically than humans, but the only robot I have seen stealing was a vendin
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by BillBohan 10y ago
I met that guy. I was working for Tandy, repairing TRS-80 Model I circuit boards when he and his partner, Paul came to Tandy Apparatus with some engineers from Tandy R&D. They had the first masked ROMs for Level II BASIC. They put them
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by BillBohan 10y ago
I found the method I was taught at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methods_of_computing_square_ro... under the heading Digit-by-digit calculation. It does not appear that this matches any of the methods tested. A long ti

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