Brashman

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by Brashman 13y ago
I'm slightly afraid of clicking on game links on HN after 2048.
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by Brashman 13y ago
I wish we would stop referring to doing a PhD as "school" and the people doing it as "students". Call it what it is. They're junior researchers. I get that doing a PhD is also meant to be a training process, but wor
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by Brashman 13y ago
I also don't really follow why for the iPad it was good that they dropped numbers but for the iPhone it was good that they kept the numbers. Definitely hypothesis fitting.
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by Brashman 13y ago
Your Tesla will restart in 10... 9... 8...
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by Brashman 13y ago
I'm not sure how it works in the liberal arts, but for STEM PhDs, it's not so much that they "believe their area of focus is the most important topic on earth" as much as they admit PhD students so that they have employe
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by Brashman 13y ago
The PID controller was definitely the part that stuck out to me. To me, a PID controller is a method of designing a controller and thus essentially "free" to implement in software. Do you happen to know where this $30 number comes
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by Brashman 13y ago
What stops people from signing up as a Patron right before a game is released? Or put another way, what's the benefit of signing up as a Patron ahead of time?
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by Brashman 13y ago
The salary quote point which is that a good portion of a professor's salary is paid of the grants they bring in. In addition, they are also often the ones supporting grad students and postdocs. Although this isn't true in all case
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by Brashman 13y ago
I thought this was some sort of parody until I saw the electronic guts near the end. A pencil made of wood with an eraser that writes on paper. I didn't realize it was a "Pencil" that writes on "Paper".
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by Brashman 13y ago
Usually BCD ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary-coded_decimal )
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by Brashman 13y ago
Presumably, people would adjust their way of living to incorporate the extra income from their job so losing the job would affect their way of life. Many people today can't "afford" to change to a lower paying job because the
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by Brashman 13y ago
Even if the accuracy gets good enough, you could just seal products in boxes.
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by Brashman 13y ago
Welcome to EE lab. In one lab as an undergrad, my partner and I found that we could get our circuit to work by attaching a capacitor with one end to our circuit and one end to a random place on the breadboard. It made for a bit of a funny c
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by Brashman 13y ago
The kid in me loves it but simulation speed would be an issue. I don't know exactly what the simulation slowdown for circuits is, but just to give an idea, in a classroom setting, you're probably waiting a couple seconds for a sim
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by Brashman 13y ago
This is of course tongue-in-cheek, but wasn't the point of doing the Kickstarter to support the project, not necessarily to pre-order a console? Sorry, I just find it strange when people expect that they "deserve" certain thi
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by Brashman 13y ago
If you're interested in a non-proprietary toolflow, you can try taking a look at VPR ( http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/vpr/ ). It's an academic place and route tool out of the University of Toronto. You may still n
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by Brashman 13y ago
The open data issue and the paywall issue are separate issues. Even if the publishers opened up the papers for public access, people would still not have had access to the R&R dataset.
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by Brashman 13y ago
Yes and no is acceptable. It's really a "Yes, but...". Is Newtonian physics correct? Yes and no. It's roughly correct at a macroscopic level, but at small scales quantum effects are important and at high speeds relativistic effects are impo
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by Brashman 13y ago
The gem5 simulator ( http://www.gem5.org/Main_Page ) sounds like it works in a similar way to let you hook together different components and simulate different systems. Although gem5 is a research tool and not targeted to specifically emula
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AMD’s “heterogeneous Uniform Memory Access” coming this year in Kaveri(arstechnica.com)
3 points by Brashman 13y ago|0 comments
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by Brashman 13y ago
I like this idea, except that I'd be worried about money entering into the scheme. In a real world setting, it's not unreasonable to pay someone to do the work for you, but in a school/learning setting, I dislike the possibility of people p
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by Brashman 13y ago
Any idea why there hasn't been anything since 2009? Have they stopped publishing/presenting or just not updated the site?
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Testing the Ouya with 3DMark(futuremark.com)
1 points by Brashman 13y ago|0 comments
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by Brashman 14y ago
Although it may not be this way on paper, most academic funding agencies realize that the exact details of the research are likely to change. Usually as long as the general direction of research (e.g., solving problem X), they are ok with i
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by Brashman 14y ago
I've seen data at some point that other countries such as Canada and European countries have lower gun violence rates than in the US. These countries have similar video games, movies, and other media. It's not really enough to make any stro
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by Brashman 14y ago
It's happened on occasion, but for the most part by looking at reviews I get a decent opinion of whether I would like the movie. I can think of only 3 movies in the last couple years that I regretted seeing, 2 of which I went to mostly beca
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by Brashman 14y ago
I've also gotten a lot of use out of my netbook. Small, long battery life, and can do just about everything my desktop/laptop can. All for $300 (a price point I could never imagine seeing from Apple). I can see that they're not for everyone
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by Brashman 14y ago
I'm not sure that blockbuster-type movies could get funded using kickstarter-type funding. Even if they could receive the needed funding, I don't entirely like the idea of moving to that model. Currently, producers front the initial money (
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by Brashman 14y ago
I agree. Since this is coming out of research out of a university, I would be more inclined to guess that (at the time at least) this was actually innovative and new work. The fastest way for a paper to be rejected is for it to have been do
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by Brashman 14y ago
If the professors and graduate students involved in this didn't start a company to exploit the company, then I'm guessing the university still owns 100% of the patent (I don't know if that's the case in this situation or not). I think this

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