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akamoonknight
7y ago
One thing I've wondered recently is how possible it is to recreate the double slit experiment (with electrons) just in your garage today. It feels like the cost of the required components have to have come down from whatever it was in
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akamoonknight
7y ago
That brings up a slightly different aspect in my mind, that children of immigrants might be more than likely to be surrounded by large amounts of family members which probably tends to have a positive effect?
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akamoonknight
7y ago
It seems like one difficulty is in knowing what expertise is important? Assumedly the contractors thought they had expertise, but were lacking. The firefighters assumedly thought they had expertise, but we're lacking. What expertise do
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akamoonknight
7y ago
One professional project that really changed some of the ways that I thought about programming was writing a PCIe Linux driver. Learning how the kernel lays out data structures and how they provide callbacks and passing data back to the &#x
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7y ago
Would it possible to somehow run a local proxy or tor-like program that hides your IP address from internal programs and only provides localhost or some such. And then on the other end I suppose you'd have to connect through some sort
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akamoonknight
7y ago
Could they have meant exponentially with respect to using binary search? That is, using linear search is exponentially worse than using binary search on a sorted data set.
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8y ago
I see something similar to this in the testing done for self driving cars. There's a lot of cars driving around that have a lot of sensors, sometimes on my 15 minute drive I see 5 or more. I'm sure that these cars are tracking inf
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8y ago
I saw the portion of the description that talked about BCD conversion. One magical method I've used in the past on FPGAs is the Double Dabble algorithm [0]. Seems like your implementation is succinct enough to not need improvements, bu