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   by beckerdo 6y ago

   Be careful of the source of your station report. In the US, station report pressures related to aviation are in units of "inches mercury" ("Hg) with the preceding 2 or 3 omitted. Here is a resource: https://aviatio
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   by beckerdo 6y ago

   A good article. However the real floppy disk is the floating point standard . These days other number representation are exceeding floating point in terms of dynamic range, flexibility, fewer exception cases, better rounding, and cheaper&#x
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   by beckerdo 7y ago

   Please check some of the online papers on Posit numbers and Unum computing, especially by John Gustafson. In general, Unums can represent more numbers, with less rounding, and fewer exceptions than floating points. Many software and hardwar
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   by beckerdo 7y ago

   Any good guide or recipes for hosting your own website over a major ISP (Spectrum, Comcast, etc.)? I currently host my site on GoDaddy, but I find simple things like providing https and certificate are a monthly recurring charge.
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   by beckerdo 7y ago

   I am sorry for Intel. Perhaps John Gustafson’s 16 bit posits or unums would have made a better choice.
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   by beckerdo 8y ago

   Watch all 2000 episodes of Bob Ross on YouTube.
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   by beckerdo 8y ago

   This earlier work discovering nucleotides X and Y might be interesting too (warning paywall): https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2019/01/19/...