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by flashingleds 15y ago
Unlikely to happen, but in any case also unlikely to be all that effective. Google scholar is getting good, but when looking for papers I will usually use scopus/sciencedirect (Elsevier) or ISI (Thompson Reuters). Sowing the seeds of my own
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by flashingleds 15y ago
I think it's difficult to refute that if the funding was public, the results should be public. But the scientists have to publish in big journals to win public funding grants, and the big journals aren't motivated to go open access and surr
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by flashingleds 15y ago
It does seem odd. What you're talking about is not even particular to big user facilities. If I don't have the (physics) facilities to do something, I just track down someone who does and ask them (which is not hard using google or looking
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by flashingleds 15y ago
A few months ago I posted a writeup about displaying a Gameboy video signal on an oscilloscope ( http://www.flashingleds.wordpress.com ). It did the rounds for a few days (kotaku, HN, hackaday, slashdot etc.), and I was slightly surprised
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by flashingleds 15y ago
I completely see your point, and in many cases I agree with you. But there is sometimes a tendency for evolutionary biologists to assign deeper reasons to things that are just a consequence of physics. Occam's razor and all that. In this pa
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by flashingleds 15y ago
The LPC1768 is quite popular and you should never have problems with stock. I got started with a $30 development board from NGX (google "1768 blueboard") paired with a $30 USB jtag programmer from the same store. The older LPC2148 was also
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by flashingleds 15y ago
"PIC vs. AVR" means two different things depending on your context. The intelligent context is discussing which family best suits somebody new to microcontrollers (which thankfully is what this link is about). The moronic context is entrenc
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by flashingleds 15y ago
Since this has attracted the attention of some very knowledgeable people, can anyone suggest a good textbook/site/paper discussing password security and encryption? Obviously I can google 'computer security' and find something, I just wonde
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by flashingleds 15y ago
I'm actually pretty excited about this. I think anybody whose heart stirs a little when they see a calculator watch can understand the appeal. It's a gap in the market (if you can call it a market...) and an area the DIY community can't rea
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by flashingleds 15y ago
That graph is screaming out for a log scale.
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by flashingleds 15y ago
Quantum optics is outside my realm of expertise; to be honest my eyes kind of glaze over whenever these guys give a talk. The real life applications of this are not really teleportation in the "beam me up sense" but more along the lines of
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by flashingleds 15y ago
Good work on skipping the forms; if you make me fill out a form before allowing me to download something I'm going to be mashing the keyboard with my palm. Emailing people to solicit feedback seems a little bit weird. Just put a note somewh
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by flashingleds 15y ago
Some vertical error bars would have been helpful on that plot, but having read the original article (from behind the pay wall) I'm pretty satisfied that they thought about all the obvious problems being discussed in these comments. I am a p
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by flashingleds 16y ago
Because sometimes you can drop words without running the risk of being confusing, often because the context fills in the blanks. For example, if I write something and John responds "That's interesting. Would love to talk to you further abou
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by flashingleds 16y ago
As a condensed matter researcher, agreed. I don't believe that somebody with that level of laboratory equipment (4 probe system, furnace, pellet press etc) can't afford a $150 journal submission fee. Don't get me wrong - I love DIY science
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by flashingleds 16y ago
The presentation threw up some suspicion alarms (in a similar way to the Journal of Cosmology for the recent meteor paper), it reads like some kind of weird stream-of-consciousness. I guess I'll reserve judgement until somebody a) I've hea
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by flashingleds 16y ago
I get the impression (albeit as somebody with nothing to do with the industry) that studios aren't very excited about another generation of hardware because it already takes a huge amount of resources to make a current-generation blockbuste
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by flashingleds 16y ago
It most certainly would, and you'd probably want to do the vertical sweep as that's the slowest.
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by flashingleds 16y ago
You're welcome =) As noted in the comments of that post, I'm doing a raster display with vector display techniques. Opamp sweeps are indeed a more sensible way of rastering, but the internal DACs on this microcontroller are fast enough to k