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by gshrikant 12y ago
Has anyone read the probability text mentioned in the list - Probability: The Logic of Science by Jaynes? It looks like the text is freely available; I skimmed through the first chapter and it makes sense to me so far (I don't know how
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by gshrikant 12y ago
As it says elsewhere on this thread, technical meetups are probably your best bet to find assistance/support in real life. You get to meet interested people and it is a good opportunity to find friends and for networking. You'll g
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by gshrikant 12y ago
It is indeed heartwarming to see such mobilization for a just cause like internet neutrality. One of the biggest hurdles in defending 'intellectual' issues like net neutrality, privacy or academic pay-walling is the general publi
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by gshrikant 12y ago
Slightly OT: has anyone read the other book mentioned in the article, 'The Case for Working with Your Hands'? [1] The premise sounds interesting, I'm not sure about the execution though. [1] http://www.amazon.com&#
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Facts and Myths about Names and Values in Python [video](youtube.com)
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Ask HN: How do you do home security?
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by gshrikant 12y ago
Is anyone aware of the reasons for choosing the particular symbols that Make uses i.e. '@' (targets), '^' (list of dependencies) and '<' (first in the list of dependencies)? I have admittedly limited experie
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by gshrikant 12y ago
Exactly. I used KA to review some differential calculus and was surprised to see how effective the basic chalk-to-the-blackboard (digital pen, in this case) approach still was. It is also the reason why I prefer MIT's OCW video lecture
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Device Tree for Dummies [video](youtube.com)
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by gshrikant 12y ago
I find it more natural to think of software as different internal states of hardware or driving the state changes, at least. For FPGAs, the "software" defines the hardware (in a sense) so there is a very tight integration between
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by gshrikant 12y ago
This is a project that I've wanted to do for so long. I agree with the author's opinion about people making custom-fit apps for themselves. Programming is less taxing than other home improvement techniques like say, carpentry, (al
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by gshrikant 12y ago
From page 6, >> Instructions are first fetched, then decoded into internal micro-operations Is 'micro-operation' the same as microcode? I'm not familiar with the ARM Cortex-A architecture but I always thought ARM didn&#
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The Night Watch [pdf](research.microsoft.com)
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by gshrikant 12y ago
>> It helps me to avoid recipes and instead come up with ideas based on my tastes and the things I have available. I've been trying to learn how to cook ever since I moved roughly 3 months ago. My early attempts at replicating ot
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You and Your Research (1995) [video](youtube.com)
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by gshrikant 12y ago
IIRC, Xilinx's EDA toolchain (ISE; I haven't used Vivado) used Tcl for scripting. So does OpenOCD [1] (a ISP and hardware debugging tool). [1] http://openocd.sourceforge.net/
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by gshrikant 12y ago
I'd suggest /r/mechanicalkeyboards too. I was looking to buy one recently and the information really came in handy.
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How does the Internet work? (2002)(web.stanford.edu)
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by gshrikant 12y ago
Is it just me or does the logo look very similar to the older MS Visual Studio one?
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Introduction to Git (2011) [video](youtube.com)
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by gshrikant 12y ago
The evolution of the £ (pound) symbol has a similar, fascinating history behind it too. It was recently discussed on a 99% Invisible podcast [1]. [1] http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/octothorpe/
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Linus Torvalds and Git [video](youtube.com)
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by gshrikant 12y ago
I recently discovered 99pi and was very impressed with the production quality and content. It is short enough to retain the crispness of its format while maintaining a high content-filler ratio. The recent episode on Doug Engelbart's v
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by gshrikant 12y ago
For a somewhat dated read for an introductory/high-level survey of the state of CPU design up to 2001, I find [1] to be quite informative. Of course, having been written in the frequency scaling era some of the 'predictions'
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by gshrikant 12y ago
He actually argues quite the opposite in [1] (see footnote, pg 33) - a good read in itself. The quote you're probably referring to is this: "a science is said to be _useful_ if its development tends to accentuate the existing ineq
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A Mathematician’s Lament (2002) [pdf] (maa.org)
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by gshrikant 12y ago
Great writeup! I've been trying to dig a little deeper into the x86 boot process for some time now. Does anyone have recommendations for similar walkthroughs for the bootstrap processes and BIOS/UEFI firmware (Coreboot, for exampl
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by gshrikant 12y ago
If you are willing to consider eBooks, I find the ones at All About Circuits [1] quite accessible. They are yet to be completed in their entirety but the parts which exist are well-written and do well to cover both the theory and practical
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by gshrikant 12y ago
Curiously, you linked the Student Manual for TAOE. I was under the impression that the Manual was more of a supplement to the main text than a standalone book. I've been looking to buy a hobbyist-friendly yet comprehensive electronics
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by gshrikant 12y ago
This looks really interesting from a quick skim. Also, it appears that their initial prototypes were built using Xilinx's Virtex FPGAs but the final model was built on Altera's Stratix V D5. I wonder what prompted the change - spe

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