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by icegreentea 11y ago
The prof might be groping around a real core issue, but he really picked some unfortunately example. I'm just going to pile on his exam time example really hard. Ok, you tell a bunch of young adults that what they do over the next 2-4
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by icegreentea 11y ago
The two currently released Skylake CPUs are both unlocked (K) models. It may be worth waiting for the rest of the roll out to see what happens. It might be that Intel will ship a stock cooling solution for their locked models.
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by icegreentea 11y ago
What do you mean by 'good cola'? Coca-Cola has caffeine free variants of both Diet Coke and Coke Zero. Up here in Canada you can usually find them at major supermarket chains. If by good you mean not Coca-Cola or Pepsi... well the
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by icegreentea 11y ago
Memory bandwidth/throughput has been a far larger bottleneck on gaming performance than total video memory for the last few years. They've been trying to deal it by using ever faster and slightly wider memory interfaces, but now t
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by icegreentea 11y ago
AMD is a fabless chip designer (like nearly everyone except Intel and Samsung). They rely on foundries for manufacturing. AMD relies on GlobalFoundries (and NVidia relies on TSMC). Both manufactures have skipped on either foundries 20nm pro
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by icegreentea 11y ago
I was researching stuff for another post I was going to make (didn't end up making it), but I think it's worth adding an caveat to your point re parasitic vaccines, namely that we do have anti-parasitic vaccines for livestock [0].
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by icegreentea 11y ago
That's because GPUs were frozen at the 28nm node since like 2011. It'll be ~4 years of no die shrinks at the top end of GPUs when they finally transition to 16nm. If anything, Moore's law is behind schedule in the GPU space.
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by icegreentea 11y ago
Modern planes are designed to be resilient to bird strikes, but they aren't impervious, and a risk to safety will exists. Generally, when it comes to birds we just try to mitigate by reducing incidence rate (keeping birds away from air
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by icegreentea 11y ago
That's a pretty good summary. The only extra catch is that enterprise organizations cannot use the community edition except for open source / educational purposes. The kicker is that they define enterprise as 250+ PCs -OR- $1 mill
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Its a 5 hour time lag from Earth to Pluto - it's going to be one hell of a bad time doing feedback control on that link.
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by icegreentea 11y ago
We were just talking about something like this this morning. My company makes diagnostic devices for hospital settings, and we were bitching about the lack of a middle road for introducing changes to devices. To somewhat oversimplify, eithe
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by icegreentea 11y ago
I think it's just Bizspark as MS will continue to sell VS 2015 Pro without a MSDN subscription (it's hidden in the Q&A section near the bottom of https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/vs-2015-pr
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by icegreentea 11y ago
Funny, I just watched a Scipy conference talk/video about this - it's about finding a new default color map for matplotlib [1] CIE LAB is basically a ~30 year old model based on human perception - basically it takes into account w
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by icegreentea 11y ago
Democracy don't inherently have any of the traits you flag as rational either. Democracies tend to be based on a constitution which are generally as hard as divine laws to change, require obedience (does it really matter if God or the
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by icegreentea 11y ago
I think you're being a bit too pessimistic. As an amateur athlete, I can definitely see the utility (albeit limited) in this. There are lots of parks in my area (I live in Ottawa... obviously this is location specific) where I could se
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by icegreentea 11y ago
Absolutely. I think people get hung up on the idea of applied science, since applying science is typically one of the best methods of engineering. Our ability to engineer things is dramatically improved by applying the knowledge, techniques
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by icegreentea 11y ago
Whats super interesting to me is how this system becomes dynamically stable. In the pure thick shaft version, it looks like the jet is centered on about 1/4 of the way down the shaft - so it should be imparting torque on the whole thin
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by icegreentea 11y ago
Well, on the other hand, 'customary' US order is MM-DD-YYYY based on how we normally (verbally) say dates. Honestly, its perfectly ok for an application to use whatever standard date format - as long as its clear and consistent wi
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by icegreentea 11y ago
What I believe the post is recommending is that you attempt to characterize your population, and then select your groupings based on that characterization. The goal is that the distribution of your two groups across all possible metrics you
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by icegreentea 11y ago
The paper is linked and free, you could read it yourself. But you're right, they didn't do full cross validation. They performed a smaller scale validation where they trained on 80% and tested on 20%. Their writing is a bit muddle
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by icegreentea 11y ago
Engineers are often taught some degree of project management in school. Beyond the cynical reasons for offering/requiring this stuff, there are a few possible benefits: a) Engineering school normally requires some degree of (relatively
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by icegreentea 11y ago
The economist runs a bunch of book reviews every issue. It's an advertisement as much as any review is an advertisement. Within the context of their print issue, there'd be absolutely no way to miss that these were book reviews -
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Unfortunately for you, I don't. I stay far away from the regulatory stuff - I really only enough to get my job done, mostly in the form of directives from my manager and our quality section. That said, our software development process
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Different type of tracing. This is basically tracing line items from a document to another set of line items on lower level documents, potentially all the way down to specific lines of source code.
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I work in the medical device field, and we have a similar process requirement (traceability from Design Input Requirements -> Software Specification -> Software Verification Procedure (and implicitly, the actual code function) -> S
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I think its a reference to state space control. Traditionally, PID controllers fell under 'classical control', which is basically the entirety of control theory before the rise cheap computing. They involved devising all sorts of
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Ya, but then you would also probably use a separate controller for each dimension.
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You should consider resetting your integral error when you accept new set points.
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Because each discrete component that you can eliminate (and replace with code) is a weight saving. Because once you tip over a point in complexity, you just keep adding more code to guard against more edge cases - edge cases you can't
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NASA spec'd a system that outputs values in metric, Lockheed provided one that output values in customary units. The problem was a failure of verifications/validation, not of units per se.

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