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by kken 13y ago
>Hillis is what good scientists call a very bright guy -- creative, imaginative, but not quite a genius. What an odd classification.
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by kken 13y ago
This is a nice hack. BUT: This has been done years ago for under $1 (the price of a nRF24L01 board) by using a nRF24L01 itself. http://travisgoodspeed.blogspot.de/2011/02/promiscuity-is-nr...
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by kken 13y ago
>Basing opinion on citation index is like saying if this person is not widely cited he is likely to be wrong. No, it does not say that. Having published for 40 years with only very few citations means that his works were either irrelevan
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by kken 13y ago
Kinda strange, I cannot find the manuscript and not even his homepage ( http://otelbaev.com ) is updated. Wouldn't one expect this to be reported either after a successful peer review or after publication of a preprint? His c
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by kken 13y ago
Quitting school at 15 to become a tech entrepreneur? Too much...
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IEEE spectrum has a good and accurate general coverage of these topics. http://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors
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by kken 13y ago
This is insane in a good way :)
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by kken 13y ago
>That isn't a 'cliff' that is an inflection point, or perhaps a global minimum. No, there may be an inflection point in the metric "cost per standardized transistor". But this does not equal "cost per functi
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by kken 13y ago
This does not mean that he is not able to present the things in proper context. However, the general situation with graphene in acedemia right now is that it is a good source of grant money. Hence you see wildy exaggerated claims of its cap
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by kken 13y ago
Graphene is interesting, but nobody in the industry believes that it will be the holy grail: http://www.techdesignforums.com/blog/2013/12/10/graphene-get... (This is pretty different from what academia t
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by kken 13y ago
Companies started to introduce new technological features starting with the 90nm node. This slide is a nice top level summary: http://www.brightsideofnews.com/Data/2011_5_6/Intel-Manufact...
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by kken 13y ago
This is actually the same as Moores law. Dennard was the one to define scaling law in respect to the physical properties of the transistors.
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by kken 13y ago
>Now that the cost of wafers are going up, making a chip that is 50% better costs 50% more money. This is not true. In the past, process optimization was straight forward: Make smaller transistors. The free ride ended with the 130 nm nod
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by kken 13y ago
This is the only valid response! Classical scaling (aka Moore's law) ended with the 130nm node more than 10 years ago. The business model has been slowly changing since then.
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by kken 13y ago
Sure, you missed all the real stuff that is going on: - II-VI channel materials on silicon - Finfet, Nanowire FETS (the top down variant, not the academic bottom up version.) - RRAM (Memristors are a sub-class of these devices. Memristors m
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by kken 13y ago
This is definitely important, since I had the same impression and was a bit suprised how you could be that angry about a single conference. Btw, is it also a requirement for students in India to send out a specific number of applications? I
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by kken 13y ago
Of course there are regional IEEE conferences. But in general, the international IEEE conferences and journals by the bigger societies are probably the best ones out there. I have published quite a bit in the physical sciences/engineer
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by kken 13y ago
>Seems like an impressive conference, and getting a paper published in this conference should be a big achievement on any student’s resume, right? No, absolutely not. Looking at the web site immediately raises two red flags: 1) It's
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by kken 13y ago
>"In 1970, J. E. Thornton wrote a book called Design of a Computer: The Control Data 6600 http://ygdes.com/CDC/DesignOfAComputer_CDC6600.pdf I love this book. The CDC6600 was the first architecture to implement
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by kken 13y ago
>There is a core of sadness there. 2nd world war was rough on a whole generation of Europeans, and the writer George Perec exhibited similar frenetic activity and the use of arcane games to fend things off? Erdos's chosen game field
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by kken 13y ago
IEEE Spectrum, suberb article as always. But maybe a bit too far fetched on the "Robot Dream". The way the silicon in Silicon Valley was seeded is by Shockley Labs and its (lack of proper) management.
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by kken 13y ago
This should be put in context. This is no unassuming teenager who downloaded a film via a file sharing network and was caught "distributing" it, due to the nature of file sharing. He uploaded an unreleased movie that has not been
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by kken 13y ago
Meh, sensationalist title. Already commented on the first submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6933678
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by kken 13y ago
This is really impressive work. After skimming through the detailed paper it looks as if they are not picking up sound emitted from the CPU itself, but from the switching power supply circuit. The frequency variation is caused by load diffe
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by kken 13y ago
An article comparing single-sex vs. coed on a domain called singlesexschools.org? Without even looking into the background of this: Can we really expect the article not to be biased?
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by kken 13y ago
And yet another perpetuum mobile. Does not work, is scam.
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by kken 13y ago
http://schaft-inc.jp/ http://www.industrial-perception.com/ http://mekabot.com/ http://redwoodrobotics.com/ http://www.botndolly.com/ http://www
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by kken 13y ago
Clearly, there is only one implicication: Google is Skynet and became sentient a while ago. Now it is looking into building a physical manifestation of itself.
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by kken 13y ago
Somehow this has a better ring to it than "hackernewsing"
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>It is the eighth robotics company that Google has acquired in the last half-year. This is a crazy aggressive acquisition strategy. Does anybody have a list of the other companies? Where could google be heading to? They already have self

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