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Train drivers are a small part of the cost of a train delivery. Truck drivers are a substantial part of the cost.
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They bought it from ASML. Yield wasn't the problem, throughput was - and many experts lost hope on EUV - so this purchase is quite good news.
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Finfet was also really hard , and took something like a decade(or more) from research to production with decent yield. And EUV based lithography(printing finer circuits using xrays), which intel recently bought 10-20 machines of, also took
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Maybe this could help: http://www.ecinews.eu/index.php?option=com_content&view=arti...
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This isn't the scaling phase. Dash is also an API for automated ordering. And the button is a test to measure the usefulness of such API.Once there's data proving the idea, and an available API, Amazon and it's partners will
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$7.8 is pretty expensive when you can get a bluetooth mcu(in volume, from dialog i think) for $1.
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The cost comes from adding another company to the process - the module maker. But sure, at this stage it might not be worth it , maybe later.
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Basically it always sleeps, and wakes only when you press the button - does it job rapidly and goes back to sleep. Since you rarely press the button , it can live for years.
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It doesn't have to be always on, it could be remotely controlled.
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Why does amazon use a module,instead of certifying their own ? this hopes to be a large volume project , so the savings could be considerate.
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Those sound pretty good numbers for a creative project, especially since watson cannot taste the results.
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Percentage wise, how much of watson recepies that you made you consider ok+ and what percentage are very good?
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11y ago
How efficiently OpenCl used the FPGA ? And BTW, i remember reading some paper that compared CPU/GPU/FPGA. The conclusion was - GPU's win on compute/$, FPGA's win on compute/watt. Hard to find the paper now, tho
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edge.org, long now, london literary review, are good starting points. Also regarding books - try to find books that abstract the patterns out of a field, since it's a useful way to maximize learning - and having everything in a format
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For a more fair comparison, paypal recently deployed X-Gene ARM servers[1]. They said about it: "“The X-Gene-equipped units [at PayPal] cost approximately one-half the price of traditional data center infrastructure hardware and incurr
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Haven't yet used it.
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It isn't used not because of patient lack of trust - but because of resistance by the medical community, some warranted, some unwarranted , and most of this resistance isn't because of trust issues. And the last thing that will ch
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Afaik duokan for kindle is the best alternative. Also , the place to ask is mobileread.com
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As a non-american, i wonder - is there even an agreement among the population about what needs to happen ? And do most of the population even care about those unjust things , or each group cares about their own problems ? And do they care e
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Sure there are risks. But assuming that lyft-line or uber-pool succeed in filing rides with few people in return for lower costs they will have an advantage, because average occupancy and a reasonable ride length is highly dependent on amou
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Definetly ingenious. How did it got to that, pure coincidence ? or something more ?
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i think there's arduino support for the esp: http://makezine.com/2015/04/03/esp8266-community-added-ardui...
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>> you can sell entire portfolios and even unpatented ideas How can you sell an unptaented(or maybe just loosely patent-pending idea you did the work yourself, as a non-lawyer) ?
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Have a look at this service: http://www.networkworld.com/article/2876796/microsoft-subnet... I think it solves your problem. It's also outside of myanemar ,so it's helpful with regards to legal issues.
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Can you please share more information about the reforestation bot PLA-1 ? Also ,why isn't robot use in reforestation more common ? 12-24k plantings/hour sounds fantastic.
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One big problem in the healthcare in africa, is the cost and complexity of blood tests. And we know lab-on-chip technology can fix that, but nobody is working on that, because of "business model" problems. But that's one thin
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A detailed criticsm/explanation of this is here: "Not OP's fault, but the headline and the story itself are extremely inaccurate. This post should be labelled "misleading." The story's deck says: "Scientis
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Another element that's being added to the mix is security. From a country's perspective, open cores and and control on chip design is valuable here. And that's exactly what the Chinese government is doing: "encouraging&q
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Yes, when using structs in an OO like way. Does it generate c-style rust wrapper ? or can it generate class-based rust wrapper ,perhaps with some guidance ?
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Interesting. Can rust-bindgen support object oriented c?
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