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by minthd 11y ago
So what will happen now ? since we no longer know how (some) catalysts work, will this start a race of scanning materials(i.e. combinatorial chemistry) to find catalysts ?
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by minthd 11y ago
Have you noticed anybody else with better software and chips ? no ? maybe because it's extremely hard to to get to the level of ISE and the competitors ?
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by minthd 11y ago
Sure the fpga companies don't want anybody to know how to build their software. Building good fpga's is not that hard(if you're intel, or quallcom or any other of the big guys). But building good, efficient software is very h
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by minthd 11y ago
But you can buy fpga boards with pcie bridges, doesn't it solve the problem ? http://www.dinigroup.com/new/DNK7_F5PCIe.php Also the main problem that prevents fpga's being used for all kinds of cool stuff is
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by minthd 11y ago
Even if the bill/subsidies are returned , i don't see how corn-based sugars could compete with proterro which claims to make(using biotech) sucrose at 1/3 of the cost of sugar made from sugar cane. Maybe if celluse based etha
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by minthd 11y ago
I don't think you should do it ,certainly not as your first project. There's a huge issue of patient privacy(you're father could get in trouble if the software gets hacked, not to mention all those patients who will suffer) a
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by minthd 11y ago
The bottleneck in basic research is not employees - we already have too many of them - and we're already starting to automate lots of the research work,both the manual one(robotics in biology), and the mental one(lots of the data analy
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by minthd 12y ago
For most of the markets i've defined lower transistor costs and lower power are critical factors and assuming the next generation provides both, they must improve their chips to compete.
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by minthd 12y ago
Sure there are many problems in moore's law, and it's definetly slowing(not sure yet about stopping, because maybe euv lithography will work, or maybe monolithic 3d will - quallcomm is said to sells such chips in 2016, or maybe so
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by minthd 12y ago
Most people at hackatons expect they'll need to build something in order to win. So they constrain their ideas around that - and then do the hard work of building that. It's about fairness towards the other participants of the hac
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by minthd 12y ago
Maybe tactile information could be useful. definetly worth a try. As for small components - maybe wait for the apple watch teardowns ,they'll tell which components have they used for the taptic engine.
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by minthd 12y ago
I think the difference between $500 and $40 won't be liked much in most of the u.s. since people get much more value from a full line braille machine. But i could be wrong - but to save yourself a lot of work, maybe it would be easier
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by minthd 12y ago
These guys[1] are working quite a few years on an affordable braille reader, they're pretty close to release , cost 330-400GBP. SO maybe the task is much harder than it seems, but on the other hand, on it's way to getting solved.
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by minthd 12y ago
read "4.1 Limits of a Single Braille Cell Display ": https://www.nbp.org/downloads/cbi/EAPActuators.pdf This and the other links might be decent starting materials. http://www.utopiamechanicu
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by minthd 12y ago
The ipad hasn't had that big of an influence - sure it's a huge industry and it's good fun, but people would have done almost the same things using large phones pretty well.
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by minthd 12y ago
It seems that HBO gave copies of the four episodes screeners(?) to much more companies than previous years and this what's led to the leak. So since HBO is interested in leaking , i don't think it cares that much about protection.
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by minthd 12y ago
Looking at price trends of desalination and solar power leads to the conclusion that by 2050, the 100km coastal region everywhere could have access to affordable water, and by 2040 in the western world[1]. Personally i think that water cons
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by minthd 12y ago
The OpenPower alliance has some Chinese companies who develop chips and servers using the IBM IP, and there would be servers released at Q2-2015. And the Chinese government is encouraging Chinese companies to use that architecture. This cur
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by minthd 12y ago
I think that in most cases, using a rechargeable battery is cheaper - and cheaper leads in most areas of embedded systems.Also most embedded systems need power for something like motor/lcd/relay/etc and energy harvesting cann
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by minthd 12y ago
There was a study that used Google's self driving car costs, and claimed that cost per mile is much cheaper than taxi's.
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by minthd 12y ago
For textbooks, conceptual physics is really great, intuitive physics book, without the math: http://www.amazon.com/Conceptual-Physics-9th-Paul-Hewitt/dp/...
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by minthd 12y ago
> Any content you request is purged from your node over time unless Won't this mean that rarely used files aren't really permanent ,which is a known problem with bittorent ?
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by minthd 12y ago
With regards to PWM issues you've mentioned , have you looked at alternative libraries ? a rough search brough me this[1](and there might be others), an it claims to solve most of the floating point problem. >> In order to use t
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by minthd 12y ago
I'm not sure if arduino is a good platform to spend time on, see[1]. One the other hand, the mbed: "With all the investments ARM is putting into the mbed and the mbed-os(and it's huge amount of internet of things features) ,w
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by minthd 12y ago
One wonders why they didn't combine the due and the beagle bone - it would have only simplified things. Could it be that there are incompatibility issues between it and the older arduino ?
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by minthd 12y ago
But they'd be exposed to competition on support, and even today, external tools offer better support than windows in many case(for example security micro-virtualization like qubes/bromium) and many offer cheaper stuff - all this w
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by minthd 12y ago
>> Current Windows software wouldn't be compatible with this, there is no prior lock in... Why ?
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by minthd 12y ago
Even if growth of tablets is slowing, they're still very popular , with 1 billion tablets users worldwide in 2015, and 1.4 billion users predicted in 2018. http://www.emarketer.com/Article/Tablet-Users-Surpass-1-Bi
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by minthd 12y ago
With regards to the tablet, the killer app is the big screen. Once you know people use their phone on the sofa and bed(and Apple surely did know that) plus the fact that people prefer large screens(They also did know that), the tablet useca
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by minthd 12y ago
I agree with your analysis of the watch as a notification device. But with regards to the smartphone - the major killer apps it had we're: solving boredom(browser+games), better communication tools(facebook), and gaining access to lots

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