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by nsrango 10y ago
Also from the American tradition I wish my baby was born. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sFpU3zslpHw
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by nsrango 12y ago
Safe here doesn't mean "can't kill you". Instead it means this chemistry doesn't exhibit thermal runaway ( http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/lithium_ion_safet... )
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by nsrango 12y ago
General purpose digital computation is often power limited (either from the supply energy or thermals of the device) and there is an (academic) resurgence of analog computation on data prior to digital blocks to reduce the power footprint o
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by nsrango 12y ago
Look at load line impedances. The effective output impedance of a transmission line depends on the fraction of wavelengths of waveguide transmit the wave. At any half wavelength, the output and input have equal impedances. If the output wer
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by nsrango 12y ago
This is done but mostly for peripheral IO (like DACs/ADCs, disk, video or audio codecs and even between non-shared memory for processors) but can (and has) been used in the main memory hierarchy . http://en.wikipedia.org&#
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by nsrango 12y ago
It depends on what you mean by fully formed. For example the idea of vectors and quaternions, which seem so natural, is quite new (~250 years old) [1] When maxwell derived and unified electromagnetic theory, he didn't use constructs li
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by nsrango 12y ago
inner layers can be repaired but it is even more labor intensive http://www.circuitrework.com/guides/4-2-6.shtml things can get even crazier: http://www.circuitrework.com/guides/6-2-1.shtml
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by nsrango 12y ago
MIT "hack" comes from the pranks and unauthorized adventuring that many undergraduates came to enjoy on campus. (eg. http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/misc/best_of.html ) Hack was then used by MIT's TMRC of
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by nsrango 12y ago
Additionally AC transmission is inefficient compared to DC transmission; the skin effect[1] really kills you [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_effect
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by nsrango 12y ago
With respect to CPUs this is not entirely true. Processors with different clock frequencies roll off of the same assembly line but small variations in manufacturing change the quality of the yield quite a bit. This includes the side of the