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by smalley 9y ago
I believe the implication was most likely that German happens to sound very stern and commanding to many english speakers. Presumably the speaker would want to be speaking German because they believe it would intimidate the horse into perfo
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by smalley 9y ago
There's a great book all about the old decisions on these topics by Eric Schlosser called Command and Control ( https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00C5R7F8G/ ) which is also available as a PBS documentary http:/&
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by smalley 9y ago
They 100% exist. We had a wafer worth of cutup die of the TiO_2-x type devices all the way back in 2007. HP officially published results of a physical device as well ( http://www.hpl.hp.com/news/2008/apr-jun/me
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by smalley 9y ago
In the enterprise storage market I think they're probably quite close to being a volume product. The versions I was working with were a few years back and admittedly a different chemistry than is used these days. The issue I think they
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by smalley 9y ago
Oh man, if you like that paper do I have the list for you. We used this list while doing some literature review when we were doing research on HPs memristors http://webee.technion.ac.il/people/skva/new_full_referen
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by smalley 10y ago
Introduction to Statistical Learning? It's free and has an available MOOC http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~gareth/ISL/
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by smalley 10y ago
One example of this class of network is the NASA TDRS network ( http://tdrs.gsfc.nasa.gov/ or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracking_and_data_relay_satell... ) that they use for everything from relaying
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by smalley 11y ago
Not that its particularly casually browsable but there are some details in the programmer reference manuals for the Intel integrated graphics encode/decode hardware. If you head to volume 8 the MFx introduction section has some sample
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by smalley 11y ago
Probably due to the inequality of enforcement. If everybody agrees something should be a crime but offender group A gets a 5 year sentence and group B gets 10 years or one gets community service and the other gets jail there's some kin
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by smalley 11y ago
I don't think I agree with the extreme nature of the premise a number of comments up the thread, that said my favorite example of this: http://www.vaildaily.com/article/20101104/NEWS/101109939 A hedge fu
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by smalley 11y ago
I think that's what the Pale Moon ( https://www.palemoon.org/ ) folks were doing some time ago. I'm pretty sure they support most of the original firefox extensions without the signing etc.
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by smalley 11y ago
The closest thing I can think of as far as communities would be the http://www.edaboard.com/ folks (although that's a lot of students) or opencores.org (which is more just general projects). There are a lot more "
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by smalley 11y ago
The family of these materials are often referred to as chalcogenides (although strictly speaking they don't always include only metals from that periodic group). They've been investigated quite a bit for use in phase change memory
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by smalley 12y ago
This language looks like it attempted to solve a number of issues from the old verilog days, but wound up reinventing a very very small subset of system verilog instead of inventing something new. arrays in lucid = system verilog arrays
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by smalley 12y ago
I'm not entirely sure if it was quite so heavily software synthesized at that point. I think a lot of the logic and datapath was still done by hand. The grad student I think you're talking about is (now) Dr. Carl Sechen who develo
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by smalley 12y ago
There is a substantial amount of detail to be added, but if you just want to skim through some industry documentation the International Semiconductor Roadmap for Semiconductors describes a lot of the challenges involved in producing leading
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by smalley 13y ago
Yup, a lot of folks at the office enjoy skimming hacker news, ars technica etc. The number of people capable of actually signing microcode even in a company of 100,000+ is pretty darn small though. You'd actually be surprised about how
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by smalley 13y ago
I believe the marketing guidelines only require the touch screen if your design uses 4th generation core processors. You can still market new designs for Ultrabooks using 3rd generation parts if you really want
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by smalley 14y ago
The more complicated reasons aside for the moment, thunderbolt is more or less like an external PCI express connector (with some added goodness). As a result you can access a lot of things via thunderbolt you probably wouldn't want outwardl
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by smalley 14y ago
I suppose I can't really speak for everybody but as a 20-something the story a lot of my friends and I had in common was programming our TI calculators. The language was simple (some might say...basic ba dum chh ), it was easy to share pro
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by smalley 14y ago
I think going with that nomenclature most of those countries (Ukraine, Hungry, etc) would be second world countries. If I remember correctly folks in the US coined those terms during the cold war. The first world countries were the US and a
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by smalley 14y ago
If you own the hardware and you did not have to sign a contract to purchase it you're probably more than within your rights to modify the hardware to your liking (some exceptions to the rule do exist for things like circumventing copyright
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by smalley 14y ago
It is pretty cool technique. There are a few things you can do via FIBs but what I'm thinking of here involves cutting a very fine hole through carefully targeted areas of the chip to expose the element in question (or its wires) so we can
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by smalley 14y ago
Absolutely possible, people reverse engineer parts of our chips and I'm pretty sure a well supplied failure analysis lab could do some of the work as well. It's certainly doable to reverse engineer out a cryptographic key from a chip, but m
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by smalley 14y ago
There are actually substantially more steps involved in reverse engineering more modern SOCs. After depackaging the chips you have to strip the metal layers, special protective layers etc to get to the base layers. Modern processes can have
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by smalley 14y ago
So in my day to day job I'm actually a component design engineer working mostly on design validation at a company that's "involved" in x86 development. I'm sort of curious, what debugging features are you hoping for or what's missing that's
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by smalley 14y ago
As someone who I assume has a deep understanding of Mathematica, any chance you can recommend the best tutorial/resource to get going with effective Mathematica use? I've been trying to plug Mathematica into my workflow in place of a number
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by smalley 14y ago
I would recommend "The Algorithm Design Manual" by Skiena. What I believe this book provides that CLRS does not is a series of succinct descriptions of common algorithms AND brief explanations of where you would most likely find those algor