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For a very quick reference, if you don't know anything (Edit: A grandpa level introduction) https://www.digikey.com/en/articles/transistor-basics And then, https://youtu.be/qhJaq3kl6Dc https
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Absolutely. But would you like to base your understanding on something well written, intuitively illustrated (not necessarily math or physics heavy) OR something which is a refined copypasta from any garden variety electronic textbook? If I
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> You don't have the right to gatekeep on HN. Absolutely not. But I have a right to point out where an article does a lot of handwaving & is plainly shallow. > There are plenty of people here that aren't Electrical engin
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Normally I avoid sounding critical but since you vociferously defend the article's merit, here is what I honestly feel: As people deeply involved or passionate about tech, we hope HN to be a place where * Read something we know from a
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by srvmshr 4y ago
I was disappointed with the article. This doesn't explain anything new beyond a standard textbook. Same stuff - differently regurgitated. (If you want a swing on this topic MIT 6.004/nand2tetris does a better job & even talks
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Alumni here. This is not a course everyone enrolls in. Generally the top 10% who are competitive enough enroll on it. But kids have done exceptional projects in this course. The creme de la creme students of Japan are in Tokyo U or Kyoto U,
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1. Re-entry heat glows the MIRVs. The re-entry package heats up to more than 1000C often. Specialized carbon composites similar to ones in space vehicles are used. 2. I think this photo was more of a time lapse than programmed delivery of w
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FreeBSD & OpenBSD documentation are pretty good in the OS space. [1] https://docs.freebsd.org/en/ [2] https://www.openbsdhandbook.com/
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With the recent antics of Elon Musk & this announcement, it makes me reconsider my opinion of Jeff Bezos. I hope this isn't some PR & accounting trickery in the end.
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As someone who was preparing for International physics Olympiad in heydays in senior year of high school, reading Feynman Lectures of Physics (especially part-2 on Electrodynamics), made the real difference. I was reasonably prepared compet
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Unfortunately the final stages of PhD is a very sticky situation for many people. It boggles me (after my own PhD defense), how arbitrary the arguments are for 'sufficiency'. I learned it by experience that if a advisor wants the
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'Ethics, Transparency and Accountability' is a decently important part of any data warehousing company. If you are going to be hosting petabytes of data and in the business of showing advertisment, a lot of recommendation algorith
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A nifty tool that I came across to find Twitter peers registered with Mastodon federated servers. Requires authentication though
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The F-22 is an air dominance fighter. It's primary objective is air superiority. F-35 on the other hand is a versatile multirole aircraft which has been adapted to 3 variants for air force, navy and the marines. The F-35 trades a sligh
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by srvmshr 4y ago
> We test its performance against 21 board-certified dermatologists From Andre Esteva's paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature21056
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I have long since left collaboration with team at Cary, NC. But all I can say there was a great deal of interest in 3D sequence improvement by interpolation with known k-space patterns like in the GRASE or PROPELLR sequence for e.g. They al
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I did my Masters in NMR. Can confirm a lot of ML based plug-and-play solutions are helping denoising k-space. Trivia: I am also one of the pulse sequence developers affiliated to Siemens LiverLab package on Syngo platform :) [Specifically t
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> How many specialists did you go to before it was identified? 2 opthalmo, 1 internal medicine, 1 retina super-specialist & finally someone from USC Davey > How many other people with the condition were misidentified? Historical d
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> But I'm very curious how good one has to be in order to be better than a below-average doctor, or a 50th-percentile doctor, or a 75th. In dermatology, on which I was working, models were better (at detecting skin cancers) than 52
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> Are you really sure the doctors are doing a better job when they go through the motions of incorporating a wide range of data? Or do we just convince ourselves they're better? Personal story: I was diagnosed with a rare genetic
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I worked in healthcare ML solutions, as part of my PhD & also as consultant to a telemedicine company. My experience in dealing with data (we had sufficient, and somewhat well labeled) & methods made me realize that a lot of the pr
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Is IPFS strictly Web3? Sure it gained traction around Blockchain, crypto DeFI - but the storage technology is ELI5 a massive distributed storage. I could hazard a guess that in terms of philosophy its closer to BitTorrent than Blockchain
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Cycled through several email providers to say confidently that rich widows, Nigerian princes & doctors selling OTC pain, antidepressants & penis enlargement meds still love Yahoomail & it Pro sibling with custom domain, the undi
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Replacing one ad system with another ad system/modality doesn't negate the presence of ads. It just changes the modus operandi. Much like getting your daily nicotine kick from vapes instead of cigarettes. The ideal situation would
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by srvmshr 4y ago
The design aesthetics of early Gnome, KDE was influenced a lot by classic Macintosh, BeOS and the likes. And classic UI was genuinely great. It never came in the way - agreed that you had to live with the defaults most times - but the defau
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I can agree. Windows 2000 had 15,000+ minor-major issues pre-release. But Microsoft really did churn to get that right quickly before release & over service packs, minor updates etc. Especially with the flak Windows ME got & antitru
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It makes me slightly sad that a well-read tech icon like PG dabble in writing things which are not only beyond his creative expertise, but also speculative, imaginative & open to wide variety of interpretation, spirituality including. A
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I could be slightly opinionated but Gnome v2.2 which shipped with Redhat 7/8/9 in early 2000s was my peak desktop experience. Bluecurve icons felt beautiful, polished & didn't look all flat for e.g. [1]. In comparison, Gn
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Nah, good heavens I won't return it :) I have a workplace M1 11in model, but its late for me - so I am going to try this fun project tomorrow. But thanks for generously replying with so much detail. Much appreciated.

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