the_real_sparky

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Respiratory patterns classifier for screening of Covid-19(profillic.com)
2 points by the_real_sparky 7y ago|1 comments
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by the_real_sparky 7y ago
On-board global SMS would probably destroy a good chunk of the SPOT GPS beacon market. The only advantage GPS beacons/emergency locators might have at that point is battery life, and someone like Apple could probably take that part of
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by the_real_sparky 7y ago
I was highly amused just a few days ago when a 1080p60 YouTube video was not playing correctly in Chrome (dropping frames), but played perfectly fine in Firefox. Resource utilization was not the problem on that machine. I tried restarting
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by the_real_sparky 7y ago
True for inverter based generation (most renewables like wind and solar), but generally not for rotating machines like most Co-gen plants. Some rotating machines (steam turbines generally) won’t have governors for frequency control, but us
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by the_real_sparky 7y ago
RoD absorbed an absurd amount of my early teenage life. Wouldn’t trade it for anything.
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by the_real_sparky 8y ago
http://hn.premii.com/#/article/17360420
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by the_real_sparky 9y ago
> As Bitcoin is practically useless due to high fees and congestion I disagree here. Gold is very expensive to get into and out of on a percentage basis, also requires careful storage, and is more difficult to exchange (manual pickup&#x
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by the_real_sparky 9y ago
I think that the mistake here is believing that the miners control the network, when most likely the miners simply work for the decentralized network. When the miners become centralized there is little they can do that the users/nodes
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by the_real_sparky 9y ago
This has turned into an interesting question since some coins now are specifically designed to be resistant to ASICs. The downside for those coins is that botnets or general purpose hardware (that can be purchased or rented for an attack a
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by the_real_sparky 9y ago
I’d be interested in everyone else’s opinion about the odds that Bitcoin becomes an asset class to rival gold (say at least $2T market cap vs the $8T gold currently is). Right now I’m guessing 20%. Those odds still make the current price
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by the_real_sparky 9y ago
The brushed designs have been completely outclassed by the new breed of micro brushless quads. The Hoverbot Nano is one of the best examples of lightweight brushless design. https://hoverbot.io https://www.rcgroups.c
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by the_real_sparky 9y ago
I just assume that the larger Z8 chassis might handle the heat a little better? The Z6 works for my use, but the CPUs are definitely running on the hot side.
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by the_real_sparky 9y ago
Electric grid dynamic/transient event (disturbance) simulations. It's essentially modeling the response of electromechanical equipment (generators and large loads), large solid state devices (utility scale renewables and fast-swi
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by the_real_sparky 9y ago
Only 8x8GB since I'm working on CPU limited simulation tasks. One of the CPUs and 4 of the DIMMs is on a daughter board in the Z640, which makes the whole thing even more impressive. It's a fairly compact machine. Storage is ju
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by the_real_sparky 9y ago
HP prices are... high. It's easy to spend $10k in processors alone for a dual-Xeon system. The ones mentioned in the article will be over $13k each: https://ark.intel.com/products/120498/Intel-Xeon-Platinum
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by the_real_sparky 9y ago
I've got an HP Z640 workstation with dual E5-2690 v4's and it is basically silent under full load. It has no problem running all 28 cores at 3.2GHz which is the max all-core speed for that processor.