turbofail

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by turbofail 16y ago
It was a custom-made SRM made by someone else. They were intending to use it in an electric vehicle.
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by turbofail 16y ago
Another permanent-magnet-less motor design is the switched-reluctance motor. Its primary advantage over the induction motor is its dirt-simple rotor construction - it's essentially just a properly shaped chunk of iron, where an induction m
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by turbofail 16y ago
It seems like if this explanation were to make sense, whoever implemented the string-to-number conversion was careful enough to implement saturating addition, but careless enough to not use a numerical type large enough to hold every possib
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by turbofail 16y ago
For my computer architecture class at Berkeley, they decided to give Bb a try. It lasted about three weeks before they gave up and reverted to the tried and true command-line scripts for submitting assignments and viewing grades. Hopefull
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by turbofail 16y ago
The Quora responses reveal an important point regarding Dr. Chua's book: the book was written in response to the failings of the super-strict parenting style. The WSJ excerpt makes no mention of this, which is a bit misleading. On another n
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by turbofail 16y ago
Related paper by Boehm: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/local/reading/proceedings/spe91-95/spe/... If I recall correctly an implementation of "ropes" ships with the Boehm GC sources.
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by turbofail 16y ago
Google to the rescue! http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download;jsessionid=A0F...
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by turbofail 16y ago
If what you're comfortable with is lower level stuff, one possibility is to look at an implementation of an object system in C. In particular, I found reading the Python source code to be helpful when learning about object orientation.
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by turbofail 16y ago
Here's the license, copied verbatim from his LICENSE file: Scheme 9 from Empty Space -- A Comprehensible Scheme Interpreter By Nils M Holm, 2007-2010 * Do whatever you want with this code. * If the code doesn't work, don't blame me.
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by turbofail 16y ago
Also of possible interest is the link to the actual interpreter source code. http://www.t3x.org/s9fes/index.html Only problem is, you have to navigate your way through a maze to get to the actual code from there. I wrote a quick hacked-up
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by turbofail 16y ago
The Wikipedia article on epigenetics goes over some mechanisms. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics
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by turbofail 16y ago
The curious part to me was the possibility that masturbation reduces the chance of STI. How does that work?
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by turbofail 16y ago
I was pleasantly surprised to find that Animaniacs has withstood the test of time for me. Actually I found it a little better than before, as some of the humor went over my head when I was a kid.
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by turbofail 16y ago
Interesting note, one of the physicists mentioned in the article is Chong Yidong, one of the co-maintainers of emacs.