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by wbraun 1y ago
Where are your weight figures coming from, they are not in the linked article. Packaged semiconductors are going to be more metal interconnect / plastic encapsulation / ceramic insulation than silicon by weight. These systems will
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by wbraun 4y ago
I was a volunteer for the rescue program in 2018. I am not sure what the exact criteria were, but dogs from the Chernobyl exclusion zone have been re-homed before. A few dogs which otherwise would have been good candidates were too internal
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by wbraun 4y ago
Although I was not involved in the study itself, I was a volunteer for the rescue program in Chernobyl in summer 2018 when a lot of the data was collected. I assisted with checking radiation levels / decontamination and operating a who
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by wbraun 4y ago
As a STEM PhD student I felt a bit jealous reading this. Then I remembered that law students pay tuition while many PhD projects are funded by companies in industry, often at a somewhat dubious value proposition. There is at least a mild ex
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by wbraun 4y ago
The article states that only first party data collected by NYT is used for the model. They also use no demographic data. It seems that the only data that leaves is your previously read articles. Amusingly, this implies that there are articl
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by wbraun 4y ago
Are there different variants of DALL-E Mini? Running prompts through both this version and the one hosted on huggingface gives noticeably different results. The one on huggingface seems to give more accurate responses.
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Really Prolific?(medo64.com)
100 points by wbraun 4y ago|57 comments
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by wbraun 5y ago
The MIT 5th year masters program for EECS requires a thesis and for you to find a faculty thesis advisor that is separate from your academic advisor.
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by wbraun 5y ago
I took some glass blowing classes in undergrad and wanted to make something with uranium glass. I bought uranium glass frit from Gaffer glass and used it, none of the instructors or students seemed to mind. The main concern was the dust whe
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by wbraun 5y ago
Does this behavior anger anyone else on a deep level? I get that its hard to buy GPUs right now, but this seems like such an attack on general purpose computing. Hardware manufactures already segment features between consumer and busness gr
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by wbraun 6y ago
The article is wrong. If you read the report its $30 - $50 million dollars, not billion. I was a bit perplexed as to why the total could be so large....
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by wbraun 6y ago
One of my friends got jabbed by a used needle in a pair of pants he bought from Dollar a Pound. It was not a fun experience for him... I liked the clothes I got from there though! I found a cool jacket once.
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by wbraun 6y ago
Reading through the paper, I think the real buried lead here is that the reviewers discriminated in favor of selecting black and hispanic applicants, with a larger effect size than anything analyzed but test scores and attractive vs unattra
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by wbraun 6y ago
Its a material that basically gives electrons "inertia" which acts like an inductance derived from magnetic fields. There is a time constant to it, which determines at what frequency range it starts contributing to the inductance
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by wbraun 6y ago
The medium article links to a nature article which explains in depth: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41928-017-0010-z This seems like an interesting development, but the performance gain appears to be limited to low
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by wbraun 6y ago
The UC system has a common application and students rarely apply to only one school. The impacts of any outreach effort should be seen across the entire UC system and not just Berkeley. Based on the data for the entire UC system, you can se
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by wbraun 6y ago
Affirmative action in California is banned by Proposition 209, which passed in 1996. Its great they are making an effort to boost diversity, but I don't see how a single year jump this large was accomplished without implementing affirm
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by wbraun 6y ago
I clicked on the article thinking it would be that. I got into electronics making little BEAM robot things from salvaged parts. BEAM robotics seems pretty accessible and has an interesting design ethos.
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by wbraun 6y ago
I am currently a PhD student and have been wanting to get into IC design so this seems immensely exciting. I do power electronics, so hopefully they post info on the analog parts of the PDK soon. An open source DC/DC converter that can
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by wbraun 6y ago
What are the near term implications of this? I was under the impression that this was always considered a pretty extreme option. Between this and the plans for the TSMC fab in the USA I wonder what suddenly shifted in US - Taiwan relations.
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by wbraun 6y ago
It's a shame that copyright works in such a way that it allows all these old and historic pictures to be sequestered away from the public long after all the original creators are gone.
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by wbraun 6y ago
Again, there are many articles that argue either side of this. You can pick and choose quotes however you like. That being said, you don't believe that a lab that studies novel coronaviruses could be studying a novel coronavirus? There
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by wbraun 6y ago
Fundamentally, you are not going to find any direct evidence that the virus came from a lab unless the virus has signs of being engineered (which seems to not be the case). Only in the last week or so major news organizations have started c
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by wbraun 6y ago
I really hate how the media keeps conflating the theories that the virus was engineered and that the virus escaped from a lab. Even the title of this article has been editorialized to conflate the two. I mostly trust what people have said a
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by wbraun 7y ago
I have been meaning to try making my own bread. Now that I am on lockdown I have even more incentive. I like that all the recipes in the repo are FOSS. Got to break free from big bread! Why do you recommend toasting the bread? Is it somethi
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by wbraun 7y ago
I followed this tutorial when I Fallout 4 first came out and I had not yet built a desktop. It worked pretty well and, given spot prices, was pretty cost competitive with a gaming desktop if you only cared about one or two games. AWS inboun
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by wbraun 7y ago
It is a shame that almost all of the low cost PCB and PCBA services are in mainland China. I do a lot of work with hardware and given recent events I have been treating it as a moral imperative to find somewhere to have my PCBs fabricated t
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by wbraun 7y ago
Seems like its only going to be VR. Thats sad. I love halflife games but I am not going to shell out hundreds of dollars for a VR headset to just play that game.
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by wbraun 7y ago
I don't understand why the BDS movement against Israel gets so much attention when stuff like this, or worse, regularly occurs in China. I have been making an effort to reduce what I buy from China recently, which is difficult in elect
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by wbraun 7y ago
I have been tracking a few and commented on one. It does not seem like they are being removed. Sadly, it just seems that no one is commenting on them. Perhaps people are burnt out on talking about related issues or this is a chilling effect

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