zhemao

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by zhemao 13y ago
The characters also fall out of your memory after long periods of disuse. Like many Chinese Americans, I went to Chinese school on the weekends as a child. Eight years later, I can't even compose a basic sentence in Chinese.
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by zhemao 13y ago
Wait, really? That's surprising, since pronouns in Chinese are gendered. However, they are all homophones, so that might be the reason for confusion.
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by zhemao 13y ago
Also, things like articles (the, a, an). My Chinese father, an academic biologist, sometimes asked me to help him copy-edit papers. It was difficult for me to explain when to use the definite article, the indefinite article, or no article a
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by zhemao 13y ago
Those are differences in emphasis (DIgest vs diGEST). Tonal differences in Mandarin are more subtle. The same syllable is emphasized, but the "shaping" of the pronunciation is changed. Also note that OP stated that he or she could
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by zhemao 13y ago
Wait, the Japanese didn't just transliterate everything? I remember talking with a friend who was learning Japanese and a lot of the words were taken straight from English, like "antena" or "furaipan" (frying pan).
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by zhemao 13y ago
It was even funnier as a Chinese American. Made me feel a bit better about my lackluster proficiency in my "mother tongue".
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by zhemao 13y ago
Those tonal shifts are a lot more obvious than the ones in Chinese. Despite being a "heritage speaker" of Mandarin, I still sometimes confuse words with the same pronunciation but different tones. I remember my mother once asked m
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by zhemao 13y ago
As a Chinese American, this is so true. Despite going to Chinese school every weekend for many years as a child, I still can't write a damn sentence in Chinese and find it impossible to read a newspaper article. Not having a phonetic a
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by zhemao 13y ago
The site appears to be down. Here is the cached version. https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http:/...
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by zhemao 13y ago
I should mention that print copies of the book are pretty expensive, but you can easily Google for .epub or .pdf downloads/torrents.
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by zhemao 13y ago
What exactly do you consider computer science? I'm pretty sure operating systems and compilers are topics in computer science.
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by zhemao 13y ago
Yeah, I don't really understand that either. At first I thought it was because it was necessary in order to get the background to do programming exercises in later chapters, but there don't seem to be any programming exercises. I
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by zhemao 13y ago
For something covering the "lower half" of this material, I highly recommend Patterson and Hennessy's "Computer Organization and Design". I'm currently reading the 5th edition, and have gotten to the last chapt
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by zhemao 13y ago
Singapore is not nearly as isolated as NZ is. It's on a major ocean shipping lane and is just a bridge away from Malaysia. The problem isn't that NZ is reliant on imports (all countries are to a degree), it's that it is expen
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by zhemao 13y ago
In NYC at least, you don't have to live in a pricey neighborhood in order to get your kid into a good public high school. Your kid will, however, have to do well on a standardized test.
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by zhemao 13y ago
I don't think JackFr sees a problem with giving grant money to an R&D company. JackFr is most likely referring to tax breaks, subsidies, and other assistance that government gives to non-R&D companies in order to prop them up.
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by zhemao 13y ago
Also, Hacker News is written in Arc, which runs on the Racket runtime. It handles quite a bit of traffic every day. It's an ugly-ass buggy website, but that is largely to do with the implementation and PG's propensity for live-mod
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by zhemao 13y ago
Ah, I didn't realize that. Very interesting.
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by zhemao 13y ago
I'd almost forgotten we made that joke. It wouldn't surprise me if that's where they got it from. The NYTimes employees at the hackathon seemed to like it. At least enough to tweet about it.
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by zhemao 13y ago
The article is a bit confusing, the hacker who talked about the flaw on a social network seems to be a different one from the one arrested for stealing the credit cards.
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by zhemao 13y ago
Funny thing is that they both do basically the same thing, except one is done all in assembly and the other in C. I would have liked this post to actually discuss the things that a bootloader is meant to do, like switching to 32-bit protect
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by zhemao 13y ago
That is what UC Berkeley's Chisel ( https://chisel.eecs.berkeley.edu/ ) does, and it seems to be what CLaSH does as well. The issue is the same as in the various compile-to-JS languages. The additional level of indirecti
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by zhemao 13y ago
FWIW, it is quite easy to write Verilog code that ends up being unsynthesizable, since the language wasn't originally designed to be an HDL. Many of the alternative HDLs, such as UC Berkeley's Chisel ( https://chisel.eec
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by zhemao 13y ago
Naughty Dog has used Racket as a scripting language in several of their video games for the PS3.
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by zhemao 13y ago
Wait, so what are you using to describe the circuit on the logic or RTL level? Do you have VLSI engineers using Cadence or something? From my understanding, using Verilog in ASIC design (and not just verification) is pretty widespread in in
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by zhemao 13y ago
About EE conservatism in regards to software tools, this is mainly because we are highly restricted in what tools we can use by the platforms we have to design for. If you want to use a specific FPGA or a specific ASIC process, you have to
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by zhemao 13y ago
Here is the actual patent. http://patft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=... > An electrical plug and receptacle relying on magnetic force to maintain contact are disclosed. The plug and receptacle
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by zhemao 13y ago
Strangely enough, alternative HDLs embedded in Haskell seem to be a thing. Besides this, there is also Bluespec and Lava. http://wiki.bluespec.com/ http://raintown.org/lava/
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by zhemao 13y ago
Are you suggesting connecting adjacent Pi's directly over GPIO? I've tried this before and it doesn't really work out very well. At some point, I ended up with the ground voltages going off and then everything was just borked
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by zhemao 13y ago
Use QEMU. http://qemu.weilnetz.de/qemu-doc.html

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