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peter_d_sherman
18,479karma·5,711submissions·September 16, 2014
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Programmer, Student Of Law, Entrepreneur & Comedy Writer.
Open Source, Open Hardware, Transparency & Free Speech enthusiast.
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"The true knowledge consists of knowing that one knows nothing..."
- Socrates
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Excellent point! (More broadly, a high amount of current through a wire in a vacuum tube, where the diameter of the wire is too small to carry all of the current without overheating in air, when place…
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Interesting! Did not know that before... Excellent link!
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>"...a superinsulating material that, at close to absolute zero, has an electrical resistance 100,000 times higher than its room temperature value." [...] "Titanium nitride films, as…
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From the page: https://www.c-motive.com/applications/ >"C-Motive has designed a sub-5 kW (7 hp) industrial motor platform designed for direct drive applications where hig…
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>"They saw an interesting phenomenon in the material they were using, a polymer filament doped with copper nanoparticles. If they passed a large amount of electric current into the material, …
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Consider the following: Consider a computationality implemented Neural Network -- with only one single "Neuron". This "Neuron" is functionally a boolean function. That is, if we sa…
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Poster texdr.aft writes: >"In 1972, operators named CATCH and THROW were added to Maclisp (I've reformatted the original announcement for convenience): There is a new pair of break-away f…
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>"There’s a bug ! And it is sort-of obvious how to fix it. But if you don’t laser-focus on that, and try to perceive the surrounding context , it turns out that the bug is valuable , and it…
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I think the key quote is: >"Claude's extensive context window has also transformed their approach to handling large codebases. When the 200K context window was released, Hedley notes th…
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>"Infinite Resolution Since an LVDT operates on electromagnetic coupling principles in a friction-free structure, it can measure infinitesimally small changes in core position. This infinite…
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First there was shell scripting, then grep, then sed, then awk, later Perl... well, now there's 'sq'! Looks like an absolutely great (and necessary!) utility, which will automate many f…
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Observation: It's not quite the simplest possible vanilla bare-bones 'tee' that could be written in Go -- but it is reasonably simple (the source code is understandable with respect to …
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I would love to see an AI which could automatically identify computer motherboards from pictures; that idea could then be extended to automatically identify any circuit board, any IC's that are o…
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> "G2 returns v0 to our client after the client had already written
v1 to G1. This is inconsistent." This is absolutely true IF AND ONLY IF client and servers (and data) have no notio…
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The Holographic Principle -- seems to be one of the keys to future Warp technology, should it ever exist in the future... This video is a great explainer of that principle... Related: https:/&#x…
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...an interesting FPGA because of its onboard NoC (Network on Chip): https://semiengineering.com/knowledge_centers/communications... "A network on chip (NoC) is an in-chip n…
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Compare the concept of Frequency Selective Surfaces (FSS) (blocks and/or reflects some frequencies, lets others through) to the concept of Impedance (blocks and/or reflects some types of…
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Related: https://telephoneworld.org/telephone-switching-systems/weste... https://telephoneworld.org/landline-telephone-history/preser... https://…