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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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Excerpt: "NASA had offered a quarter-million-dollar prize to the first research team that could figure out how to extract oxygen from the moon’s surface, a precondition for establishing lunar bas…
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Excerpt: "It is strange because multiplying two vectors together gives the sum of two different things: a scalar and a bivector. However this is similar to how a complex number is the sum of a sc…
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First Impression: Looks like a way to turn high-level code (Scala, Java) into low-level FPGA gates / ASIC silicon. If that works for all types of high-level programs, it's absolutely brilli…
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"When choosing a development board, consider what you get with it and what you want to use it for. FPGAs are ideal for use with high speed peripherals, and in general it is much easier to buy a b…
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Will this work in a desert?
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That is correct. Storage by definition is persistent memory. But, BUT, the storage is in a format which is easily auditable to the end-user or virus-checker program. You can reformat/reinstall…
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Disclaimer: Views expressed in the linked article are not necessarily my views. I post the link because I feel the writer of the article provides a series of interesting counterpoint arguments to the…
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Hi. A lot of interesting and intelligent comments, but I think that on the whole, we've over-complicated the issue. To explain what I mean, consider a Commodore 64, Apple IIe, or Atari 800, Ti99…
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Magic Wand anyone? Probably not, but that different woods emit different glows when illuminated by an ultraviolet light source says that there might be something here with respect to material science…