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TIL about the Parallax Propeller. Yes, it does seem very similar to the GreenArrays GA144, complete with an idiosyncratic language and IDE. One distinction of the GreenArrays chip is that they claim i…
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My understanding is no, if I understand what people mean by systolic arrays. GreenArray processors are complete computers with their own memory and running their own software. The GA144 chip has 144 i…
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Came here to say this. Qpdf is my go-to for manipulating pdf files on the command line. Encrypting, decrypting, extracting and merging pages. It's Apache-licensed and written in C++.
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Thank you! TIL that the term is analogous to Boston-Hartford route. (I failed to type the en-dash here on my mobile)
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Very well-written description. Unfortunately, my brain stumbled over a few annoyances: 1. In the phrase "metal–organic": that's not a hyphen in the text. 2. What's with the dropped…
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Thanks for posting. Long video, but at about the 12-minute mark he says something about warranty work, relevant to TFA. He says that the hourly rate for any work done under warranty is set artificiall…
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Good point. The article does acknowledge this aspect, but it notes one important thing that was true in the 1950s and is no longer true: > The business world of the 1950s and 1960s was a clubby, in…
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> [preprocessing] was true 10 years ago but wasn't true 6 years ago Can you say more? What are some examples of speech recognition systems that don't need this preprocessing?
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Fascinating tidbit: > Trevor Milton, who founded Nikola in 2014... lied about nearly every aspect of the hydrogen-fueled-truck company’s business... he was convicted... Milton received a pardon fro…
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Beautiful! I love the clean design of the page, too. I went through a period of obsession with the Harel paper, and your page is a nice summary of some of the key points!
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> the guy never had a real success iRobot has sold over fifty million Roombas to date. Packbots are also highly profitable and have saved many lives.
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Here's the full article, copied, for your benefit. (I found it difficult to read because the mastodon UI forces the author to split the article into five tiny parts, so I copied it for my own ben…
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I believe this is the article. Discussed on HN earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=881296