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pbazarnik
·2년 전·discuss
Subway "bread" had too much sugar to be classified as a bread in Ireland

https://www.npr.org/2020/10/03/919831116/irish-court-rules-s...
pbazarnik
·2년 전·discuss
When I first discovered OPAMPs I my teen years while self learning the electronics I was astonished by the beauty and power of an abstract opamp: the mythical component with infinite differential voltage gain, zero common mode gain, infinite input impedance and zero output resistance. This marvelous device can only exist, without destroying the world by its infinite output power, by staying in equilibrium defined by negative feedback. /s

You have to appreciate the reason it was invented in Bell Labs: analog computers, which primary applications at that time were in military applications for computing artillery solutions.

Now, as a professional EE, I still think fondly of them, even though I know well about their real life limitations. My advice is to try to stay first at ideal OPAMP abstraction level to appreciate the mathematical usefulness of that abstract construct. This is almost entirely how professionals use them.

I can only lament the educational system, which invariably makes the students miss the forrest for the trees by not presenting well the power of ideal opamp
pbazarnik
·2년 전·discuss
Emergency Brake Assist would help if the van was equipped with it. Swerving at the last moment and without warning would not be possible because EBA would activate brakes earlier and you would be able to see van's stop lights.
pbazarnik
·2년 전·discuss
Calculation of battery capacity one can build for 34B

0.3k$ per 1kWh of battery storage [1] (0.3$/Wh)

Battery capacity = 34B$ /(0.3$/Wh) =113.3GWh (1G$=1B$)

The 34B battery capacity will be equivalent to 113hours of operation of 1GW power plant. (4.7 days)

[1] https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy23osti/85332.pdf
pbazarnik
·2년 전·discuss
This list should also include Charles Stross Laundry Files series. The concept of high math being a gate to higher dimensions and effectively magic powers provides great setting to a witty and humorous sci-fi prose placed in modern England

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Laundry_Files
pbazarnik
·3년 전·discuss
It looks like availability of good quality training sets will be a stumbling block for LLM use in Verilog chip design since pretraining with other programming language corpus is not transferable. (see below for quote from Nvidia paper) A lot of high quality Verilog is locked in licensed, close source IP blocks covered by NDAs.

HDLBits problems are a toy level complexity circuits suitable for Verilog 101 course material.

I would set a benchmark for serious HDL design LLM at reaching ability to implement AXI bus components with specified by user functionality, e.g. AXI4 Slave (address, data widths, burst capability) with memory implemented as banked synchronous SRAM.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.07544.pdf

* Despite the fact that multi models undergo pretraining on an extensive corpus of multi-lingual code data, they exhibit only marginal enhancements of approximately 3% when applied to Verilog coding task. This observation potentially suggests that there is limited positive knowledge transfer between software programming languages like C++ and hardware descriptive languages such as Verilog. This highlights the significance of pretraining on substantial Verilog corpora, as it can significantly enhance model performance in Verilog-related tasks *
pbazarnik
·3년 전·discuss
Can't get better than 0.88sec?

  function controlFunction(block)
  {
  const max_force=1000000000;
  const margin=0.01;
  const friction_comp=0.2;

  if(block.x<-1-(margin/2))
   return max_force*(1+friction_comp);
  else if(block.x<-1.15*margin)
   return -max_force;
  else
   return -block.x;
}
pbazarnik
·3년 전·discuss
Hardware function implementations deal with multidimensional design space metrics: performance (speed), power and area. These should be taken into account in any work intended for more than just digital design basics.

This paper provides a modern take on these issues:

https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2022/EECS-2022-...
pbazarnik
·3년 전·discuss
Poland has developed and is producing their own MANPAD system initialy based on Soviet design.

They supplied significant number of these to Ukraine where it performed well.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.armyrecognition.com/polish_...
pbazarnik
·3년 전·discuss
From the link it looks like it had many changes implemented to improve safety: The EPR is a so-called “evolutionary” reactor, that is to say that its design is based on that of existing reactors, the French N4 type nuclear reactors and the German Konvoi . It thus benefits from proven technologies and operating feedback from its predecessors. It is a powerful reactor with a production capacity of 1,600 megawatts (MWe) compared to 1,450 MWe for the latest reactors built in France (type N4). It is designed for a service life of 60 years . Significant changes have however been introduced compared to existing reactors
pbazarnik
·3년 전·discuss
Same here: Honda CR-V 2020. It uses single lens (so not a stereoscopic vision) and radar. Never did it brake hard, only warning and few times brake pretension. It will occasionally give false positives on a street curving left with cars parked on the right side. Once it did warn on a highway most likely due to metal comb joint of the elevated road section. (I specifically looked at what could be the cause) The driver reaction within a time window is likely important factor in preventing the system to elevate. I have good reflexes and will put my feet slightly on the brake in such situations.

Honda had a recall for an older AEB system 2017-2019 Accord and CRV:

https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/car-recalls-defects/nht...