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Re:Using Sound to Model the World on Monday November 07, 2022 @12:05AM (#33501411)
With SONAR, the transmitted sound source is also being received at the same point which allows for the intended measurement. This generalizes that method to a source being captured by a sink in any point in the predefined 3D space. I’d say it’s far more flexible as an emerging technology that sticking with something like SONAR which is primarily used for water-specific applications.
Love it! Thanks for sharing, you're doing the science god's work, kid. You'll go far, I'm sure of it.
Re:Fingerprints could be stolen from V sign selfies (2017) on Friday September 27, 2019 @11:25AM (#21092986)
V... sign...
Re:Breaking Pills on Friday September 20, 2019 @11:29AM (#21027776)
I wanted to get quarters out of a change jar and remembered exactly this. Just shook it around (lightly) until there were quarters at the top.
Re:IBM will soon launch a 53-qubit quantum computer on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @11:49AM (#21006611)
In no way am I qualified to talk about this with any sort of certainty, but I have been studying EE for the past 2 years and live in a house with a physicist who is probably far more well read in this topic. Classical computers are nice because they are predictable; if you want to order some product online, it would't be very helpful if the bit stream of data coming into your computer was fuzzy and muddled, making it hard to tell a 0 or a 1 apart. Quantum computing takes advantage of quantum properties such as the uncertainty principle and quantum entanglement to store bits in a state of being either a 0 or 1 until we "observe" the bit coming through (quantum bits -> qubit). This allows for algorithms, experiments, and other things quantum to be ran much faster than any classical computer since it can encode more data into a single bit. To minimize the fuzz in a q-computer, they freeze the sh*t out of it to keep the energy at a minimum, along with using conducting materials which excel at conducting heat away (like diamonds). I believe the spin of an electron is what determines the qubit value and when used in conjunction with quantum entanglement will affect other electrons that are already entangled. My little knowledge ends here but with this thought on quantum entanglement, you can see how flipping bits values respectively can allow for more ways to store information with the same amount of "stuff" remaining constant vs. a classical computer.
Re:Atchafalaya (1987) on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @02:47PM (#20637644)
The IPA on wikipedia uses "ə", indicating a sound closer to "uh" (like commA) versus "at" (like crAp).
Re:Tulsa Teacher discovers calculus flaw on Monday July 15, 2019 @02:05PM (#20443476)
I do understand where the confusion is stemming from, but taking the time to properly learn the clash between Leibniz and Lagrange is very important. It makes a lot of sense to use one versus the other in specific cases. You might be able to protest by saying there are certain cases where the differential operator is treated like a fraction, but not only would I call this a rarity but also a cheat to what is really happening (the chain rule comes to mind). I do think it's cool to think of analogies that could include notation changes for students in early calculus classes though.
Re:Citizen Kubrick (2004) on Thursday July 11, 2019 @12:24PM (#20412855)
Worth the read.
Electrical engineer here. Sounds waves are called transverse waves because their displacement moves in the positive/negative y directions, which appears to give the impression that the wave is a single traveling particle. Instead the sum of the displacement creates the "traveling wave", which is similar to a wave an audience might do at a sporting event. I don't think this article did a great job describing what they meant by mass. I believe they blow the word "Phonon" a bit out of proportion. High energy physics is an incredibly hard topics where very few people are smart enough to read such a paper with confidence so these are just my humble thoughts.
Re:A treasure trove of skate culture is being saved on Monday July 30, 2018 @04:55PM (#17647930)
I'm so glad I found this comment! It's cool to see others skate on here.
Re:New Glasses that work with or without Google Glass on Thursday July 03, 2014 @05:13PM (#7985879)
I'm not sure how fond I am of the frame design, it has a sort of flair to it that makes it look strange.
Re:Seminal Web Texts on Wednesday August 14, 2013 @09:19PM (#6215595)
This seems like a really interesting and awesome idea.I would love to see it complete.
Re:The irony on Thursday July 11, 2013 @03:44AM (#6024911)
Every Iron man I have seen, I have always been fond of their credits. Awesome job
Re:Code School Has 172,000 Users on Sunday March 10, 2013 @06:41PM (#5353861)
Codecademy and Treehouse need to jump on the bandwagon
Sounds awesome and expensive
Re:Calculating unknown eigenvalues with a quantum algorithm on Saturday March 02, 2013 @11:27AM (#5309945)
WOW, thats pretty cool. Got lost pretty quickly
Fight between codecademy and code.org probably
No, I feel that this website shouldn't follow reddit, but instead maybe try something diffrent