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Re:Why does FM sound better than AM? on Monday October 14, 2024 @07:18AM (#41836426)
Thanks for the interesting info!

My guess would be iHeartMedia

Re:Show HN: ZSV (Zip Separated Values) columnar data format on Saturday April 13, 2024 @05:28PM (#40026320)
0x1E is the record separator, in ASCII precisely for this purpose. Too bad it’s not popular, here we’re stuck with inferior TSV/CSV
Re:Groq on Sunday February 18, 2024 @11:44PM (#39426308)
This is insanely fast, obviously a game changer over time. You should try the demo!

This seems to be using custom inference-only HW. It makes a ton of sense to use different HW for inference vs training, the requirements are different.

Nvidia, as far as I can tell, is focusing all-in on training and hoping the same HW will be used for inference.

Exciting times!

Re:Verilog to Routing on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @01:34PM (#37662857)
The animations at the bottom are really fascinating. I wonder if it's some kind of simulated annealing algorithm(s)?
Re:Ian's Shoelace Site on Monday September 25, 2023 @03:34PM (#37649354)
Thanks for the info. Been using one of the knots for years, donated now.
Re:Car allergic to vanilla ice cream on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @01:46PM (#37587290)
I was debugging a Heisenbug once, developing embedded FW for a mobile phone.

After some time, I noticed that the phone seemingly only crashed in one area of the open office floorplan where I was working.

I started walking around the office testing this theory, not really believing it. But after a while, I had hard evidence that the bug would only manifest once I entered that part of the office.

When I came to terms that I wasn’t hallucinating, I realised what the problem was. There was poor reception in that part of the office, causing the phone’s modem to switch from 4G wideband to narrowband (glossing over details here), which triggered the bug.

Easy to see with hindsight, but I was very confused there and then

Re:Modern CSV version 2 is now available on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @03:30AM (#37143849)
Here's a complementary tool for creating (scatter) plots of the CSV-file, note that this the 100k rows example from your link:

https://csvplot.com/remote_file.html?url=https://media.githu...

Thank you. I don’t know what I expected to hear, but it wasn’t that
Re:How does it know I want CSV? – An HTTP trick on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @02:55PM (#34417858)
Thank you for csvbase, today is the first time I've seen it.

I believe PapaParse, a JS library for parsing CSV files, uses Content-Range to stream large CSV files in chunks.

https://csvplot.com uses PapaParse under the hood, I saw a warning in the dev console and posted here. I'm not sure why it seemingly works fine anyway.

Re:How does it know I want CSV? – An HTTP trick on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @01:51PM (#34416891)
In case the author sees this: Thank you for enabling CORS so that it's possible to plot examples from other sites. It would be awesome if the Content-Range header was allowed as well

Here is an example of plotting the first dataset that popped up for me: https://csvplot.com/remote_file.html?url=https://csvbase.com...

Re:Pop2Piano: Pop Audio-Based Piano Cover Generation on Sunday January 01, 2023 @02:42PM (#34210008)
Magic!
Thanks,TIL about Glava!
Cool, do you have a link? That was also my first, and only, shader experience (www.soniplot.com)
Re:Nvidia R&D chief on how AI is improving chip design on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @02:11AM (#31093427)
DRC and LVS are just logical checks right?

“Is the minimal distance between all metal routing > 10 nm” etc.

Can you explain why high precision is needed for that?

Re:Nvidia R&D chief on how AI is improving chip design on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @02:08AM (#31093410)
Are the analog parts (current nitrist etc) autorouted now?

I worked on MCU layout around 2011, and only the digital logic was autorouted/placed.

Re:Becoming Remotive.com on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @05:08AM (#30916830)
What is wrong with Namecheap?
Re:GPU.js on Saturday October 09, 2021 @02:47AM (#28807629)
Thanks for the demo, clever implementation.
Re:How SpaceX lands Starship (sort of) on Friday May 14, 2021 @04:13AM (#27151953)
This sounds like model predictive control. Does anyone know the difference between the methods?
Re:The Intelligent Timing Lock on Friday April 30, 2021 @06:19AM (#26991664)
I had the same experience. When given the option to override, the whole experience is ruined for me.

I’ve often thought of a lock out for investing. “I’ll buy this stock, and I’m not allowed to sell it for 5 years”. A hack is to invest in early stage startups, where you’ll often not have an option of selling early. Anything listed on a stock market is the opposite.

From what I can tell, it’s possible with scripting Bitcoin, to not allow a transaction for X years, but no one seems to offer this in an easy to use way

Re:Mighty Makes Google Chrome Faster on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @03:02AM (#26966552)
Agree, good insight!
Re:Show HN: 3D Meshes of Signed Distance Functions in Python on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @06:48AM (#26165366)
Love the library! I did not know about signed distance functions, and I am just amazed of the complex shapes that can be made from simple primitives.

Thank you!

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