Can someone more familiar with embedded design explain a bit more on this? Can this really turn cheap motors into industrial level motors suitable for hobbyists?
Is security engineering at the level of black box art, or is it at the level of sound engineering principles that once followed will result in secure system? Everybody is talking about security, but are there some rules to follow or is it a jungle of black hat hackers trying to ruin your IoT devices?
My personal experience with milder form of depression, is that you can significantly help yourself by stop taking your thoughts that seriously. Everything you think about yourself and the world is just thoughts. So it helps if you go meta - i.e start thinking about what you are thinking. In the article, one man had constant voice in his head ordering him to do stuff. If one is able to look at it from another angle, and to instead of trying to do stuff the voice tells, for example start marveling at human intelligence that is able to think in sound! Not just sound, we can think in all the ways we experience the world. Through abstract thought, sounds, visually, through movement ... Help yourself, go meta :)
Not just common consumer goods, but say, electrical engineer educated in Germany would be inclined to use Siemens software and hardware, and he/she would need to put extra effort to learn about alternatives.
Speaking of Adidas and geopolitics, they produce all their shoes for Europe in Sanino d.o.o in Derventa, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Cheap labor in war destroyed country... go figure.
While I think it is good for both Germany and students, it probably has a bit of geopolitics mixed in. All those young people, if they return to their home countries, will be naturally more oriented toward German products thus indirectly making German economy stronger. I saw a similar theme in Russia, where there is even a specialized university for this [1]
Just interested in simple mesh algorithms. I feel as if machine learning could help but almost no one is going in this direction. Higher order quad and hex meshing is not a solved problem, and could help in a bunch of numerical physics algorithms.
This seems like a perfect thread to ask a question that is itching me for some time. Is anyone aware of deep learning approaches or some combo with geometry algorithms for mesh generation? Something like quad, hex or tetrahedral meshing aided with deep learning?
What people don't realize is that it is YOUR responsibility to make your research any good. Peer review won't significantly improve your research, and btw it is very rarely constructive criticism, and it certainly doesn't make you feel you and reviewer are in the same team (but you should be in a perfect world). So what the author of original article confirmed here is that he can falsify results, his name, etc. But that's ON HIM!
Off topic but related to deep learning. Did anybody encounter use of machine learning in mesh generation, as in 2D, 3D triangular, quad, hex mesh generation?
I agree, but we are also slaves of habit. It takes conscious effort to break out of bad habit, and in context of insanity, or some milder variations of it, one will surely lack clear, focused and non self-defeating frame of mind needed for such effort.
Can someone recommend good lectures/book for full stack network programming focused on concepts but with enough detail? Something similar to The Elements of Computing Systems by Nisan & Schocken, but for networks?
I was recently looking to get one, and cheapest I could find for Europe was Korean Quoss (model 5300) brand. Don't know however if you want to go for cheap stuff for this item (there are risks, like being electrocuted). On the other hand, I think lifespan is also very limited, even for the top of the line stuff, so you would need to get one say every 5-10 years.
Let me give example why physics is hard, using most simple example.
Ever encountered term observer (like observer in inertial frame)?
Well, it turns out, observer in physics means whole laboratory with established procedures of measuring time and length, not observer as you would mean in everyday life. And established procedure, what is that? Say, how do you measure time when certain event happened? It turns out, you can measure time only locally, and for this you need to have synchronized clocks spread out in your lab in points of interest. Some more philosophically inclined physicist would say that time means synchronized clocks. And how do you synchronize clocks? Well, it has to do with speed of light but I will stop here.
And this is for the most simple term. Imagine something more complicated. Now imagine hundreds of people writing papers and books with only partial understanding, and signal to noise ratio :-)
I had a similar talk with my dentist, where I was optimistic about future and he put me back into reality. He took a piece of paper and started drawing tooth in its complexity - nerves, blood supply, several completely different and 'living' layers (somehow I pictured teeth as something rather simple, like a piece of hard stone inserted into gums), and then he said, do you think a simple chemical can rebuild all this interplaying complexity?
Can someone explain a bit more on vector space model for words (and documents)? I first saw that approach in prof. Erik Demaine lecture on algorithms [1], and also here. It's fascinating how linear algebra and vector spaces pop up in unexpected places.
What a blast from the past. It did stuck with me as well. Time was a flower, a bank agents were drying it and were making cigars out of them, cigars they needed to stay alive. Once you read it, you can't forget it. It still gives me chills.
I don't like when the idea is taken to extreme and parents force their kids to get as far as possible as young as possible. For example young pop stars competitions and similar. After all brilliant people don't always get the credit they deserve during their lifetime, e.g Tesla (died alone in hotel room talking to pigeons), Mozart (buried in unmarked grave), Lavoisier (executed in French revolution), list goes on and on
You are right. But on some level I don't like that huge disbalance of power, where on one hand you can take a photo with your smartphone, but someone can take a fleet of vehicles and run them 24/7 around globe, photographing everything, making hi res lidar images, georeferencing, coupling that with smartphone data, etc. I would be more OK with it, if it was open dataset though. End of rant :)
Thanks for the very informative and detailed answers. The Google TOS seems very restrictive, and I can't quite stomach the idea that our data, including photo of my house, is free to use by big companies in any way conceivable, but on the other hand, a small, maybe scientific purpose, is in violation of TOS :(
Is it possible to use images from say Google Street View to reconstruct 3D city model with this tool? Maybe it could fall into fair use for small part of city...
I heard a nice saying once, can't remember the origin precisely. It goes along the lines:
Before, men believed they are the image of their Creator, and nowadays they believe they are image of their creation. I.e. it can often be heard today that humans are like computers, that they have similarities etc.
Original article goes nice with this I think. Otherwise than that, I quite like the aesthetics of supercomputer and its surroundings.