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eternauta3k··on Mathematical Compact Models of Advanced Transistors [pdf]
If you want to learn and have a physics/EE background, you might have better luck with a book like Tsividis (also available as a MOOC!)

https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Operation-Modeling-Mos-Transistor...

https://www.coursera.org/learn/mosfet

eternauta3k··on Mathematical Compact Models of Advanced Transistors [pdf]
By the way, fitting compact models is largely done by PhDs spending weeks tweaking parameters to get the simulation to match measurements. If you can find a method to automate this (which very roughly comes down to minimizing a non-convex function of ~100 parameters) you can make a lot of money.
eternauta3k··on Mathematical Compact Models of Advanced Transistors [pdf]
Aren't the fab models usually rough and binned? Which is why companies have modeling departments.
eternauta3k··on A love letter to the CSV format
But everyone already has a GUI installed for editing xlsx files...
eternauta3k··on Scallop – A Language for Neurosymbolic Programming
Is the reasoning strictly downstream of the image recognition? Or can prior knowledge impact how objects are recognized? E.g. I'm driving on the road at night so the two incoming lights are probably a car.
eternauta3k··on US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s
How is Germany divided?
eternauta3k··on Why it's so hard to build a jet engine
Is that really the thermodynamic cycle of the turbine? My understanding is that a cycle is something like "adiabatic compression followed by isothermic expansion, followed by ...", i.e. the details of what happens to the working fluid.
eternauta3k··on I found a backdoor into my bed
Some of the ones at my company require you to stab them with your fingers for 15 seconds like a maniac before they turn the light on.
eternauta3k··on There's Math.random(), and then there's Math.random() (2015)
What applications care about this improvement, considering it's not cryptographically secure?
eternauta3k··on How does life happen when there's barely any light?
No, you can practically go down to single photons.
eternauta3k··on Ingesting PDFs and why Gemini 2.0 changes everything
Germany (not exactly the cradle of digitalization) already auto-fills salary tax fields with data from the employer.
eternauta3k··on The evolution of a structural code editor
You could run a parser in the diff tool without using a structured editor, though.
eternauta3k··on Modelica
How does this compare to Spice/verilog-A/Simulink?
eternauta3k··on Rats Learned to Drive–and They Love It
Wait til they make a rat bicycle, that'll break the Internet.

Seriously though, I wonder if they drive to please the researchers (to any degree).

eternauta3k··on Wikipedia article blocked worldwide by Delhi high court
If you take wikipedia rogue and only accept crypto donations, the budget will take a nosedive. And the project will lose all relevance once the non-tor mirrors are blocked in the big countries.
eternauta3k··on An adult fruit fly brain has been mapped
Why do you actually need to simulate them? The mapping between the state of the computer and the simulated state it represents exists only in our heads. You might as well say that any reality you can vaguely conceive of, exists and has moral weight.
eternauta3k··on 2.7-meters Telescope mirror shot 7 times (1970)
7 10 cm diameter circles have 1% of the area of a 2.7m diameter circle.
eternauta3k··on Common food dye found to make skin and muscle temporarily transparent
Also used for medical research (e.g. back injury research)
eternauta3k··on What happens when you touch a pickle to an AM radio tower
Putting an AM signal through any non linear process will give you (shitty) demodulation.
eternauta3k··on What happens when you touch a pickle to an AM radio tower
I wonder if a floating human would still get zapped, due to its non-trivial capacitance to ground.
eternauta3k··on QWERTY-Flip: The better keyboard layout your fingers already know
We need to agree as a society to slowly transition to Dvorak or Colemak one key at a time over the next couple of decades. Every year we announce a new pair of keys which needs to be swapped, OSs roll out an update and people manually pry out the keys from their physical keyboards and swap them.
eternauta3k··on Low Cost Mini PCs
Are you the same guy from https://diskprices.com ? Awesome tools! Would be nice to have ebay.de as well.
eternauta3k··on Google's new pipe syntax in SQL
Do manually-generated SQL strings have a place outside of interactive use? I use them in my small projects but I wonder if a query builder isn't better for larger systems.
eternauta3k··on Box64 and RISC-V in 2024: What It Takes to Run the Witcher 3 on RISC-V
If an insane instruction set gives us higher performance and makes CPU and compiler design more complex, this might be an acceptable trade-off.
eternauta3k··on The art of programming and why I won't use LLM
There is a difference between those abstraction levels: with LLMs you are moving into the realm of management.
eternauta3k··on How to build a 50k ton forging press
There's nothing simple about jet engines :)
eternauta3k··on How to build a 50k ton forging press
You may be right, but your conclusion doesn't follow from the article.
eternauta3k··on What I Learned Writing an Album in Just Intonation
I have no clue about this topic, but isn't Just Intonation what e.g. people sing when left to their own devices?
eternauta3k··on Women who make Samsung semiconductors are striking
> You would think workers on a line that has shortages of employees would have negotiating power

Depends on whether we re looking at a system in equilibrium or out of equilibrium. Maybe the "shortage" is the equilibrium for the unyielding crappy conditions the company is offering.

eternauta3k··on Standard cells: Looking at individual gates in the Pentium processor
Skeptical here as well, no one is proposing a serious mechanism for damage like "you left gate oxide uncovered by silicide so it contaminates the CMP machine" or whatever.

What I can imagine, is that the foundry only tests their magic OPC algorithm with DRC clean inputs. If your mask isn't DRC clean, who knows what's coming out the other side.

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