Posts by LeftyX

So it's a perceptron

This sounds like an all-optical version of the perceptron, invented in 1943 (!), but of course much smaller.

Shouldn't that be "a horde of spreadsheets"?

Or is there some other term for a group of them, like a murder of crows?

SiFive's HiFive1

SiFive now sells the $59 HiFive1 Rev B board, which looks like a good entry point: https://www.sifive.com/boards/hifive1-rev-b

I was hoping "wedge-shaped" meant triangular!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZBVnjXp7GQ

Why not hydrogen as the basis?

Every galactic civilization knows about hydrogen, so let's use it. The mass of H1, scaled-up by some nice exact decimal* multiplier, becomes the mass standard. The hydrogen line (21 cm wavelength) becomes the unit of length. (The Pioneer plaque used this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_plaque) Etc. etc.

* Yes, I know not all civilizations, even here on Earth, use base-10 numbers, but we have to start somewhere!

Don't forget:

http://www.theonion.com/article/alarming-report-finds-only-6-earths-surface-indoor-51405

Back in the late '80s, I worked for a guy who had written a program in the Procomm Plus (serial datacomm software) scripting language to collect status data from a group of about 200 network interface devices (Sytek 2502 boxes).

He had a separate loop to collect and store each parameter.

All 53 of them.

It took almost all night to run (if I remember, this was on an IBM PS/2 Model 60, under DOS 3.3), but at least it was ready the next morning for his BASIC program, which summarized and formatted the data and printed a report.

I rewrote the Procomm script into one loop, and it finished in about an hour.

Qualcomm has just recently "partnered" with FPGA-maker Xilinx, which could provide the horsepower to implement some of these capabilities in hardware.

Systemax = TigerDirect

Systemax is the owner of the TigerDirect online sales site and CompUSA retail stores.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/sectors/campaigns/welcome.asp?site=cp