pierrebouchet

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by pierrebouchet 13y ago
I'm convinced that e-ink displays will become ubiquitous in a not-so-far future. A e-ink screen is a great idea for a workstation aimed at text editing, be it writing emails or programs or even using spreadsheet software. I spend most of th
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by pierrebouchet 14y ago
Yes hardware startup are sexy, but most of them are also very software-intensive. Leap Motion needs a lot of processing power, even for a simple visualizer app, and I bet Myo does too. Other examples: guidance of things like the Sphero or t
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by pierrebouchet 14y ago
This reminds me of VoiceBunny. For short texts you can get a voiceover within minutes, and their API allows you to automate the whole process. See API flowchart: http://voicebunny.com/developers/get_read
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by pierrebouchet 14y ago
I'm in the "99% mobile" case. It seems Parse offers many nice features in addition to transparent-ish "cloud" persistence, e.g Push notifications, etc. Heroku's approach is really interesting. The idea of building a db model from the CoreDa
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by pierrebouchet 14y ago
This looks like competition for Parse (and a few others I guess, but Parse was the first one I heard of). However I have tried neither. Is there anyone who's tried both? What are their pros/cons?
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by pierrebouchet 14y ago
IIRC state-of-the-art reconfiguration times can get below 10ms when using partial reconfiguration. In the field of sotfware-defined radio, the USRP hardware from the GNU Radio project has an onboard FPGA. It's a great project, lets you depl
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by pierrebouchet 14y ago
There are solutions that do not need any pre-established magnetic field maps, because they simply derive velocity from local magnetic field disturbances and use magnometer measurements as an additional input for odometry calculations, using
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by pierrebouchet 14y ago
To me " Pick a game, write a server emulator for it " is an excellent example of " What is it trusting? What is it trying to protect? How do I get around it? ". But on top of being " a great way to use all your skills up to this point " I t
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by pierrebouchet 14y ago
I agree with you on the Arduino IDE limitations, but what I don't get is all the browser/cloud-based part. The mbed platform has all that online stuff, and that's precisely why it's a pain to use.
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by pierrebouchet 14y ago
Using larger grids and combining this with the famous HashLife algorithm to "compress Space and Time" ( http://www.drdobbs.com/jvm/184406478 ) would be awesome!
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by pierrebouchet 14y ago
Bluetooth Low Energy would be well-suited too. And more and more smartphones have radio chips that support it (iPhone 4s, Droid Razor, ..)
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by pierrebouchet 14y ago
A Wi-Fi module like the RN171 from Roving Networks which has a full TCP/IP stack embedded is less than $35.
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by pierrebouchet 14y ago
There is also the HSM (hierarchical state machine) extension of this concept (by the same author, not sure it's in the same book) where a given state either handles an event or returns a pointer to a "superstate" that handles it. This kind
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by pierrebouchet 14y ago
My bad, I was being too vague - sorry for that. I meant "any atypical property" instead of "any property". An "atypical property" being a property that almost no sequence has, i.e the set of sequences which exhibit this propery is a measu
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by pierrebouchet 14y ago
I think one of the most widely accepted definitions of randomness in mathematics was given by Martin-Löf. Basically it says that a process is random iff it doesn't exhibit any atypical property that you can test with an algorithm. In othe
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DCPU-16 implemented on reconfigurable silicon (verilog)(github.com)
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by pierrebouchet 14y ago
tell us more, do you have a link?
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by pierrebouchet 14y ago
I'm sure right now someone somewhere is working on an FPGA implementation of the DCPU-16.
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by pierrebouchet 14y ago
You've convinced me. I'm trying DDG right now!
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by pierrebouchet 14y ago
It's funny how Excel allows non-programmers to end up programming without knowing it. Reminds me of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3374431