My first jobs on FPGAs involved high speed math and LUTs.My very first engineering job (I don't even remember it was so long ago) was a LUT implemented with a ROM
It was one of the first programs that I wrote in my Atari computer.I was really into this stuff back in grade school and high school, but was ultimately turned off by a well intentioned physics teacher and a possible misunderstanding on my part.
Anyway, if I was starting all over, this is what I would be studying right now.
America loves socialism because it sounds good and have no real life experience with it (notice how we had to wait a generation after the soviet union for it to be popular again?). Most socialist loving Americans couldn't name a single socialist country....
Oh, I know. I was desperately trying to get a friend who owned a home in SoCal to sell and rent for a couple of years in 2008. Didn't listen to me and I don't think their house is back to what it was.
Yes, it's fully paid off. The house was not where I was living, but found out of state on an mls search and was not livable for most people when I moved into it (full of mold, lacking doors, windows, etc), but it didn't kill me. No guaranteed income for taxes forever, but it's a very small amount relative to other things and a couple of weeks @minimum wage rate. With a small rental income (I could easily rent this place for $2k/month), it doesn't matter where I live
You don't think it could have been a massive learning experience? I think it's far more productive than trying to solve a crossword or Sudoku math puzzle and billions of hours are 'wasted' on those every year.
I wasted thousands of hours writing simulations on a computer as a kid with no money to buy games and it landed me many very lucrative jobs throughout my life. If I was 30 years younger, this is exactly the type of stuff that I'd be doing.
The NYTimes had an article about 7 years ago claiming that it was better to rent and that buying a house, even to live in was a poor economic decision.
I recall this well, because it was right after I bought my house and disagreed and was summarily beat up, or whatever the current internet equivalent is (in the mean time the house price has increased by $200k while spending $30k on renovations). Maybe they're right and I should have rented and put my money in the stock market, but I never have to worry about not having a place to live or the market crashing again. And if it does, I'll have saved enough money to buy another house and rent this one out. I guess that makes me an evil capitalist.
You have to get them in Barbados, but they're for sale in the US close to this price. UL listed, brand new grade A. A couple months ago they gave away a few megawatts worth of used panels for the price of shipping.
When I built my house it had to be up to code electrically, even though there is no electricity to my area.I needed a meter hookup and outlets every 6' throughout the house.
Why? I can't even get power to the house, to what am I supposed to connect? That's just what the code says. Don't argue or lobby for a change to the buildig code :( Fine, I'll install my own solar sysyem and it won't be connected to the house and not under any building code requires. No problem
May a well as argue with a telemarketingscript, but that's the way it is.
Exactly, I've been recently looking into buying another 10+kw for my solar system, especially now that solar panels have fallen below 20cents/w. I'm squeaking by now on 2.5kw, but moar is always better, plus it will give me full power in low light conditions, ie, winter.
I have solar....my house is ~100% solar powered, but I really don't think oil companies are worried about a few solar panels. The US gets ~1% of electricity from solar and oil is not used in electricity generation except a few special circumstances.
Water is very cheap everywhere (relative to bottled water). Even desalinated water, about as expensive as you can get, is 0.16cents/litre. And it's not like you can bottle a significant part of the natural water supply anywhere in the world. The biggest water user in the desert near where I live is the electric utility (for cooling).
Why even that? What's the problem? You buy a million liters of water for $2000 (cost of desalinated ocean water), bottle it and resell for $2/liter. Why should this be illegal?
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My first jobs on FPGAs involved high speed math and LUTs.My very first engineering job (I don't even remember it was so long ago) was a LUT implemented with a ROM
It was one of the first programs that I wrote in my Atari computer.I was really into this stuff back in grade school and high school, but was ultimately turned off by a well intentioned physics teacher and a possible misunderstanding on my part. Anyway, if I was starting all over, this is what I would be studying right now.
And if you think Nordic countries, Sweden has never been a socialist society.
I'm so old
Driverless cars are no more AI than your thermostat.
But a person following the same rules as a chess beating computer would still beat a human player, albeit 100billion times slower.
We always joked...
Sadly, that's not a joke.
Oh, I know. I was desperately trying to get a friend who owned a home in SoCal to sell and rent for a couple of years in 2008. Didn't listen to me and I don't think their house is back to what it was.
Yes, it's fully paid off. The house was not where I was living, but found out of state on an mls search and was not livable for most people when I moved into it (full of mold, lacking doors, windows, etc), but it didn't kill me. No guaranteed income for taxes forever, but it's a very small amount relative to other things and a couple of weeks @minimum wage rate. With a small rental income (I could easily rent this place for $2k/month), it doesn't matter where I live
I wasted thousands of hours writing simulations on a computer as a kid with no money to buy games and it landed me many very lucrative jobs throughout my life. If I was 30 years younger, this is exactly the type of stuff that I'd be doing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP5-iIeKXE8
I think CA is by far the most interesting thing being done today in math and physics.
The NYTimes had an article about 7 years ago claiming that it was better to rent and that buying a house, even to live in was a poor economic decision.
I recall this well, because it was right after I bought my house and disagreed and was summarily beat up, or whatever the current internet equivalent is (in the mean time the house price has increased by $200k while spending $30k on renovations). Maybe they're right and I should have rented and put my money in the stock market, but I never have to worry about not having a place to live or the market crashing again. And if it does, I'll have saved enough money to buy another house and rent this one out. I guess that makes me an evil capitalist.
You have to get them in Barbados, but they're for sale in the US close to this price. UL listed, brand new grade A. A couple months ago they gave away a few megawatts worth of used panels for the price of shipping.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/in...
Complaining about the "editors" is 28% of slashdot traffic. What is the incentive to change?
When I built my house it had to be up to code electrically, even though there is no electricity to my area.I needed a meter hookup and outlets every 6' throughout the house.
Why? I can't even get power to the house, to what am I supposed to connect?
:( Fine, I'll install my own solar sysyem and it won't be connected to the house and not under any building code requires.
That's just what the code says. Don't argue or lobby for a change to the buildig code
No problem
May a well as argue with a telemarketingscript, but that's the way it is.
Read up on electrification: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Just like Ed Roberts.
A friend built a 100% electric truck in his high school decades ago (roadworthy, licensed, etc). Good to see others catching up with him.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Exactly, I've been recently looking into buying another 10+kw for my solar system, especially now that solar panels have fallen below 20cents/w. I'm squeaking by now on 2.5kw, but moar is always better, plus it will give me full power in low light conditions, ie, winter.
Evergy in the US
Water is very cheap everywhere (relative to bottled water). Even desalinated water, about as expensive as you can get, is 0.16cents/litre. And it's not like you can bottle a significant part of the natural water supply anywhere in the world. The biggest water user in the desert near where I live is the electric utility (for cooling).
Why even that? What's the problem? You buy a million liters of water for $2000 (cost of desalinated ocean water), bottle it and resell for $2/liter. Why should this be illegal?