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  1. Re:What genius!! on A New Sampling Algorithm Could Eliminate Sensor Saturation (scitechdaily.com) · · Score: 2

    Nothing mind-blowing

    Go back and do more than a preliminary reading. They are utilizing a property of a specific type of ADC (a so-called set-reset ADC or SR-ADC), which instead of saturating reverts to the lower bound value when the input voltage exceeds the upper bound, and vice versa.

    I admit that I don't understand their algorithm, however they were able to reconstruct a random signal with a maximum amplitude exceeding 20 times the ADC upper bound. The mean squared error between the original and constructed signals was 1.5 x 10^-33.

    Maybe it's just me, but I think that's pretty mind blowing.

  2. Re:Looks more like intermediate to me on New Interactive Basic Electronics Textbook Launched Online (circuitlab.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm an Electrical Engineer and I don't have a clue what Large Asymptotic Approximation is. After reading the chapter here I can say that yes these techniques are used, but generally on fairly complex or advanced circuits, usually containing active elements.

    Such approximations are necessary when a full closed-form solution is prohibitively complicated and the error in the approximation is sufficiently small. So yeah, definitely not an introductory technique.

  3. Re:Looks more like intermediate to me on New Interactive Basic Electronics Textbook Launched Online (circuitlab.com) · · Score: 1

    In order to design a circuit, you must be able to analyze it. A purely resistive DC circuit is more than enough to learn node and loop analysis, as well as Thevenin and Norton equivalent circuits. Combining various layouts of resistors (which can be generalized to impedances later) is important as well. None of these techniques, strictly speaking, require more "theory" than Ohm's Law. All of them will be necessary to build upon when you begin frequency-domain analysis and add capacitors, inductors, transformers, and active elements.

  4. Re:The mathematics of irrationality. on Crypto-Bashing Prime Minister Argues The Laws Of Mathematics Don't Apply In Australia (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Again, how can you even count votes if the laws of Mathematics don't apply?

  5. This is great news actually, because it means that this moron is not the PM of Australia. After all, to become PM you must be the leader of the party with the largest representation in parliament. If the laws of Mathematics don't apply, well... how can you say that one number is larger than another?

  6. Re: When it lies, or doesn't say what it wants on Ask Slashdot: What Software (Or Hardware) Glitch Makes You Angry? · · Score: 1

    I'll second that endorsement. DisplayFusion FTW.

  7. Re: Oh please! Really? on Congress Seeks To Outlaw Cyber Intel Sharing With Russia (onthewire.io) · · Score: 4, Informative

    On the one hand: France (oldest ally), the UK (special relationship), and Canada (friend with benefits), all democracies and members of NATO.

    On the other hand: Russia, a major geopolitical adversary for most of the last century, a kleptocratic dictatorship run by an ex-KGB lieutenant who fiercely and violently crushes any non-token political opposition.

    Can't see why we'd favor one over the other.

  8. Re:Enough Denials, Truth Time! on Congress Seeks To Outlaw Cyber Intel Sharing With Russia (onthewire.io) · · Score: 0

    Yeah, fuck US intelligence agencies. You know who I believe over them? Vladimir Putin.

  9. Re:Hearing code read by others is jarring on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Read Code? · · Score: 1

    Right now, I actually can't figure out which of the 3 I use. It's sort of like when you become conscious of your breathing and it's difficult to get your subconscious to take the wheel again...

    And now that I've typed it, that's exactly what's happening now.

  10. Re:Not just when closing a program on 24 Cores and the Mouse Won't Move: Engineer Diagnoses Windows 10 Bug (wordpress.com) · · Score: 2

    Not a program, a process.

  11. Re:He must be ugly on Tech Boss Attacks 'Whiners' in Angry Email (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not a good time to be a guy...especially a white guy.

    Oh my precious little snowflake, how hard it must be for you!

    You assert a lot of stuff with no evidence. Must be fun, let me try: the opposite of everything you just said.

  12. Re:What I would like to know: on State Prison Officials Blame An Escape On Drones And Cellphones (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    It really just seems like you wanted to talk shit about the US, rather than actually respond to what I said. I hope it was cathartic.

  13. Re:And slashdot became fake news source too? on Russians Now Need a Passport To Watch Pornhub (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Sightly misleading headline, perhaps, but not fake news. From TFS:

    [...] to open a Vkontakte account, users need to enter their cell phone numbers. And to legally purchase a SIM card in Russia, you need to disclose your passport information. "While this exact method is not a condition [from the Russian government], we found this is the best solution for our users to comply with Russian access laws," Pornhub Vice President Corey Price said.

    PornHub is recommending what they believe to be the easiest method to access their site legally. Yeah there's a black market for phone numbers but that just means you are breaking a different law. A better headline might be: "Russians May Need Passport to Legally Access PornHub".

  14. Re:They can't win this way. on Russians Now Need a Passport To Watch Pornhub (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    In the US you supply your SSN by proxy [...] usually a credit card or license

    You only have to provide a CC if you are going to pay the site for access. And seriously, what site asks for a driver's license? Do you keep a scan/pic of your license handy in case you need for a quick fap?

  15. Automation, not China or unions, is the reason those jobs are never coming back.

    Like horses at the turn of the 20th Century, human labor is becoming obsolete.

  16. Re:Most of Startups fail and EB-5 has been abused on Trump Administration Officially Delays 'Startup Visa' Rule (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    A rule that was suspended before it went into effect was abused?

  17. Re:What I would like to know: on State Prison Officials Blame An Escape On Drones And Cellphones (usatoday.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Of course not, because the problem with drugs is that they are illegal. Drug prohibition is the stupidest policy in the Western world.

  18. Re: "only 2.7 billion years after the big bang" on New Sharpened Images From Hubble Telescope Contradict Post-Big Bang Theories (nasa.gov) · · Score: 1

    How dare you, you insensitive clod?!

  19. Re:Masterful Self Advertising of security startup? on Author of Original Petya Ransomware Publishes Master Decryption Key (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    But we will elect that person President!

  20. Re:Why are they protecting RUSSIA!?!?!? on Privacy Watchdog Sues Trump's Election Committee Over Voter Data (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    What about states rights Mr. not-a-leftist? Or is that one of those principles you abandon once it becomes inconvenient?

  21. Re:I'm guessing he's not part of an opposition par on Russia Jails Hacker For Spilling Top Government Officials' Secrets (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Don't forget there's also the Russian opposition party early retirement plan: get shot on the footsteps of the Kremlin.

  22. Re:The New Formula on The White House Now Has Zero Science Advisors (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    YES.

  23. Re:You have to limit free speech to protect it on Germany Approves Plans To Fine Social Media Firms Up To $57M (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    This is the most dangerous and stupid thing ever posted on this site. But even you, dear AC, who would so easily surrender your liberties, are allowed to spew your nonsense here, or anywhere.

  24. Re: You have to limit free speech to protect it on Germany Approves Plans To Fine Social Media Firms Up To $57M (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    In Tolerance Camp, intolerance will not be tolerated!

  25. Re:Reason is poor elementary grade teachers on You're Thinking About the Dictionary All Wrong, Lexicographers Say (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    Many Jewish Orthodox people have said strongly that the christian "god" is not their god.

    Well considering it's all make-believe anyway, who can really say they are wrong?

    But if you understand the history of the Abrahamic religions, then they clearly are. If they want to be in denial about their own history, that's perfectly fine.