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In collaboration with Levi, the author discusses the concept of the law of large numbers. They explain that the term “large” is relative and depends on the context. To illustrate the law, they conduct experiments using dice rolls and lottery tickets. They show that as the number of experiments increases, the sample averages converge to […]
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In his quest to develop his own cryocooler for liquid nitrogen production, the author has come across various interesting topics. One such exploration is the use of dry ice for pre-cooling, which led him to ponder the process of making dry ice from scratch. While obtaining the CO2 required for dry ice is relatively simple […]
Improvements Editor: Empty lines before the frontmatter block are no longer allowed. Inline formatting will ignore whitespace at the start and end of the selection. Date & time fields now include seconds. Added command to fold properties. When toggling “Properties view” core plugin, the “All properties” view will immediately open. Added tooltip for long property […]
Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation (SSS) has developed an energy harvesting module that uses electromagnetic wave noise energy. The module, based on technology developed during tuner development, can generate power from electromagnetic wave noise with a high level of efficiency. This technology can utilize the constant electromagnetic wave noise generated by various electronic devices to power […]
In this web content, Isaac Asimov receives a letter from a reader who is majoring in English Literature but feels the need to teach Asimov about science. Asimov reflects on his previous statement that we finally understand the basic rules of the Universe and acknowledges that people in every century have thought the same thing […]
In a quest to improve CI/CD tooling, Earthly set out to create a build system that was consistent, reliable, and distributed. However, despite the amazing promises of faster builds and better integration, the reality was different. Customers were skeptical and hesitant to migrate to Earthly CI, citing the cost of migration and lack of proven […]
The Pinouts Book is a downloadable digital resource that serves as a handy reference for designers and engineers who need to recall the pinout functions of various components in their electronics projects. This free book contains information on 130 commonly used components, including connectors, single board computers, dev boards, memory cards, and microcontroller chips. Each […]
In this web content, the author discusses their role as a skilled debugger at work and shares their systematic approach to debugging. They emphasize the importance of understanding the behavior of bugs before diving into the code. The process of debugging includes figuring out the symptoms, reproducing the bug, understanding the system, forming a hypothesis […]
The Mac ROM-inator II is now available again at the BMOW Store, offering several improvements for Macintosh II series computers and the Mac SE/30. This replacement ROM SIMM provides a bootable ROM disk, 32-bit cleanliness, HD20 hard disk support, and more. Initially, BMOW was the only vendor selling custom Mac ROM SIMMs, but now there […]
If you accidentally put a space after the equals sign when trying to capture information into a shell variable in Bourne shell code, you will encounter the error message “command not found”. This error arises from a series of decisions made in the traditional Unix and Bourne shell. The Bourne shell allows for temporary setting […]