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Category Archives: Learning
Debugging USB Firmware
An old article from Jan Axelson about Debugging USB Firmware. I’ve been reading her books.
Shouting in the Datacenter
The effects of vibration from shouting at a hard drive.
Simulation And Motion Planning For 6DOF Robotic Arm
I have a new post on Hackaday: Simulation And Motion Planning For 6DOF Robotic Arm.
LibreOffice Calc: Data -> Calculate -> Recalculate Hard (Ctrl+Shift+F9)
This is a note for Future John. In LibreOffice Calc you can run Data -> Calculate -> Recalculate Hard to force a recalculation of your worksheet. I needed to do this so that changes to my macros got picked up. The shortcut key is Ctrl+Shift+F9. There is also F9 but I can’t use that shortcut key because I have it bound to something else.
Can We Replace A Program Counter With A Linear-Feedback Shift Register? Yes We Can!
I have a new post on Hackaday: Can We Replace A Program Counter With A Linear-Feedback Shift Register? Yes We Can!
Life Changing Tips for Wicking Solder
Here’s a great video from nanofix about how to use solder wick: Life Changing Tips for Wicking Solder. He mentions a bunch of products some of which I am planning to get!
Excel and VBA reading
I’m doing some Excel VBA work for $dayjob and got a few books to brush up on the tech involved:
ORBTrace mini and instrumenting embedded applications
Today I learned about the ORBTrace mini. Gotta get me a few of those! There’s a video explaining the related software, Orbuculum, over here (but it requires you signup for a free account and validate your email address to watch).
Statistician Answers Stats Questions From Twitter | Tech Support | WIRED
This was a good overview of what’s possible with statistics: Statistician Answers Stats Questions From Twitter | Tech Support | WIRED.
But I’m pretty sure that at t=11:23 he gets it wrong. The probability that three people in a family have the same birthday isn’t 1 * 1/365 * 1/365. but rather it depends on the number of people in the family (starting, I guess, at some epoch). This is known as the Birthday paradox.
To be clear: they’re not asking what is the probability of three people being born on January 10. They asked what are the odds of three people from an unspecified family size being born on the same day (could be any day of the year).