Nathan West
@nathanewest
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DSP and ML for radio frequency astronomy and communications
Joined November 2009
Lost my mailbox key, so my hacker camp skills finally paid off!
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For the first time in many years it seems building a mid-range gpu dev machine is far cheaper than anything off the shelf or semi-custom and a “professional” grade gpu is actually cheaper than a comparable gaming gpu. Feels good but also idk if I actually want to build my own 🤣
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Brussels is nice and warm this time of year… I think I’ll go to FOSDEM. I get in to Brussels Thursday around noon and happy to meet up and nerd out Thursday - Sunday.
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Wally is now officially marchid=36 https://t.co/qoX8oKRWmL
#RISCV
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RISC-V Instruction Set Manual. Contribute to riscv/riscv-isa-manual development by creating an account on GitHub.
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PRESS RELEASE: https://t.co/H94BjMobvc The SETI Institute announced today a philanthropic gift of $200m from the estate of Franklin Antonio, a visionary supporter and catalyst of the work of the SETI Institute for more than 12 years.
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#rustlang follows c++ std::round to round away from zero. There's experimental support for a function that follows IEEE-754 round to even https://t.co/j4gwcH6hw2
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Julia also uses IEEE-754 but provides a nice interface to use round away from zero within the same round interface
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C++ std::round uses the round I was taught in school (away from zero) while std::rint follows IEEE-754 round to even by default, but also provides a few modes (none of them equivalent to std::round!)
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Fell in to a quagmire of rounding when I noticed numpy.round(0.5) returns 0. Python's built-in math.round does the same. Turns out this is the correct IEEE-754 rounding mode to round half to the nearest even so round(1.5) returns 2.
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The Breakthrough Prize Foundation is proud to partner with @OxfordPhysics to launch a new international headquarters for Breakthrough Listen in Oxford, leading our global team searching for evidence of technological civilizations beyond Earth. https://t.co/PAAxgWqJMD
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Using LaTeX and shopping at Trader Joe's have the same feeling, can't explain it
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Everyone working at openAI should be ashamed of themselves for empowering this insanity. This is straight up incumbents trying to own a technology relying on lawfare and regulatory capture. They know that open source will get ahead of them if left unrestricted.
🔵 OPENAI CHIEF GOES BEFORE US CONGRESS TO PROPOSE LICENSES FOR BUILDING AI Read More: https://t.co/m1GnlsuDEB
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Overconfidence about AI is a lot like overconfidence about bikes. Many people are convinced that their mental model of how bikes work is coherent and accurate, right until you force them to flesh out the details.
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Thanks to @Intel for their continued #partnership and shared mission towards the future of private wireless networks using #AI. See highlights mentioning DeepSig from Cristina Rodriguez's talk at #MWC23 on ’Natural Intelligence: Can AI Really Think for Itself?’.
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Well… I guess I’m available at
sigmoid.social
6 Posts, 13 Following, 20 Followers · Wireless DSP, RF, and a healthy dash of ML. Deeply in to radio.
Journalists who cover Elon Musk have been suspended on Twitter tonight: @Donie O'Sullivan from CNN, Aaron Rupar and the Washington Post's @drewharwell. Rupar tells me he has "no idea" why it happened.
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Is there a feature that lets you see two people’s tweets except when they start feuding with each other
Muting the professors who are arguing over each other on twitter has significantly improved my experience on this app.
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It was also able to explain aspects of ofdm equalization to me and generate some python code that was more or less conceptually correct including a channel simulator. Struggled with the concept of complex awgn though
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