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yshklarov commented on Ask HN: What is better to use lead-free/leaded solder?    · Posted by u/DenisDolya
sen · 16 days ago
Leaded is easier to solder with, lead-free is less bad for you, but inhaling any fumes from burning stuff isn’t good for you, so use an extractor/filter no matter what.
yshklarov · 16 days ago
We have no evidence that the lead in solder makes its way into the body of the person doing the soldering (and we've been at this for quite some time!). The concerns about lead in solder are due to the environmental hazards of electronics waste, and the hazards associated with mining and smelting lead.

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yshklarov commented on What Is the Fourier Transform?   quantamagazine.org/what-i... · Posted by u/rbanffy
RachelF · 3 months ago
I wonder what happened to Wavelet transforms? The were very popular years ago, and now one never hears about them.
yshklarov · 3 months ago
Really, do you think they've somehow fallen out of favor? If so, that's a surprise to me.

In any case, they are a bit more advanced, and out of scope for the undergraduate course I linked to.

yshklarov commented on What Is the Fourier Transform?   quantamagazine.org/what-i... · Posted by u/rbanffy
yshklarov · 3 months ago
As everyone in this thread is sharing links, I'm gonna pitch in, too.

This lecture by Dennis Freeman from MIT 6.003 "Signals and Systems" gives an intuitive explanation of the connections between the four popular Fourier transforms (the Fourier transform, the discrete Fourier transform, the Fourier series, and the discrete-time Fourier transform):

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-003-signals-and-systems-fall-2...

yshklarov commented on What Is the Fourier Transform?   quantamagazine.org/what-i... · Posted by u/rbanffy
laszlokorte · 3 months ago
Shameless plug: If you are interested in Fourier Transform and signal processing you might enjoy my somewhat artistic 3D visualisation of the fourier transform as well as the fractional fourier transform [1]

(Fractional fourier transform on the top face of the cube)

And for short time fourier transform showing how a filter kernel is shiftes across the signal. [2]

[1]: https://static.laszlokorte.de/frft-cube/

[2]: https://static.laszlokorte.de/time-frequency/

yshklarov · 3 months ago
I love the visualization! Thanks for sharing.

How do you compute the fractional FT? My guess is by interpolating the DFT matrix (via matrix logarithm & exponential) -- is that right, or do you use some other method?

yshklarov commented on Minesweeper thermodynamics   oscarcunningham.com/792/m... · Posted by u/robinhouston
robinhouston · 4 months ago
Simon Tatham's _Mines_ deals with this in a different way: it generates the mine positions in such a way that they can never lead to an ambiguous state during a game. https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/doc/min...
yshklarov · 4 months ago
That's pretty neat. I wonder how it works. It's not obvious to me at all how to build something like this, as the program doesn't know the sequence in which the player will reveal the tiles.

I also once made my own variant of this (just like gregfjohnson's idea): A "lucky minesweeper" where luck can be toggled on/off at any point during the game: https://github.com/yshklarov/minesweeper

yshklarov commented on The Qweremin   linusakesson.net/qweremin... · Posted by u/aebtebeten
yshklarov · 4 months ago
For those who don't recognize the name: Linus Åkesson (lft) is the one who made "Nine", that C64 demo with the wizard and nine sprites that was popular a few months ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42940553).
yshklarov commented on Why Pascal is not my favorite programming language (1981) [pdf]   doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/w... · Posted by u/susam
yshklarov · 8 months ago
Apparently, this is a game that two can play. Niklaus Wirth, the creator of Pascal, had this to say in turn:

"From the point of view of software engineering, the rapid spread of C represented a great leap backward. It revealed that the community at large had hardly grasped the true meaning of the term “high-level language” which became an ill-understood buzzword."

Source: Niklaus Wirth, A Brief History of Software Engineering, 2008 (https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/Miscellaneous/IEEE-Annals.p...)

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