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Labels for production nodes (e.g. "1nm") have diverged from specific physical distances (e.g. gate width) for years now.

ironic title is ironic

The node label (e.g. "5 nm") no longer represents a physical dimension and hasn't for some time -- it's simply a continuation of a naming convention. In fact, while we used to scal…

Congrats on the launch! Can you say more about how you drive your costs down?

They never claimed to be doing Raman spectroscopy.

It's up now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5Hlc1suTss

Yup, such a blatant copycat attempt. All the way down to the angle the photos are taken from. Good thing for Boosted that you can't just copy a well engineered drivetrain.

That relation ties together entropy, a previously macroscopic quantity, and discrete, countable energy states, first introduced via quantum mechanics.

I'd replace it with S = k log(Omega), which links thermodynamics to quantum mechanics.

Same boat here! Any sense of how long the queue is?

The color change of gold and CdSe particles with size are due to two different effects. CdSe is a semiconductor, and reducing the CdSe nanoparticle size increases its band gap thro…

Not that I disagree with what you wrote, I just want to point out that silicon dioxide is probably the most important reason silicon has reached such ubiquity in electronics. No ot…

I know very little about what's available in Ruby, but I would have used the Pandas library to accomplish this task in python. Their in-memory data structure, a DataFrame, is more …

I'm trying to figure out where something like this fits into the python data ecosystem. For datasets that fit in memory, Pandas seems like the best bet. Good I/O functions (JSON, C…

That was hard to read... "The manufacturing process for most solar panels involves manufacturing a block of sapphire or other crystalline silicon and then slicing a .2mm-thick shee…

Just want to point out that Stanford does have its fair share of "MIT startups". Here's a small subset: * Alveo Energy * Amprius * Blue River Technology * C3Nano * Momentum Machine…

StraightUp http://readstraightup.com Circa app Twitter

Internet archive link to the demo/screencast: https://web.archive.org/web/20070407145348/http://www.getdro...

I still prefer Keynote to JS presentation tools since playing with layout is easier manually than with css (for me). But one killer feature Keynote lacks is slide inheritance. I lo…

I've found that Foursquare has a higher signal-to-noise than Yelp for restaurant reviews/tips.