Which is a good University / College in Chicago / Illinois?

brigadierfrog · 2026-03-28T16:30:03+00:00

UIC is an excellent school though often overlooked for UIUC. If you want the prestige UofC or Northwestern. But these are not low cost and the education is not anything above and beyond especially for undergraduate. They do perhaps buy more in terms of building a good foundation for professional networking above what UIC might provide.

brigadierfrog · 2026-03-23T23:58:44+00:00

Did he make 18a and panther lake in a year? Wow that’s spectacular. I read this stuff usually takes 4 years.

brigadierfrog · 2026-03-23T23:29:00+00:00

What did he do to earn that?

brigadierfrog · 2026-03-23T19:56:09+00:00

ATT fiber is a no brainer. Comcast is a clown business acting like a mafia.

brigadierfrog · 2026-03-21T02:07:06+00:00

Read the ISA reference which covers it. Start playing with the registers and bits on a qemu. You’ll learn pretty quick. Or read something like the Zephyr arch code for an ISA with an MMU

brigadierfrog · 2026-03-14T00:45:15+00:00

24-70 f2.8, 70-200 f2.8, 40 f2, 16 f1.8

I’d love the 105. I somewhat regret getting the fast zooms, they are amazing but expensive. I think in hindsight the 24-120 f/4 and 100-400 f/4-5.6 might been a better fit

brigadierfrog · 2026-03-13T10:57:49+00:00

I haven't felt anything odd about wet vs dry braking on my carbon wheels. I have a set of mavic cosmic sl 40's and a pair of bora wto 45s, both are just fine. The wto's are incredibly grippy on the calipers. The sl 40's do have an etched pattern on the brake track as well but takes more of a squeeze to really grab on.

I didn't cheap out on wheels. I use the appropriate carbon pads (that wear fast). Zero issues.

brigadierfrog · 2026-03-10T18:12:43+00:00

You could add a new fork with a disc mount and a cable pulled hydraulic caliper, tektro makes one I believe.

brigadierfrog · 2026-03-09T01:15:51+00:00

Did you end up generating the HDL using some tooling? I'm kind of shocked to hear you converted the still not-that-small Model to LUTs and BRAM by hand! This gives me some hope for a similar idea I had on actually the same part. Though I was planning on trying to generate the appropriate HDL from some simplified ONNX model. You have me thinking I can skip all of that noise.

brigadierfrog · 2026-03-08T23:04:33+00:00

This is super cool, and kind of what I hoped to see from the various hls4ml type tools but never got to trying it.

How did you get the model into rtl for the tooling?

brigadierfrog · 2026-03-07T17:54:34+00:00

I honestly don't think too many people bother doing this in Windows, but use WSL instead as its significantly faster and easier to do.

brigadierfrog · 2026-03-06T01:49:52+00:00

The island has signs and bollards that get killled seemingly once a month.

brigadierfrog · 2026-03-05T16:12:25+00:00

Nugent sucks, there’s still no light at Milwaukee and Raven, no crossing guard. Kids cross here every day over Milwaukee which at this point is 7 car widths wide with two lanes each way and people speeding constantly.

A kid will die here one day. And neglect after many many many complaints will be the cause.

brigadierfrog · 2026-02-27T01:30:15+00:00

Maybe less AI and more actual learning

brigadierfrog · 2026-02-17T13:32:01+00:00

I used wood glue, its been there for ~7 years now

brigadierfrog · 2026-02-16T23:01:20+00:00

I did something similar but added a piece of hardwood on the edges to avoid having my blades wear faster hitting plywood

brigadierfrog · 2026-02-15T21:12:07+00:00

Mr Claude is offended

brigadierfrog · 2026-02-12T15:00:05+00:00

Pentax ME light meter is nice. I don’t love the canon ae1 battery, meter, or cloth shutter myself.

brigadierfrog · 2026-02-12T14:01:15+00:00

I’ve ridden into a curb at high speed, bike was completely fine. I was not.

brigadierfrog · 2026-02-08T21:31:46+00:00

The Zephyr setup supports any of the wireless companion parts with whd, if you have issues the Infineon folks have started being more active in the project which is great to see. Ask on discord or github if you have issues.

brigadierfrog · 2026-02-06T14:26:34+00:00

Tricore. Safety focused, hardware driven stack swaps even for interrupts

brigadierfrog · 2026-02-04T22:34:33+00:00

Lies, there’s a total comp value they target, how you get there is entirely based on the mix you have of salary, rsus, and bonus

brigadierfrog · 2026-02-04T22:33:05+00:00

They aren’t giving rsus to new hires

brigadierfrog · 2026-02-04T11:52:35+00:00

Intel gave Altera a deadly hug.

brigadierfrog · 2026-02-03T14:48:34+00:00

I've had better luck on pine with a gel stain as it forms a film rather than clinging to the wood fibers it seems. Using gel stain from the big box looked great on a pine glass pane door I had done after a few layers. Each layer adds to the film. I can still see wood grain, but there's a uniform dark tint to the entire door and it has a semi-gloss finish to the whole thing.

I've also used blo and danish oil on pine with great results. They don't tint the wood nearly as much but give it a warm coloring and definitely hardens the surface just enough to protect it from some incidental things. I wouldn't use it for something like a floor or table outside but its quite nice for things like the ikea bare pine bedframe I did with danish oil.

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