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whitequark>
rqou: how do I identify you at mtvre?
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rqou>
offtopic: anybody know what's going on with the spanish-speaking FPGA community that @ico_TC keeps RT'ing?
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rqou>
e.g. who are they and why haven't i heard about them?
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rqou>
digshadow you never gave me the sticker :P
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digshadow>
rqou: some people got stickers
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rqou>
can you save me a "speaker" sticker?
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digshadow>
rqou: there are plenty
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digshadow>
btw I think that was the largest openfpga IRL mass I've seen so far
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rqou>
there was supposed to be a Seattle-area meetup, but it hasn't happened
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rqou>
poke poke azonenberg
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digshadow>
rqou: azonenberg, awygle and ?
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digshadow>
pssh there were 6 people there tonight
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rqou>
also me+pointfree depending on scheduling
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digshadow>
actually I count 7
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rqou>
yeah, because by coincidence we managed to get a bunch of the non-US people this time
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digshadow>
my statement still stands :)
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digshadow>
whitequark: if you have the link to that writeup would be curious
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digshadow>
err 8! I'm not good at accounting
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digshadow>
rqou: he mentioned he was playing with LUT oscillators I think it was. Although was unclear if it had been published at all
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cr1901_modern>
rqou: You mean OnCHIPUIS?
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cr1901_modern>
"anybody know what's going on with the spanish-speaking FPGA community that @ico_TC keeps RT'ing?"
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rqou>
no, not that
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cr1901_modern>
Oh I have no idea... icestudio is certainly familiar tho
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rqou>
in other news, i
_hate_ this robotics course i'm taking
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rqou>
they do all sorts of crazy math that they don't explain how it possibly works
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rqou>
and you can't google any of it because a small collection of "fancy schools" are the only people using this
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sn00n>
rqou: like quaterniuns and lie groups?
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rqou>
worse than that
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sn00n>
quaternions
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rqou>
that would be sane
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sn00n>
ok, denavit hartenberg transformation matrices? %)
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rqou>
they somehow define a 6x1 "vector" to represent se(3)
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rqou>
which oeuf tried to explain to me as containing a vector and a "bivector" (which i don't know anything about)
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rqou>
but anyways, they cram these into a 6x1 "vector"
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sn00n>
ok, SE(3) is a lie group
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rqou>
and then define all sorts of manipulations on it using 6x6 matrices
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sn00n>
and it makes sense if you want calculate "optimum" trajectories and stuff like that
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rqou>
they also do weird things like expressing the rotation of a coordinate frame relative to itself somehow
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rqou>
i still don't understand how this works
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rqou>
oeuf told me it was evil and to ignore it :P
* cr1901_modern
looks up a Lie group... I need to retry reading Dummit and Foote
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rqou>
they also then overloaded a bunch of existing words to mean something completely different
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digshadow>
cr1901_modern: I heard there is a spanish group using icestorm for teaching in school
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sn00n>
but those 4x4 matrices you can represent SE(3) trafos with are very common ... 3D graphics ... homogenous coordinate trafos in general
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rqou>
they're
_not_ using 4x4 matrices
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cr1901_modern>
digshadow: That's cool. I don't know anything about it
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rqou>
that would also be sane
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cr1901_modern>
"trafos" is an interesting abbreviation for transform
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rqou>
they're using 6x1 vectors to somehow represent elements of the Lie
_algebra_
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rqou>
not the group
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rqou>
so yeah, all the operations are being done in the Lie
_algebra_ but with a strange representation
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sn00n>
ah ok, now i understand, they use the geometric algebra approach?
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sn00n>
like the clifford algebra
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rqou>
i don't know exactly what approach it is
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rqou>
afaict it's the "UCB+Caltech" approach :P
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rqou>
our canonical textbook is "A Mathematical Introduction to Robotic Manipulation" by Murray, Li, and Sastry
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sn00n>
hm ok, but you need exterior products (2-vector) for 'smooth' trajectories, maybe that's y
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rqou>
i also don't know most of this more-advanced math, and they use all sorts of bizarre shortcuts so that you don't really have to know it
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sn00n>
for calculating fast action integrals i guess, but i dunno ^^'
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rqou>
one example of how much i have no idea what is happening is that there is one homework question that i just couldn't solve
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rqou>
and now that the solution has been posted, i
_still_ can't solve it
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rqou>
even given the solution
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sn00n>
integrals as in sums of the volumes of the cell complex in actual numeric solutions i mean
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sn00n>
it's like taking a course without the three basic courses before
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rqou>
technically this course only requires linear algebra
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rqou>
because they hid all of the more advanced math and replaced it all with bizarre matrices
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cr1901_modern>
sn00n: I only learned about outer products in DSP. And only then b/c it was quicker than doing for loops in MATLAB lmao
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sn00n>
yeah, they want to show off their math!
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rqou>
but this means that i have no idea what's actually happening and when each matrix should be used
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sn00n>
cr1901_modern: hrhr ^^
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cr1901_modern>
(MATLAB hates for loops)
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rqou>
oh yeah, we've got some outer products here too
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rqou>
i have no idea why
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sn00n>
"our math is superior to your math!"
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sn00n>
"you math should go home, don't mess with our math!"
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sn00n>
i never used a greenPAK
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sn00n>
are they kinda FPAA?
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rqou>
they're weird
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cr1901_modern>
Kinda?
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rqou>
they're a crossbar of LUTs
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sn00n>
but they don't have filters, right?
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cr1901_modern>
I don't remember seeing filter IP
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rqou>
they've got weird analog bits
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cr1901_modern>
DAC/ADC, delay
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cr1901_modern>
ring oscillator
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cr1901_modern>
shift reg
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sn00n>
what happened to the other FPAA?
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sn00n>
anadigm fpaa & so on?
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cr1901_modern>
The DAC/ADC are slow... just fast enough for 44,100 Hz audio
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sn00n>
noone needs them?
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cr1901_modern>
Probably bought by The Semiconductor Company
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sn00n>
anadigm fpaa only have BW < 2MHz or something
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sn00n>
they had switched capacitor filters, right?
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cr1901_modern>
" just fast enough for 44,100 Hz audio" times 2*
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cr1901_modern>
I can't add
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rqou>
oh yeah, more rants about my class
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rqou>
i've also found office hours not particularly helpful because the intuition that I need and the intuition the TA uses are completely different
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sn00n>
some state of the art configurable analog chips would be cool :>
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sn00n>
ok, maybe not
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pie__>
stickers what stickers?
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pie_>
do you guys know something nice for drafting digital logic (doesnt neeeeed to be super fancy i guess)
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pie_>
i know everyone is all about varilog and languages and stuff but i just want to try dragging lines around and crap
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pie_>
might be relaxing :P