Seeing red

[emjay]

I'm guessing you probably dream in binary right? I'd like to too...

It gets to be a problem.  Popping up at 3 am like a shot and babbling to the wife about my new carry look ahead (which all look identical to her).  

It'll be nice sharing schems with you, once I've made some. and I'm quite looking forward to seeing your random number generator in action cos that looks pretty cool I've always wanted to understand electronics and this looks like the perfect way to do it - ie virtually, in software, rather than with real chips and circuitboards... cheaper that way and more scope I'd guess - and I also enjoy logic puzzles and this I'm sure will be kind of like that, but I'll be learning something, and hopefully a lot, in the process

It's definitely cheaper, lol.  I cant hand solder to save my life......so I end up wasting some money anytime I want to do anything in the real world.  I always had a wave soldering vat, right next to my unsecured ammonia etcher......lol, which was adjacent to the hot oil bath and the molten lead air knife (which was operated with oven mitts...with roosters on them).    

QC people though, impressive hand solderers.  Got into it when I was a minor, in a factory full of political refugees from Laos.  Stepdad knew the owner since childhood, he'd been in charge of electroplating since the place opened it's doors and ten bucks an hour was a princely sum (the minimum wage wasn't even 5 then).  It was very important to me, and to mine..me and my stapdad worked in the same place, everything we (my mom, my sister and my brother) had came from PCB's and Jims little shop.  To say I dream in binary is putting it lightly, it's the context of my childhood and early adulthood.  It kept me from being a poor beach bum not once, but twice.

We did rapid prototyping.  So...if you ever come up with a badass NN, and you think you may want to actually build them for profit...remember that old rhythm here is acquainted, from the bottom all the way up to line management, with small proto houses and global industry leaders in making your digital dreams come true....lol.  I also still have my security clearance, DoD contracts ftw.  You'll need somebody to crack the whip while you sit in your office and count your filthy lucre, like Ole Jim.  Last time I could make any money in the industry was a decade ago, running Q-Logic, Cisco, and DoD Avionics lines for Jabil.  Hell, if your NN was accidentally good at being a credit card reader...you could be sitting on millions, lol.  Just need a proto.......

Yeah, I understand it. It's your whole life, and always has been

Don't worry, there's no way I could ever forget you man... I'll always have Rhythm in my soul So if that ever comes to pass you'll be the first person I call, but at the moment at least, my only interest in NNs is in explaining the brain... and it's still quite a big leap for me, and new territory, to visualise one being made out of logic gates. But hopefully the more I get into this, the more possibilities I'll see, and then a simulated or at least approximated neuron might not seem too big a leap. In any case I'm going to enjoy sharing my ideas with you and you sharing yours with me