Anyone with access to the full text know if they are reporting results on only one transistor or if they were able to fabricate and test several transistors?
Every single Model S now rolling out of the factory includes a forward radar, 12 long range ultrasonic sensors positioned to sense 16 feet around the car in every direction at all speeds, a forward looking camera, and a high precision, digitally controlled electric assist braking system.
Many libraries and abstractions that I come across don't have much/any documentation (or it's out of date, etc), so the ability to quickly look at the source and understand it still seems valuable to more than just low level programmers.
the idea of a stress map is very interesting. It would be insightful to create stress maps of college campuses and see if it could be used to research & aid suicide prevention.
I'm not sure if hardware hackers want to be Steve Jobs... they want to be Woz!
"Woz soon followed with the machine that made the company, the Apple II. He single-handedly designed all its hardware and software—an extraordinary feat even for the time. And what's more, he did it all while working at his day job at Hewlett-Packard"
oh thanks, I hadn't seen that. I think it would make more fiscal sense to open source it now and get it finished rather than let it sit, reimburse backers and then open source it.
I went to a Stanford MBA talk here in Austin TX this summer. They noted that upwards of 40-50% of their MBA alumni pursue an entrepreneurial endeavor at some point in their career.