ALine

there was a typo in my post so I'm gonna make the correction here.

"alone" not "along"

Ah man then you should learn LaTex. You can visualize all the math with it

Unless you somehow incorporate some computer I do not see how, using my currently limited knowledge, you can detect multiple different objects using a single impedance along. And even with that you would require positional data. Of course I could be wrong. An analogy would be that you can determine 1+2+3+4 = 10, but you can not determine 10 = 1+2+3+4 if you only have 10 as the value. You can only guess at it. And because you are using only a single impedance value then it would be much more difficult to determine positional values. Now this is just a super wrong guess so do not take my word for it, but you could possible...maybe....use Fourier Transform in some manner to derive separate signals. However I know very little about Fourier transform so I cannot say.

51 minutes ago, Sensei said:

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Created a system for increasing integer storage

No, you did not. Rediscovered just the wheel. Widely known and used even by CPU engineers to save space in the CPU registers..

Really huh, I thought I discovered something ground breaking there. It just goes to show that by going through and presenting your ideas to others it will allow for an honest critique of your work and updating my previous falsely held beliefs.

I honestly thought I had something there for a second, could have saved a lot of time just posting the idea when I had it.

Self Reflection:

2 hours ago, ALine said:

So the other day I was working on a program and figured out how I could increase the storage capacity of an integer inside of a variable.

The above section is very misleading in which it states that I had the idea the other day when in fact I had the idea about a month ago and have been working on it on and off sense. I would not say that I put to much effort into it, however it is enough to justify a little bit of anger at myself for not asking about the idea before hand. I want to apologize for the deception on my part.

My whole topic starter kind of also feels very "showey" or giving the impression that it is world changing thing. That was not intentional and was probably my ego slightly showing along with me being impatient when writing it up.  I will try and work on that the next time I have an idea and want to share it with others on this forum. The reason that I am sharing this is to self reflect on my current actions so that I can better improve on my later posts along with trying to become better at understanding different things. Also I want to have a sort of something that I can go back to and view for future reflection.

So the other day I was working on a program and figured out how I could increase the storage capacity of an integer inside of a variable.

The formula is as following

New_Space = Old_Space + Value_of_Integer*Base_Being_Used^Position_of_integer

Example:

Old_Space = 1,000,000

Value_of_Integer = 12

Base_Being_Used = 100

Position_of_integer = 1

New_Space = 1,000,000 + 12*100^1

New_Space = 1,012,000

** The Above would have 2 integer values with max length of 99 able to be store in a single integer.

Notes:

- The number of positional values for the Space (Old/New) is equal to the Base being used. So if the base is 100 and the space is 1,000,000 then the space has 2 positions that can be used.

- The integer as a maximum value limit before going outside of its given "cell" equal to the size of the base.

- When the maximum size of the integer increases, the number of positions of the integer decreases.

Possible use cases:

If you were to expand the maximum base size then you will be able to increase the maximum number of potential positions for the integer as well as increasing the maximum size of the integer.

The variation of different persons is not defined by artificial boundaries set by people. Whereas they are dependent on environmental and other factors. Lines which have been drawn in the sand does not change much except for the persons ego about the differences.

@Dr.Zack Are you sharing this because you are interested in the subject of earths curvature and wanted to discuss you findings on a means of finding it or are you placing into question the fact that the earth has a curve and is overall not flat?

Maybe the universe is still very young and it takes a while for complex intelligent life to form in analogous "pockets" of it.

I am good, so far everything has been a good review of what I have learned when I was taking EE classes in uni. It also helps because I did poorly in those classes because of reasons and you explaining it in this step by step manner really clears things up.

I was unaware that four terminal networks could be used to model a large amount of circuit elements.

Also for better reference of my current EE knowledge I am good up until amplifiers and transistors. Also I have to go back over Thevinen and Norton circuits. Hopefully that helps.

So far so good.

If I am understanding you correctly from an engineering "lens", so to speak, I do not need to worry about the "physics" in terms how everything "works" but instead I only really need to understand how to use and apply the models.

Also seeing that you are correct that this would be an engineering question rather than a physics one, would it be possible for this thread to be moved there so that no confusion comes of this in the future.

45 minutes ago, studiot said:

First question, If you are studying electrical engineering, why post in Physics, not Engineering

I posted in the physics because I was unsure of the section and was not thinking at the time to place it in the engineering section.

46 minutes ago, studiot said:

Please confirm which model you want to work on, they are quite different and meant for different purposes

I want to work on the electrical engineering model. 

I am studying electrical engineering again and have read that the electrons travel from the negative lead to the positive one at a very slow velocity. Now the book states that in order for the mechanism for voltage to work an electron accumulation or "build up" occurs at the negative lead and when a non-zero resistance in placed between the positive and negative leads an impulse of energy is sent through the conductor which connects the positive and negative ends of the battery.

My question is, as seen from the title, if that pulse happens continuously then how fast are the electrons building up or accumulating at the negative end of the battery. What would this depend on?

My guess is that it must be happening pretty fast in order for a pulse to occur then there must be some difference. My guess is also that its not a continuous pulse but instead a discrete pulse because the electrons are being re-accepted back into the positive lead of the battery. 

9 minutes ago, studiot said:

Did you try typing into the search box the rules of logic ?

I...did not

11 minutes ago, studiot said:

As you found out Philosophy consider all sorts of other rules of other matters as well.

The Stanford Encyclopedia is a sort of Wikpedia of Philosophy.

I started you near the beginning and hoped you would find your way round it a bit.

Like Wikipedia or Google, the more specific your question the better focused your answer.

Ah..I see. I was being stupid and miss interpreted what your link meant. My mistake. I will take a look around.

31 minutes ago, dimreepr said:

That's, the curse of knowledge... 

ah, my mistake. Never knew about that cognitive bias.

40 minutes ago, dimreepr said:

My current understanding of them is that they are repeated actions or behaviors of some observation. Say for example seeing a car multiple times in a row. You may define a rule stating that "a car will pass by."

When I stated "My current understanding for them" I am meaning that the working comprehension I have developed is based on knowledge which may not be true. In this I believe that I have distinguished a difference in meaning between "knowledge" and "understanding."

What I mean by understanding is that I am trying to apply some given piece of knowledge which leads up to the quoted section above. The piece of knowledge that may be true or false.

I do not see where I may have confused the terms "understanding" and "knowledge." If I have please point it out in the my wording and I will correct myself.

13 minutes ago, studiot said:

https://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html#r

Thank you for your response @studiot however the link you provided does not necessarily define what rules are. Whereas it provides two sub links of "rule consequentialism" and the "rule of law."

Now rule consequentialism talks about the usage of a rule in the formulation of a given ideology such as utilitarianism. It also initially talks about the use of rules in the deciding of a given morality. However its only mentions is in passing and is not defined.

The "rule of law" speaks on distinguishing between "the rule of law" and "a rule of law" while also being applied to some given legal morality. However this type of rule I believe is applied in the scope of morality and not in scope understanding what knowledge is. Although I could be wrong.

I am looking more to define what a rule is based not on morality but from a framework of understanding what knowledge is.

Also while writing this I found something called, "Epistemic Rules." Not sure if this is what I am looking for.

Will read on to see what it is about.

Hopefully will not get distracted.

I have also seen and learned about "if->then" statements. Is this a rule?

The purpose of this topic is for me to try and gain a better understanding of what "rules" are in the context of understanding of what knowledge is.

The question that I wish to begin this topic on is "what are rules ?" in the context of philosophy?

My current understanding of them is that they are repeated actions or behaviors of some observation. Say for example seeing a car multiple times in a row. You may define a rule stating that "a car will pass by."

Thank you for your responses.

edit: reduced it to remove all the vagueness

I have decided to go down the path of scientific computing for my CS major and I want to improve my knowledge on the subject.

Does anyone know of any free resources available that I can maybe look into?

Thank you for your responses.

So java code gets interpreted on the java virtual machine which then get translated to the computers processing instructions through the jvm?

But why does java have so much portability? Is the JVM easier to write than a c compiler for the processor? How does that work?

Sorry if I am skipping around in learning about computer science. Things are just brought up that I am completely blank on.

OOOOOHH, ok I think I understand now. You want to implement each object as its own separate thing which can be used and implemented in different areas with other classes/objects. All of which come together to form an overall software or program which gets executed in the main/driver class. And you want to maintain this separating principle because it allows for some kind of translatability between classes. Analogous to say not necessarily a function but a physical construction of something. Like building blocks kind of. Except they can be called and implemented differently.

A guess I would have is that this would prevent massive code from falling apart. So if the program breaks then it is either one of two things. The object or the computer. THATS PRETTY FUCKIN COOL!

Now I remember someone telling me that everything in java is an object, how do you get from c in which java is built, I am assuming, on top of to an object understanding. Is java just like an analogous "wrapper" which makes programming life easier for writing in c? Or is it like "passing on the torch" where everything was once written in binary and then assembly then c and then other languages?

Thank you again for your responses.

20 hours ago, ALine said:

black box algorithm

Apologies for the confusion, I meant to say "Black Box" Algorithm implying that the algorithms workings is unknown to the programmer when implementing it. Again sorry bad at English.

4 hours ago, Sensei said:

There is no sense to use Kd-tree or octree algorithms on data which are not 3 dimensional. There is no sense to use quad tree on data which is no 2 dimensional. So the number of dimensions of data forces programmer to use or not use specific algorithms.

So what do you mean by data which is dimensional, do you mean like data with more than 1 field or are you referring to vectors in cs language?

I thought this place looked shinier. 

cool, thank you for the response. The book is a good read so far, very straight forward. Do you have any books that you could recommend from you time starting off?

Before I ask any more questions how do you structure your different classes in Java? by knowing this I can have some reference with how I am learning it in my own study at uni.

Also with algorithms in Java I understand that they are instructions, however I am not really sure how they interact with data structures if that makes any sense. Like when implementing an algorithm is it taking data from data structures as an input and outputting the processing step of the algorithm when applicable? Also, if you can write an program as an algorithm then what is the difference between the two? (just looked back and I think you already answered this question, just wanted to added in case.)

Ex: say you have a sorting algorithm an what to sort the entries of a linked list, do you apply the black box algorithm to the data structure or is it written into the data structure as a method of the data structure class?

Also is this all just dependent on what you want the program to do and is just slightly arbitrary/optimal selection of black boxes in different places?

p.s. apologies for poor grammer. English is my first language, I am just bad at it.

I am learning about java programs currently reading Data structure using java by duncan bell when he goes over the basic structure of a java program. In which being at the lowest level is the "record/payload", the next being "data structures" the next being "the application" and finally is the "driver"/"main class." 

My question is where do algorithms factor into this hierarchy? Would it fit in with data structures? Or would they be at the applications level due to them actually using the data structures. 

Thank you for your response.