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Isn't this what's used for military applications like AESA radars? If so how come it's open source?


What's open sourced here is the design kit. Designed chips need to be sent to IHP to be manufactured.

SiGe isn't also that useful for military radar applications. Compared to SiGe GaN has much greater breakdown voltage which leads to greater output power and better efficiency. It's possible to get 10 to 100 times more output power from GaN chip compared to SiGe. It isn't really possible to make high performance long range radar with just SiGe although it could be used in some parts of it.


> If I had a pair of decent speakers and a microphone hooked up to my PC, how would I go about "tuning" the speakers?

Blatant plug: https://github.com/erdewit/HiFiScan


Thanks, will give it a try.


How the Germans during their Afrika campaign discovered this bacterium to treat dysentery, which was killing more soldiers then the British troops did.


Elemental iodine in solution with iodide forms tri-iodide, which is perfectly fine to consume. This is what Lugol's solution is and it has an unlimited shelf life.


It is fine to consume, but the part of the iodide that has been converted into iodine can no longer be transformed into a useful form inside the human body.

Therefore any reserve of iodide will provide a smaller dose than expected when it is too old, unless it was stored in special conditions, e.g. in nitrogen without contact with air.


I use root to force a 44.1 kHz sample rate for the audio to avoid resampling of my lossless music, which is all in 44.1 kHz. The difference is noticeable even over Bluetooth with aptx(HD).


For Linux the list is here: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sforshee/wir...

It also shows the maximum power (in mW or dB) for the channels, which is also key to get a good reception. The dB notation is for example (20), which corresponds to 100 mW. Every 3 dB is a factor 2 in power, so (23) is 200 mW.


> Does this work in encoded videos?

For older encodings such as MPEG2, as used in DVDs, it does work. For newer codecs with higher compression I can't extract a heartbeat signal anymore when using the tool that I've written for that (*).

(*) https://github.com/erdewit/heartwave


> because a phase-neutral response created in a room is only valid in one point of the room

Author here. The term "phase-neutral" simply means here that the impulse response is symmetrical and doesn't add a phase shift. It doesn't even try to neutralize the phase characteristics of the room, which is what you may be thinking. In fact the phase information from the measurement is completely discarded. Furthermore, the frequency response is averaged to get a more general and robust (less over-fitted) correction that works pretty well across the room. Try it...


Well, if you discard the phase of the original response anyway, then you can shave a few milliseconds of latency by switching to minimum-phase (which is causal, not symmetric) instead of linear-phase. The math is in scipy.signal.minimum_phase.


This is dealt with by smoothing the spectrum in a way to preserves the power density. The constructive and destructive interference then cancel each other out.


What does "smoothing the spectrum" mean? What operations are being performed?


I'd guess: Fourier transform, a power density preserving blur convolution, then inverse Fourier transform.

But I am not familiar with the field of signal processing.


That's my guess too but my hunch is that would sound like absolute crap. Intentional IMD. Something to experiment with.


My router uses 8 Watt from the mains, regardless of how much traffic it's handling. It also has an ECO mode that doesn't actually lower the power consumption.


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