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8-Jul-20 22:15

OriginalGriff wrote:
Anagrams ... too easy!

Everything is too easy for you! Laugh | :laugh:

I look forward to your challenging non-anagram clue tomorrow.

musefan8-Jul-20 22:16

8-Jul-20 22:16

Here is the other one I was thinking of doing, any harder?

Dash on one and could provide topping? (9)

OriginalGriff8-Jul-20 22:23

OriginalGriff

8-Jul-20 22:23

PEPPERONI?

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musefan8-Jul-20 22:36

8-Jul-20 22:36

Yes. See, all too easy for you Smile | :)

I am going to have to start learning from Greg's style of clue setting.

OriginalGriff8-Jul-20 22:38

OriginalGriff

8-Jul-20 22:38

I slept well last night - the cat didn't join me as he was sulking about his food!

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musefan8-Jul-20 22:48

8-Jul-20 22:48

You didn't forget the side of garlic bread for his lasagne again did you?

I have read that certain cats are fond of that classic Italian dish.

OriginalGriff8-Jul-20 22:54

OriginalGriff

8-Jul-20 22:54

Garlic? That's an allium, like onions are, and they are toxic to cats (and dogs).

No, he's a picky eater, he goes off "brand X" after a couple of weeks, so we switch him to "brand Y", then "brand Z", and so on (all of which he likes to eat) and he sulks because he doesn't like change either ... Sigh | :sigh:

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pkfox8-Jul-20 23:09

pkfox

8-Jul-20 23:09

Greg doesn't set them according to the rules which is why people struggle with them

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DerekT-P8-Jul-20 23:13

DerekT-P

8-Jul-20 23:13

Like Andre Preview, he does set them to the rules; just not necessarily the same rules you're using.

Gary Larson is active again.

pkfox9-Jul-20 2:40

pkfox

9-Jul-20 2:40

I use the rules I've used for 50+ years - I manage to complete the Telegraph, FT and others on a daily basis - Greg has a strange methodology where even the definition is cryptic so you have to solve it in multiple parts - nothing wrong with that but it is unconventional

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Jörgen Andersson8-Jul-20 8:21

Jörgen Andersson

8-Jul-20 8:21

Check "New Stuff" in the upper right corner.

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MKJCP10-Jul-20 1:27

MKJCP

10-Jul-20 1:27

Thanks for that, I didn't know. My favorite cartoonist. I am slowly reading through his Complete Works. Slowly, as I don't want it to end. I hope there will be more new stuff. 3 was just a tease.

Advice needed for FPGA project

Patrice T8-Jul-20 7:59

8-Jul-20 7:59

Hi all,
I am thinking of FPGA for an algorithm of mine, but lack of any experience with FPGAs.
The activity is number crunching, no fancy IO or A/D conversion.
I send a very large number, it crunch, and I get answer as a single number. One can think of it as integer factorization.
Crunching is made of large additions, subtractions, shift operations (*2 and /2), increments/decrements and logical operation and bits testing, and storage in local memory.
May be an embedded ARM processor to handle communication and data conversion.
Algorithm can be adapted for treading.

It is for hobby, so no real budget.
What hardware/software would you recommend ?
Already posted in Hardware forum, but no activity Frown | :(

Patrice

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raddevus8-Jul-20 8:21

raddevus

8-Jul-20 8:21

I was considering something of the sort -- but not related to huge computation.
There's an arduino library that will generate SHA-256 hashes. I had an arduino that was set up with a 16 x 4 LCD.
I then had a bluetooth module connected to the Arduino. I could send any text to the arduino via Android app, that received the text string. The Arduino would pass it through the SHA-256 generator and calculate the hash and pass the hash back.

Yes, you can generate the SHA-256 hash on the android phone itself much easier, but this was a prototype and has some of the pieces you are interested in.

If you later need more computational power you can get one of the Arduinos that have those ARM chips for like $30 or cheaper and then very little of your code would have to change.
Just some ideas. Smile | :)

modified 8-Jul-20 14:34pm.

Patrice T12-Jul-20 11:53

12-Jul-20 11:53

Hi all
Thanks for advices.
I will need time to study all those options.

Patrice

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glennPattonWork38-Jul-20 8:31

glennPattonWork3

8-Jul-20 8:31

Hmmm, For shear number crunching I have used Lattice, I am told that Altera are better for number crunching they are an art to use. If you can use an ARM it may be easier to do the number cruching in that and keep it all on one chip.

Patrice T12-Jul-20 11:54

12-Jul-20 11:54

Hi all
Thanks for advices.
I will need time to study all those options.

Patrice

“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein

glennPattonWork312-Jul-20 13:24

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12-Jul-20 13:24

Rick York8-Jul-20 8:44

Rick York

8-Jul-20 8:44

Is it something that can be done in parallel? If so, you might be able to adapt it to run on a GPU. That's what I've been doing lately and it is fascinating. For parallel computing they can be very, very fast.

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Patrice T12-Jul-20 11:55

12-Jul-20 11:55

Hi all
Thanks for advices.
I will need time to study all those options.

Patrice

“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein

Maximilien8-Jul-20 9:38

Maximilien

8-Jul-20 9:38

what's FPGA ?

I'd rather be phishing!

ZurdoDev8-Jul-20 9:51

ZurdoDev

8-Jul-20 9:51

Maximilien wrote:
what's FPGA ?

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Richard Andrew x648-Jul-20 13:56

Richard Andrew x64

8-Jul-20 13:56

Field Programmable Gate Array

The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.

JohnRowe8-Jul-20 21:36

JohnRowe

8-Jul-20 21:36

For a reasonably inexpensive FPGA development platform with support processor - have a look at the Evo M51 from Alorium Technology. Evo M51 | Arduino Compatible FPGA Module | Alorium Technology[^]
It is an FPGA-enhanced embedded Arduino compatible microcontroller module.
features a 32-bit SAMD51 microcontroller along with an Intel (Altera) MAX 10 FPGA.

Atmel SAMD51 32-bit ARM Cortex-M4 Micro
Intel MAX 10 FPGA
Programmable with Arduino

Patrice T12-Jul-20 11:57