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USB Made Simple (2008)

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This series of articles covers: The Universal Serial Bus Specification, the USB Implementors Forum, data rates, low speed, full speed high speed, architecture, OHCI, UHCI, EHCI controllers, On-the Go, Cables, D+, D- VBUS, connectors, Series A and Series B plugs and receptacles, pin assignments, cable types, detachable, captive, power distribution, (..)

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Bank Failures in the United States, Since 2001

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With $209 billion in assets, the SVB failure was the biggest since Washington Mutual Bank’s in 2008. Silicon Valley Bank was unable to fill its responsibilities, so the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation took over last week. These are all the failures since 2001, scaled by amount of assets in 2023 dollars. Read More

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Computation and State Machines (2008) [pdf]

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Mapping how far you can travel by train in five hours, from any European station

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It reminds me of Tom Carden’s (now Flash-retired) travel time map from 2008. I wonder what this would look like for the United States, but I am also a little scared to know. The project is based on data from Deutsch Bahn, and was inspired by a more dotty map by Julius Tens.

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Stark Industries Solutions: An Iron Hammer in the Cloud

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md , a website launched in 2008 that chronicled the history of a 1990 armed conflict in Moldova known as the Transnistria War and the Moldo-Russian war. Transnistria is a breakaway pro-Russian region that declared itself a state in 1990, although it is not internationally recognized. .” DomainTools.com finds Ivan V.

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Pioneer of Google’s Data Centers Dies at 58

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He moved to the United States in the 1980s to join the University of Pittsburgh as a professor of mathematics and statistics. He left Pittsburgh eight years later to teach at Pennsylvania State University in State College, where in 2001 he became director of its multivariate analysis center. He retired in 2008.

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Quan Sun on finishing in second place in Predict Grant Applications

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After the first 10 testing submissions, I realised that there was a concept drift happening between 2007 and 2008. Also, on the information page of the contest, it states that “In Australia, success rates have fallen to 20–25 per cent…”. The success rates decline gradually from 2007. In total 352 features.