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Farooq Karimi Zadeh
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If you are not already familiar with epaper, it’s a display technology which does not emit light and has got a lower refresh rate. Another very important and interesting characteristic of an epaper display is that it needs power only when refreshing. This means you can disconnect power from an epaper display and it...
In the recent years, Neural Networks and their applications have grown significantly. And we have a huge -not yet ending- enthusiasm for them. Historically, NNs were abandoned after a period of enthusiasm and several interesting researches. But after sometime, perhaps after computers were more capable, they returned...
Years ago, when I was in early highschool, I found Minetest CTF game. Back then, it was introduced by rubenwardy and it had only one map. Mainly because it was a FOSS project, and because contributions were welcome, over years people joined to help developing the game and as some contributors or developers left,...
This is a photo of people in a meeting for programmers in my city, Bandar Abbas. One face belongs to me and the other to some dead man. Other faces belong to other alive people. Unfortunately, this meeting and the level of attendants were very frustrating for me…
The name My full name is Farooq Karimi Zadeh Shaquii. Farooq is my first name and that’s what I prefer people to call me with. Karimi Zadeh is my last name. And finally, Shaquii is the suffix and is the name of my Father’s town/homeland. The last name From a certain point of view, “X Zadeh” last names in Persian are...
It is common among some teenagers from 15 to 17 or so. They call themselves “dumb”, “idiot” and such these words. They think they are not worthy. To be honest, I had similar behaviors when I was a teenager. And now I know I was wrong. The reason I was considering myself an “idiot” was simply because my knowledge was...
You wear glasses because your eyes are broken and without them you are more than half blind. You are like me. Now what will happen if your glasses get broken? This is a collection of small tips to do well till you get your new glasses. Also next time, you’ll want to keep backup glasses somewhere. If it’s just the...
I have previously benchmarked C++ against Common Lisp and the result was that unlike the common belief about Lisp, it can have performance which is almost as fast as C++. After that I did another benchmark for computing fibonnaci series using Rust, Common Lisp, C and Python. But both of these benchmarks were done on...
I thought by using GAs and feeding individual waveforms to a Speech Recognition engine, I could generate vocal form of English word “hello”. However after several tries, GAs don’t seem the right tool for the job. Code Code is on a Github repository and is written using Rust for high performance. Individual...
For a long time, however not continous, I’ve been looking for a portable Linux device for geekish stuff like shell and programming as well as web browsing and maybe a bit chatting. I also wanted such a device to have very long battery life and a QWERTY keyboard so that typing will be convenient with it. When you are...
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