Brian Egolf

Electrical engineer doing PNT. Interested in EW, radar, and FPGAs

[Brian Egolf @Egolfbrian]

@ElectronicsbyJH Sound interesting! I’d definitely try it out

[Brian Egolf @Egolfbrian]

@Aaronia_AG @jcamdr70 Can you send some pricing information

[Brian Egolf @Egolfbrian]

@Aaronia_AG @jcamdr70 Looking forward to the results! Seems impressive. Is the data sheet available? What about temp/vib stability?

[Brian Egolf @Egolfbrian]

Ok Claude, make Destiny 3. Make no mistakes

[Brian Egolf @Egolfbrian]

@ibelings @ElectronicsbyJH This is really cool! I have just been reading on passive radar. Cool to see it in action with reasonably priced equipment

[Brian Egolf @Egolfbrian]

@ATaylorFPGA Been a lot of fun!

[Brian Egolf @Egolfbrian]

Microzed Chronicles part 21 -> 27 complete! Time to move on to DMA

[Brian Egolf @Egolfbrian]

DMA appears to work! Some interesting behavior of buffer sizes aren’t right, need to investigate and probably read some more docs. This is the output of the XADC module when the input is just tied to 3.3V.

[Brian Egolf @Egolfbrian]

@ATaylorFPGA @yacineMTB Currently working with the AD1 pmod. Hoping to get samples into memory with DMA. Then, eventually bump it up to an RFSoC for higher sampling rates. Very cool stuff!

[Brian Egolf @Egolfbrian]

@MehdiHacks First book is great! Tsui has some other really good EW books. Digital Techniques for Wideband Recievers is my favorite so far. In the middle of the SDR with Zynq ultrascale

[Brian Egolf @Egolfbrian]

@tom_verbeure First blog post was exceptional. Watched video and tried to finish the polyphase channelizer myself. Interested to see how close I got!

[Shruti @heyshrutimishra]

🚨 Breaking news:

Google just launched LUMIERE, and it's crazy.

This is going to transform the future of VIDEO forever

Here are 5 stunning examples you can't miss out on: 🧵

[Nathan Baugh @nathanbaugh27]

In 2016, researchers at the University of Adelaide tested Kurt Vonnegut's theory that, "There’s no reason why the simple shapes of stories can’t be fed into computers."

They took the emotional arcs of 1300+ novels from Project Gutenberg, turned that into data, used modern tech to analyze the emotional arcs, and then identified 6 patterns seen over and over again in western storytelling.

Here they are:

1. Rags to Riches (rise)

Your classic underdog tale. A humble, hardworking peasant climbs the mountain to pull the sword from the stone.

• Rocky
• King Arthur
• The Pursuit of Happiness

2. Riches to Rags (fall)

Maybe the saddest story of them all. A journey from the highest of highs to the lowest of lows.

• King Lear
• Citizen Kane
• Scarlet Letter

3. Man in a Hole (fall then rise)

A character’s doing fine, gets herself into a huge problem, but figures out how to overcome it. They often end up better than they started.

“You see this story again and again,” Vonnegut says. “People love it, and it is not copyrighted.”

• The Martian
• The Hunger Games
• Shawshank Redemption

4. Icarus (rise then fall)

The hero goes on a meteoric rise up New York (or some other) society, calls everyone “old sport,” and throws the wildest parties in town. Then reality sets in, and he realizes he’s too close to the sun.

• Macbeth
• Great Gatsby
• Death of a Salesman

5. Cinderella (rise then fall then rise)

I’ll leave this description to Vonnegut:

“We’re gonna start way down here. Worse than that, who is so low? It’s a little girl… the shoe fits, and she achieves off-scale happiness.”

• Red Rising
• Slumdog Millionaire
• The Count of Monte Cristo

This is my personal favorite.

6. Oedipus (fall then rise then fall)

Up until the ~70% mark of the story it looks like things are sunshine and rainbows. Walter White goes from high school teacher to king of the drug lords, if you will. Then all goes wrong. The original fall is often not their doing while the final fall is.

• Hamlet
• Gone Girl
• Breaking Bad

My 3 takeaways:

1. Rags to Riches, Oedipus, and Cinderella rank as the three most popular with consumers. AKA, those books sold the most copies.

2. When you think through a story, give it an emotional shape. Literally draw it.

X axis: Time
Y axis: Ill fortune to good fortune

You might be surprised how much it helps you craft your plot (I was shocked).

3. Vonnegut was a damn genius.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

An infinitely recursive of Game of Life.

https://t.co/P6hSDYdQg5

[Chris Vannini @ChrisVannini]

College football quickly moved from "Dump food on the coach hehe!" to "We must eat the mascot alive."

Concerning trendline.

[Brandon Walker College Football Show @BFWshow]

Michigan is counting a win against a high school in their 1000 wins??

[First Take @FirstTake]

.@stephenasmith SOUNDS OFF on Jim Harbaugh-Michigan:

"You cannot have a college football program in the College Football Playoff at the expense of another team with that specter hovering over you this season."

[Brian Egolf @Egolfbrian]

@UnnecRoughness Only two more yards