The pdf format of “Virginia Driver’s Manual” published by Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles could be accessed here, which resides in the commonwealth’s DMV server. Here also provides Interactive Driver’s Manual With Practice Questions, which would also be interesting. I’m trying to make some notes on the manual and to make connections to remember some…

Sometimes people just want to share some files that can be publicly available via broswer, there’s nothing confidential about the html or pdf, You just want to share the files via an url that can be viewed directly inside the broswer, while hosting a ftp server seems like an overkill. It turns out this is…

This post is going to summarize all the reference reading materials in the class ECE5424: Advanced Machine Learning by Professor Yue Joseph Wang123 at Virginia Tech. In the beginning of the post, textbooks that are recommended by Prof. Wang are listed, in addition, tens of papers are also provided which address different aspects of the…

This article contains supplementary materials for the Advanced Machine Learning course ECE5424 final project: Lifestyle Prediction via Biomarkers. Vector based figures, essential website links are provided in this article for better reading experiences. As python code and jupyter notebook are not mandatorily requested, thus part of the results are shown. To balance the content display…

Jupyter notebooks1 are mainly used for machine learning related tasks that contains rich text based contents and can run python codes by blocks. As for machine learning, functions provided in various libraries are well developed and one doesn’t need to consider too much on debugging, thus the reusable code blocks are much easier and straightforward…

Even through I love to learn English, I feel like now my English ability needs to be improved, as if I’m a large language model with a small amount of words at disposal. I found this YouTube channel named iswearenglish, the teacher explains one word at a time which contains the pronunciation, meaning as well…

This post is going to summarize the advanced reserach of reservoir computing based on various designs and implementations, the paper “Recent advances in physical reservoir computing: A review”1 dated in 2019 has a great summary for the research field, however it is a bit outdated, this post is going to follow the structure of the…

when I remote log into a machine of a clusters via a domain record for example ssh.xyz.edu, it is not the machine that I want my apps to execute upon on, I wish to connect to the more powerful machine that cannot be reached from outside the campus, one way to do so is to…

Operational transconductance amplifier is also known as OTA, that converts the voltage input to current output. voltage controlled current source. For this article, we are discussing the differential input single output 2 stage OTA. OTA has a lot of constains in terms of design, it relies on differential amplifier as well as current mirror knowledge.…

This article contains a lists of documents regarding integrated circuits and wireless communication dissertations and theses. I will cite the dissertations mainly from Google Scholar using Chicago style in order to make it tidy and organized. Information regarding how to find the documents can be found here specifically for Virginia Tech. I presume other universities…

As I need to draw cmos circuits for illustration’s purpose as well as publication’s requirement, I want to find a high quality decent way of drawing circuits. I tried to export/print the file out of Cadence Virtuoso, but it is far from satisfactory, there are other types of online and local programs for drawing circuits,…