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[Carlito Austin]

We did some tests on a machine with an NVIDIA Quadro P3200. We used the Libraries from -learning-frameworks. However, the performance was not really good. Now we have thought about using a machine like Lenovo ThinkStation P620. Does anyone have experience with such a machine and can recommend a configuration?

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Weight voltages during FA learning. The ten weight voltages are shown during the 3000 s of learning. Blue lines are the weights learned with the ideal MTJ circuit; red lines show the weights for the nonideal MTJ circuit. The solid lines in the middle are the moving average of the actual weights taken over a window of 10 s.

Multiplexer emulation. The SMTJ-based p-bit on the left is modeled by a multiplexer that switches randomly between RP and RAP but as a function of Vin so that the right statistics are preserved [43].

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I didn't know anything about gardening. I didn't know anything about hardware. I guess that's the reason why I decided to work on a new hobby project where I had to learn about both. I started to grow a blueberry plant, 100% automated using a Raspberry Pi.

Next to my main gig, data scientist, I always work on some hobby projects. These don't make a lot of money (or sense), but they are fun, and I use them to expand my knowledge into areas that I don't know much about. I could go on and on about why working on side projects is great.

But given all my experience with side projects, I gotta say I may have been a bit too ambitious when I thought that I'd build a hardware project easily. As it turned out, in many aspects, it's very different from software. I learned that the hard way.

First, I recently became interested in growing my own food. Knowing that I can produce at least a small part of what I'll eat is really satisfying. However, I'm really bad with repetitive things and I always tend to forget watering my plants. So I had two choices: setting up tons of calendar reminders or acting like an engineer and automating the whole process. Obviously, I went with this latter one.

Secondly, I'm a data scientist. I write code, I create models, I run scripts, but all these exist in my computer only. Sometimes they only exist in the cloud, which is another layer removed from me. I wanted to create something that I could touch!

I imagine everyone who starts a project like this one would come up with a similarly simple plan. As a software person, I've already seen the dataflow, the simple `if` statements, the automations in crontab. In my head, the whole project was done in a week.

That additional one step (wait for delivery) may not seem like a big deal. It is. Especially when you realize that you forgot to order something. Or one piece of hardware is not compatible with another one. Or that the replacement is not available in your country.

It took me three hours(!) to figure out the problem. I investigated on a software level. Nothing. I rebooted the Raspberry Pi multiple times. Nothing. I cleaned the moisture sensor. Then I disconnected it from the board then connected it again. Nothing.

But this time I got a very generic error message, I didn't really find the error in the code and I had no idea how to debug hardware. Eventually, it turned out that the issue was with a slightly damaged jumper cable. Which sounds obvious now, but when you are an absolute beginner with hardware, you don't think that jumper cables can be damaged. For me, it sounded like the `print()` function gots damaged in Python. That can't happen. Of course, I was wrong.

At one point, I had to replant the blueberry plant. Right after that, the moisture sensor started malfunctioning: it returned the maximum moisture level all the time. Even when my soil was dry like a desert, it showed that my blueberry didn't need watering. My plant wasn't really happy.

It turned out that my specific type of moisture sensor and my specific type of soil don't work well together. Huh!? Better yet, there is a work around: wrapping the moisture sensor with three layers of duct tape. I mean who would think about that!?

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