For Cochlear brand your kit should include backup coils, and replacement is overnight. If you turn on lights (child mode) the processor lights indicate streaming with blue. I love my cochlear implants even though the integration UI and reliability is not perfect yet.
Advanced Bionics used to provide backups, but appear to have scrapped that program in favor of an exchange.
And don't get me wrong, I'm grateful for the technology. For example, I can now hear hummingbirds and squirrels chirping. Speech in noise also makes it a lot easier to hear in noisy environments.
Nice blog post, but I really wish the author knew how to use apostrophes. (Or the difference between its and it's, if it's not the typographical character he doesn't like.) It's just so jarring to be reading along and be tripped up all the time with grammatical mistakes.
This expression is nonzero iff reverse(a) > reverse(b) (where reverse is the bitreversal of an unsigned number).
It (using the address of the nodes as arguments) can serve as a tiebreaker in a Cartesian tree (such as one implementing a first-fit memory allocator) or even to replace the random priority value in a treap (meaning you need neither storage nor computation for the priority node of the treap).
Iow, we flip some bits in `a`, then do subj, then mask it back to `a`. It’s unclear what it computes in general, but if `b` disturbs the 2-powerness of `a` then I guess we learn that fact by seeing zero. Not sure where to use it.
To solve a particular position, I just use level-by-level breadth-first search until a level contains two values that are reverses of each other.
To explore the entire state space of possible initial positions, I use a number of tricks; I'll be writing that up pretty soon. I've explored through n=12 already, and expect to finish n=13 and n=14 pretty soon. I'm not sure if I'll be able to do n=15.
And by the way, I've found a position for n=14 that requires 206 moves to solve.
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