You don't need to know electromagnetism theory to build a radio, or smartphone either. Just some basic observations on how electronic work, resistors, capacitors, inductors. it can be done empirically. In college, we were designing and building radios freshman and sophomore year, but didn't study e&m (Maxwell) until junior year.
A competent EE graduate should be able to build a computer from raw materials, or at the least, be able to describe in some amount of detail how to go to it.
1. design transistor (pn junctions or cmos) how they're made and how they work
2. design logic gates (and, or, flipflop, counter, register, mux) out of transistors
3. design a computer out of logic gates (addressing, registers, adders, logic (karnaugh))
as for cell phones, they should know how to build an am or fm radio and to transmit digital information. You need very little theory (as in DE/math based) to be able to do any of this.
I have an electrical engineering degree and tesla is almost a footnote, barely mentioned in anything except a power systems class. Important, yeah, but basically an application of my complex analysis class.
That's really should be when they spend on non-essentials because nobody is buying and the price crashes. Likewise, they should be storing their wealth away while the getting is good. Buffet understands this. Maybe that's why he's rich.
Why do I know so many immigrants who have done extremely well for themselves after coming to the US with absolutely nothing, not knowing anyone and not speaking the language while so many natives who do little more than complain about how they're being screwed by the man don't accomplish much of anything? Am I just unlucky in the people that I know, or maybe I'm a freak. If it wasn't so close to universal I would think the later.
You didn't get the latest memo. Cuba, Venezuela, etc. are not considered socialist.Only Noway and Sweden, which, oddly enough have market economies and are not actually socialist according to socialist world.
I have internet in the stix. It's the only utility that goes as far as my house (not a trailer).
No electricity (solar works well for me), water (well) or sewer (septic tank). I live in a custom semi luxury house with every amenity of someone living in San Francisco would have. I have AC (thee of them actually, two window and a heat pump), a double refigerator and a Bosch dishwasher (hot water provided by popane).
I have 30A/120v AC full sinewave power. If I didn't tell you that I was not connected to the grid, you would not know it. And it was done for less than $30,000 and 7 years of work. I have no debt and if need be, I could survive very well on minimum wage, as could many around me (I live near a hippie commune).
My high school had a class like this, except it was about manipulation by advertisers. I didn't take the class, but I did read the book and yes it was most interesting to see how often so many people pull the same tricks.
Haha. Nobody even looked at my college transcript until about 7 or 8 jobs in. I was an intern and transitioned to a full position at the same company after I graduated and got subsequent jobs based on my current job. Then I got a contract at a company with a very bored hr department and had to figure out how to get all that info.
The US department of education was enacted on October 17, 1979, it began operating on May 4, 1980 a full decade after the US sent people to the moon and back.
I only trust cold hard math. Maybe because I can do it and it doesn't scare me. Like it scares most people, even on technical discussion boards. Someone would post something and I'd spend half an hour or an hour deriving all the math and showing ever step and get crickets in response. Two weeks later the person would be back with their own opinion that I showed was wrong. Show me the math or assumption error or STFU.
I went to a Catholic school. I don't know what it's like now, but the year I graduated, we were ranked the #1 academic school in the state (based on SAT and NMS winners) and had the only successful application in the state to MIT. Unpossible, I know.
Isn't critical thinking the basis for the scientific method, AKA science, ie hypothesize then poke holes in your hypothesis until you get to the truth? Or at least closer?
Millennials would prefer to share their ideas and
let the group find the right answer through their combined experiences.
Given how far astray critical thinking has often taken
us, maybe it’s time to embrace the Millennial Generation’s approach and see if
it leads to even
better results than the preferred methods of older generations.
Are there regulations and procedures to prove that it's safe? There were a number of one and two person entries into the DARPA grand challenge.
It's not a terribly difficult problem to get to work 99.5% of the time, but with lives at risk most people aren't too happy with that number. The airline industry has a failure rate of 1 in 10^-13 deaths per passenger mile or something like that.
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You don't need to know electromagnetism theory to build a radio, or smartphone either. Just some basic observations on how electronic work, resistors, capacitors, inductors. it can be done empirically. In college, we were designing and building radios freshman and sophomore year, but didn't study e&m (Maxwell) until junior year.
1. design transistor (pn junctions or cmos) how they're made and how they work
2. design logic gates (and, or, flipflop, counter, register, mux) out of transistors
3. design a computer out of logic gates (addressing, registers, adders, logic (karnaugh))
as for cell phones, they should know how to build an am or fm radio and to transmit digital information. You need very little theory (as in DE/math based) to be able to do any of this.
I have an electrical engineering degree and tesla is almost a footnote, barely mentioned in anything except a power systems class. Important, yeah, but basically an application of my complex analysis class.
That's really should be when they spend on non-essentials because nobody is buying and the price crashes. Likewise, they should be storing their wealth away while the getting is good. Buffet understands this. Maybe that's why he's rich.
Ask them why a software engineer in SV deserves 1000x the income of a farmer in The Congo.
Why do I know so many immigrants who have done extremely well for themselves after coming to the US with absolutely nothing, not knowing anyone and not speaking the language while so many natives who do little more than complain about how they're being screwed by the man don't accomplish much of anything? Am I just unlucky in the people that I know, or maybe I'm a freak. If it wasn't so close to universal I would think the later.
http://www.socialistworld.net/...
You didn't get the latest memo. Cuba, Venezuela, etc. are not considered socialist.Only Noway and Sweden, which, oddly enough have market economies and are not actually socialist according to socialist world.
I have internet in the stix. It's the only utility that goes as far as my house (not a trailer).
No electricity (solar works well for me), water (well) or sewer (septic tank). I live in a custom semi luxury house with every amenity of someone living in San Francisco would have. I have AC (thee of them actually, two window and a heat pump), a double refigerator and a Bosch dishwasher (hot water provided by popane). I have 30A/120v AC full sinewave power. If I didn't tell you that I was not connected to the grid, you would not know it. And it was done for less than $30,000 and 7 years of work. I have no debt and if need be, I could survive very well on minimum wage, as could many around me (I live near a hippie commune).
Would you fly in a plane that was only 80% safe?
The US had a good quality education before they had a department of education
Try reading some Meerloo
You can trust math. Technically, it's the only thing provable (unlike science). Not only that, but provable by anyone.
Science is critical thinking
was
Haha. Nobody even looked at my college transcript until about 7 or 8 jobs in. I was an intern and transitioned to a full position at the same company after I graduated and got subsequent jobs based on my current job. Then I got a contract at a company with a very bored hr department and had to figure out how to get all that info.
The US department of education was enacted on October 17, 1979, it began operating on May 4, 1980 a full decade after the US sent people to the moon and back.
Only trust math.
Given how far astray critical thinking has often taken us, maybe it’s time to embrace a new approach and see if it leads to even better results.
I only trust cold hard math. Maybe because I can do it and it doesn't scare me. Like it scares most people, even on technical discussion boards. Someone would post something and I'd spend half an hour or an hour deriving all the math and showing ever step and get crickets in response. Two weeks later the person would be back with their own opinion that I showed was wrong. Show me the math or assumption error or STFU.
I went to a Catholic school. I don't know what it's like now, but the year I graduated, we were ranked the #1 academic school in the state (based on SAT and NMS winners) and had the only successful application in the state to MIT. Unpossible, I know.
Millennials would prefer to share their ideas and let the group find the right answer through their combined experiences. Given how far astray critical thinking has often taken us, maybe it’s time to embrace the Millennial Generation’s approach and see if it leads to even better results than the preferred methods of older generations.
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It's not a terribly difficult problem to get to work 99.5% of the time, but with lives at risk most people aren't too happy with that number. The airline industry has a failure rate of 1 in 10^-13 deaths per passenger mile or something like that.
Is that illegal? Perhaps negligence? Would it be any different than taping the accelerator to the floor and letting it loose on the road?
These guys did it years ago.
Works for boats too.