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  1. Omega Supreme

    Artificial Intelligence---What is the Hardware Behind it?

    The hardware behind AI is still just a bunch of logic gates, a lot of them. My professor said the smaller faster they refer to in computing is really achieved at the device level. Better algorithms will not get you the speed and power necessary for AI. You need more efficieny at the device...
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    Star Trek

    I always wanted to learn how to use a computer like this: Even back then Scotty knew Polymers were not as safe and strong as metals (eg. Aluminum, Titanium, Carbon Steel, etc.).
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    Electronics seems like magic!

    I remember when people were really into texting on those Blackberries which had a physical keyboard. And I found it absolutely amazing that such a small device could have the power to transmit a signal to a tower that is probably tens if not hundred of miles away. A small device like that...
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    Life After Layoff

    I used to look to the movies for inspiration. I wished life could be this way: where all of a sudden your doubts disappear and things start to come together for you, everything begins to make sense, and you can see everything clearly, as they actually are. And you become the Nietzschean...
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    Electronics seems like magic!

    I love toys infused with the magic of electronics: I’m a sucker for battery-powered and motorized toys.
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    Life After Layoff

    In Leo Tolstoys The Death of Ivan Illyich, the main character Ivan, from his deathbed, looks up at his wife and says, “What if my whole life has been wrong?” Tolstoy continues, “It occurred to him that what had appeared perfectly impossible before, namely that he had not spent his life as he...
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    Electronics seems like magic!

    Plato said: “An unexamined life is not worth living. “ I think he learned this from Socrates.
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    Life After Layoff

    Holidays are always a bittersweet time for me. Yes, I get to visit and see my family. But I have to pretend that I still have a job because I don’t want them to worry or feel sad. I just don’t want to burden them with my problems. And I don’t think involving your family is any way to forge a...
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    Electronics seems like magic!

    I really like these old electronics booklets published in the 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s. They feel like time capsules when people were hands-on, do-it-yourself electronics buffs——before the internet was a thing. Now that the economy has been globalized, with the internet connecting every corner of...
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    Electronics seems like magic!

    Electricity is invisible, which makes it seem magical. Aristotle argued: "the soul never thinks without a mental image" in which case you see need be able to visualize something physical in order to understand what’s going on in electronics. I don’t have that. I want to be able to form...
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    Life After Layoff

    Yeah Mark:), I heard volunteering at a soup kitchen is a tonic for one’s woes, to get your mind off yourself. I think there is some truth to that. Friedrich Nietzsche said: “He who has a why can bear almost any how. “ In my case, I just lost my why. I knew I was not doing what I needed to...
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    Electronics seems like magic!

    In most cases, an over-the-air (OTA) broadcast signal delivered by an antenna is purer than an internet-streamed signal . The primary difference is how the signal is compressed before it reaches your TV. Signal purity comparison Feature Over-the-air (OTA) broadcast via antenna Internet...
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    Electronics seems like magic!

    I think getting off-air channels using an antenna to capture the broadcast waves is better because it’s a much purer signal than the highly processed one you get on the internet. And, it’s free. The off-air channels that you get online, someone is paying for. If not you, then the website or...
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    Life After Layoff

    Yeah, I know how you feel :(. I think I just got old, weaker and slower with age. I could not maintain the level of effort I could put forth when I was first hired. I thought that all those years I was outworking everybody would mean I would eventually be cut some slack later in life. But no...
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    Star Trek

    I always wanted to be “Scotty” the Chief Engineer “The Miracle Worker” on Star Trek: Someone everyone respected and depended on, and who came through for them every time.
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    Artificial Intelligence---What is the Hardware Behind it?

    How do we know an AI (Artificial Intelligence) has not reached sentience or achieved consciousness? I think ChatGPT could probably pass the old Turing tests now. AI is modeled after how we believe human thinking processes work. How do we know humans are no more than AI. Some AI expert I...
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    Electronics seems like magic!

    Thanks! Yeah, I checked those websites like ChannelMaster and AntennaDirect and they didn’t show anything indicating that there was a change in the Digital Broadcast signal channels for my mom’s zip code in the past few months. I really liked that HDHomerun digital tuner so much that I bought...
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    Electronics seems like magic!

    I think I took my Digital Converter I use at home, which picks up channels at my place, and tested it at my mom’s apartment and it also found 0 channels. And I think that’s why I’m so frustrated and baffled. But who knows maybe I’m misremembering, so I’ll pack it the next time I go over there...
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    Electronics seems like magic!

    My mom all of a sudden lost all her off-air channels a couple of months ago. They just dropped off one day, seemingly off the face of the earth. They just disappeared———poof. We tried rescanning her TV and it no longer finds any ATSC off-air broadcast Antenna TV channels. Now I know that...
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    Electronics seems like magic!

    I don’t really ever recall being taught to actually design electronics in school. They did not mention things you would find in an electronics cookbook like Current Mirrors, Darlington Pairs, Colpitts Oscillators, etc. They definitely did not mention the 555 Timer. Some people just seem to...
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