The Brain User’s Handbook: A Neuroscience-inspired Guide to Peace of Mind

I am reading The Brain User’s Handbook: A Neuroscience-inspired Guide to Peace of Mind which has this awesome image I want to share:


An imagined interaction between a human baby and a young LLM in training. They are sharing impressions about the endeavor of modeling the world from scratch. Image generated with DALLE-3 via ChatGPT

New Book Teardown #2: The Art of Electronics: The x-Chapters (2020) | In The Lab With Jay Jay

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This video is part of the New Book Teardown feature of my video blog.

In this video I take a look at The Art of Electronics: The x-Chapters by Paul Horowitz and Winfield Hill published in 2020. The book has 506 pages and is a companion to The Art of Electronics 3rd Edition.

In the book we learn about the Cascode two-stage amplifier and the push-pull amplifier.

We also see mention the Eye Diagram and there is discussion of the Potentiometer.

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Photometer | Project 6/20 | Maxitronix 20in1 | In The Lab With Jay Jay

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In this video I do the sixth Maxitronix 20in1 Electronic Project Lab project: Photometer.



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Light-Controlled Organ | Project 5/20 | Maxitronix 20in1 | In The Lab With Jay Jay

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In this video I do the fifth Maxitronix 20in1 Electronic Project Lab project: Light-Controlled Organ.



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Light Alarm With Latch | Project 4/20 | Maxitronix 20in1 | In The Lab With Jay Jay

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In this video I do the fourth Maxitronix 20in1 Electronic Project Lab project: Light Alarm With Latch.



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Electronic Candles | Project 3/20 | Maxitronix 20in1 | Learning Electronics In The Lab With Jay Jay

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In this video I do the third Maxitronix 20in1 Electronic Project Lab project: Electronic Candles.



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Brightness and Darkness

I’m trying to get my head around the electronics I have been building recently. I have put together a web page which I can use to compare the implementations of the brightness and darkness detectors from the Maxitronix 20in1 projects I have built lately: Brightness and Darkness.

Darkness Alarm | Project 2/20 | Maxitronix 20in1 | Learning Electronics In The Lab With Jay Jay

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In this video I do the second Maxitronix 20in1 Electronic Project Lab project: Darkness Alarm.



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Brightness Alarm | Project 1/20 | Maxitronix 20in1 | Learning Electronics In The Lab With Jay Jay

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In this video I do the first Maxitronix 20in1 Electronic Project Lab project: Brightness Alarm.

While conducting this experiment I made some notes over here: Maxitronix/20in1/1.



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Audio Frequency Oscillator | Project 9/10 | Maxitronix 10in1 | In The Lab With Jay Jay

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In this video I do the ninth Maxitronix 10in1 Electronic Project Lab project: Audio Frequency Oscillator.

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