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:
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Category Archives: Science
Propagation of electricity
Thanks to Craig for referring me to Brian Haidet’s AlphaPhoenix channel.
I found the following four videos on the AlphaPhoenix channel explaining various aspects of the propagation of electricity, which goes some way to explaining how the high impedance headphone might work in my 10in1 2/10 project.
- Watch electricity hit a fork in the road at half a billion frames per second
- Why does WATER change the speed of electricity?
- How does electricity find the “Path of Least Resistance”?
- An intuitive approach for understanding electricity
While watching the videos I discovered that Brian’s oscilloscope is a Siglent SDS1104X-E (100 MHz) Oscilloscope, a pretty nice looking bit of kit!
Final round of Silicon Chip books
My good friend Dubz shouted me another round of Silicon Chip books as can be seen here. I now own all the books which have been marked and I’ve pretty much purchased everything that was left.
Timeline of human evolution
I found myself over here today: Timeline of human evolution. It’s striking how recent most of the things we take for normal are, and how different things used to be. I wonder what our future is?
How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet
Here’s a fun essay from Douglas Adams: How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet. He says that attitudes toward technology go like this:
- everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal;
- anything that gets invented between then and before you turn thirty is incredibly exciting and creative and with any luck you can make a career out of it;
- anything that gets invented after you’re thirty is against the natural order of things and the beginning of the end of civilisation as we know it until it’s been around for about ten years when it gradually turns out to be alright really.
Lex Fridman interviews Andrew Strominger
Veritasium on Oppenheimer
A new video from Veritasium: Why Oppenheimer Deserves His Own Movie.
Lorentz Factor
ChatGPT tells me about the Lorentz Factor.
Can engineering save us?
I found this interesting talk from Carl Mitcham called Can engineering save us? A Moulakis Lecture in Responsible Engineering with Carl Mitcham. His answer: no.
Intuitionism
Recently I read about Intuitionism and I can tell you unreservedly that I do not believe in it. I believe that objective things can exist independent of human minds and the most salient example I could give is in your computers. In your computer you can calculate 1 + 1 = 2 and you can do so quite independently of a human mind. 1 + 1 = 2 is an objective truth which can easily be modelled in a machine. Certainly mathematics can *also* be the result of constructive mental activity in human minds, but it is not limited to that. Also it might be interesting to note that machines will be able to find objective mathematical truths which are beyond the capacity of a human mind alone, in fact I’m quite sure that will have been done already (if you can think of an example feel free to let me know!).