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Early Content #5: Magic Smoke! | Learning Electronics In The Lab With Jay Jay
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Don’t try this at home, either! :P
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Early Content #4: Testing with Potentiometer | Learning Electronics In The Lab With Jay Jay
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Early Content #3: Reversing AC Adapter | Learning Electronics In The Lab With Jay Jay
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I’m in the process of attempting to reverse the power control signal on an AC adapter I purchased recently, this is the first investigation…
This video goes with my question over on the EEVBlog forum: Help with DC adapter.
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Early Content #2: Scope Test | Learning Electronics In The Lab With Jay Jay
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This video is just me testing the operation and recording of my MSO5074 scope and my signal generator.
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Early Content #1: Hello, World | Learning Electronics In The Lab With Jay Jay
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Just preparing my lab cameras. This video is a bit sketchy because I made some mistakes during recording. But it is what it is. Hi! :)
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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.
Presentations by Bret Victor
I just found him but I’m a big fan of Bret Victor.
Strange Loop videos by Philip Wadler
Two presentations given at Strange Loop by Philip Wadler.
Postmodernism
A fun talk on Postmodernism.
Gary Aylesworth defines postmodernism as:
a set of critical, strategic and rhetorical practices employing concepts such as difference, repetition, the trace, the simulacrum, and hyperreality to destabilise other concepts such as presence, identity, historical progress, epistemic certainty, and the univocity of meaning.
I had automatic subtitles on while watching the video and it figured “differentiate” as “French cheese”. Poetic, I’m sure. Cop that Derrida! Cop that Foucault!
In the video the lecturer presents a slide which makes the claim “thought and language can’t distinguish two worlds that have exactly the same structure–exactly the same logical form.” But that is a patently false claim in my view. Take for instance the integers and the rationals, they are distinguished but we can build an isomorphism that shows they have the same form.
Later this statement is made: “we could know the necessary and sufficient stimulatory conditions of every possible act of utterance, in a foreign language, and still not know how to determine what objects the speakers of that language believe in.” This is true, but it’s also true of all people who speak the “same” language, too.
Then it is said “there is no fact of the matter about which translation is right”, but that’s not true. There is a fact of the matter about substance. Some machines can work and others can’t owing to the specific nature of what substance can do and how it works. Of course we can’t truly know substance as we only have objective access to it.