Claude Shannon on AI slop
From his famous Bandwagon editorial in 1956: Secondly, we must keep our own house in first class order. The subject of information theory has certainly been sold, if not oversold. We should now turn our attention to the business of research and development at the highest scientific plane we can maintain. Research rather than exposition…
Can you measure the built-in potential of a pn junction?
When we talked about the built-in barrier potential of a pn junction, perhaps you thought about measuring it on a disconnected diode in the lab. (Even if you didn’t think of it, you should go ahead and try it). You will find that it doesn’t work. It is worth thinking about why i.e. why can’t…
Circuits Numeracy
Let’s talk about numbers in circuits. Our goal is to develop numeracy: More precisely, we want to develop a sense for scale i.e. a sense for what kind of numbers are physically reasonable. We all have an intuitive sense of scale for the physical world. More precisely, we can very easily tell when physical quantities…
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