But by 5:01 turns back into a nice little video about modulo mathematics. Shame that the Tesla nuts that will have stumbled on it will ignore it and continue to believe he was "special".it starts to get spooky about 5 mins in.
A little light humour
#2401 Re: A little light humour
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#2402 Re: A little light humour
dont know about you but it transported me back to a different time....it must be my age...but I suddenly remembered all those aptitude tests in the early 70s that set us on a path to who knew where...all that pattern recognition stuff and sequence identification....ahhh, life was simpler then...
talking of which, Seb has been coming to me lately for help with his maths homework...it's all gradients and deriving the function for a linear graph...I was thinking I'm far too old..that kind of stuff can take the fun out of a 12 year olds life...pretty soon it looks like I might have to revise calculus..
oh waily....
and then there's christmas....bah humbug
talking of which, Seb has been coming to me lately for help with his maths homework...it's all gradients and deriving the function for a linear graph...I was thinking I'm far too old..that kind of stuff can take the fun out of a 12 year olds life...pretty soon it looks like I might have to revise calculus..
oh waily....
and then there's christmas....bah humbug
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#2403 Re: A little light humour
I remember doing one of them and then realizing that the best way to escape them was to learn C and avoid mainframes (both of which stood me in good stead). The biggest company I worked for (not very long) was Sharp and that was bad enough to make sure I stayed with small companies and wrote code that was close to the metal.but I suddenly remembered all those aptitude tests in the early 70s that set us on a path to who knew where
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#2404 Re: A little light humour
Apologies if we have any James Corden fans on the forum ...
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#2405 Re: A little light humour
The man funny as a fart in a spacesuit?IslandPink wrote: ↑Fri Nov 25, 2022 8:02 pm Apologies if we have any James Corden fans on the forum ...
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Scammers are getting way more sophisticated. Need to be careful out there....
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#2407 Re: A little light humour
He was certainly unusual - there were very few electrical engineers like him at the time, except the likes of Edison. Lots of great physicists though.
Bonkers. Thought atoms were immutable, electrons didn't exist and Einstein was wrong about E=mc^2 (he didn't accept that matter and energy are interchangeable).
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#2408 Re: A little light humour
I read a bit of his autobiog. Mad as a bag of frogs I would have said.
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#2409 Re: A little light humour
TBH, I got the feeling that Edison was not that great a EE either, seemed to the the case that one of his objections to AC power transmission was his lack of understanding of the maths.except the likes of Edison
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#2410 Re: A little light humour
Not to mention killing an elephant by electrocuting it and filming the process, supposedly to show the dangers of AC electricity.
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And..... one for Ali...
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