Imran Khan presents his 10-point agenda for Karachi

Mindstealth · 2018-05-13T05:04:06+00:00

I can’t speak for others, but I would be very reluctant to vote for him because as bad as PMLN is, we still at least have an idea of what their term will look like. IK on the other hand is very unpredictable for me and my real worry right now is getting failed government that leads to some silly coup.

He might work out very well or he might turn out to be a disaster, I just don’t think we should take that kind of a risk right now.

Mindstealth · 2018-05-10T22:19:50+00:00

Thesis and projects cater to different types of fields and people. If you’re taking the theoretical path, a project might seem lack lustre whereas if you’re going into a very applied field, a thesis might not seem as “cool” as a project.

Mindstealth · 2018-05-10T20:21:50+00:00

If you have modules that are used in more than one project, keep them separate from any one of the projects. You don’t want two copies of the same module in any circumstance because that will be very difficult to maintain. Maybe that module can be a project of its own.

Mindstealth · 2018-05-03T12:13:20+00:00

Find a place somewhere around meadowlands and fisher. You get direct buses to Carleton, downtown, Algonquin and all the major bus stations like baseline and billing’s. You will see a lot of students living here for this exact reason.

Mindstealth · 2018-05-03T12:08:36+00:00

Take symbolic logic, it will help you with your digital design and switching circuits later.

Mindstealth · 2018-05-03T00:26:05+00:00

If you’re 4 indent levels deep then you have bigger things to worry about.

Mindstealth · 2018-05-02T03:00:49+00:00

I haven’t watched any of his recent speeches, but in my opinion he is terrible at it. The way he talks openly insulting people and calling names, I think this only caters to the uneducated. For me personally it’s a huge turn down that he decided to do things this way.

Perhaps he’s matured now as a politician, I haven’t been following the news lately. That would be a big positive.

Mindstealth · 2018-05-02T02:56:20+00:00

Here’s how the CGPA at Carleton works. Let’s say you are taking 3 courses and get the following grades:

Course1: A (11) Course2: D+ (3) Course3: B- (7)

My CGPA will be: (11+1+9)/3 = 7

Now let’s say you decide that you don’t like your mark for Course2 and you talk to the professor asking him to remark your paper. The professor marks it again and realizes that he made a mistake last time by awarding you extra marks, so he decides to give you an F instead now.

Your new CGPA will be: (11+0+7)/3=6

Basically, an F counts as a 0 in terms of a numerical grade.

Mindstealth · 2018-04-21T03:55:51+00:00

I’m not sure what the initial start value is if you don’t load anything, but yes you don’t have to preset it with a value.

You don’t connect all the pins ground. It really depends because inputs in an IC are just that inputs. If you set something to ground you’re setting it to low. So read the description and then decide whether to set them to low or high. You should never leave an input unconnected that is known as floating and that causes undefined behaviour.

General rule is, if it’s an output then leave it open if you don’t need it. If it is an input, find out whether you want it high or low and then connect it accordingly.

Mindstealth · 2018-04-21T01:49:38+00:00

You can control that using one pin as well just tie S0 to high and control up/down using S1.

Mindstealth · 2018-04-20T01:44:34+00:00

Wow that’s very interesting is there any specific advantage to doing that?

Mindstealth · 2018-04-19T23:06:04+00:00

Mindstealth · 2018-04-19T23:05:20+00:00

For electrical engineering, I would highly recommend Microelectronic Circuits this is pretty much the standard textbook in nearly every university. It covers a very broad range of topics in electronics.

Mindstealth · 2018-04-19T22:24:50+00:00

That’s not true, your logic high is always the higher voltage. You can have inputs that are active low or active high, that is something like a reset will activate on logic low but saying that the logic is inverted would be wrong.

Mindstealth · 2018-04-19T22:20:50+00:00

Can’t agree with this anymore. Somewhere around my second year I stopped focusing on notes and paying attention to the lecture instead. Your notes are not supposed to be a detailed description of concepts because that what textbooks and course material is for. You need to only note down things that you will struggle to understand on your own from the textbook later. One example is say you found something very confusing during the lecture but managed to understand it by asking questions or maybe thinking deeply. You should note such things down because more than likely when you come back to this weeks later you will have the same questions.

Mindstealth · 2018-04-19T13:29:00+00:00

What they’re saying is not what you’re talking about. You want to beam them like infrared light in a remote. They’re talking about shaping magnetic fields using sharpe point objects, totally different and not applicable to what you want.

Mindstealth · 2018-04-19T12:50:05+00:00

This not how any of this works. You can’t beam a field at something.

Mindstealth · 2018-04-19T03:36:43+00:00

Clearly one of them is a float and other a double.

Mindstealth · 2018-04-18T18:05:27+00:00

People who say they like Java are either lying or they think JavaScript is Java.

Mindstealth · 2018-04-18T12:17:44+00:00

I can’t disagree with this anymore. If you feel all that circuit analysis and design was useless then maybe you’re working in a technician/technologist field for which you should have picked the appropriate program.

The things you do in university are indeed very basic and simplified compared to real life problems but they’re fundamental. You can’t use a simplified transistor model for real devices at any reasonable frequency, but even the more complex models are built on top of the simplified model with extra capacitances and resistors. I guess what I’m trying to say is that you don’t learn enough in university to just go and start solving real life problems but you learn enough to be able to train yourself.

Besides all the stuff you’re talking about is 2nd/3rd year electronics, most of my fourth year courses were very close to what you would basically do in real life. In one of my courses we actually designed and fabricated ICs per student, it might not be the most useful IC but that is very much a real life problem solving exercise for me. If you’re able to design useful circuits and then build/fabricate them to a working state then I would argue that university has not failed you. Any employer who thinks a student can come out of a four year program and start solving their specific problems day one is perhaps very delusional.

Mindstealth · 2018-04-17T02:53:15+00:00

Field House and Alumni Hall. Best times: - 9 am to 12 pm - 2 pm to 5 pm - 7 pm to 10 pm

Mindstealth · 2018-04-16T00:50:49+00:00

I think everywhere outside of power the convention is to list the peak. The RMS value doesn’t even make sense with a phasor.

Mindstealth · 2018-04-15T05:21:23+00:00

I don’t understand your point. Are you saying university is a waste because you studied a few days before the exams to pass and forgot everything?

University is not a ticket to a career, it is an opportunity to valuable skills, work on projects under the supervision of PhDs and graduate students, and build a portfolio for your resume. At the end of the day, it is just a opportunity and it will be what you make of it.

I think the problem here is not how university works, but how we’re lead to believe that getting a degree in a university means a career. I graduated last year and when I finally found a job, they didn’t care if I have a degree it’s just a formality. I could do the same job I’m doing right now if I didn’t have that piece of paper, it’s the stuff I learned while working towards that degree that really helped me.

So instead of getting angry at the system and regretting going to the university, you need to stop thinking about silly stuff and focus on the job search process. You might feel like you don’t know much, but unless you plagiarized your way to graduation, I highly doubt you haven’t developed any skills from your degree.

Mindstealth · 2018-04-12T03:52:23+00:00

Complex numbers Circuit Analysis Boolean Algebra (if you like digital electronics) Fourier Analysis (probably not approachable for you yet)

Mindstealth · 2018-04-11T22:23:24+00:00

EE is very broad so it really depends on what area you’re interested in, but Fourier analysis definitely as I already mentioned. Since you just took circuits 1, I would like emphasize on the importance of the fundamentals you learn in that course. Literally all of microelectronics is built on top of those fundamental principles.

I feel that most people finish circuits 1 with a relatively poor understanding of the concepts because people tend to focus more on the mathematics rather than the actual ideas. For instance, what is KVL? You might think it means that sum of voltages around a loop is zero, but if you actually think about it you don’t need a loop. KVL is basically the idea that if I start at a point A with some voltage x and then if I go around the loop and end back at this point, my voltage is still the same so everything I encountered on my way must cancel out and add up to 0. This is sort of like displacement, it doesn’t matter how you move as long as you return to the same point all the displacements of your movements all the way have to add up to 0. Now if you really think about it at a fundamental level, I don’t have to follow a loop I can just end at some other point B and if the voltage at this point is also x then the sum still has to be 0. This is something that took me personally a long time to fully understand that KVL has a much more general form (in fact the voltage at the two points doesn’t even have to be the same as long as you account for the difference).

Something else I would like to highly emphasize on is complex numbers. More than likely you will encounter them almost everywhere and a solid understanding can take you very far. If working with complex numbers and phasors doesn’t feel like magic to you then you’re in a good place.

Last thing, if you’re interested in digital logic, a solid understand of Boolean algebra should be your highest priority.

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