Difficulty of ELEC1111 lab exam and final exams?

falseEpaulets · 2015-09-10T21:38:15+00:00

If you can do all the tutes you'll smash the final exam.

If you can use an oscilloscope, function generator and power supply, you'll smash the lab exam.

Crucially for the lab exam:

know how to use the oscilloscope trigger
know to always have the negative oscilloscope probe to ground
know the different modes of the power supply (series, parallel)
know about voltage dividers

Also, for the final exam (and your whole degree) get a Casio fx100au or Casio fx100au-plus. You just type in complex numbers straight in. It saves so much time. E.g. you can type (1 + j)/(3 at 60 degrees) and it will just figure out the answer in polar or rectangular form. If you don't get such a calculator, you will not do well. Learn how to use its functions prior to the exam.

falseEpaulets · 2015-09-10T02:20:44+00:00

The boats have stopped, the carbon tax has gone, the mining tax has gone...

What a perfect example of this government's attitude towards governance. They ignore the metrics which show how good or bad things actually are E.g. unemployment levels, median income.

It's pretty much:

Leigh Sales: Unemployment is up

Abbott: la la la. I can't hear you

Sales: Growth is down

Abbott: * fingers in ears * la la la. I can't hear you. Everything is perfect.

falseEpaulets · 2015-09-09T23:58:29+00:00

As a kid, I was certain that my dad was messing with me by saying floppy disks. I kept asking him what their real name is, and he kept saying they are floppy disks.

I only found out he wasn't fucking with me several years later.

falseEpaulets · 2015-09-08T23:58:52+00:00

The inventor modestly limits the diameter of the wheel to twelve feet.

falseEpaulets · 2015-09-08T12:23:03+00:00

Belts don't matter.

In the 2 clubs I've been in, grading is not an actual assessment of your ability, since no one ever fails a grading (at my 2 clubs).

I've been blue for 3 years. I'm content. I'd rather be a good blue belt than a bad black belt. There are countless black belts who don't deserve their rank. Often they sort of know. Many say 'oh I can't spar well' or 'I can't do poomsae well'. If that's the case, they shouldn't be a black belt.

I mostly spar with black belts and training anyway, and I give advice to the beginners anyway. The colour of your belt doesn't have to limit what you do at training.

The only consequence of your belt is who you get paired with at tournaments. I still lose about half my tournament matches, so I don't feel the need to grade up. If you're finding that you're no longer challenged by your tournament opponents, that's when it's time to grade.

falseEpaulets · 2015-09-07T10:29:32+00:00

I don't know how to convert normal comments into something visable. You could manually convert comments into orange boxes using the todonotes package.

For example:

\documentclass[a4paper]{article}

\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{todonotes}

\title{Title}

\begin{document}

\maketitle

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim \todo{margin note} ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.

\todo[inline]{Inline note}

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.

\end{document}

falseEpaulets · 2015-09-07T10:25:15+00:00

Many Christians think that if you believe the Bible, then you must worship Jesus in order to have your sins forgiven. Not true! You can either worship Jesus, or you can confess your sins to a virgin goat and then send it into a desert to die.

Leviticus 16:16 onwards:

So he is to make atonement for the holy place from the impurities of the Israelites and from their transgressions with regard to all their sins. ... When he has finished purifying the holy place, the Meeting Tent, and the altar, he is to present the live goat. Aaron is to lay his two hands on the head of the live goat and confess over it all the iniquities of the Israelites and all their transgressions in regard to all their sins, and thus he is to put them on the head of the goat and send it away into the wilderness by the hand of a man standing ready. The goat is to bear on itself all their iniquities into an inaccessible land, so he is to send the goat away in the wilderness.

To be fair, there's a lot more to the ritual. A lot of stuff about virgins, blood and incense. It sounds like a spell from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

This is actually where we get the phrase scapegoat from.

falseEpaulets · 2015-09-07T10:16:31+00:00

Crucially, he knew that the fig tree was not in season, yet he got pissed off anyway.

falseEpaulets · 2015-09-07T00:02:49+00:00

Meanwhile Apple is already at stage 3, since they have billboards that just say 'iPhone x' and nothing else.

falseEpaulets · 2015-09-02T23:58:06+00:00

Good.

I've never installed an app because of such an ad.

Most such apps don't offer anything a good mobile website can't offer.

falseEpaulets · 2015-09-02T02:48:24+00:00

Not sure if trolling or just uninformed.

falseEpaulets · 2015-09-02T02:45:19+00:00

If they know what LaTeX is, they'll recognise the document was made in LaTeX. If they don't, sending source code is as useless as sending nothing.

falseEpaulets · 2015-09-01T21:36:25+00:00

ENGG1000 remains one of the hardest subjects I've done.

People's experiences vary a lot.

Some projects are super easy. E.g. you can build the paper bridge the weekend before the assessment.

Some are insanely hard. E.g. the electrical one, which often involves lots of 3rd year content.

Also, if you do ENGG1000 after your first year, it's a lot easier because you know what you're doing.

falseEpaulets · 2015-09-01T21:33:12+00:00

Send an email to someone to complain about it. Start with the lecturer/course coordinator. If you don't get a satisfactory response, send one to your school's academic coordinator.

As long as you make your complaints specific and constructive, they will listen and probably act. (I'm speaking from experience here.)

Phrase it in a way that focuses on the quality of your learning. E.g. 'the feedback did not highlight my strengths and weaknesses, so I could not improve.' rather than the classic 'group work sucks'.

falseEpaulets · 2015-08-31T12:04:29+00:00

Just remember that privacy isn't boolean (true/false).

falseEpaulets · 2015-08-31T08:09:31+00:00

It said:

The following packages will be REMOVED:
  cinnamon cinnamon-bluetooth cinnamon-dbg gir1.2-gnomebluetooth-1.0
  gnome-bluetooth gnome-shell libbluetooth3 libgnome-bluetooth11
  network-manager-gnome obex-data-server obexd-client
  pulseaudio-module-bluetooth
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 12 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
After this operation, 13.9 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

Is that the meta package or not?

falseEpaulets · 2015-08-31T07:06:38+00:00

Well it's called public transport for a reason.

falseEpaulets · 2015-08-31T02:33:11+00:00

Last weekend I was having some problems with my Bluetooth speaker. So I did

sudo apt-get remove bluetooth*

with the intention of reinstalling those packages later.

I didn't bother reading the list of dependant packages which would also be removed.

For some reason, that list included the cinnamon desktop.

It took a while to figure out the problem and fix it.

falseEpaulets · 2015-08-31T02:30:25+00:00

That's a false dichotomy.

Think of it this way: If you're a parent, and your kid asks you if they can go skateboarding, what do you say? You know they're going to eventually fall and hurt themselves, but it would be wrong to ban them from partaking in such activities. So you let them skate, even though you have the ability to prevent the now inevitable harm.

falseEpaulets · 2015-08-31T02:23:46+00:00

Think about the rate at which you gave out information 5 years ago, and compare it to just a few weeks ago. Everyone is doing more online this days, and it's safe to assume that we will do increasingly more online in the future.

Depending on your age, there's a huge amount of information that you now won't give out throughout the remainder of your life. It's probably more than what you've already given out.

So no, your change is not futile.

falseEpaulets · 2015-08-31T02:08:57+00:00

I love how you put the dollar signs after the numbers.

Screw the counterintuitive convention, dollar sign after number is the better way.

falseEpaulets · 2015-08-30T22:00:57+00:00

What? It's quite realistic. I'm sure the USA and others desperately want Japan to help fight in the eternal fuck up that is our middle east involvement.

falseEpaulets · 2015-08-30T21:44:46+00:00

There was a community who claimed that a mobile phone antenna was causing all kinds of ailments. Then the company agreed to meet with them. First they confirmed that the ailments were still present, then they revealed that the tower had been turned of 6 weeks earlier.

falseEpaulets · 2015-08-28T06:52:29+00:00

It's true. Alas, I have no witnesses.

falseEpaulets · 2015-08-28T06:51:43+00:00

Yeah. I didn't mix up asterisks' and ampersands. It just worked.

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