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I am studying for a degree very close to EE. What taught me intuition was the falstad circuit simulator (website). You can start from very simple circuits with voltage sources and resistors. Then you can move to capacitors/inductors and start thinking about frequency. Then work on op amps and transistors.


Is it common to write units this way? My pedantic physics loving side would prefer USD/(TB * month).


It checks out with all the usual precedence rules. USD/TB/month is the same as USD/(TB * month). Really pedantic physicists would probably write something like USD.TB⁻¹.month⁻¹ which is, again, the same thing. Unless it is TiB and not TB, that would make the plan about 9% cheaper ;)


Perhaps a$byte⁻¹s⁻¹

A physicist generally should use the metric system. SI units convert to s⁻¹ from month⁻¹. Usually put the metric prefix first so T⁻¹ becomes pico. 2.6298e+6 seconds per month so pico becomes atto. Can't use B because that is magnetic feild in Tesla in SI units. $ is perhaps not as clear as USD, but feels like a better symbol to me (ideally with USD subscript but hard you write that here). I'm not a physicist, but generally I expect a physicist to use whatever is least ambiguous: which in this case is what was given (not my terrible attempt to convert to SI units!!!)


Isn’t a/b/c == a/(b*c), also in a pedantic mathematical sense? I at least would consider a/b/c to be common (enough) and understandable.


But on the actual website, it says “$0.00099 GB/month”, which is incorrect.


Yes you are right, I am just used to a different format


It is. Per TB per month, per seat per year, etc.


Very common.


I also use anki for german. I use a deck with 1850 cards to learn the nouns' gender.

I just pulled up my stats.I have been studiyng for almost a year and have averaged less than 2 minutes of study a day (with the average review lasting less than 2 seconds). In total it's more or less 10 hours.

It has been insanely effective. I read somewhere on HN that making extremely easy cards helps. It for sure helped me to keep the habit.


Isn't the current AI level already good enough to offload a big chunck of the work? I feel like the technology is already there and it's just a matter of adoption


I only read random passages. I only pick books from a few favourite publishers, they do the filtering for me.


Honest and sensible take, thank you.

Do you think that all areas of engineering will be impacted? I feel like the job of an EE or a ME is still inherently out of reach of LLMs.


I am not an expert in poetry however I always loved Umberto Saba. Especially "Città vecchia".


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