So lately I’ve been taking some introductory classes that are part of my Electrical Engineering minor and I have to say that they turned out to be quite boring and never deviated from the typical “looking at graphs on the oscilloscope and calculating values on circuit diagrams”. Yet the subject is extremely interesting (and fun to play with), so I started reading on my own. I was particularly interested to read about programmable micro controllers, so I couldn’t wait much […]
I’m hoping somebody will comment on this post to help me understand why math is taught the way it is and start a constructive discussion on the matter. So, here’s how I have been taught math from 1st grade all the way up to college: You learn the basics of whatever part of math you are studying (theorems, formulas, basic algebra, etc.) You solve hundreds of exercises to strengthen your skills on the part you’ve learned the basics of. This […]
On early October of this year I submitted my resume to the Microsoft University Careers website. After a few weeks I received an e-mail from a Microsoft representative to schedule a phone interview. The phone interview was quite brief (a little more than half an hour). The person on the phone seemed very nice and asked me a series of questions that sounded a little absurd, but I guess they are useful to them to figure out how you think. […]
Amazon’s Kindle 4 comes in two flavors, one that is ad supported ($79) and one that isn’t ($109, price difference of $30). If you have the ad supported one, at any point in time Amazon allows you to pay the difference of $30 and remove the ads. In this article I will explain not only how you can remove the ads at no cost, but also how you can replace them with your own screensaver images. Very cool stuff! This […]
I’ve been thinking about opening my own blog for quite a while. In fact I published my first website back in 2003 (https://www.pierotofy.it) and I thought that would have been enough. But the number of people contributing to that website which receives several thousands of hits a day has become impressive and I don’t consider it totally mine… sure, I check it daily to make sure there is no spam and to answer the forum, but the contents of it […]