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Think he is getting any response ? People might go to school to get the piece of paper no matter how inept they are, but this place is for people who really want to learn. If I was in school, well I might want to see that shit but I would try the test first to see where the holes are in my knowledge lattice. Believe me they exist.

But this can be a placemarker to let us know when the interruption started.

Do they really sell those test cheat sheets ? If they really do I don't have much confidence in people. I don't do shit for a piece of paper, I want the ABILITY. I want to KNOW. The grade doesn't mean shit really. What, don't hire me because of not good enough grades ? Those grades are given out by people who usually can't DO. Not always but...

Is it big business to sell cheats so people can get certified and dimplomaed for shit in which they are not competent ? That would explain a few things.
 
On Mon, 14 Jan 2019 19:21:37 -0800 (PST), jurb6006@gmail.com wrote:

Think he is getting any response ? People might go to school to get the piece of paper no matter how inept they are, but this place is for people who really want to learn. If I was in school, well I might want to see that shit but I would try the test first to see where the holes are in my knowledge lattice. Believe me they exist.

But this can be a placemarker to let us know when the interruption started.

Do they really sell those test cheat sheets ? If they really do I don't have much confidence in people. I don't do shit for a piece of paper, I want the ABILITY. I want to KNOW. The grade doesn't mean shit really. What, don't hire me because of not good enough grades ? Those grades are given out by people who usually can't DO. Not always but...

Is it big business to sell cheats so people can get certified and dimplomaed for shit in which they are not competent ? That would explain a few things.
Click to expand...

We don't know or care about anybody's GPA or test scores. Five minutes
on a whiteboard will tell me if an EE grad actually understands
electricity. Most don't.

10 volt battery, 9K and 1K resistors in series. What's the voltage
across the 1K? I had one kid instantly reply "one volt" without
thinking, so I hired him as an intern. A month later, he was
full-time.


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lunatic fringe electronics
 
On Wed, 16 Jan 2019 09:25:38 -0800, John Larkin wrote:

10 volt battery, 9K and 1K resistors in series. What's the voltage
across the 1K? I had one kid instantly reply "one volt" without
thinking, so I hired him as an intern. A month later, he was full-time.
Click to expand...

Sorry, John, that's a fail. You didn't state the internal resistance of
the battery. ;->





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On Thu, 17 Jan 2019 17:30:11 -0000 (UTC), Cursitor Doom
<curd@notformail.com> wrote:

On Wed, 16 Jan 2019 09:25:38 -0800, John Larkin wrote:

10 volt battery, 9K and 1K resistors in series. What's the voltage
across the 1K? I had one kid instantly reply "one volt" without
thinking, so I hired him as an intern. A month later, he was full-time.

Sorry, John, that's a fail. You didn't state the internal resistance of
the battery. ;-
Click to expand...

OK, I'll fire him after lunch.



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On 1/17/2019 3:26 PM, John Larkin wrote:
On Thu, 17 Jan 2019 17:30:11 -0000 (UTC), Cursitor Doom
curd@notformail.com> wrote:

On Wed, 16 Jan 2019 09:25:38 -0800, John Larkin wrote:

10 volt battery, 9K and 1K resistors in series. What's the voltage
across the 1K? I had one kid instantly reply "one volt" without
thinking, so I hired him as an intern. A month later, he was full-time.

Sorry, John, that's a fail. You didn't state the internal resistance of
the battery. ;-

OK, I'll fire him after lunch.
Click to expand...
Blackboard devices are perfect. If the battery was to have an internal
resistance it should have been drawn in.
 
On Thu, 17 Jan 2019 23:03:46 -0500, Tom Biasi <tombiasi@optonline.net>
wrote:

On 1/17/2019 3:26 PM, John Larkin wrote:
On Thu, 17 Jan 2019 17:30:11 -0000 (UTC), Cursitor Doom
curd@notformail.com> wrote:

On Wed, 16 Jan 2019 09:25:38 -0800, John Larkin wrote:

10 volt battery, 9K and 1K resistors in series. What's the voltage
across the 1K? I had one kid instantly reply "one volt" without
thinking, so I hired him as an intern. A month later, he was full-time.

Sorry, John, that's a fail. You didn't state the internal resistance of
the battery. ;-

OK, I'll fire him after lunch.



Blackboard devices are perfect. If the battery was to have an internal
resistance it should have been drawn in.
Click to expand...

Most batteries will stand up to a 1 mA load pretty well.

I'll let him off with a warning.


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lunatic fringe electronics
 
On Thu, 17 Jan 2019 23:03:46 -0500, Tom Biasi wrote:

Blackboard devices are perfect. If the battery was to have an internal
resistance it should have been drawn in.
Click to expand...

If I'd been asked that question as a fresh graduate applying for his
first job, I've had assumed there *must* be a trap there somewhere; it's
an absurdly simple a question to ask someone who's just got his EE degree.
"A stiff 10V source" would have been unambiguous.





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On Fri, 18 Jan 2019 15:19:15 -0000 (UTC), Cursitor Doom
<curd@notformail.com> wrote:

On Thu, 17 Jan 2019 23:03:46 -0500, Tom Biasi wrote:

Blackboard devices are perfect. If the battery was to have an internal
resistance it should have been drawn in.

If I'd been asked that question as a fresh graduate applying for his
first job, I've had assumed there *must* be a trap there somewhere; it's
an absurdly simple a question to ask someone who's just got his EE degree.
"A stiff 10V source" would have been unambiguous.
Click to expand...

There was no trap. Most recent EE grads panic when asked that
question.

If they understand anything about how a transistor works, they get a
job offer. Most recent grads have had some sort of VLSI design course
but don't know how a mosfet works.




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John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc

lunatic fringe electronics
 
On 1/18/19 11:07 AM, John Larkin wrote:
On Fri, 18 Jan 2019 15:19:15 -0000 (UTC), Cursitor Doom
curd@notformail.com> wrote:

On Thu, 17 Jan 2019 23:03:46 -0500, Tom Biasi wrote:

Blackboard devices are perfect. If the battery was to have an internal
resistance it should have been drawn in.

If I'd been asked that question as a fresh graduate applying for his
first job, I've had assumed there *must* be a trap there somewhere; it's
an absurdly simple a question to ask someone who's just got his EE degree.
"A stiff 10V source" would have been unambiguous.

There was no trap. Most recent EE grads panic when asked that
question.

If they understand anything about how a transistor works, they get a
job offer. Most recent grads have had some sort of VLSI design course
but don't know how a mosfet works.
Click to expand...
A lot of it is the fault of the high schools. Profs I know complain
that they've had to dumb down their courses because the kids can't
handle the real thing. And this is in good places such as MIT and CU
Boulder.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

--
Dr Philip C D Hobbs
Principal Consultant
ElectroOptical Innovations LLC / Hobbs ElectroOptics
Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics
Briarcliff Manor NY 10510

http://electrooptical.net
http://hobbs-eo.com
 
On 18/01/19 16:57, Phil Hobbs wrote:
On 1/18/19 11:07 AM, John Larkin wrote:
On Fri, 18 Jan 2019 15:19:15 -0000 (UTC), Cursitor Doom
curd@notformail.com> wrote:

On Thu, 17 Jan 2019 23:03:46 -0500, Tom Biasi wrote:

Blackboard devices are perfect. If the battery was to have an internal
resistance it should have been drawn in.

If I'd been asked that question as a fresh graduate applying for his
first job, I've had assumed there *must* be a trap there somewhere; it's
an absurdly simple a question to ask someone who's just got his EE degree.
"A stiff 10V source" would have been unambiguous.

There was no trap. Most recent EE grads panic when asked that
question.

If they understand anything about how a transistor works, they get a
job offer. Most recent grads have had some sort of VLSI design course
but don't know how a mosfet works.




A lot of it is the fault of the high schools.  Profs I know complain that
they've had to dumb down their courses because the kids can't handle the real
thing.  And this is in good places such as MIT and CU Boulder.
Click to expand...

I was taught semiconductor bandgap theory and simple
electronics in Physics at my state school (i.e. before
university).

The teacher did a pretty good job of it too, and noted that
although it was on the syllabus, there had never been a
question on it in the formal external "A-level" exam.

They also allowed us to play with scopes at lunch and
had a supply of transistors that we could pull of
surplus PCBs.

The downside was that thermodynamics wasn't taught.
 
In article <q1qe33$sii$1@dont-email.me>, curd@notformail.com says...
10 volt battery, 9K and 1K resistors in series. What's the voltage
across the 1K? I had one kid instantly reply "one volt" without
thinking, so I hired him as an intern. A month later, he was full-time.

Sorry, John, that's a fail. You didn't state the internal resistance of
the battery. ;-
Click to expand...

With all that is given, any battery worth while will have an internal
resistance large enough to take it out of the equation. Also the
tollorence of the resitors are not stated, neither is how accurate is
the meter. Too much fly poop in the pepper.

Even if the battery resistance is 10 ohms the answer would have to be
moved out many decimal places. For most work who cares if it is .99
volts. For most repairs if you measure to 5 or maybe even 10 % that is
close enough.
 
On Fri, 18 Jan 2019 08:07:14 -0800, John Larkin wrote:

There was no trap. Most recent EE grads panic when asked that question.

If they understand anything about how a transistor works, they get a job
offer. Most recent grads have had some sort of VLSI design course but
don't know how a mosfet works.
Click to expand...

I recall you've given examples of how poorly educated today's EE grads
are several times in the past. I just find it quite extraordinary how
standards can have fallen so low from what they once were. How can they
*not* know how a mosfet works?? I knew that before the age of ten just by
reading a few books. What the fuck are they teaching them nowadays?? :-(





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"I knew that before the age of ten just by
reading a few books"
Click to expand...

Yeah, now go brag bout being born later. When I was born KID there weren't no sucha thing as a MOSFET. All we had was JFETs.

Deal with that !
 
On Fri, 18 Jan 2019 15:10:03 -0800, jurb6006 wrote:

"I knew that before the age of ten just by
reading a few books"

Yeah, now go brag bout being born later. When I was born KID there
weren't no sucha thing as a MOSFET. All we had was JFETs.

Deal with that !
Click to expand...

And thermionic valves. I remember all the books at that time explained so
much about valves and so much about transistors; 50-50 roughly. Soon all
the valves (toobs) were dropped from new books. I found valves were *so*
much easier to understand than BJTs. I didn't fully understand trannies
until I was maybe 15. Never really gelled with the beta paradigm, was
much more into the Vbe model. Funny how EEs are all either one or the
other. We had a discussion on Vbe vs. Beta models on SED a while back; we
were totally split down the middle on which we preferred to use. I mean
like *right* down the middle. Weird.





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On 1/18/19 6:51 PM, Cursitor Doom wrote:
On Fri, 18 Jan 2019 15:10:03 -0800, jurb6006 wrote:

"I knew that before the age of ten just by
reading a few books"

Yeah, now go brag bout being born later. When I was born KID there
weren't no sucha thing as a MOSFET. All we had was JFETs.

Deal with that !

And thermionic valves. I remember all the books at that time
explained so much about valves and so much about transistors; 50-50
roughly. Soon all the valves (toobs) were dropped from new books. I
found valves were *so* much easier to understand than BJTs.
Click to expand...

Triodes, anyway. Tetrodes, not so much. Klystrons, nowhere close.
Most of my early projects were built from tubes, which was pretty retro
in the 1970s. A few of them sort-of worked. ;)

> I didn't fully understand trannies until I was maybe 15.

So how does Pease's negative voltage generator work? ;)

Never really gelled with the beta paradigm, was much more into the
Vbe model. Funny how EEs are all either one or the other. We had a
discussion on Vbe vs. Beta models on SED a while back; we were
totally split down the middle on which we preferred to use. I mean
like *right* down the middle. Weird.
Click to expand...

Even with tightly-specced transistors, beta varies 2:1 at a given
current. Ebers-Moll is way, way tighter than that--two random BJTs at
the same temperature and collector current will have the same
transconductance to very high accuracy. There are offsets due
to die size and device details, but there's nothing comparable in any
other active device.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

--
Dr Philip C D Hobbs
Principal Consultant
ElectroOptical Innovations LLC / Hobbs ElectroOptics
Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics
Briarcliff Manor NY 10510

http://electrooptical.net
http://hobbs-eo.com
 
On Fri, 18 Jan 2019 17:47:04 +0000, Tom Gardner
<spamjunk@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

On 18/01/19 16:57, Phil Hobbs wrote:
On 1/18/19 11:07 AM, John Larkin wrote:
On Fri, 18 Jan 2019 15:19:15 -0000 (UTC), Cursitor Doom
curd@notformail.com> wrote:

On Thu, 17 Jan 2019 23:03:46 -0500, Tom Biasi wrote:

Blackboard devices are perfect. If the battery was to have an internal
resistance it should have been drawn in.

If I'd been asked that question as a fresh graduate applying for his
first job, I've had assumed there *must* be a trap there somewhere; it's
an absurdly simple a question to ask someone who's just got his EE degree.
"A stiff 10V source" would have been unambiguous.

There was no trap. Most recent EE grads panic when asked that
question.

If they understand anything about how a transistor works, they get a
job offer. Most recent grads have had some sort of VLSI design course
but don't know how a mosfet works.




A lot of it is the fault of the high schools.  Profs I know complain that
they've had to dumb down their courses because the kids can't handle the real
thing.  And this is in good places such as MIT and CU Boulder.

I was taught semiconductor bandgap theory and simple
electronics in Physics at my state school (i.e. before
university).

The teacher did a pretty good job of it too, and noted that
although it was on the syllabus, there had never been a
question on it in the formal external "A-level" exam.

They also allowed us to play with scopes at lunch and
had a supply of transistors that we could pull of
surplus PCBs.

The downside was that thermodynamics wasn't taught.
Click to expand...

I suffered through two semisters of thermo, and it was a waste of
time. Nobody in EE school mentioned useful stuff like heat conduction
or convection cooling. Thermo was a lot of junk about entropy and
enthalopy, great if you design steam engines.







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John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc
picosecond timing precision measurement

jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com
http://www.highlandtechnology.com
 
On Fri, 18 Jan 2019 14:01:45 -0500, Ralph Mowery
<rmowery28146@earthlink.net> wrote:

In article <q1qe33$sii$1@dont-email.me>, curd@notformail.com says...

10 volt battery, 9K and 1K resistors in series. What's the voltage
across the 1K? I had one kid instantly reply "one volt" without
thinking, so I hired him as an intern. A month later, he was full-time.

Sorry, John, that's a fail. You didn't state the internal resistance of
the battery. ;-






With all that is given, any battery worth while will have an internal
resistance large enough to take it out of the equation. Also the
tollorence of the resitors are not stated, neither is how accurate is
the meter. Too much fly poop in the pepper.

Even if the battery resistance is 10 ohms the answer would have to be
moved out many decimal places. For most work who cares if it is .99
volts. For most repairs if you measure to 5 or maybe even 10 % that is
close enough.
Click to expand...

Right. Another thing the question addresses is whether the kid can
answer a simple practical question or get paralyzed by complexities.

I have a transistor question for more experienced candidates. It's fun
to get the basic answers there but ask about nuances. If he says
"temperature will change Vbe" or "it might oscillate at 100 MHz" he's
a sure bet.



--

John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc
picosecond timing precision measurement

jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com
http://www.highlandtechnology.com
 
On Fri, 18 Jan 2019 19:03:29 -0500, Phil Hobbs wrote:

Even with tightly-specced transistors, beta varies 2:1 at a given
current. Ebers-Moll is way, way tighter than that--two random BJTs at
the same temperature and collector current will have the same
transconductance to very high accuracy. There are offsets due to die
size and device details, but there's nothing comparable in any other
active device.
Click to expand...

Yes, I fully agree with you, Phil. Yet if we were on SED right now with
this thread, you'd have had half a dozen people already sticking up for
Beta! Precisely why I cannot for the life of me understand.



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On Fri, 18 Jan 2019 16:29:15 -0800, John Larkin wrote:

Right. Another thing the question addresses is whether the kid can
answer a simple practical question or get paralyzed by complexities.
Click to expand...

Good point.

I have a transistor question for more experienced candidates. It's fun
to get the basic answers there but ask about nuances. If he says
"temperature will change Vbe" or "it might oscillate at 100 MHz" he's a
sure bet.
Click to expand...

A sure bet for what?





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On 1/18/19 8:01 PM, Cursitor Doom wrote:
On Fri, 18 Jan 2019 19:03:29 -0500, Phil Hobbs wrote:

Even with tightly-specced transistors, beta varies 2:1 at a given
current. Ebers-Moll is way, way tighter than that--two random BJTs at
the same temperature and collector current will have the same
transconductance to very high accuracy. There are offsets due to die
size and device details, but there's nothing comparable in any other
active device.

Yes, I fully agree with you, Phil. Yet if we were on SED right now with
this thread, you'd have had half a dozen people already sticking up for
Beta! Precisely why I cannot for the life of me understand.
Click to expand...

You can do a lot of useful stuff with a 2:1 beta spread--it's
dramatically better than the old-timey parts such as the 2N2222, which
had beta specs like min 35, max 300.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

--
Dr Philip C D Hobbs
Principal Consultant
ElectroOptical Innovations LLC / Hobbs ElectroOptics
Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics
Briarcliff Manor NY 10510

http://electrooptical.net
http://hobbs-eo.com
 
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