Saturday, May 23, 2026

From Petri Dishes to Quantum Proteins

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Gemini Generated Image I’ve written here a bit about my undergrad degree in microbiology , The path to that degree came with a strong dose o...
Wednesday, May 20, 2026

Beaming Power From a Cessna

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Back in 2023 I remember reading this writeup on Caltech's Space Solar Power Demonstrator . They beamed a small amount of microwave power...
Saturday, May 16, 2026

What Jensen Huang Thinks Smart Looks Like Now

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Years back I had a student who was terrible at exams. Multiple choice, timed problems, placement exams, all of it. He barely squeaked by in ...
Friday, May 15, 2026

From $14 Billion to $125 Million: What Killed Chegg

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I had a Chegg account for years. For my electrical engineering classes, I would check my  own homework solutions using Chegg before handing...
Thursday, May 14, 2026

The Oral Exam Experiment Worked

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Last fall I posted that I was dropping homework from the grade book and adding an oral portion to every exam in the spring . Students were ...
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Tuesday, May 12, 2026

Car Buyer vs User

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Image Google Gemini Generated I stopped at a dealership recently to get some parts for my wife’s car and, as always, took a peek in the show...
Sunday, May 3, 2026

DC, AC and GROUND Coupling Settings on the Oscilloscope

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A student stopped me in lab last week. She was staring at a trace that kept drifting off screen. She had the coupling set to DC and a large ...