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Sure but any HW engineer before writing HDL will always draw up a circuit before writing the description. And given that the patent was issued in 1996 it was only like 6-7 years after Verilog became an open standard.

Yes

I have been in Minneapolis for 6 months and that linked article was the only Amber alert we have gotten in 6 months.

So I am curious about the source of multiple Amber alerts

Very likely, the answer to your question may be close to a Yes

As for my examples, they were hit by COVID a month before vaccines were made available to them

Vaccines work when a significant part of the population has them, if workplaces and schools can institute vaccine mandates against diseases like Diphtheria, Measles, Rubella etc. Why should a disease much more infectious than them not get a mandate?

For a stark example see this thread https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/571113104920027136?t=r...

If someone has access to the vaccine in their area and have not taken it yet for any reason other than a medical reason should really do some proper "research" and get it ASAP.

As a vaccinated person, why you should care or not other people get vaccinated or not?

1. Less reservoirs for viruses to mutate into more harmful strains.

2. There are people who are immunocompromised , who cannot take vaccines . They are protected by those who are healthy and have been vaccinated.

3. >90% of all recent COVID deaths in the US have been of unvaccinated persons. A non trivial percent of the vaccinated dead by COVID were immunocompromised who were infected by unvaccinated folks.

If these reasons cannot convince you, I don't know what can.

Yeah poor analogy here, you can choose to not go to Southern Africa, you cannot will for COVID to not infect you. Why should we not be eager for vaccines when they are available for such a highly infectious disease.

Flip the scenario, during the second wave in India, we were one of the few families in our neighborhood who were lucky that no family members caught COVID. All the local hospitals were filled, a large number of people we know survived but there were people who died around 4-5% of the people we knew who were infected and 40% who came very close to dying. The Delta variant arrived when a significant part of the elderly population had been vaccinated. You should recheck the your stats about the elderly, the second wave was brutal to under 40 folks as a good number of above 40 people had been vaccinated by the time the second wave hit.

Sure COVID might have a low fatality rate of 2-3% but 2-3% of a very huge population getting infected by a rapidly infectious disease is still a humungous number.

4.5 million after taking all precautions and overloading medical systems of countries. Think how large that number would have been if we had gone our lives normally. Would have made the 1918 pandemic look like a picnic.

Check out how things are in Israel or UK.

Sure tell that to the families of those who died from COVID19. Getting vaccinated is a much better way to get protection from COVID. I knew quite some folks who were hit by COVID twice, tell them that they were better off suffering through COVID twice instead of relying on the vaccine.

And relying on getting COVID to get immunity to COVID 19 is akin to playing Russian roulette.

Because what you know first hand of the disease is useless for others. My 54 year old uncle had COVID. He was just in the hospital for 5 days and came back no different from before COVID. My 29 year old friend spent 2 weeks ventilated in ICU and dying of multi organ failure

The symptoms of COVID 19 are not always flu like. It is a spectrum of symptoms which is not yet understood why it expresses in different bodies differently.

During the Second wave in India a lot of my friends and acquaintances got it and their symptoms were all over the place. Some had diarrhea like symptoms, some had no visible symptoms at all, some simply lost the ability to smell and became physically weak.

Knowing this information, trying to be safe from COVID by catching it is no less than playing Russian roulette and it makes choosing to take a vaccine no brainer.

Uh if parents did not share the same mother tongue in India, it is a very good possibilty that English is one of those three languages.

If in North India that is the common thread, not the case for rest of India.

In fairness Aziz can pass off as Chamath more easily than Kumail.

Aziz Ansari is of Tamil descent not Sri Lankan descent.

Uh at the high end there is Achronix and then the lower end you have Microchip(ex Microsemi(ex-Actel) and Lattice, Efinx and there are a couple of Chinese startups.

Analog systems and Analog Integrated Circuits, Analog Systems deals with using Analog chips, analog integrated circuits chips deals with designing such chips, a robotics engineers needs the first one not the latter. And the first one requires EE101 knowledge and signals and systems knowledge for filters etc which the OP is already covering in other courses

Also for Digital Control Systems, check out this book by Tim Wescott

Applied control theory for embedded systems

It is less math intensive and more intuitive and aims at folks with a software background like yourself.

OP I highly recommend you listen to this guy here, among all the replies here they have the most experience with what you are aiming for.

As someone who survied a BSEE, the range is too huge. I work with digital design as my day job, I only intuitively use EE101, digital logic and computer architecture and occasionally analog when dealing with post silicon issues.

The OP wants to study EE because he has a specific goal. My suggestion was that instead of trying to study everything EE focus only on those subjects that are relevant.

For example: If I was interested in robotics , I would not bother with digital,RF or Analog or eveen communication systems. I woud primarily focus on Control Systems and Embedded Systems.

I have some recommendations for you as an EE graduate, you can club Digital Circuits and Systems, Embedded Systems and Digital Hardware with one book in one continuous course with

the book Digital Design and Computer Architecture by Harris and Harris (A RISC V Edition will release soon in 2-3 months, buy that one)

For Electronic circuits choose Microelectronics by Behzad Razavi. Instead of Purcell go for "Engineering Electromagnetics with Ida", it is more intuitive.

And th first book you should start with is "Foundations of Analog and Digital Electronic Circuits"

Then you go for DDCA and Ida in parallel.

The list does give me head scrather, this is too broad to be ever accomplished. My recommendation to redo the list is first find out what piques your interest in EE, Digital hardware, analog hardware or control systems or embedded systems and try to have a self study focus in that concentration.

The way I see it with this plan you are setting yourself up for failure.

Edit:Removed the ditching recommendation as I see it relevant to OP's goals.

Yeah that is all on paper. In practice it is very different

Not surprised my folks are from the same region and they behave exactly like that. I have heard enough relatives mention SC/ST as a term of derision and simultaneously discussing with other people talk as if the system is dead.

Well I will start with the claim that "my every sentence is incorrect" was not completely true. There is some credence to the drug trade one.But the other claims are definitely spurious.Let me start with the most obvious one, Communists in urban areas are generally Marxist-Lenninst followers. They spend their time reading a lot of Das Capital and The Communist Manifesto, Mao's writings are not respected in these circles (Castro and Stalin are respected somehow).

Naxals are the followers of Mao, no doubt. But urban communits in general don't think highly of Mao at all. They only think of protesting and disobedience . They may have some overlapping causes.

Calling all communists as naxals is lazy and sloppy thinking.

Naxalites are a mix of goons and insurgents who loosely care about communist beliefs. They used to be most prevalent in lawless and hinterland areas,nowadays their influence is a lot less.

Source :- Briefly dated a communist.

Don't care about communism. But believe that if it has to be opposed,understand it.

But the fact is the term urban naxals is a meaningless pjeroative used against those who hold opinions different from the current Indian government.

It is even used against those who don't believe in communism at all.

Hindi as a link language is a non-starter, unless people in North Indian states also learn South Indian languages.

To simply understand this point, forcing exclusive use of Hindi in Central government institutions gives an undue advantage to people from North India.

You mention in principle, but in practice the opposite happens. I am an East Indian who has spent all his life in South India I speak both Hindi and a South Indian language along with my native tongue. When North Indians come to South India, and stay for a long time a majority of them refuse to learn the local language whereas every South Indian who has spent time in the North picks up Hindi.

I have been studying reports on terrorism in India informally last 5 years and this comment is woefully inaccurate.

Every sentence in this is inaccurate.

As a masters student,I am seriously considering doing that since I don't want to depend on streaming and cloud backups anymore.

Any pointers good sir/mam on how to have their own physical backups? Like NAS and others?

I could give Indian universities too.

Sorry internal numbers at two FPGA companies who were benchmarking which hard-core to choose

Interesting point, it depends what were the parameters. When it come to performance/cost compared to ARM processors RISC V was seen as a better choice by most semiconductor companies.

Maybe in your experience the criteria might have been different