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| george graves:
--- Quote from: con-f-use on May 31, 2015, 08:44:12 am ---However, call me a heretic, but for some reason I didn't like him personally. I can't put my finger on it, but I wouldn't want to work for him or take one of his classes. It just seems like he has a vicious side. Its like he tried to come across nice, when he really isn't. --- End quote --- You need to re-tune your antenna. Your "ass-hat" detector is 180 degrees out of phase IMHO |
| Obin:
"never took a course in electronics" :scared: |
| Blofeld:
--- Quote from: con-f-use on May 31, 2015, 08:44:12 am ---Another thing, I'd like to read your opinion on: It was the first time I ever saw Horrowitz and heard him talking. You could see how much of an old school scientist he is, his knowledge just oozing out. However, call me a heretic, but for some reason I didn't like him personally. I can't put my finger on it, but I wouldn't want to work for him or take one of his classes. It just seems like he has a vicious side. Its like he tried to come across nice, when he really isn't. --- End quote --- Can't confirm the impression he might be hiding some vicious side. What surprised me was how youthful he appears - he was already a prof in 1974, right? Anyway, 2 interesting facts about the upcoming books were mentionend: 1) "Learning the Art of Electronics" will be a 1000-page volume (watch at 42:45), expanded from the 620 pages or so from the last "Student Manual" that accompanied the 2nd edition 2) The "X-Chapters" book will come out within the next 2 years (watch at 48:10) |
| EEVblog:
--- Quote from: con-f-use on May 31, 2015, 08:44:12 am ---Lady Ada tried to contribute something and make it a conversation instead of a monologue. That's exactly what I like about Dave's interviews. Naturally Limor and Horrowitz didn't exactly meet at eye level, but he has a few decades of top academic research on her and she has to manage a business. He interrupted her just as often. --- End quote --- I often cop the same flack for my interviews, because they aren't really interviews, they are just really a "conversation" and you go with the flow. I for example often (without actually trying to do it deliberately) try to guide the conversation for the sake of either the audience, or my own personal curiosity. If I think of something interesting on the spot that they aren't mentioning or I don't get the sense they are going to get around to mentioning then I'll often interject. Often it's a question I know the answer too, but I know the audience might not, and I know it will make for interesting detail. If so, you are damn right I'm going to interject. Sometimes if you leave the question to later and do the "so lets go back to discuss this again..." it ruins the flow, or worse, you just let it slide by. That's worse than interjecting IMO. Way too often I've seen bloggers interview people and they hardly say anything, and I scream at the screen "ask them more detail about what they just said" etc. It's very often boring because your average person being interviewed is not great at entertaining long story monologues. A good technical interviewer should be able to interject all the time with interesting questions as they come up in the conversation, whilst still ensuring they let the person ultimately finish what they were saying. And it's not just technical, I see it in professional news and current affairs interviews too when the interviewee mentions something amazing or controversial, and the interviewer just goes on being "professional" and asks the next set question they have, and they miss the opportunity, that sucks. I haven't watched the whole video yet, but I suspect Limor's style isn't too dissimilar to mine. Everyone thinks they can do better, but I'd bet they most will either be batshit boring, or do something not too dissimilar. No such thing as the perfect interview, and every interviewee is different, and you don't know what they are like until you are in the thick of it. I'd suggest cutting her some slack. |
| SeanB:
Dave, you are more interested in the topic ( and definitely know more than the talking head in most cases) so you can afford those tangents. Doug Ford is very interesting, and you two are a good example of an interview and education from both parties, with good explanation in all cases. |
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