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Will going through undergraduate textbooks allow me to design my devices?

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Quarlo Klobrigney:
As you can see by my use of my helmet, I can not only stop emissions from getting out but also in as well. Please construct a similar helmet. Your troubles will soon disappear.

cdev:
When I was growing up I had a very good friend, Jeff, who was very smart, but it turned out that just like you describe, he had schizophrenia, which I think was either triggered or aggravated by drugs. After I moved away he apparently had a psychotic break. When I returned for a couple of days I called him up and not knowing what was going on suggested we spend the day in NYC since that was something we both had done a lot of previously. We did but when we got there on the subway he started acting really strangely, he was obviously seeing things that were not there! I didnt know what to do and he darted out of the subway as the doors were closing and I got separated from him. Anyway, that was the last I ever saw him, a few days later I had to leave town and some time later I heard that he had committed suicide by stepping into the path of a train.

Whats strange is that his family never admitted that he had classic schizophrenia (which was probably treatable)




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--- Quote ---An example of delusional thinking, then, might be a patient thinking that the CIA has secretly implanted a computer chip in his or her brain. Although the delusional patient can have a head x-ray or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) that would prove that there is no chip, he would continue to insist and react to the notion that a chip is implanted, and that the head imaging must have been wrong, or even that the chip might have been invisible to MRI detection.
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http://www.nathanlavidmd.com/psychiatric_descriptions/schizophrenia.html

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I knew two different people since gradeschool who later developed schitzophrenia in their early 20s and this is exactly the sort of stuff they talked about. One of them was posting prolifically on facebook back when I still used that, as in every 10 minutes for hours at a time about the various people tormenting her and secret agencies spying on her, it was really bizarre. The other one I knew thought his whole family was in some kind of conspiracy against him, occasionally he would be on medication for a while that settled him down but it also took all the life out of him and made him a bit of a zombie while he was on it. Schizophrenia is a really scary disease, people who have it tend to resist any form of treatment because they genuinely believe that they are sane and that people who are trying to help them are out to get them.

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westfw:

--- Quote ---So I have to read graduate and post-graduate books to actually build something useful?
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I would say that you have read stuff OTHER than "text books."  Data sheets, App Notes, technical blogs, commercial and open source schematics, hobby magazines, QST, Ham Radio publications, source code, scholarly and practical research papers, and advertisements.   Books and magazine articles (from Elektor to IEEE Transactions on XXX...)
I only took a couple of "graduate" classes (the ones that were open to undergrads as well), but AFAIK, they're still very theoretical (possibly depending on which school you're talking about.  You go from integral/differential calculus to tensors and discreet math.  Whee!)
IMO "Text books" by their very nature address mostly theory, and the stuff that doesn't change much from year-to-year (since publishing a textbook, and developing a curriculum based on a textboot are both rather lengthy propositions.)
(I did notice, back ~1980, that Lancaster's CMOS cookbook appeared in the U bookstore.  "oh!  What class gets to use THAT!", I wondered...  It was a graduate chemistry class about "designing and building lab equipment."   Hmmph.)

MK14:

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The OP has been BANNED.
Presumably because of attempting to create dangerous devices and/or rudeness at times and/or because they are having *difficulties*.

Zero999:

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The OP has been BANNED.
Presumably because of attempting to create dangerous devices and/or rudeness at times and/or because they are having *difficulties*.

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Perhaps this thread should be locked? Especially if the ban is permanent.

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