Good Morning!
Keeping a wish list is nothing new; What about specific things, in Electronics and related Physics ?
I suppose a college student has similar thoughts, when planning courses to take.
But now, with age comes memory problems. A new idea or analysis sparks the curiosity, but then often gets shuffled to the side-lines, fading into vagueness.
I've started my own private 'LIST', jotted down as I go. AND, sure, I've asked myself, like many, "...How can I lose a bit more weight / with some conditioning?"
(Sure, some learning goals are lofty, some frivolous sounding.)
For the frivolous topics, I've included, BABY CHICKENS:... SO:
1.) How do baby chicks hear ? I mean, ear structure, generally, in birds. That actually brings up the question, is that topic going to mention the DYNASAURS' hearing and anatomies ? And, while I'm there, might as well speculate on the whole, pre-historic situation, about how well the dynasaurs could hear, etc.
Ok, list
2.). EEVBLOG items I don't recognize, such as 'FINITE STATE MACHINE'. Having one or having two 'solution stages', whatever that meant, for a state machine.
3.) And, back to those baby chicks:
"Why, in bloody hell, do they (all) go quiet and listen, cocking their heads in attention, to my attempts to whistle them a 'song'.
I tried whistling 'Star Spangled Banner'; they listened.
I think maybe they seek me, as their new LEADER, now, maybe...
3.). EEVBLOG vintage processor mentioned a '1-bit' CPU, in early electronic calculator days. Ok but I did that one-better:. I once tried to 'invent' some CPU / math that had 'bits', with less than 2 states, encoded:
Enter the UNARY bit: it's half of a (two-state) regular 'bit'. Believe or not, with requirement two unary 'encoded' 'bits' needed, to transfer the two conventional states of one or two. Ridiculous, silly, I know.
4.) Just about everything Cosmological, especially dark matter, and the expansion of space. (I think I'm better, trying to contemplate 'single state' bits, lol).
5.) And just what, would such a 'single state' bit be called? : A 'blat' ? I can do better than that. How about,
a "
": Readers: A little help, here, on that...
AND 6.) The question, that got this thread started:
Can just ANYONE, write any book, using the title 'How to Barbecue, FOR DUMMIES'. ??
I mean, is that "blah blah blah For Dummies" title OWNed by someone ?
Anyway, that last one was/is a serious question, among the silly ones.
And, yes, it IS possible to operate 'UNARY' based logic, where (all other) number bases, Binary, Octal, Decimal, etc can be 'built up'.
Some media, it seems, brings up questions as you go (even as you read through some answers). EEVBLOG can be like that: You get two answers, and a NEW couple of questions arise.
Cosmology physics awakens the curiousity factor the most, though.
Whenever someone, or some science, causes a new question, I'm gonna jot it down, for later. Kind of a nice list, similar to a classic personal 'goals' list.
Thanks.