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Understanding Semiconductors - Introduction

 I still remember when I was in my first year studying electrical engineering at the university, I was working on building a simple circuit from the little knowledge that I had at that time, using the basic components such as resistors, switches, batteries, and lamps. Along the process of my circuit building, I thought to myself, wouldn't it be nice if there were a component that lets current pass in one direction and blocks it from the other? At that time, I thought I was being a smart kid who just posed a very clever question that could change engineering forever. And at that very moment, my naivety was instantly shattered when I found out about the existence of diodes. It exists . The 'magical' component that I wanted in order to realize the outcome for my circuit actually existed, not to mention it being invented more than a century before I came into being. I was completely awestruck, and I was filled with excitement at the same time. I kept asking, how does this '...
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Movie Recommendation: A Beautiful Mind (2001)

I cannot waste time with these books and these classes, memorizing the weaker assumptions of lesser mortals! And I have made the most important discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my life — It is only on the mysterious equations of love that any logical reasons can be found. I am only here because of you. You are the reason I am. You are all my reasons. This movie is a biopic of the life of the great mathematician, John Nash.  Recommended to me by Kotoha. Genre: Drama Director: Ron Howard Writers: Akiva Goldsman, Sylvia Nasar

I Moved to Japan and Started a Whole New Life

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Book Recommendation: The Remembrance of Earth's Past Trilogy

On Earth, humankind can step onto another continent, and without a thought, destroy the kindred civilizations found there through warfare and disease. But when they gaze up at the stars, they turn sentimental and believe that if extraterrestrial intelligences exist, they must be civilizations bound by universal, noble, moral constraints, as if cherishing and loving different forms of life are parts of a self-evident universal code of conduct. I think it should be precisely the opposite: Let’s turn the kindness we show toward the stars to members of the human race on Earth.  ― Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem Book 1: The Three-Body Problem Book 2: The Dark Forest Book 3: Death's End Genre: Science Fiction Author: Cixin Liu Translators: Ken Liu (book 1,3) / Joel Martinsen (book 2)