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BPSK modulation & demodulation Direct-sequence spread spectrum The Costas loop 1V rail-to-rail amplifier with CMFB

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Recent books

The Age of… — Eric Hobsbawm His four-volume history of the long nineteenth century: Revolution, Capital, Empire, Extremes. Hume: An Intellectual Biography James A. Harris on Hume the man of letters — philosophy read through the whole life. Evolution's Witness Ivan R. Schwab on how eyes evolved — the long engineering history of sight. To Explain the World Steven Weinberg on the discovery of modern science.

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YouTube · Carlos Kleiber New Year's Concert 1989 YouTube · Mozart Don Giovanni — finale (instrumental) Café-hopping · Bengaluru Jayanagar 5th Block

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On Nice People A nice person, with warmth in his eyes, is one you can fleece despite no leverage over him. You need such people to help you even when othes won't. Two nice people whom I have fleeced are 燕雀安知鸿鹄之志？ People I look upto were, at 25, not busy with borrowed duties/problems from society, customer, family. Unlike me, each had a thesis to solve at hand and everything else in life unsolved. Fungible vs Non-Fungible Human Relations Instead of vague words like family, friends, colleague, classify humans as fungible ("I will adjust this person in my schedule) vs non-fungible ("I will adjust my schedule around this person")

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