LIVE Shop Talk 45: TopTechBoy.com Ask Me Anything Session

hello guys this is paul mcquarter from toptechboy.com and we're here today live live live and are you ready to rumble i think a lot of you guys are ready to rumble sounds like that we've got more representation in the northern hemisphere than the southern hemisphere the southern hemisphere people seem to just not be that interested in rumbling today but we do have one individual from tanzania so we do have representation from the southern hemisphere but let's see oh man philippe with a super chat oh wow thank you felipe you're keeping me in premium beans philippe really do appreciate it now that philippe is rumbling look at that you know how to rumble philippe okay so let's see what we've got here we have got some guys coming in you guys give me a uh hey joseph hello uh give me a quick shout out where you're from okay as you know right now i my abode at this instant is west texas the independent republic of free thinking west texas that's where i am where are you guys let me know where you are okay philippe yeah felipe is the king of the rumble what kind of tea do you drink i drink pure tea like it's p-u-e-h-r it comes from china and there's these tea plants that have been there for like 500 years and it's like generation after generation and they make these little bricks of tea and it's really quite good tea so you ask that's what i do hey we've got someone else from the republic of texas here how about you guys from texas who's ready to secede anybody else from texas ready to secede because i'm ready to secede all right time to go guys in texas let me know republic of texas will once again raise its head among the nations that's what sam houston said once okay if you guys are ready to secede let me know uh okay uh maquil garvin is uh dfw texas okay austria motown algeria eastern washington germany minnesota bricks of tea used to be a form of money you know really they are an excellent form of money i mean you could see how it would work let me see i'm trying to see where my tea brick is guys you do you distract me by telling to use tea as money and so you get me distracted but it kind of comes in very hard bricks okay can you see that brick and it came like this big and what's the great thing about using tea is money has a long shelf life okay uh it's kind of a compact source of wealth right you you know a brick of tea like this big is twenty dollars so it's it's pretty you know condensed money source and then if somebody doesn't want to take it you can just drink it so you could see how tea could be used as money right you could see how tea could be used as money okay let's see what else we've got here we've got a lot of uh we've got a lot of people i never saw that kind of tea before yeah it's uh it's called purity comes in bricks you got to kind of get a knife and pry some off and then it's really quite a quite a delicious thing okay so we've got some people from india from the netherlands uh let's see oh my david david is rumbling with us too okay hey thanks david yeah the new grandbaby that was really something special so i'm very very pleased to be a new grandpa i have a granddaughter gabriella who's four years old and i have a new grandson named paul mcquarter yes there is another one of me out there so we got to get him trained up because i'm going to need someone to replace me one of these days okay let's see pakistan the netherlands georgia enver is that georgia the state or georgia the country because there's the state of georgia and then there's also the country of georgia okay uh bangalore india uk we've got san diego all right thanks perrio for the kind words congratulations hey hey okay let's see can you do a talk in my college if it is hard to make a trip around the world to do a college talk i will tell you that right now okay yeah there is another paul mccorder out there yep he just he's a fresh one freshly minted i'm the 59 year old version there's a new one that's i think like nine days old or something like that right now croatia yeah all right croatia how is mr bosco mr bosco is no longer with me mr bosco uh has sought employment elsewhere and so mr bosco has been replaced by mr pius and pius has been with me oh about eight months now and he's really he's liking it and things are going well he's my night guard and so during the night time pious is uh is uh patrolling the perimeter with the ever faithful indigo and butch now indigo's a very social dog but butch is kind of a mean dog he doesn't like people very much he just keeps to himself but he patrols the perimeter so yeah butch and indigo are my two guard dogs all right hey we've got some people from india are from india egypt portugal south africa iowa all right we've got a good showing here we have got a good choice sri lanka wow sri lanka uh okay we've got some uh we've got we've got pretty good coverage here so i think that if we if we all start rumbling at the same time we're going to be uh we're going to be a force to be uh to be dealt with that's going to be for sure so anyway what i'm hoping to do is just kind of hang out with you guys today and answer some of your questions and kind of talk to you about the the future of the channel you guys did you notice that i launched the python series last wednesday and i did it as a premiere and so i was able to be in the chat room with you as that thing premiered and then i've got about a year's worth of python videos all canned up and ready to go i'm going to make another couple of python videos today and then i'll just continue to uh to build those things up now this is what a lot of you guys are very angry about let's see any thought about a discord for student python course is awesome okay guys i do have a discord server i have the discord server for my patreons just to give them a little thank you for the help and i try to hang out on the discord server and you know that's really where i try to answer questions and do things like that can't really answer questions and email and i know that this sort of makes people angry because like i'm a really nice guy and i like being friends with you and you see me on the youtube and i'm being nice to you on youtube and and you think oh that's a nice guy i think i'll email him but what you got to see is we're coming up on 200 000 subscribers i think today we're at something like maybe 198 000 subscribers so we're going to be at 200 000 subscribers right around the corner and then there's a lot of people that watch the videos that aren't subscribed and so basically some of the videos i have i'm getting millions of views on and there's just one of me so if you email me i get so many emails every day it's hard for me to read them and i try to read them but i certainly can't respond to them because if i tried to respond to hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of emails every day i would never make another video so what is the best way to interact with me well i do read every single comment in the comments section on my videos and then i try to interact with you like right now twice a week i'll be in the chat room on the python premieres and then here i am in a live stream to interact with you and then those of you guys who are patreons you can join uh and be part of the discord and i try to have a little bit more interaction on the discord is it because i think i'm special and because i'm too important to answer you no there's just too many of you and there's too few of me if that makes sense okay let's see uh okay this is a question and answer so i'm trying to grab some as they go by a lesson on processing okay so processing is kind of a visual uh it's like a visual program that is a counterpart to the arduino so you would kind of have the arduino data sent to uh sent to processing i tried to play around with processing and i had a lot of trouble with it and i did not enjoy it very much and i could never make it do what i wanted and so what my approach is we're going to be taking data on the arduino we are going to be sending it over to python and then we're going to be doing visuals in visual python and so i love python i'm teaching you python sort of my future direction in my mind is data being taken in arduino and then that data sent to python because you guys are going to be experts on python will you teach c and c plus plus okay let me tell you about that when i first got started in programming the programming language was for trans so i cut my teeth in programming on fortran okay and then after fortran there was something called basic and basic was a pretty capable language basic didn't mean simple or not capable but there was fortran there was basic then there was pascal and so i was learning these new languages as they were coming out this was like in the 1980s and then they came out with this thing called c all right and i sat down i thought okay i need to learn c so i started trying to learn c and it like i spent one day just trying to write a program that would get input from the keyboard it was just like that was the point that i decided that i did not want to be a programmer and i went into more the solid state physics area of of electrical engineering and i only returned to programming a few years ago as a high school teacher thinking wow i need to go back and that's kind of when i got into the whole arduino things and stuff but from the mid-80s to the 2010 that was like a period where i was not programming at all okay raspberry pi pico on the horizon that's a good question probably the most requested the most requested uh topic that i get is to do something with like an esp32 and micro python and that sort of stuff but the problem is i look and there's all these different esp32 hardware platforms and then there's all these different like little special like there's python there's micropython there's circuit python then there's this fork and there's that fork and i can't find any emerging standard and so if i start on a board i don't even know if you can get the same board that i'm using so i'm not that familiar with the raspberry pi pico i'm not saying it's esp32 but it's that type of idea like a micro python idea that might be one that i would look at because having the raspberry pi stamp on it maybe that one would become a standard so at some point maybe i would look at the raspberry pi pico i do need to redo my raspberry pi uh tutorials they're getting a little long in the tooth and my studio is a lot better and you know i've got a lot more equipment and stuff and so i do need to at some point redo the raspberry pi videos and at some point i do need to redo the fusion 360 videos and at some point i do need to uh you know redo my jetson nano series the problem with the jets and nano they keep updating that jetpack and they keep updating opencv they keep updating things so quickly by the time i get a series of lessons made on the nvidia platforms things have changed and so i haven't really figured out yet how to uh i haven't figured out yet how to manage making good solid educational series when things are changing so quickly let's see uh yeah i am uh felipe i am trying to teach the fundamentals and so it's sort of like i you know i've made some mistakes along the way like i made a series of lessons on the beaglebone black and nobody ever used the beaglebone black and and and that was just sort of like a flop and so if i'm going to invest in a platform i got to make sure that it's worth the time that you know actually people are benefiting from it so i try to kind of pick and choose very carefully and it seems like once a week i've got somebody wanting to send me a new platform it seems like once a week there's a new single board computer and there's way way more single board computers out there then there is the real user base and infrastructure for them and so we've got to kind of figure out what the emerging standard is going to be and get on and do something like that okay let's see cjt asked me my question about homeschooling okay so this is where you can ask me anything and i will answer it and it can be on any topic and i will answer it and the question came up of homeschooling and i am an enormous fan of homeschooling and i think it's all advantages and there's no disadvantages and this idea oh you've got kids that are going to be afraid to come out of your basement you're over protecting them no you're not over protecting them you're pr you're equipping them you're focusing on equipping them to go out into the world and uh you know we homeschooled our daughter from k through 12 and she started college i think she was 15 years old when she started college and you know she was a tiny little girl or she is a tiny little girl and you know her mom would drive her to college and she would get out of the car with her little brown bag and she would go into college well she was going into nursing okay and so one of the classes that's a weed out class in nursing is uh is anatomy and physiology and the coaches the people who wanted to be coaches the athletic majors they had to take anatomy and physiology and you know those were these huge football players and so my little daughter was in the class with all these enormous football players well she was the only one that understood things and so as she left class she would see her coming out of the building in college and and there would be like 15 of these enormous football players following her trying to get her to explain it because she understood it and she could explain anatomy and physiology better than the teacher could and so she'd sit down there under the tree and she would teach all these uh you know all these coaching majors how the and how to how to think about the anatomy and physiology and she got a lot of them through the class she finished number one in her class in nursing school she passed the inflex the board certification on the first try and then after passing that she put on a backpack got on an airplane and went to africa now that does not sound like somebody who is afraid to take on the world okay so this idea that if you homeschool that the kids are going to be over protected and socially awkward just not true okay i am an extremely extremely big fan of homeschooling now what is the downside is parents you have to make sacrifices so what was the sacrifice my wife did not work she stayed home and homeschooled and then i was very actively involved in the homeschooling so it's sort of like you make your children a priority and you educate them instead of just handing them off to the public school system now in the united states the public school system is broken i'm a public school teacher and i appreciate where i'm working but i'm just saying public schools in the united states are broken i would not send my kids there okay now let's see how many people i've made mad there with with that little rant i told you you could ask me anything and when you do if you if you ask me expect me to get expect me to answer it okay uh let's see suno welcome uh arduino uses c language okay uh let's see how did you get into ee how did you get inspired to start your career okay why did i do ee i grew up in west texas in this little town that i live in now and i was just clueless i was just a clueless kid in high school and i was good in math and someone said hey if you're good in math you can make a lot of money as an engineer i said okay i'll be an engineer so that's how i got into it but then once i got into it i really really loved it okay i really really loved it and so i just kind of stumbled into engineering because somebody just said that you could make money at if you were good in math but it actually turned out to be something really really good okay lolita is following the jets and nano tutorials on the raspberry pi yeah you know you can get so far in artificial intelligence on the raspberry pi but you're going to read uh you're going to need the d you're going to get to the day that you will need to you will need to actually get a jetson nano okay philippe is agreeing that the public schools are broken and it's kind of a sad thing it's really a sad thing but they really philippe they really are broken and so uh education yeah is necessary for freedom and so i'm just concerned that we're in it we're ending up with a generation of kids that are not educated i uh the other day just ask my students you guys in the united states should appreciate this can anybody name two generals from the civil war okay the american civil war not one student could tell me two generals from the civil war a lot of people guess cornwallis okay so it's just like we're really failing our kids by not teaching history right because part of being educated is understanding history so that's kind of uh that's kind of scary uh what is the highest math you know i took oh man let's see i took uh i took so much math i took like let's say four years of college eight semesters i took eight semesters of calculus through differential equations and and linear i just i can't even name all the math i took a whole whole lot of math and math is one of the things that's not being taught in the public school and one of the problems uh with math not being taught oh man rj hey we got a we got a uh super chat here rj says best of luck in africa please keep the great content coming yeah that is the plan and i'll talk to you a little bit about that in a minute but guys in the public school math is not being taught what is being taught is how to use a calculator to get past the uh the what do you call like like the the standardized tests that students have to take they teach how to use a calculator so you can get past those tests but math is not being taught in most public schools and it's really sad because man if you can do math that's what they will pay you the big bucks the guys that make the big bucks are the guys that know how to do math and i'm afraid that math is not being taught in the public schools these days uh where did you learn all these things i just i'm a lifelong learner man i just learn things i love all this computer stuff i love hydroponics i love aquaponics i love gardening i just i'm just a guy i don't have a tv in my house i don't have cable tv i don't have netflix i spend my time doing and the only thing that i watch is something that will give me a new skill so like i like to woodwork i like to do machining i like to build things make things fix things grow things cook things you see i like to do things and so i don't sit around and i don't watch things how did your school deal with the pandemic and how did you adapt your courses okay it's been hard i mean it has really been hard and so uh you know i don't want i don't want to get uh sick like i've got like robust health but i right now as i'm making this transition in my life to africa my family is staying with my mom who's 87 so i do not want to take that vile uh pox back to my mom and so i really really am super super careful and there's a lot of it going around in the schools and you can imagine schools are kind of a hard place to avoid it and so what i've adapted in my classroom i don't touch anything okay i come into the building and i come to my desk and i do that without touching anything and then in my interactions with students i don't touch things okay so i give the assignments electronically they work them out on paper they take a picture of their work and then they turn it in electronically then i grade it and i send it back to them so i don't touch anything and hand to them and they don't touch anything in hand to me so we are not touching things okay and then i do things in this room to keep it sterilized there's some equipment they use in hospitals to sterilize hospital rooms i have that equipment in here so i'm constantly uh sterilizing and keeping things really clean and then maintaining distance and so so far while there is illness that is spreading around i've been able to not get it just by being really really careful and so kind of like the question is uh with this whole pandemic thing is how do we exit lockdown because when the whole thing got started what was it like march a year ago something like that and then we locked down and then when we locked down we flattened the curve but then when we reduced the lockdown then we just sort of pick up where we left off and so i think we have to just really rationally think about what does life look like moving forward because at some point you can't just have everybody spend the rest of their life in in lockdown and so at some point i think we got to think in turn and we're just chatting i'm not giving advice or you know they get really concerned about this type of conversation but i think at some point we got to think about protecting the elderly you know protecting the vulnerable and the health you have to just kind of get back to life but we're just chatting here i'm not like giving you some sort of medical advice or something like that uh let's see uh could you do a high school math class that would actually help us yeah i'd love to do that at some point i'd love to teach you algebra 1 algebra 2 pre-calculus and calculus but do it in the context of real world problems where we're trying to make a project but in order to do that project we have to do this math or we have to do that math or we have to do this this this other math that math for a purpose but the problem with math in high school is many high school teachers don't understand math they're just showing steps and students are trying to copy those steps and so students become very frustrated because they don't understand it they're just mimicking steps and they don't see any purpose for it well if we're trying to get our led to to do cool color things and the only way we can do that is if we understand that math then it is math for a purpose if that makes sense okay teaching on the nile series felipe i think that would be a a great idea and i think that you know hopefully i will have more time for that hey i got good news for you all right so this was something that you can imagine that if you look live in the jungle in africa it's kind of hard to get a good studio put together and in particular it's hard to get a fast computer i here in the united states bought a blazingly fast oh man adam hey we got a super chat there adam donkey man thanks man you guys are really helping me out and i do i do need the help now so this is kind of like the good news that that i need a studio in africa and you can't just go buy it it's not a matter of just going down to your local best buy and getting a fast computer you can get a computer but it tends to be very very low in like what would be equivalent to maybe a 200 laptop here and that simply would not be able to run my studio so while i was here i bought a blindingly fast like a super duper double deluxe super unbelievable gaming machine and then the problem is how do you get it over there well i actually got that silly thing shipped over there it took about a month to get there but it is now at location and so that is really good news you guess you guys guess how much do you think it cost me to ship my computer from west texas to the jungle in africa what do you think the what do you think the uh shipping cost was on this little endeavor that i just did looking for guesses how much did i have to pay on shipping looking for guesses i know there's a little bit six hundred dollars okay two thousand dollars two hundred dollars five thousand dollars for you okay hey those are pretty good guesses cost one thousand two hundred dollars to ship that thing over there but i am very happy and i feel like that uh you know i i feel good that it got there and i'm not gonna worry about the price but you guys that are helping me out with super chat that's helping me you know help get my studio put together over there because it's not quite as easy as you might think but the good news is the computer is over there now what i got to do is i got to see if it'll turn on and so i'm getting somebody i didn't ship a monitor because shipping oh wow thank you peter that was very good you and i grew up without calculators i never had one till university yeah we don't we don't need no stinking calculators right i don't need no stinking calculator i know how to do the math okay so the computer is over there in africa on my location and now i just got to see if it works all right so so i got to get a monitor which you can buy locally and then hey wow gregory look at that i'm studying cell molecular biology and use what i learned in your lessons in undergraduates hey that is really good crispr you'd have to tell us more about that i know a little bit about it but i would like to learn more about it i actually had a biotech company at one point where we were making ophthalmic implants and eye implants for things like glaucoma so i had a little work in the bio area so anyway my computer's over there i got to buy a monitor i got to have somebody buy a monitor and then a mouse the keyboard was in the box but i want to make sure that that computer boots before i go over there because we would be kind of shut down if i get over there and don't have a computer powerful enough to uh to run to run my studio now the hey wow the drunk ninja look at you guys are really helping me out today you guys are really helping me out and it is appreciated but like the camera the microphone and the uh hdmi capture devices i plan on just taking over in my carry-on and so if i have the camera and i have the computer pretty and the capture devices in the microphone pretty much i think everything else i can get working and so that's what my goal is is to have a working studio over there okay so let's see uh what else have we got here i recently started with your arduino all right good uh i wanted to thank you okay well very good joseph i appreciate that yes i am moving to africa in the process of doing that having a few things that i am trying to wrap up here trying to wrap up a few things here in west texas and then i will be heading over there let's see another question on home schooling how do you design the curriculum what topics do you think that are okay you guys the question on homeschooling sorry i don't want to just dwell on this but it's really really simple okay my daughter never stepped into a high school she never got a high school diploma she didn't go out and do the ged or anything like that to get into college this is a little something you don't have to have a high school diploma to get into college to get into college all you have to do is do well on the a.c.t and so you could be worried about educating your child more about you know giving them a broad educational experience where they're learning real things real world things and then in class what you're really focusing is on equipping them for the a.c.t and a kid can be 14 15 years old and absolutely ace the a.c.t and then colleges actually recruit home school children because they know they're really good kids and so it's not like you got to do all this nonsense that's in the public schools all you got to do is prep them for the a.c.t and then more importantly prep them for the world where you're teaching them more the classics and not all the silly nonsense if that makes sense okay what tips would you give to a high school student who wants to major in engineering that question i have a whole series on that it's called how to be a successful engineer it is a playlist on my channel make sure that you guys go and take a look at that okay so uh back to my my studio so this is what i've done you see and this is what some of you guys are mad at me about i have made a year's worth of python videos and i am releasing one a week on wednesday and it's released as a premiere and i will be in there with you and i will be interacting in the chat box during the premiere and so you have one year that i am going to be interacting with you on a regular basis then also on saturdays i have this live stream now when i go to africa if my if my studio is not quite up completely functioning i might just do the live stream with a webcam right so you might have a little bit cruder audio visual quality right when i get over there but you'll still be getting the wednesday video you'll still be getting the live chat on saturday a time for us to interact but this is what you guys are mad at me about you see that i post a video and it's not going to release for a year it's going to premiere a year it's like everybody's saying i want it all and i want it all right now release the videos release the videos and you're mad because i'm spacing them out well if i released a year's worth of videos to you and then i disappear because i'm moving then that's how channels die channels die when you're not regularly releasing new material and regularly interacting with your community with your subscriber base so what i am doing is i am going to be interacting with you with you at least twice a week for the next year now what would i like to do if i get to africa and my computer is working and i get the other things over there like you know my camera doesn't get stolen on the way over there and things like that and i get my studio up and going then i'd like to make more videos well maybe i could then start releasing those python series more frequently or i could continue to release them once a week and do a different series and so there'll be a lot more interaction but what is my strategy my strategy right now is to make this move to the jungle without you guys without me disappearing keeping the channel active and interacting with you guys over this period of time but i am getting more optimistic that i will be able to get my studio up and running over there and then you guys should get even more content you should get even more videos maybe i could do that that math that matters series maybe i could go in and i could redo those those raspberry pi to have a lot more time to do that okay but you guys have got to be you guys got to be patient but a lot of you are really mad that i'm not just releasing all the python at the same time you know what the other thing that happens if i release all the python at the same time you guys are going to binge watch and you're going to just be sitting doing what i'm doing you're not going to be really thinking about it and working on it i think it's good for me to give you an assignment and you go off and work on it and not just immediately go to the next video and watch me do it you need to be working and really learning this stuff and i think me spacing these things out once a week is kind of neat is it necessary to know coding if you want to major in engineering yeah you know like in electrical engineering even though that's not computer science you do you do need to know coding you don't have to be like the world's greatest coder but programming is a tool it's an engineering tool and it's something that you are going to need to know okay so let's see uh yeah we got some people saying about the maths series would be good uh okay let's see will you will you be teaching us to make web pages in python probably not and i've got some websites but they're really annoying to me and it just seems like they keep changing so much on on stuff and so uh i had a website once that it was really popular i think i got fifty thousand to a hundred thousand visitors a day on that website but the problem is things were changing so quickly i found my spell spending all my time trying to maintain the site with new standards and not able to generate new content so i really kind of like ended up like do i really want to spend my life as a webmaster no i probably don't i am not going to be able to teach c plus plus because i don't know it and i am not very interested in it uh is your snail mail still available yes right now i am in uh el dorado texas uh 496 okay that will be true for the next month or so but i am looking in the next couple of months to not be here anymore can i ask you about the summary of your career when you worked in nanotechnology but your degree was no my degree was i have a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the university of texas i have a master's degree in electrical engineering from stanford with a specialty in solid-state physics so i was very much an electrical engineer not a math person but i was never like a hacker or a coder i was much more in the physics and then physics is a lot of math and at the very core level of how an integrated circuit works it is really physics ross is hard to learn yeah and when i tried ross it broke my heart and then i get started on ross and they change it and so i just don't quite have the energy to do ross just at this moment how long did it take you to get a good subscriber base man it takes a long time and if you want to do youtube it's got to be because you love the topic you're not going to just do it like you're not going to be the next youtube millionaire it's just like it takes a long time and you need to be a subject matter expert you need to love the topic and you need to know how to teach and if you can do those three things you can build a successful channel but if you think the world wants to hear your opinion or you're this cool dude and you're going to talk about your haircut or you're going to make silly cat videos there's just too many of those you're never going to compete you have to have a niche expertise it's got to be something people care about it's got to be something you love and you're doing it for years and years because you love it and then at some point you might make money on it uh yeah i really want to do something on math that's something i really want to do mechanical engineering no man it's just like uh if you get a degree in electrical engineering you can get a job anywhere like there are probably more electrical engineers at spacex than aeronautical engineers electrical engineering was my path to get to work on the space shuttle at nasa that's how i got a seat in the control room at nasa for one of the launches that's how i got a seat that i got to go on a triton submarine that was my seat that i got to go into all these cool places was electrical engineering so every single cool high-tech thing in the world they have electrical engineers to where the mechanical engineers like you might think oh i like race cars and and i'm if you're a mechanical engineer you don't get to design cool cars they have one little nut that holds the brake mechanism on and you're the guy that designs that nut and so if your guys are electrical mechanical engineers i'm not trying to put you down or i'm not trying to demean you i'm just saying as i went through my career the really cool exciting jobs tended to be the electrical engineering jobs not the mechanical engineering jobs uh data analysis for beginners i i guess i would like to maybe teach something in uh i would like to teach something in a you know like matplotlib about how to deal with data sets i can do that at some point yes i did not work for nasa i worked on nasa projects and part of that was i got to go to the launches and be in the control room i got to go up on the launch pad and install some stuff there so i got to see all the cool stuff at nasa for several years because i was an electrical engineer what is better mechatronics or communication not too big on communication myself i would probably pick mechatronics between those two uh let's see all right thank you uh thank you guys i appreciate the kind words the majority of data analysis is about 95 filtering the noise i think you're really right there i think you're really right so you guys part of it is you want to do what you love and if you do what you love you're going to really enjoy it but then there's kind of like two things you need to do what you love and you need to do something that people really need and you got to kind of do both of those things and like a lot of times i'll see someone like oh i love cooking i'm going to be a pastry chef a pastry chef is like a really good hobby but it's not necessarily a really good way to make a living so pick something that you don't hate all right don't pick something you hate just for a job but make sure you're going to pick something that people will actually pay you for uh let's see in the future will there be a machine learning course yeah i do intend to do that uh it's just right now i don't have the i don't have the time to time to do that would you give me what tips would you give me if i want to get into mit or stanford okay you've got to ace that a.c.t man you need to get like if you really want to get in one of those schools you need to say you need to kind of get like a 35 on the ect and how do you get a 35 on the ect is by practicing and number two knowing how to do math and a lot if you want to get that perfect score in math on the ect you've got to kind of know how to recognize the shortcuts like if you're doing trigonometry you need to recognize that 30-60-90 triangle you got to recognize that 3-4-5 triangle you've got to take something that would take two minutes to work it out and recognize the shortcut and get that problem in five or ten seconds i will say that pretty much all of my math students at least get in the top 10 in the nation on the ect and every year i'll have a couple that like get in the 99 percentile on the ect in math and so you can do it you know you can really do it but you've got to know the math you can't be mr calculator you've got to know the math and if you know the math you'll recognize the shortcuts and you'll be able to you know i mean you can get a perfect score on the math now the other hard thing about the act acing it is let's just talk about the act right that's a good subject how do you ace the act number one know the math when you're doing the math recognize the shortcuts and then understand that the science section is really just reading a graph and so in the science section they'll give you three paragraphs of text and then they'll ask you a question and you'll look at the graph most of the time you don't need to read those three paragraphs read the question and then see which one of the three graphs would answer it and you don't even have to know what the words mean you just need to read off that graph and so you can ace the science if you just practice thinking in terms of don't worry if you don't understand what it's talking about just look at the data is the data trending up is the data trending down is it trending up at an accelerating rate at a decelerating rate comparing this to this and if you just can read graphs you can do the science we've got science we've got map the hard part on the ect is the reading and the english part because that is not really anything other than how quickly you can read and the problem with it is if you really read those passages on the act and then go over and carefully answer the questions you'll get through about half the questions if you just speed skim through it and then look at the questions you went so fast you sort of skimmed over it and so it's this strange strategy of how to read quickly but yet still kind of skim and so i think i would try things like read the first paragraph read the last paragraph and then read the first and last sentence of the paragraphs in between then hop over and then try to answer the questions but i always thought it was crazy that the ect a lot of your score is just how fast you can read and i never viewed that as a very useful skill as a guy that can read fast so anyway that was my thoughts on the act let's see what else we have uh what do you think about to pick an undergraduate career in electronics yeah i think that i think electronics and and electrical engineering are kind of like the the coolest thing that you can go into thunderbird how active in ham radio are you okay i have my extra license and there was a period of years that i would take all my students and get them to extra i had a lot of students as freshmen in high school were getting their extra license and you know ham guys are some of the nicest guys in the world but the problem is there's these crappy old ham nazis and they're like really mean and so my students would get their extra they would talk on the radio and they start having these guys be really mean to them and it doesn't matter if 99 guys are nice if you have one crappy old ham nazi curmudgeon come down on a kid heart he's just not going to go into the topic he's not going to go into the field and so the ham business is dying the ham hobby is dying and it's dying because of these grappy old ham nazis okay and even though there's not even though most ham guys are really nice it's those old grappy ones that i think is just really killing it's really killing that uh that whole field okay thunderbird let's see uh so i'm currently about to finish your tutorials and i wanted to ask if you know what i can build a clear path to learn electrical engineering on my own okay the thing is i try to teach you as much as i can on this channel but at some point you got to get your credentials and you can go to a university and get an ee degree and if you've taken my classes it'll be a lot easier for you but you got to get that credential and if that's too much go to a technical vocational school and get an instrumentation degree or an electronics technician degree and you can do that like in 18 months and there are some really really cool jobs out there any tips for the sat i think the sat is about the same as the ect it's just practice practice get those practice tests know your math and practice up and you too can do you can do well on that between electronics and robotics i would still kind of get into electronics i think some of these things like artificial intelligence at the edge the kind of like the jets and nano stuff with the artificial intelligence i i think that's like a huge future and then that is very tightly coupled with robotics and so i think robotics and artificial intelligence are going to be really great careers for a long time uh okay uh let's see what else have we got here uh how hard is it to get into mit it's really hard to get into mit it really is and i got into stanford by acing the a.c.t okay i would say ace the act or sat and then the second thing is you need a kind of like that community service part of things that really distinguishes you okay that really distinguishes you from everybody else because usually on college applications your community involvement sections tend to be kind of lame and so as you're looking at college applications you know whoever's looking at they got thousands of them to read and they're just reading blah blah blah blah blah blah it's like they all sound the same okay they all sound the same you got to have something punchy that distinguishes you from everyone else and one way to do that is in that kind of community service part of your application so ace the act and then do something really really cool in the community service thing like i had this one student and what he did was he bought a camera and then he shipped the camera to africa and then there was an orphanage that had all of these little african orphans children you know your typical things starving children that have been brought into an orphanage and then one of the one of the kids there was really good with the camera and so that child that little african child went around in his orphanage and he took pictures of his life of the other children in the orphanage of his little school this was his you know he just took all these beautiful pictures of his life as an orphan and then those were emailed back to my student and then my student built this website and then on that website you could order a card so it would be one of the pictures that peter had taken of his little life and then you could order a greeting card with the picture that was taken the photograph that was taken by this by this orphan and it was done through like a united states printing service and so you just click buy now you buy the card and then the card showed up in your mailbox a few days later and then the profits from selling those cards that the orphan had taken were used to buy vitamins and then those vitamins were shipped to the orphanage and so this little kid this little african orphan because he could take good pictures then all the children in his orphanage had vitamins they had you know a lot of times in these orphanages you don't get very balanced diet it's a lot of corn mush you get kind of like corn mush and cabbage is typically what they eat and so to round out their nutrition then that whole orphanage had vitamins because little peter was taking pictures and then my student was marketing those pictures with a hundred percent of the money going back to africa that's really clever and that is a community service thing it really distinguished my student apart from the other students and so he got into the school that he wanted to get into ace the act had a really clever community service project okay can you make a video on how to run motors on the jetson nano okay what you've got to see is the gpio pins on the jetson nano the gpio pins on the jetson nano are very very wimpy they don't have any drive capability and so you're going to have to like go from that to something that could then drive motors and so you would probably need one of those motor drivers and something with the right voltage to hook to the jets and nano but that is something that i have not done yet okay so asking for a spice tutorial man i'm just not interested in teaching a canned program like spice i would be much more interested in teaching you how to do circuit analysis but so much times the spice you get to where you don't even understand what you're doing you're just plugging components and you're looking at your circuit diagram you're plugging those things into spice and then spice returns to you the circuit analysis that is not very much interesting to me okay got a question what's my thoughts on a bachelor in biomedical engineering yes i think biomedical engineering has a great future like i say i had a biotech company a silicon valley biotech company and i think that is a cool thing i think that is pretty uh pretty neat okay guys i uh like to just every once in a while have a question and answer session with you and i kind of feel like this was sort of like random all over the place but i just tried to grab some questions for you from you and then answer them and i just enjoy this ability to interact with you guys on a little bit more informal level most of the time on our live streams i'm going to have topics and try to talk about those topics and then your answer your questions on those topics but today i just thought let's just open it up to any uh any questions at all and so that's kind of what we tried to do today so just uh as i wrap this thing up what i'll be saying is i'll be still here in texas for a little while then when i leave i've got plenty of material in the can so you'll be getting fresh new python lessons and you'll be hearing from me and interacting with uh with me and then what my goal will be as quickly as i possibly can possibly can to get a good studio set up it my remote jungle bungalow and get things set up there and then fully fully back online with you guys one of the issues that i will face is not just the studio but getting a suitable suitable internet connection where i can actually upload videos maybe encouraging is what's this elon musk thing with all the satellites up there what is that called the elon musk all the satellites to give you high-speed internet internet anywhere in the world what is that called what is that starlink philippe hey thanks philippe starling i got here in texas i got a note from starlink saying that i could go ahead and order the system and that the system would be brought online like in the coming month or months and so i thought that was encouraging what i really hope is in africa whoa yardan hey shalom for israel hey i've never been to israel but that is on my list of places i want to go and i've wanted to go there my whole life but i've never gotten there your arduino tutorials boosted my curiosity and motivation hey that's great hey really appreciate it yarden yeah it was like when i was young i wanted to go to israel but i didn't have the money then when i had a high paying electrical engineering job i had the money but i didn't have the time and so it's like i'm afraid it's going to be okay i've got the money and i've got the time but i'm too old so it's on the list and really israel's not that far from africa so when i'm going over there i hope to make a little jaunt to the holy lands and so that's what i do indeed hope to do so what i'm hoping though is i'm hoping that i can get a star link in africa because man if i can get a starlink connection in africa like maybe like in six months or something like that then we could just really go to town with these videos but right now there are places in africa that have reasonable connections and so what i might have to do is make a lot of videos then go into some city or metropolitan area and get a good connection and just upload everything then and then paste them out as as premiers and so something like that but i do believe that high-speed internet is coming to everyone on the face of the earth and so i think that will be coming along pretty uh pretty quickly okay guys i apologize that this was kind of like random scatter brained all over the place but i do like to just sometimes open it up for questions and next week we'll get back to try to have a more oh wow alice wang thank you just hope you are healthy i am healthy i will be safe in africa you know guys i have a really like i just i mean i don't want to be presumptuous but i just don't get sick i just don't get sick right if i think in the last 40 years maybe i've been to the doctor twice in 40 years it just i stay healthy i eat healthy i have a healthy lifestyle and i just don't get sick and so i have been able to maintain my health in uh in africa let's see uh let's see alice you know i just don't do consultation because it's sort of like it's not like i'm trying to make money what i want to do is i want my life to matter so how can i do that i can just teach people i can try to equip people i can try to give skills to people but if i take my time and build a video and put it on youtube then i can benefit people all over the world to where if i take payment to work on a specific problem for a specific person it's like okay i made some money but am i really helping make that world a better place and so that's why at this point i don't really do the uh paul the bodybuilder i'm not a bodybuilder if you're talking to me i'm not a bodybuilder i'm just a real healthy guy and that comes from eating good healthy food okay let's see yeah uh one more question what about the trades and the trades are where it's at and if i had a young person if you're if you're going to college you better be a doctor a lawyer or an engineer and if you're not doing one of those three things you'd be much better off being a plumber an electrician or a diesel mechanic or an instrumentation specialist so i think we got to rethink things so many of you guys are going to a four-year university coming out of the university with 250 000 in debt and having a skill that someone will pay you minimum wage for and so don't go to a four-year university unless you are getting a real skill a real skill and if you're not going to do that man plumber electrician diesel mechanic wind turbine technologists those trades and those skills i think are the future i really do think those are the future okay guys i do plan on this coming wednesday this coming wednesday we are going to have a another python uh lesson that's going to be released and then next saturday i plan on having a live stream try to have a little bit more of a theme and a topic uh next week for you guys and uh just really appreciate it appreciate you guys who helped me out with the super chats appreciate you guys that are helping me out over at patreon and then i will look forward to to staying in contact with you guys so again paul mcquarter from toptechboy.com i will talk to you guys later

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Published: Sat Feb 27 2021