I know… I know… everywhere we turn these days, we’re presented with yet another story focused on artificial intelligence (AI) and/or machine learning (ML). Do we really need one more? Well, since I’m poised to pen one, I’d have to say “Yes” (otherwise, I’d have to go back and start again, and that’s a future I’m not prepared to embrace).</ … Read More → "Is AI Poised to Run Amok (Part 1)?"
“Good grief, Charlie Brown!” I just exclaimed upon realizing that I’ve hit another 100-column milestone (including this one) here on EE Journal. That makes 400 columns since I joined the community.
As my columns average around 1,500 words apiece, that’s a whopping 600,000 words—each one handpicked at the crack of dawn whilst still glistening with the morning dew, fresh, fragrant, and … Read More → "WTW (“What the What”)? Another 100 Mindboggling Columns!"
It’s funny how you think you know what a word means until someone asks you for a definition, at which point you run into problems trying to articulate that word’s meaning. Take the word “retro,” for example. What does this mean to you?
Take a few minutes to jot your thoughts down, and then we’ll continue. There’ … Read More → "Retro Gadgets, Gizmos, Tools, and Technologies"
Sometimes people say things that are both obvious and unexpectedly insightful. “Unexpected,” in the sense that I hadn’t thought of it myself—yet once I heard it, I was surprised it hadn’t already occurred to me. I’ll explain what kicked off my current cogitations in a moment. First, however, I’d like to waffle a bit, as is my wont.
My podcast guest this week is Vibheesh Bharathan, Director and Project Lead for PSOC 4 Multi-Sense at Infineon. Vibheesh and I chat all about the benefits of Infineon’s new PSOC 4 MCU family. We discuss the details of the Multi-Sense technology at the heart of these new MCUs and why innovative … Read More → "Multi-Sensing for the Next Generation of HMI Applications"
For reasons we need not go into here, I was just perusing a column on French phrases that people in France do not, in fact, use (I’m sure knowing this will come in handy one day).
The column in question was 9 French Phrases Native Speakers Never Use</ … Read More → "Eeek Alors! AI-Powered PCB Layout Is Here and It’s Awesome"
