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ing the media world in a fairly unique and trusting way for months now. Most public figures in his position have people advising them on media strategy, what to say, and what not to say — how to frame things so you are not misquoted. Which interviews to take on and which to refuse. Moreover, probably not to allow two solid days behind the scenes to someone who you think may have an agenda.As far as I can tell, he doesn’t have this and has embraced and is fully living out his own dictum — “speak the truth and let the pieces fall where they may”.So far speaking the truth has worked out well for him — he was lucky that Channel 4 News put up the Cathy Newman interview unedited — a decision I’m sure that they quickly regretted. This New York Times piece feels different — that it will solidify impressions of him on either side.“Bad faith changes everything”As Eric Weinstein, Bret’s brother, and another member of the unofficial ‘intellectual dark web’ said — “bad faith changes everything”. It’s possible to have any kind of discussion with people you disagree with so long as they are approaching it in good faith — as soon as they are not, they’re just looking to boost their position, look good in front of others or advance their career within their tribe — as Peterson alleged Cathy Newman was — then true exchange of ideas is impossible.I would argue that this journalist is indeed acting in bad faith. Some of the misrepresentations cannot be put down to simple misunderstanding.The piece of the interview that has been seized upon is this:<blockquote id="f129">“Recently, a young man named Alek Minassian drove through Toronto trying to kill people with his van. Ten were killed, and he has been charged with first-degree murder for their deaths, and with attempted murder for 16 people who were injured. Mr. Minassian declared himself to be part of a misogynist group whose members call themselves incels. The term is short for “involuntary celibates,” though the group has evolved into a male supremacist movement made up of people — some celibate, some not — who believe that women should be treated as sexual objects with few rights. Some believe in forced “sexual redistribution,” in which a governing body would intervene in women’s lives to force them into sexual relationships.</blockquote><blockquote id="8111">Violent attacks are what happens when men do not have partners, Mr. Peterson says, and society needs to work to make sure those men are married.</blockquote><blockquote id="005a">“He was angry at God because women were rejecting him,” Mr. Peterson says of the Toronto killer. “The cure for that is enforced monogamy. That’s actually why monogamy emerges.”</blockquote><blockquote id="f00b">Mr. Peterson does not pause when he says this. Enforced monogamy is, to him, simply a rational solution. Otherwise women will all only go for the most high-status men, he explains, and that couldn’t make either gender happy in the end.”</blockquote>The framing of it makes it sound like he’s advocating for some kind of “government/state enforced” monogamy — which is malicious. He — as anyone who has been listening to his lectures will tell you — is making a more subtle point.That monogamy is an evolved trait to stabilise societies — it’s “enforced” only as a social rule. Many societies in the past have had polygamy or other situations where a small number of men had access to many women (as do many animal societies), and that proved to be unstable and a bad long term solution to social harmony.So in this argument, the reason that monogamy evolves (and is socially enforced) is to avoid the kind of situation where you end up with too many bitter young men wanting to tear things down. Which — whether you agree with his reading or not — seems to be happening.And he also argues — that one of the consequences of the sexual revolution of the 60s is that it has loosened sexual behaviour. When that happens, and there are less social and physiological downsides (pregnancy is not inevitable) — and more sex is being had — the spoils go disproportionately to the most attractive men.He is arguing that there are deeper reasons for the morality that we evolved over our history, and that there are consequences to the kinds of lifestyle experiments that we saw start to accelerate in the 1960s. This is what the essence of Peterson’s message is about.You can disagree with Peterson, but many people are recognising that this fits their experience of the world — hence his popularity. That the increasingly boundary-less world we’ve created is not working and we need a reintegration of these traditional values.Ideological fixationPersonally I agree with Peterson that much of our culture and media is in the grip of an ideology that styles itself as open, inclusive and tolerant, but actually has a shadow side of intolerance towards those that don’t share their values. <figure id="3404"> <div> <div> <img class="ratio" src="http://placehold.it/16x9"> <iframe class="" src="https://cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?src=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2FaMcjxSThD54%3Fstart%3D1511%26feature%3Doembed%26start%3D1511&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DaMcjxSThD54&image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FaMcjxSThD54%2Fhqdefault.jpg&key=a19fcc184b9711e1b4764040d3dc5c07&type=text%2Fhtml&schema=youtube" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" width="854"> </div> </div> </figure></iframe></div></div></figure>One of the sacred cows in this is the belief that the only reason that men and women don’t have equal representation in many industries and top jobs is because of discrimination, not differing choices. This was famously the subject of the clash with Cathy Newman.If these activists (and the liberal left generally) has to accept that there are measurable differences in temperament, values and life choices made by men and women, and that some of them are likely tied to biology and evolutionary history — then the entire edifice of this ‘gender ideology’ movement starts to shake. We would realise that it would be irrational to expect 50/50 representation in many jobs, for example.And realise that this is not just a social movement — this ideological framing — it’s a big industry. There are charities, organisations and groups that are funded on the basis of this that have huge impact on the media conversation, and business practice.So left-wingers who are usually concerned about the impact of money on ideology and political decisions from corporate interests, might wish to look at the fact that these are major financial interests as well. It is not possible for this entire industry to look at the data accurately.I would also frame it in this way that might resonate

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with left-wing thinkers. Why are you using capitalist metrics like pay to decide on whether women have achieved equality? Isn’t that just another version of the ‘patriarchy’ controlling your minds? How has “the man” persuaded you that equal pay is the right metric to look for equal respect and value?What makes women actually fulfilled and gives genuine meaning in life? Is it the same as for men? I doubt it, and I personally know many women who made that realisation too late in life to easily have a balanced life that included children.But anything that argues against leftist ideology is attacked and smeared. For example the infamous ‘Google memo’ was a case in point, being described as an ‘anti-diversity screed’ throughout the media despite the author, James Damore, specifically making suggestions that would increase the representation of women in tech. This article from the Atlantic — from a writer who doesn’t agree with Damore’s conclusions — gives good context to its misrepresentation: “To me, the Google memo is an outlier — I cannot remember the last time so many outlets and observers mischaracterized so many aspects of a text everyone possessed.”Liberalism as an ideology, with those inside and outside the tribe. Those outside the tribe, like Peterson — deserve scorn, derision, and even misrepresentation.Another hard to explain mischaracterisation, if the journalist had any familiarity with Peterson’s work is this:<blockquote id="33b8">“Mr. Peterson illustrates his arguments with copious references to ancient myths — bringing up stories of witches, biblical allegories and ancient traditions. I ask why these old stories should guide us today.</blockquote><blockquote id="f195">“It makes sense that a witch lives in a swamp. Yeah,” he says. “Why?”</blockquote><blockquote id="69ec">It’s a hard one.</blockquote><blockquote id="0ac8">“Right. That’s right. You don’t know. It’s because those things hang together at a very deep level. Right. Yeah. And it makes sense that an old king lives in a desiccated tower.”</blockquote><blockquote id="fc08">But witches don’t exist, and they don’t live in swamps, I say.</blockquote><blockquote id="e8f8">“Yeah, they do. They do exist. They just don’t exist the way you think they exist. They certainly exist. You may say well dragons don’t exist. It’s, like, yes they do — the category predator and the category dragon are the same category. It absolutely exists. It’s a superordinate category. It exists absolutely more than anything else. In fact, it really exists. What exists is not obvious. You say, ‘Well, there’s no such thing as witches.’ Yeah, I know what you mean, but that isn’t what you think when you go see a movie about them. You can’t help but fall into these categories. There’s no escape from them.”</blockquote>He is deliberately framed here as an old crank, an eccentric who believes in dragons and witches. Yet throughout his lectures he has made clear he is talking psychologically, archetypally and mythologically.In this view they exist in our mythology in a very real way as representations of psychological realities, for example that the dragon is the mythological representation of the ‘unknown’. Throughout our history if you ventured out into the unknown you could die — but there was no other way to discover new information or new rewards.So the dragon is a composite predator of all the animals that used to prey on humans — a cat/snake/bird — and of course in mythology dragons have gold (or virginal women in captivity). The deep psychological story is that by confronting the unknown, you can achieve riches. He’s made that abundantly clear in every lecture.What is becoming ever clearer (and again is something Peterson points out) — the death spiral of the print media is speeding up polarisation — in even the most reputable organisations such as the New York Times start to produce clickbait such as the Jordan Peterson article.Perhaps the New York Times have decided to take a leaf out of the book of the 4chan culture, and provocateurs like Milo Yiannopolous who made whole careers out of provoking the left into overreaction. In this case — the NYT have placed this article behind a paywall (I’m told) — so to read it, outraged Peterson fans will have to subscribe to the paper.Then to unsubscribe — I know because I just checked — you cannot unsubscribe online, you have to call them. This seems at least unethical.The most dangerous part of this whole enterprise is that Peterson has now become pretty much the singular focus of the ramping up of the culture wars — the lightning rod, if you will. Articles like this add hugely to the polarisation he warns about.On one side you have literally tens of thousands of people (mainly, but not all men) who have had their lives changed, and many claiming actually saved, by listening to Jordan Peterson’s words. On the other side you have a mix of hard core ideological opponents to him, and a vast middle ground who don’t know him well — but are almost certainly thinking that there is no smoke without fire.He has argued frequently that we are in an increasingly polarised world and that individual actions can have serious consequences, if we don’t act with integrity, or we sacrifice our morality and conscience in any way.This journalist spent two days with Peterson in his house, she seemingly has some familiarity with his work, and yet chooses to characterise him in this way.The treatment of Jordan Peterson is speeding up the irrelevance of the mainstream media at an increasing rate. Too many people are aware of his work and who he is and what he believes for the hit pieces to stick.In the language of the internet subculture — the treatment of Jordan Peterson by the mainstream media is showing up their ideology, and Red Pilling an entire generation. <figure id="41f6"> <div> <div> <img class="ratio" src="http://placehold.it/16x9"> <iframe class="" src="https://cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?src=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2FYDxl1stMTCU%3Fstart%3D193%26feature%3Doembed%26start%3D193&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DYDxl1stMTCU&image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FYDxl1stMTCU%2Fhqdefault.jpg&key=a19fcc184b9711e1b4764040d3dc5c07&type=text%2Fhtml&schema=youtube" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" width="854"> </div> </div> </figure></iframe></div></div></figure>For more documentaries and interviews, check out the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFQ6Gptuq-sLflbJ4YY3Umw?view_as=subscriber">Rebel Wisdom Youtube channel</a>.My personal website: <a href="http://davidfuller.tv/">http://davidfuller.tv/</a>And please consider <a href="https://www.patreon.com/rebelwisdom">supporting us on Patreon</a>.</article></body>

Why put in the time and effort to learn Arduino properly?

Due to Science — The World is Analogue! [Peter Kinget]

The world we live in is analog. We are analog. Any inputs we can perceive are analog. For example, sounds are analog signals. (read this articles)

Computers are digital.

Our electronic devices are the link between these two worlds. So, let’s travel from the physical world into the digital world of electronics!

And as students of electronics (or at first interested only), we are looking for means in acquiring sensors that measure the physical quantities and transform them into another physical quantity manipulable by the Arduino (or any other microprocessor).

In the sciences in general (and in physics more explicitly), only the measurable properties of a phenomenon, body, or substance are called physical quantities.

List of physical quantities available in the world:)

Acceleration
Angle
Area
Catalytic activity
Radioactive activity
Specific heat
Electric field
Electrical Current Density
Magnetic flux density
Distance, Length, Height (measured), Width, Offset, Distance traveled
Energy, Mechanical work
Enthalpy
Entropy
Luminous flux
Magnetic flow
Frequency
Strength, Weight
Lighting
Inductance
Electrical Current Intensity
Radiation intensity
Light intensity
Pasta
Molality
Normality
Power
Pressure
Amount of matter
Amount of movement
Speed of reaction
Electrical resistance
Radian
Temperature
Time
velocity
Electrical voltage (Electrical potential difference)
Volume
...

And what do they call the instruments of measurement of physical quantities in electronics? Transducers.

A transducer is a device that converts one form of energy into another form. It converts the measurement to a usable electrical signal. In another word, it is a device that is capable of converting the physical quantity into a proportional electrical quantity such as Voltage or Current, Pressure and Voltage.

And here is a list of Transducers for Arduino (simple and cheap):

So Transducers are devices that transform one form of energy into another. Right?

Our world is analog. With Arduino, you can measure the analog signals of the world. Right?

Good!

Out of curiosity what industry are you working in? So it may be that from now on that you are interested in putting in the time and effort to learn Arduino properly but you are not sure whether it’ll be just for hobby or if you can make some sort of income from it?

That’s a good question.

First, you need to know that Arduino is a microprocessor (well not really…). It’s a philosophy: hardware and software and community together! Arduino Uno is a breakout board based on the Atmel ATmega328P microcontroller. That is a microcontroller!

A Microcontroller is an IC chip that executes programs for controlling other devices or machines.

A typical microcontroller includes a processor, memory and input/output (I/O) peripherals on a single chip.

What Arduino makes is to expose much of the features offered by the microcontroller to your projects.

And secondly, you need to know how to program it?

Atmel Studio 7

In the next post, we will begin a detailed study of this world called Arduino using Atmel Studio 7.

A study quite different from those seen out there on the net … we’re gonna see interruptions, sleep-mode, PicoPower architecture — is the ability to turn off more of the peripheral modules — do not miss it!

Do not miss this great event! Bye for now!

👉🏃Are you in a hurry? Grab your📲📱 smartphone and enjoy this series: Atmel Studio 7 & UNO Serie (Ep#00) @giljrE https://readmedium.com/atmel-studio-7-uno-ep-00-969b9cc3cf7b

CURIOSITIES:

Système International d’unités — is based on a metric system of measurement. These units are known as SI units because the name of the system in French is SI units have been widely used since the 1960s, and They are now used by scientific communities throughout the world.

Basic quantities — include length, time and mass. Other quantities (called derived quantities) can be expressed as some combination of one or more basic quantities. Quantities such as area and volume, for example, can be derived from the length. The area of a rectangle is the product of two dimensions, both of which are lengths. Similarly, the volume of a cuboid is the product of three dimensions, all three of which are also lengths. Speed is expressed as the ratio of the distance moved by an object and the time interval over which this movement takes place. Speed is therefore expressed using a combination of two basic quantities, length and time.

How do we know about the distant stars?

We can’t see far enough into space to be able to see individual planets orbiting a remote start, for example. We can, however, detect tiny variations in the light that reaches us from the star caused by the gravitational effects of an orbiting body.

And how to measure the atom?

Similarly, we cannot directly measure the mass of an atom, but we can get around this using a piece of equipment called a mass spectrometer. In its simplest form, the device vaporizes a sample of a material, turning it into gas. Each atom of the sample is then ionized (positively charged) by removing one or more of its electrons. The positively charged ions are then sent through a magnetic field. Because they carry a positive electrical charge, they are deflected by the magnetic field. The amount of deflection depends on the atom’s mass (the smaller the mass, the greater the deflection). A detector measures the amount of deflection that has occurred, and the results are used to calculate the mass of the atom.

What is a submultiple unit?

Units that are significantly smaller than the base unit (sometimes referred to as submultiple units) are denoted using the appropriate prefix. For example, the base unit of electrical current is smaller than one ampere (typically thousandths or millionths of an ampere). We can prefix the letter “A” with a character that indicates which particular submultiple we want to represent. One-thousandth of an ampere is called a milliampere, so we use the abbreviation “mA” (the lower case letter “m” is used to represent the milli prefix). One-millionth of an ampere is called a microampere, so we use the abbreviation “μA”. The lower case Greek letter mu is used to represent the micro prefix.

What is multiple units?

Units that are significantly larger than the base unit (called multiple units) are treated in the same way. Take electrical resistance as an example. The unit of electrical resistance is the ohm, represented in electrical formulae using the Greek upper-case letter Omega (Ω). Resistances in electrical circuits tend to be large (typically thousands or millions of ohms). For very large resistances, we can prefix the Greek letter Omega with a character that indicates which particular multiple we want to represent. One thousand ohms is called a kilohm, so we use the abbreviation “kΩ”. One million ohms is called a megohm, so we use the abbreviation “MΩ”. The upper case letter “M” is used to represent the meta prefix.

The International System of Units provides us with a common framework within which to carry out the measurement of diverse quantities and allows us to express the results in a format that will be meaningful to the entire scientific community.

References & Credits:

Atmel Code base Github

www.technologyuk.net

Atmel Studio 7

See The Serie: Atmel Studio 7 & UNO

[Edited at nov 2018: Grammarly corrections powered]