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	Podcast:		The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast
	Episode:		#444 – An Interview with Ben Eater
	Category:		Science & Medicine
	Duration:		01:17:43
	Publish Date:		2019-05-27 18:21:30
	Description:		Welcome, Ben Eater! You may know Ben from his YouTube videos showing how to build a breadboard 8 bit computer Ben’s background is in software/networking 0h 0m 33s He has been an electronics hobbyist for a long time 0h 1m 21s Digital electronics – Albert Paul Malvino 0h 3m 0s The 8 bit computer started for a hackathon 0h 3m 54s Bottom up learning 0h 12m 59s We depend upon abstractions 0h 15m 19s We have leaky abstractions 0h 15m 36s Micro instruction 0h 17m 54s 16B of memory 0h 18m 25s Instruction or data 0h 18m 33s Program with dip switches 0h 18m 41s Program in and then switch into run mode 0h 19m 17s 4 registers 0h 21m 37s ALU 0h 23m 24s Output register 0h 23m 26s Can go a couple hundred hertz 0h 24m 26s Instructions and microinstructions 0h 25m 50s Combinationatorial logic circuit 0h 28m 0s Control word 0h 28m 7s Assembly programming and register model 0h 32m 46s Optimizations 0h 33m 39s every instruction takes 6 clock cycles 0h 34m 24s What does the community look like? 0h 35m 6s 14 breadboards 0h 36m 5s Accessibility 0h 36m 55s Using TTL logic chips 0h 37m 30s Can stick an LED on an LS output 0h 37m 47s The community is mostly on the subreddit /r/beneater 0h 39m 37s Ben is now selling a kit 0h 39m 43sTTL Comes with the LS chips 0h 41m 1s Seeing how people struggle 0h 44m 21s microcosm of the education system 0h 45m 44s Extrinsic motivation 0h 47m 43s Dopamine loops 0h 48m 7s Ben previously worked at Khan Academy (KA) 0h 48m 35s In his student days he didn’t like math 0h 50m 48s Stumbled on a bug when checking out KA. 0h 51m 44s Volunteered time to KA. 0h 52m 3s Hired on in 2011 0h 55m 19s They are a non-profit tech company 0h 57m 37s Taught classes in the networking space 0h 59m 7s Books on education 1h 1m 16s Mindstorms by Seymour Papert 1h 1m 45s Logo programming language 1h 2m 31s Turtle 1h 2m 49s Mindset by Carol Dweck 1h 6m 4s Growth Mindset vs Fixed Mindset 1h 6m 34s Metacognition at Khan 1h 8m 6s Game designers have figured this out 1h 9m 8s Mario level 1 1h 9m 28s RSA animate of Dan Pink 1h 13m 33s Mastery Autonomy Purpose 1h 15m 15s Making more videos, there is a newer one about CRCs 1h 19m 28s Find Ben on Reddit, YouTube, or Twitter 1h 20m 38s
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