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diff --git a/docs/umich/f24_473.md b/docs/umich/f24_473.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d8640f2 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/umich/f24_473.md @@ -0,0 +1,589 @@ +# Fall 2024 Course Review: EECS 473 + +2024-12-28 + +Course Title: Advanced Embedded Systems + +Rating: 4/5 + +## Instructors (Mark Brehob, Matthew Smith, James Carl) + +I commented on Mark in the first semester, regarding [EECS +370](f23_wrapup.md#instructor-mark-brehob). He hasn't changed. I have. +I've been working on my social aptitude and interacting more on lectures. +I also drop by his office hour a lot more frequently than I used to, often +to discuss our project. + +Matt worked with Robert Dick on +[373](w24_373.md#instructors-robert-dick-matthew-smith) last semester. +I had less interaction with him than in 373. I spent a lot more time with +our GSIs though. + +James Carl was recently hired to replace Matt once he retires. He has some +pretty good debugging ideas. + +## Course topics + +These are topics of significance in my opinion: + +- Interface + - The Arduino library is an interface +- RTOS (real-time operating system) + - Task scheduling + - Semaphores +- Copyright and copyleft + - GPL + - Fair use +- Linux + - "Everything is a file" + - Device drivers + - Kernel modules +- PCB + - Making of PCB + - Power integrity + - Bypass capacitors and frequencies they can handle +- Batteries + - Choosing a chemistry + - Estimating battery life +- Voltage regulator + - LDO (linear regulator) + - Switching regulator +- DSP + - "Specialized computing" + - Fixed point arithmetic + - Common DSP algos +- Wireless + - Hamming code + - Keying (ASK, FSK, etc) + - Shannon's limit + - Antenna range + +There are five labs in total, but I was exempt from the last one because +I knew how to design PCBs already. The labs are super high workload and +never once did my teammate and I finish them within the three hours of lab +time. We always worked overtime, sometimes on Saturday. + +I'm relieved that we aren't using STM32CubeIDE or dealing with their +horrid code style anymore. + +## Project + +When I enrolled in the course, I thought the goal of the project was to +create the best PCB. It was not. Instead, what we were supposed to create +is a product — with a use case and a market. It's OK if the PCB is full of +bodges. Just make it work. + +Teams of 4-5. Budget is $200 / person. I'm in a team of 4. Our project is +the Live Caption Badge. Taken from project report: + +> What we made was the Live Caption Badge. At the CoE Design Expo, we +> demonstrated the device by inviting visitors to wear the badge and talk +> with us. With the press of a button, the visitor can hear our voice, and +> we can hear theirs. We also showed the visitor that their speech was +> transcribed live on the screen. + +> The goal of our project is to improve communication in noisy +> environments, such as convention halls, for hearing-impaired individuals +> and non-native speakers. Our solution is a live caption badge that +> records and uploads speech to a server running a transcription API. The +> badge then displays the text on an e-paper screen. Badges can form +> a talkgroup, where users can hear each other’s speech. + + + +I will now expand on the subsystems, discuss the work I was involved in, +and the manmade horrors beyond comprehension. + +### E-Paper + +When I brought this idea to Mark, he was skeptical, especially about the +epaper. He thought epaper was slow, but he didn't know the model we picked +([Waveshare 7.5-inch](https://www.waveshare.com/7.5inch-e-paper-hat.htm)) +supports partial refreshes, which is a feature where a rectangular area +gets refreshed in only 0.5 seconds. He still was not fully convinced, but +we went with the epaper anyway because (1) it's readable from a wide angle +and (2) it's cool and we have the budget. + +Waveshare published driver code, which worked as long as you're super +careful with it. For example, there's a function for partial refreshes, +which takes an `xStart` variable among others. What's implied, and kinda +obvious in hindsight, is that `xStart` must be a multiple of 8, because +each byte is 8 pixels. However, there was nothing in the documentation. +When I passed an illegal value, it didn't even warn me. It's not a great +software interface. + +I also spotted a data underflow error. They did something like `size_t +s = (x % 256) - 1`, which might underflow to `(size_t)(-1)` if `x % 256 == +0`. It should have been `(x - 1) % 256`. + +The coding style is so inconsistent that I didn't even bother fixing it. + +When I was designing the PCB (I started late and missed the deadline, +whoops) I realized there was no time to design the driver circuit for the +epaper. So I asked Mark if we could just piggy back the breakout board on +our PCB and he reluctantly said OK. + +So: + + + +I actually had three plans to make it work. You'll notice a row of 2.54 mm +headers and an unmounted clikmate footprint underneath. One of them needs +to be wired to the breakout board. It can be jumper wires plugged to the +2.54, or stripped wires soldered to the 2.54, or specialized cables into +the clikmate. + +The breakout board has a clikmate connector, and is shipped along with +a clikmate-to-2.54 mm cable. These work directly with this board above. +I looked for clikmate-to-clikmate cables online in hope for a tidier +wiring, but they don't sell 9-circuit cables anywhere. It goes from 1 to +8, then directly to 10. Where'd Waveshare even get these?? :floofwhat: + +In November I was feeling ambitious, so I decided for another spin of the +PCB, this time with the epaper circuit in-house. I left out the 2.54 mm +headers, assuming the FPC connector would work. Problem? It didn't work. +Reason? No fucking idea. + +I tried probing continuity, but when the ribbon cable is fully inserted +there wasn't any exposed metal. It was days until design expo, so I quit +the struggle (correct decision). I just stripped the wires and soldered +them directly to the ESP32. + + + +These wires annoy me. They haunt me even after the semester ended and +I got my final grades. I must eradicate their existence from the surface +of the Earth. + +One day I was at MESH, and I looked up my LCSC shopping log. And there +stood what I had sought: + + + +They're supposed to be top contacts. + +Shaking my head, I ordered a bunch of top contact FPC connectors from +Mouser. They worked. + + + +### Audio + +When the project began I was fearless. GSIs and James had proposed that we +use an I2S microphone module instead, but I, being arrogant, insisted that +we use an off-the-shelf customer service headset and plug it into the +board via a 3.5 mm jack. Design-wise, I made the right choice because +a 3.5 mm is highly compatible. However, the connector caused me +a ridiculous amount of pain. + + + +This is a TRRS (tip-ring-ring-sleeve) audio connector. The datasheet just +made no sense to me. I never touched an audio connector in the unsoldered +form, so I don't know which ring goes where. Specifically, I assumed the +pad labeled 1 on the top right was the tip, because it was the farthest +away from the hole. I found a similar footprint in the KiCad library, +which I modified so that pin 1 is the tip. + +To get the audio, we used an ADC chip (ES7210), which was picking up +a really weak signal amongst the noise. After ruling out soldering issues, +for days I suspected that the ADC has an inadequate input impedance. I did +calculations I learned in [311](w24_311.md). I even considered a buffer opamp. + +I brought the question to Mark. He wasn't too fond of what I proposed, and +instead propose that I try different resistor values on the drain of the +electret mic. I went back to the lab to try it out. + +Probing the connector with a multimeter in continuity mode wasn't helpful, +because I didn't have an aux cable with all four contacts. Oddly, probing +two of the pads sometimes make the multimeter beep, which I didn't think +too much until I saw something cursed. + +I reenacted the PCB circuit upon the headset jack, bypassing the +connector. __It worked.__ + + + +▲ Valid, totally not shoddy testing rig + +Conslusion? The KiCad footprint was right. I was wrong. Pin 1 was the +sleeve. :floofangry: + +Because of the wrong pinout, what it ended up sampling was a headphone +coil, which _was_ picking up sound but terribly. If there wasn't audio at +all, I might have come to the conclusion sooner. The beeping from the +multimeter was because the headphone coils were 32 ohms, lower than the +threshold of what makes a "short". If I had probed in ohm mode, I could +have known sooner. + +The discovery both relieved me and disappointed me. I knew I wasn't smart +enough to make mistakes involving input impedance. I felt like a clown. + + + +Hot fix: I unsoldered it and bodged some wires and lived with it until Rev +2. + + + +Lesson: always check pinout before proceeding with any troubleshooting +that requires a brain. + +### USB-C + +I put three connectors on the PCB (other than 2.54 mm headers). __Every +single one of them__ had some sort of issue. + +I talked about the audio connector. I talked about the FPC connector. +I also made a mistake with the USB connector. You see, in an attempt to be +"hip", I insisted on USB-C, and bought some from Mouser. The problem was, +I missed something on the datasheet again. The area where the metal casing +goes is not just a keepout — it's a physical notch in the board cutout. So +in Rev 1 we had to use an FTDI dongle connected to the UART headers via +jumper wires. Every time we had to flash firmware, we had to: + +- Hold Reset and Flash buttons +- Release Reset +- Release Flash +- `idf.py build flash monitor` (aliased as `bfm`) +- Press Reset + +In Rev 2, the USB worked on the board my teammate Angel soldered but not +on mine. In a fit of rage (in my defense I was tired) I ripped the +connector off, which did permanent damage to the copper traces, so we had +to keep using FTDI on my board. + +Both of my friends who work in embedded agree that connectors are the +worst. + +### PCB + +This PCB is special to me. It is the first time I designed a PCB so large +(Rev 2 is 170×105 mm, although most of it is empty, which did leave space +for me to sneak in some artwork). + +The board was my first time doing 4-layer. (Middle layers are just 3.3V +and GND.) James advised me to do so because he feared the signal lines +dragging across the PCB would pick up interference. + +It's also the first time I ordered a stencil for my own design. It's also +the first time I used an ESP32 that's not on a DevKit. + +The size, layers, and stencil combined made PCBs real expensive. + +- Rev 1 + - PCB: $42.61 + - Stencil: $7.11 + - Shipping: $42.15 + - Discount: -$10.00 + - Tax: $4.92 + - Total: $86.79 +- Rev 2 + - PCB: $43.41 + - Stencil: $7.11 + - Shipping: $33.28 + - Tax: $4.67 + - Total: $82.47 + +The shipping skyrocketed (basically doubled) once we ordered the stencils. +In total we spent ~$169 on PCBs, or 21% of our budget. + +We spent $225.50 on stuff that go on PCBs, 28% of our budget. + +The DAC and ADC audio chips are QFNs with 0.4 mm pitch, the finest I've +ever soldered. + +The three buttons are surprisingly tactile. They're really snappy. Worth +every penny. + +I left a bunch of easter eggs on the PCB. + + + +▲ Inspired by the [Eurofurence 28 +badge](https://github.com/eurofurence/ef28-badge). + + + +▲ Q1 is an N-channel MOSFET. + + + +▲ This is Rev 2. + + + +▲ It's 68 µF. + + + +▲ Rev 1 was just the original Yippee creature, but Rev 2 has cat ears and +a tail + +### 3D printing + +My teammate Kyle did the 3D modeling and printing all by himself. He has +a Bamboo at home. He printed two versions for the two PCB revisions, two +pieces each. They're actually really well-made. Like, from a distance you +can't even tell they were 3D printed. + +Since the FPC didn't work, there had to be a breakout board. Instead of +going on the PCB as I had intended (it didn't have enough horizontal +clearance for the big row of headers on the other side I'm not willing to +remove), it was mounted on a 3D printed piece with M3's, between the +epaper and the PCB. However, only the case designed for Rev 1 had that. +So, we used the Rev 2 PCB with the Rev 1 case, which is a couple +centimeters thicker. No one cared. + +The case was black, red and white, with some serious NES vibes. Its hefty +build also reminded me of lead-acid batteries. + +The 3D printed case is a huge, I repeat, HUUUGE part of our success. It +really made our project look like a product, even when it's just sitting +there. It attracted many people on the design expo, and even though it +wasn't central to the course, we got more questions about the case than +the PCB, because you can see that. We're so lucky to have Kyle. +:floofheart: + +### Firmware + +We had a choice between Arduino and ESP-IDF, and we were forced into the +latter because the audio library on Arduino wasn't working. + +Writing an application with ESP-IDF is so. Horrible. How does anyone build +an entire application with ESP-IDF without losing their mind? + +Everything is manual. Everything. The audio library on ESP-IDF is ESP-ADF, +which emulates audio pipelines, which I'm familiar with (playing with +Ardour and Pipewire and stuff). It's a neat idea and it works, but our +code is a mess. An excerpt +([source](https://github.com/fakefred/live-caption-badge/blob/main/firmware/main/audio.c#L55)): + +```c +ESP_LOGI(TAG, "Create ADC i2s stream"); +i2s_stream_cfg_t adc_i2s_cfg = I2S_STREAM_CFG_DEFAULT_WITH_TYLE_AND_CH( + (i2s_port_t)0, AUDIO_SAMPLE_RATE, AUDIO_BITS, AUDIO_STREAM_READER, AUDIO_CHANNELS); +adc_i2s_cfg.type = AUDIO_STREAM_READER; +adc_i2s_cfg.out_rb_size = 64 * 1024; +adc_i2s = i2s_stream_init(&adc_i2s_cfg); +i2s_stream_set_clk(adc_i2s, AUDIO_SAMPLE_RATE, AUDIO_BITS, AUDIO_CHANNELS); +audio_pipeline_register(tx_pipeline, adc_i2s, "adc"); +``` + +All this just to create an I2S reader. It's not even in the pipeline yet. + +The rest of our code was also visually redundant and mostly unreadable, +full of hacks. + +I once wanted to try writing an application with ESP-IDF. Now that I've +done that, I would never try that again unless absolutely necessary. + +We were on a sprint in the last two days. Probably half of the visible +side of the software (user interaction, on-screen UI, etc.) was finished +in these two days. We sat in the lab, hour after hour, flashing and +testing firmware roughly every five minutes. It was soul-crushing. I put +on album after album, mainly twenty one pilots and Radiohead. + +My teammate, Rain, suggested we add a feature where we could change the +username on the badge over HTTP, without having to reflash the badge. +I was reluctant at first, saying "it isn't a core feature", but he +insisted. Well, he was __absolutely right__. + +It turns out, being handed a thing with your name on it feels different +than one without. On design expo day, multiple people agreed to have their +name put on it once we gave them the option, and some of them even took +photos! + +How do we do the HTTP, you ask? Well, we exposed a couple HTTP endpoints +on the ESP32 and wrote a Python script on my laptop to issue a request +once asked to. We opened a CSV file in LibreOffice Calc called the +"Dashboard", and the Python script read from that. It was literally +written __the night before design expo__. + +(The HTTP endpoints also included `/poke`, `/unpoke`, and `/reboot`. +They're hacks. Don't ask.) + +### Vosk server + +Another Python script running on my laptop is the server, in charge of +transcribing text and streaming audio. It's super hacky as well. It's +adapted from some ESP-IDF example code, and it was built on the super +low-level BaseHTTPRequestHandler instead of something for humans, like +Flask or FastAPI. It did allow us to commit many crimes. :floofmischief: + +The text transcription was done using +[Vosk](https://alphacephei.com/vosk/), which I never heard of until Rain +brought it up as an alternative to Google Cloud, which had been planning +to use. Vosk had an advantage of being offline. It's just a pre-trained +model. + +The badge-to-badge audio streamed through the server as well, which we +honestly didn't want. Ideally the audio could just go from an ESP32 to +another, without the laptop detour doubling latency. However, it was +impossible. + +With our current networking stack (HTTP over Wi-Fi), if an ESP32 were to +transmit audio to another, the former has to be a client, and the latter +has to be a server. However, the ESP-IDF HTTP server __does not support +chunked reads__. Streaming audio is thus impossible without patching the +library itself, or hacks that violate the ESP-ADF abstraction. + +Oh yeah and we can't really stream audio via Bluetooth (A2DP) because we +bought ESP32-S3's, which don't support classic Bluetooth, only BLE. + +### Budget + + + +The data: + +- E-Paper: $195.33 +- PCB Parts: $162.1015 +- PCBs & Stencils: $94.24 +- DevKits: $72.00 +- Headphones: $44.93 +- Misc: $73.73 +- Tax: $40.18 +- Shipping: $91.93 + +Total: $774.44 (96.8% of budget) + +Notable wastes of money: + +- The first ESP32 DevKit (LyraT): mic didn't work. +- The bottom-contact FPC connectors. + +Rant: Our second ESP32 DevKit (Korvo-2) worked, but it didn't have +a headphone connector, only a speaker connector which wasn't 2.54 mm. +Everytime I needed to hear the output, I had to poke jumper wires into +that awkward connector hoping I didn't short anything. + +This doesn't go on the budget, but about a week before design expo I was +forced to re-activate Amazon Prime (eww) to buy some lanyards and +headphones because no one else ships over Thanksgiving. I canceled it +today. + +### Design expo + +The instructors required "shirt and tie or equivalent", but I didn't have +a tie and a couple teammates neither. So we all just did casual. No one +fucking cared. + +We set up the poster and waited for people to pay attention. We had two +badges. I wore one and offered the other to anyone interested. It was +pretty effective. + +One person who goes by Michael stopped by and complimented our poster +design, saying we did a good job keeping the information density low, and +we picked a good font (Fira Code, which was the font we printed on the +epaper). + +He worked in a Japanese-American company or something, and remarked that +our product had potential for communication if we had a translation +feature. He mentioned that interpreters at his company needed to translate +not only what was said, but also how it's said — for example, if +a Japanese executive yells at an American executive in Japanese, the +interpreter has to yell again in English. + +I found this amusing and replied that, precisely because of this, machines +will never replace humans in communication. + +Before the four-hour-long design expo, I had predicted I would either die +of fatigue, or of boredom. It wasn't too bad, and in the last hour it was +closer to the latter. I was almost always there. We consumed a bag of Cool +Ranch Doritos. + +A total of four (4) furries showed up, and I totally did _not_ hand out my +new stickers in a paper bag like some kind of drug dealer. + +### Report + +I'm going to spare you from all the pain. Just know that it was Mark's +favorite report ("so far"). He also liked the Haiku I sneaked in the +"Lessons Learned" section. It was really validating. + +The full thing: + +> I am glad that we scheduled a weekly meeting early on. It enabled us to +> check in each other’s progress (or lack thereof). Another correct +> decision is to collaborate on our own branches on GitHub. +> +> The reason why I fell behind on the PCB schedule was that we didn’t know +> what we wanted. We had never agreed on the specifics, e.g. where do the +> buttons go. Audio circuitry was also a whole new experience for me. As +> I sat in the Fishbowl 24 hours before deadline staring at datasheets, +> I felt the pressure that one wrong trace will doom our project. +> +> As it turned out, I had not one, but five wrong traces, four of which +> being the headphone jack. Sometimes my own stupidity surprises me. +> A continuity test with an aux cord would have saved me from days of +> confusion. + +> However, I must +> Learn from my mistakes and try +> To let go of them + + +And this is the end of the project. I have to stop writing it. This +article is getting close to 4K words… :floofmug: + +Now, onto closing remarks. + +## Arduino is good, actually: a reflection on software interfaces + +I once hated Arduino. I thought it "wasn't real embedded systems", merely +a playground for those who lack the intellect to peruse the MMIO registers +on a datasheet. There was a time I avoided using it, even on Arduino +hardware itself, fearing its "overhead" would impede the efficiency of my +code. I would write firmware that, instead of a `digitalWrite`, did stuff +like `PORTC |= _BV(2)`. The [373](w24_373.md) curriculum reinforced my +affinity to bare-metal. + +However, I was mistaken. Using Arduino doesn't make you less of an +embedded systems engineer. I know people who have been working as +a professional for years, and still prefer Arduino for personal projects. +This is because it's such a popular interface, so popular that basically +every tutorial was written for it, in stark contrast to ESP-IDF, which was +only ever discussed on the official ESP32 forum. + +A software interface keeps ugly code to itself and presents clean function +prototypes to the user. The user just needs to be aware of a few things, +like thread safety. Most of the time the user just does stuff, and nothing +goes wrong. The interface does error checking internally to maintain +invariants. + +A mistake I made when designing the epaper interface was to expose +a FreeRTOS `QueueHandle_t`. Now, my excuse was we were running out of +time. But over the winter break I've been working on Phase II of the +Badge, rewriting the firmware in C++ on PlatformIO + Arduino (without the +audio part). When writing C++, I consider FreeRTOS code "ugly", and hide +them inside class methods whenever possible. + +At this point I'm on the other extreme: To avoid handling raw pointers, +I've been using the STL as much as I can, and my code looks nothing like +embedded code. It's full of `std::unique_ptr`s and `std::istream`s. It's +almost like desktop code. But hey, I've got megabytes of PSRAM and +megabytes of Flash. I can afford some tiny efficiency loss for more memory +safety. At least I don't need to `free` a pointer in every early return +path. + +## Conclusion + +All that said: 473 is definitely better than 373. Considering this is my +capstone, I'm even proud of it. + +> Four seventy-three +> Will never defeat me in +> A way that matters diff --git a/docs/umich/f24_eecs496.md b/docs/umich/f24_eecs496.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..374be06 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/umich/f24_eecs496.md @@ -0,0 +1,145 @@ +# Fall 2024 Course Review: EECS 496 + +2024-12-21 + +Course Title: Major Design Experience — Professionalism + +Rating: 2/5 + +EECS 496 takes the form of guest lectures. Almost every week a different +speaker would take the floor. Some are boring. Some are great. The lecture +topics are (taken from course schedule): + +- Introduction +- Interview Essentials +- Startups +- Achieving Financial Fitness +- Investments +- Project management +- Respect in the Workplace +- Venture Capital +- Intellectual Property: Trademarks, patents, and copyrights +- Introduction to Ethics (I missed this lecture because Whitfield Diffie + gave a talk earlier) +- AI and Ethics: Trust, Cooperation, and Society +- Technology and Public Policy + +## Honorable Mentions + +### Venture Capital + +You didn't expect me to compliment a venture capitalist, did you? Well, +"recovering venture capitalist", as Brendan Richardson describes himself. +He's a funny guy. He wasn't defending VC. He was roasting it, mercilessly. +Quote unquote: + +> True of False? + +> The reputation of Venture Capitalists as selfish, arrogant, greedy jerks +> is DESERVED? + +> TRUE!! + +His talk almost caused me to have sympathy toward VCs. Takeaways: + +- A VC's job is nearly impossible + - Like spotting a future Olympics champion in kindergarten + - Most startup companies fail + - Most VCs fail +- Most of the money VCs throw into startups isn't theirs, but that of much + bigger companies ("Limited Partners") like foundations or insurance + companies +- Because most startups fail, those who succeed must generate explosive + returns (10x, 100x, you name it) + +And that's why, according to Richardson, VCs sleep like babies, in that +they wake up every two hours and cry. + +Still though, VCs cannot be acquitted of their crimes against humanity and +the environment. + +Lesson learned: I could never be a VC. + +### AI and Ethics + +Ben Kuipers doesn't believe in the singularity. Machines aren't gonna team +up and kill us either. As of 2024 (hi archaeologists), when a machine +kills someone, it is not because it wants to; it's because it wasn't aware +that it's about to kill someone. Like the Waymo that dragged a pedestrian +down under. Nobody thought it could happen, but it did. And there wasn't +a section of code, or a part of the model, that dealt with this scenario. + +Kuipers argues that, by the time an AI faces the trolley problem, it's +already too late. If a car on autopilot is driving on a narrow street, and +it can either kill a pedestrian or the passenger — the debate should not +be about whom to kill, but about why the fuck didn't the car slow down in +the first place. + +### Technology and Public Policy + +Molly Kleinman believes public policy is necessary, no matter what the +techbros say. When a technology is said to be for the "public good", +a good question to ask is always "but _whose_ public good?" + +A lot of modern innovations be like: + +\> create cool technology +\> look inside +\> biases + +One example she used was the speeding cameras in Chicago citing more +tickets in Black neighborhoods. The root cause was that roads there were +often wider so drivers had less incentive to slow down. Infrastructure +issue. + +### Respect in the Workplace + +Taj Williams, DEI person at CSE, talks about allyship. Allyship is when +you're in the majority but support minorities. + +Me, being in several minorities, believe this should be one of the first +lectures, not the seventh. If it were, I wouldn't have called EECS 496 the +"torture lecture". + +## Dishonorable mentions + +These are the lectures that made me coin "torture lecture". + +### Investments + +He starts from the importance of paying off credit card debt. Forty +minutes later he's talking about real estate investment. My brother in +christ that's quite a leap + +I asked him if he considers real estate investment ethical under current +social circumstances, when homeless people exist. He was kinda upset and +I did not ask any further. + +### Achieving Financial Fitness + +I wasn't planning to retire in the US, but now I know how 401(k) works so +thank you I guess?? + +## Assignments + +- Elevator pitch: Try to sell myself to an employer at a career fair +- Budget: Figure out how much I'm gonna earn and spend when I get a job +- Executive summary: Try to convince that my MDE (473) project has + a market and is profitable (it's not) +- Microaggressions: Try to deal with bigots in the workplace with + Direct/Delay/Delegate/Distract +- Op-Ed: Write an op-ed about a technology that raises an ethical concern, + and another to argue that the concern isn't so threatening + +I was deducted two points from the Microaggressions assignment because +I forgot to include a "Generative AI statement", which, if it did exist, +would say "nope". I don't have a problem with the deduction, I'm just mad +that I can't even write an assignment without doing a captcha. + +## Verdict + +Overall experience is Not Good™. I took this course only because I had to. +I sure am glad there exist a few good lectures to justify it. + +Although most of the knowledge didn't immediately come to use, it might +prove helpful some time in the future. diff --git a/docs/umich/f24_wrapup.md b/docs/umich/f24_wrapup.md index 16a5143..0898167 100644 --- a/docs/umich/f24_wrapup.md +++ b/docs/umich/f24_wrapup.md @@ -12,10 +12,10 @@ horror stories, and poetry. 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