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#22) Einstein's Book Changed My Life

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Hello, and welcome back to "Always Be Better" with Mel Windham. Today we're going to be talking about Einstein and his book on Relativity. Yay! It's one of my favorite books -- one of my prized possessions, and let me tell you the story. Duke Talent Identification Program It starts in 7th grade. You may have heard of the Duke Talent Identification Program. This is a program where Duke University searches out children who are excelling at school, and gives them recognition and reinforcement. Now, when I was in 7th grade, they had us take the SAT, and I scored high enough to get my name in the paper along with a few of my friends. And I also scored high enough to win one of the math awards. And so when I went to the ceremony, and they did the math awards, I got to walk up there, and the guy handed me this book -- this exact book right here. It's -- you can see how old it is, with all the yellow pages in there. I felt like I had achieved something. It was cool. It...

#21) How Can We Use Logic Gates?

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Hello, and welcome back to "Always Be Better" with Mel Windham. In this episode, we will continue learning about logic. As a prerequisite, you should first watch my intro to Logic , and then this video on Logic Gates . And then you can come back here for more. You have five seconds to comply. Okay, let's dive right in. We'll start with a simple AND statement:  Both Alice AND Bob are here.  Scenario #1) If this AND statement is true, what does that tell us about Alice? This one is easy, right? Alice is here. But let's look at this another way and study the AND gate from our last episode. AND A=0 A=1 B=0 0 0 B=1 0 1 If the AND statement is true, that happens in only one place -- here in the AND table where the red 1 is. Let's look closer look. A stands for Alice. And B stands for Bob. If we go up from the red 1, we see that A=1, which translates into "Alice is here." Likewise we could have gone along the ...