this class is about applied energistics 2, a minecraft mod. if you play a lot of modded minecraft, you're probably familiar with ae2. maybe you've even used it yourself to store your items (or perhaps you prefer refined storage), having created some storage drives or stuck a storage bus on a drawer controller. maybe you even set up some autocrafting. but you can do more than that, minecraft steve. so, so, so much more. this class will go into some of the more creative uses of ae2, and teach you about cable management, channel management (including p2p channels), busses and terminals, subnets and ad-hoc networks, advanced autocrafting with processing patterns, and more. a surprising amount of this stuff translates into real life network administration, which is cool if you ever want to be a sysadmin one day, and why this class is in the computer science category instead of the pop culture category.

(this class is aimed at students with programming experience) you know what 1 + 1 is. it's 2. or 10, if you're a nerd. your computer also knows what 1 + 1 is. it's 0x00000002. you know how to make it calculate that, too -- in pretty much every programming language, it's some variation of "1 + 1". how does it do that? how do some rocks we dug out of the ground put 1 and 1 together to make 2? if you take this class, you'll understand a little bit of how we did that, and maybe the way you think about programming will be fundamentally changed forever. it changed me, at least. this class is about putting logic gates together into an arithmetic logic unit (ALU). it's a really abstract overview of MIT's 6.191 class, as much as i can cram into 2 hours. if you've ever heard of nand2tetris, 6.191 is a similar kind of class to that.

We live in a world designed and built by engineers, and often overlook how much careful thought and calculation goes into our every experiences. Join me in exploring the depths of this complexity, from the ground beneath our feet to the machines that move us!

we'll talk about electric vehicles and how easy it is to (theoretically) hack into them and other cryptography/cybersecurity stuff hehe

Manga and webtoons are pretty mainstream these days, but this wasn't always the case. Back when publishers didn't see value in getting these works translated into English, groups of dedicated fans of the series would get together and translate chapters of their favorite series into English, bringing the stories overseas to a small audience of fans. Eventually, this small audience grew bigger and bigger until it grew large enough for publishers to notice, and now we have the officially published comics you know and love. How did we get here? Where did this hobby first start? How blatantly does this violate copyright law? And... how does this practice continue today? If those questions interest you, sign up for this class!