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How to Get Rich Playing Video Games Online

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Re: How to Get Rich Playing Video Games Online

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I've recently been watching EEVBlog videos, mostly for the sake of watching someone else route PCB's. Learned lots of good tricks that way too.

The EEVblog is great. Some of the older videos have some DFM, switcher layout, etc that is equally invaluable.

"DFM" stands for "Design For Manufacturing" ?

https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1143825

Re: How to Get Rich Playing Video Games Online

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> ... if one was to put equivalnet amount of time in another field, say learning how deep learning works... I see what you're getting at, but these are two different things. The vast majority of humanity as a whole is just not capable of sitting down and chewing through a deep learning textbook or anything of the sort. What you're ignoring is just how accessible streaming is as an income method. Up until recently, al…

" The vast majority of humanity as a whole is just not capable of sitting down and chewing through a deep learning textbook or anything of the sort." they don't currently, and probably we don't need millions of data science major, but somehow grinding through the game for thousands of hours is doable. I'd say let's gamify learning and we will have a whole new supply of world class scientist streaming their research o…

While nice, that's a pretty disconnected perspective from society. Sports and the industries around them are so big for a reason vs say major league programming.
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