Tag: Metrology
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New GenRad toy, 1/2
I started collecting GenRad equipment as a sort of tribute to proper analog measurement, and as a specific apology to GenRad itself for favoring Bruel & Kjaer during my time in academia. GenRad equipment was solid, rugged, easy to handle. BK was Danish, with the typical Kraut qualities. More precise than anything else under precise…
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New GenRad toy 2/2
Last year I bought an incomplete GenRad octave analyzer, as part of my overall move back to analog stuff. This machine is especially rare and useful, so it’s worth fixing. The microphone is missing, and I’ve been watching Ebay since then, hoping to grab up the mic or another ‘parts car’. So far no mic,…
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The muddlers are worse than the cancellers 2
Following from here. This morning the anti-cancellers are weeweed up about: Apparently it wasn’t a real cancel, just a postponement of class coverage, so again this is more muddling than cancelling. Fact: FREEDOM OF SPEECH IS A MYTH. Censorship is permanent and normal. If you go back 1000 years in Russia and in England/America, you’ll…
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Randomly related
Random crap, vaguely related to previous random story about the bitcoin rapping power couple… Some smart observers have concluded that the bitcoin racket is the male equivalent of MLMs. Most MLMs are explicitly aimed at women, selling cosmetics, weight reduction, and cooking supplies. Bitcoin is selling pure numbers. Competition is based on X > Y…
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Constants and Variables 169
More from the trust-inducing 2/2/51 news report, which was ordinary mainstream CBS output at the time. This story deserves respectful verbatim transcription. Note the literary level as well as the content…… = = = = = With all the troubles that beset us, and perhaps more to come, this is an inevitable corollary. The AP…
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How to create trust
It’s easy to say that trust requires truth. But truth is an asymptote, not a binary on/off measure. In any area of life we try to get closer to a useful set of facts and observations, but we never hit the plateau. Here’s a better and more achievable rule: In science and in journalism, trust…
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Neat graph
The Tonga eruption sent out a shockwave in the air as well as an underwater wave. A meteorologist in Iowa created an animated graph showing the wave passing over the entire US from west to east, based on sudden changes in barometer readings.
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I used to know this
Here’s a fact I recognized a long time ago and then forgot. Antivaxxers are OCD. The Public “Health” demons are also OCD. This explains one peculiar twist in the current fake “debates”. Antivax is a more natural and less contrived outcome of OCD. The provax position was imposed in 2020 by the ALL OR NOTHING…
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Weird GIF stuff in WordPress
After a month of using WP, I have mixed feelings. On the pro side: My reason for switching was to get away from censors and takedowns. So far there haven’t been any takedowns. I’ve been speaking the same truth in the same hard language, and nothing has been censored YET. On the con side, WP…
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