Tag: Metrology
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GenRad and pinfeed part 3/4
Continued from part 2, the more modern chart recorder. = = = = = Moving a pen back and forth requires a fair amount of force. It was always possible with mechanical signals like an aneroid barometer, or strong electrical signals like a telegraph. Morse’s 1840 telegraph used a moving pen. But a delicate signal…
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Genrad and pinfeed part 4/4
Continued from part 3. = = = = = In between GenRad’s strange photo-film oscillograph in the ’20s and its own pinfeed chart recorder in the ’50s, GR collaborated with Esterline. The Esterline pinfeed chart recorder was the standard in many industries. It was tough, portable, and simple to use. GenRad made a signal conditioner…
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Refreshing
John Ray, in charge of cleaning up Sammy’s bankrupt fraud, offers some welcome clarity. Most of the time we hear cautious lawyered-up buzzwords from people in Ray’s position. = = = = = START RAY: Never in my career have I seen such a complete failure of corporate controls and such a complete absence of…
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Both right
Pointless rant, triggered by dueling headlines. Fox: Leftist media peddles another anti-Trump hoax MSNBC: Far-right media peddles another anti-Biden hoax They’re both right. Media peddles hoaxes and lies. Nothing else. That’s the whole story. The alleged “independents” are no better. Taibbi peddles information “leaked” by Deepstate, which has carefully edited what it “leaks”. Taibbi seems…
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One nice thing
Speaking of the direct connection to the universe with alidades…. One nice thing about getting older is the change from nearsighted to farsighted. When young I needed glasses to see beyond arms length. In the last few years I’ve stopped wearing them around the house, and then during neighborhood walks. I kept them on for…
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Back to Maragha again 1/2
I’m trying to reconnect with inspiration after a long dull winter. I’m mostly old and weary after four years of world holocaust, and partly distracted by “hurry up and wait” dealings with my courseware publisher. The project is all done now, so I no longer have to keep my mental desk clear for sudden final…
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Back to Maragha again 2/2
Continued from part 1. Christoph Scheiner’s magnum opus is Rosa Ursina, published in 1620. The title, roughly the Bear’s Rose, is an extremely poetic and sycophantic dedication to his patron, Virginio Orsini, Duke of Bracciano. The bear, of course, is the patron’s name, and Scheiner waxes lyrical about the vast mind and infinite morality and…
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Immediate example
Here’s a good example of the defector rule I was discussing in previous item. This author is trying to say that Deepstate is not as powerful as we think. Specifically, Deepstate has been warning the rest of the government that the war in Ukraine is pointless and unwinnable. He starts with one blatant lie and…
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Astrology wins
I started keeping a daily worklog for life in 2016, after realizing the value of worklogs in work projects. The lifelog gets more ‘chatty’ every year. At first it was just dumps and sleeps, now I try to notice and write down everything that might be relevant. Looking back at previous logs makes it easy…
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Reprint: Culture = skills.
Mentioned in previous, worth a reprint. = = = = = START 2020 REPRINT: A new measurement of the cerebellum is SHOCKING as usual. It’s essentially a flat sheet with the thickness of a crepe, crinkled into hundreds of folds to make it fit into a compact volume about one-eighth the volume of the cerebral…
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Flat wrong.
From EvoNews: = = = = = START QUOTE: The advancement of science is one of mankind’s greatest triumphs. And who could be against it? Deploying the raw power of rational analysis, science exponentially increases our understanding of the natural world and leads to wonderous applications to improve the human condition. = = = =…
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Reprint on analog/digital
Linked in previous, definitely worth a reprint. = = = = = START 2013 REPRINT: Noticed an interesting article on an unfathomable and completely pointless dispute among mathies. The ‘foundational’ types seem to be puzzled about the distinction between countable infinities and the continuum. This leads to some kind of irreconcilable thingamajig which must be…
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Who are they fooling?
The current disconnect on economics is weird. At this point many of the ‘establishment’ types recognize that ordinary people are suffering. Even Bloomberg News, heart of the ‘establishment’, describes reality pretty well. Meanwhile, the alleged ‘leftist’ and ‘radical’ economists stubbornly stick to the crazy official numbers. An article by Dean Baker in the Nation asks…
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Meta-trust
I noticed somebody citing a poll on trusted institutions by the Edelman outfit. Looked and quickly realized the “poll” was a pusher. It was telling businesses that they need to be strictly DNC if they want to be trusted. More “climate”, more “diversity”, more “virus”, more “science”. This obviously won’t work. Taking a side is…
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Showing your work!
This think-piece by the Pew Poll is a wonderful example of transparency. They tell in detail how they categorize people. The article goes through the history of polling and describes how each broad category (religion, income, etc) developed. This helps readers to determine when a definition changed and why. Most definitions changed when polling revealed…
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