Tag: Metrology
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Taibbi is an aspectless idiot
One headline is enough: The Fix is In. Taibbi constantly plays the fake surprise game, pretending that journalism used to be honest and politics used to be honest. Now the Horrible Other Party has turned everything sour, but we can restore the old pristine state of integrity by “electing” My Wonderful Party. 2/3 of the…
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Real vs fake metrology
I’ve observed for a long time that the public voices for Populism are mostly fake, mostly serving Wall Street with fake “solutions” that help the banks. There might be some exceptions, but the exceptions don’t seem to stay in the public eye. The only REAL populist in American history was FDR, who didn’t sound like…
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No eagers
O’Keefe pulls off an undercover “Tinder date” with a dude who heads Cybersecurity for two major government departments. Of course the official doesn’t reveal any significant Shannon information. Deepstate never reveals anything that isn’t already common knowledge. In this interview, similar to O’Keefe’s older interviews with media insiders, the insider DOES reveal that he isn’t…
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Another reprint from the sane time
Yeah, another reprint from the years before the holocaust when I still had all my curiosity and sharpness. Now, partly from age and partly from total depletion of gumption, I don’t have meaningful dreams and can’t make meaningful connections. From 2018. = = = = = START REPRINT: ZeroHedge is doomporning as usual, pointing to…
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New thought on an old subject
Or at least a new emphasis. From the start of this blog in 2005 I’ve been hammering on the superstition of “climate”. Before 1975, people who thought they could influence the weather by prayer and ritual were superstitious primitives. Before 1975, people who treated the weather as a complex pattern of natural cycles were scientists.…
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The Kay Sonagraph
Last week I animated the Maico Chromalyzer, a brilliant device that I’d never seen before. It should have been far more popular. It was simple enough that a radio amateur accustomed to dealing with tubes could have built one in a few evenings from available parts. The Kay Sonagraph was opposite in every way. It…
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Maico Chromalyzer continued
A few days ago I noted with amazement an old spectrogram displayer that was used for training deaf speech. The Maico Chromalyzer was made in 1954 but probably didn’t gain much success. I couldn’t resist modeling and animating it, using my guess about its innards. This version shows 5 horizontal bulbs, each responding to a bandpass filter.…
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Maico Chromalyzer
Here’s a puzzle. This industrial newsreel profiles Maico hearing aids, among the earliest adopters of transistors.** Like Zenith, Maico made both audiometers and hearing aids. Around 17 minutes, the film shows an interesting gadget that I’ve never heard of before. The Maico Chromalyzer was used for training deaf speech. The teacher spoke sample words and…
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ELEGANT!
Via Eurekalert, an absolutely brilliant measuring technique for a long-established measuring tool. Balloons have been gathering info about weather conditions and radiation from the sun and stars for 120 years. These Japanese researchers used the old tool plus several fiendishly clever tricks: = = = = = START QUOTE: Based on the high sensitivity of…
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Speaking of metrology…
Speaking of metrology, here’s a cute use of measurement. From now on we'd like everyone to report their snow measurements in units of corgis😉 https://t.co/7A8HlPnKKZ — NWS Spokane (@NWSSpokane) December 11, 2023
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What’s a door for?
We’re seeing another burst of intentional misunderstanding by economists. This particular idiocy has been going on since the 90s. Economists say that “the economy” is performing beautifully. All of their numbers are going in the correct direction. The Dow is going up to the moon. Bitcoin is going up to the moon. Bezos is flying…
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Interesting question
Denyse points to studies that seem to show the placebo effect is getting stronger now, at least inside the clinical trials where it’s used as a control variable. Placebo is part of an innate social structure. When the Healer gives us a Healing Token or a Healing Touch, we get healthier. If the placebo side…
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Metrology lesson
The Pew Center has some graphs on the decline of newspapers. They broke a basic rule of metrology. Always put measurements into context. Know the baseline and measure in proportion to the baseline. Pew’s graph of newspaper total circulation (brown line) seems to show that newspapers were starting to lose in 1990, when digital media…
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Six digits?
Noticing some high 5-digit street addresses, started wondering if there are any six-digit addresses. This blogger explored the question thoroughly. There are three fairly systematic six-digit setups. 1. Florida was first, with the numbering along US 1 to Key West. The street numbers start at Key West and run over a hundred miles northward, so…
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Comparison
Comparing Sammy vs Elizabeth. Initially I treated both of these fraudsters as the same personality type: Professional Criminal. I’ve understood this type since prison taught me in 1969. The pro criminal MUST do everything the cheating way, the dishonest way. If there’s an honest way to do a task that takes one minute and costs…
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