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briantrumpet

briantrumpet

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I would tell you mine, but then I'd have to kill you.

BTW, there's no need for the threat of violence, just because I lampooned PhDs. We need to work across the aisle to tone down the discourse.

Only I am allowed to threaten violence, and I tend to reserve that for sociology PhDs.
 
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First Aspect

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It's OK, I'll translate that into "Really very very small" for my musician's brain. Or "like a demisemihemidemisemiquaver", in other words, and it'll all make sense.

Small and precisely defined, rather than any small number within a range.

Although I did observe a range for two reasons. One a signal processing reason that generates a gaussian distribution for even a single transition at a precise frequency. Blame Fourier. The other because of chemistry, that lesser science, and the range of environments I was was detecting within a sample that included rather more than 1057 atoms.

Can you see why I did a year's coursework and 5 years research on this fascinating topic yet?
 
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briantrumpet

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Small and precisely defined, rather than any small number within a range.

Although I did observe a range for two reasons. One a signal processing reason that generates a gaussian distribution for even a single transition at a precise frequency. Blame Fourier. The other because of chemistry, that lesser science, and the range of environments I was was detecting within a sample that included rather more than 1057 atoms.

Can you see why I did a year's coursework and 5 years research on this fascinating topic yet?

Yes. Because AI didn't exist back then to do it all for you.
 

First Aspect

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Yes. Because AI didn't exist back then to do it all for you.
This makes me wonder what AI would change were I do be in that field now. I have a hunch - we used to do matrix mathematics to follow the signals we were trying to detect, in order to programme the machine to detect them.

I think debugging that process could be done by AI.
 

BoldonLad

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I'd suspect that his written messages would also be coherent, if his spoken messages are. There is enormous skill - actually beyond my skillset - so be able to improvise a well-structured oral utterance of more than a few sentences. Even a few sentences requires a clear idea already in your head (before you start out on the first few words) of what idea/information you want to convey, and then good enough working memory and control of vocabulary and grammar to be able to structure an utterance that gets that across to the addressee. It's why even very clever people generally have to write out talks/speeches. I genuinely am not sure if I've ever witnessed a fluent and persuasive oral utterance that's been created from scratch on the spur of the moment. Sure, I've heard impressive speeches, but I think they've all been written and rehearsed/memorised beforehand.

Once you get beyond something of more than a few sentences and vaguely mundane subjects, the challenge on the human brain is just immense. It's so much easier in writing, as you can read back over what you've written, and see where your grammar/syntax has failed to convey what you intended to.

And even if you have got a such a brilliant brain that you can do that orally, it's still usually easier to comprehend quickly and accurately when it's written down, as the reader is having to reverse the process, and the same challenges to the human brain are present (working memory, etc.).

He is my grandson, I could not possibly give an unbiased comment 😂
 

BoldonLad

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Sounds awful. I've never had an issue and have had the same mobile phone number since 1993.

Presumably you reported the calls to the Police? These days I just block scam calls - android is very good at highlighting possible scam callers. It's very hard to steal my money without the 2FA verification, and without the bank spotting misuse pretty damn quickly. I'm not saying it's impossible, just that (touch wood) it's never happened to me.

To be fair, I only use Whatsapp for personal communications (family, friends etc). It has never bothered me that Meta have all my data as Alphabet have it all as well. They know exactly where and when I have been for the last 10 years, most of my email and all of my photos live in Google's cloud.

I was the victim of a pick-pocket on Budapest Metro (at least, I think that is where it must have happened), wallet, with most (but, fortunately not all) of my debit/credit cards, Driving Licence, and some cash, gone. I did not realise it had happened, until my bank (Santander) rang me to ask if certain transactions were mine. Other than a bit of inconvenience, no problem. The driving licence was potentially the biggest problem, we were two weeks into a three month Motorhome tour in Europe.
 

First Aspect

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Anyway, proves that my "like a demisemihemidemisemiquaver" (i.e. small and precisely defined) was apt.
I suppose so. Although small relates to the amount of energy and not necessarily duration. So a demisemihemidemisemiquaver on an alpehorn might be more of a macroscopic event, whereas a breve on the magical mouse organ might simply be what is termed a forbidden quantum transition, and take time.

The analogy is getting challenging at this point.
 
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briantrumpet

briantrumpet

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I suppose so. Although small relates to the amount of energy and not necessarily duration. So a demisemihemidemisemiquaver on an alpehorn might be more of a macroscopic event, whereas a breve on the magical mouse organ might simply be what is termed a forbidden quantum transition, and take time.

The analogy is getting challenging at this point.

At least my ignorance might be slightly less complete though. I'll take that as a win, as it's my natural state.
 
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