Recent content by B.C.

I came to college in '67 intending to major in math. Took a special freshman calculus course for math majors. Well, that was tedious. Decided to switch to physics, which I was very interested in. (Still am, since I find myself here on this page...) Spent a year in physics grad school, then...

I've done a lot of hiring in my 50 year engineering career, and I have to say I wouldn't notice the difference between UCSC and UCSD. I suppose one school might be better than another, but that's not what I am interested in at all when making a hiring decision. It's the candidate that has to...

My pitiful human brain cannot accept either of these statements: There is a lowest level of description that not only explains how the higher level stuff works, but also explains why it itself exists, with no need for further explanation. or There is no lowest level, structure just goes on...

Fascinating paper. Can't believe no one ever considered self-interactions of gravitons before, since one would expect that to happen. Not to mention the example of the known behavior of gluons. Why isn't this paper a bigger deal?

The power line waveform is thought of as being a sine wave, but what if there are harmonics present? What happens to those harmonics at your 400 Hz sampling rate? Also consider what happens if you are sampling at an integer multiple of the power line frequency.

Well, I've been following pop music for 45 years now. Styles come and go, but signal processing has been ever-increasing in music technology. It seems hard to believe that guitarists used to plug their guitar straight into an amplifier. Now it seems the average guitarist has half a dozen...

I got a BS in physics nearly 40 years ago, and have worked doing software in the fields of image and audio signal processing. It requires some math, of course, but nothing of any difficulty I hadn't encountered in school. I do not have a PE license. I don't believe any of the many people I...

On the web page of the Acoustical Society of America, http://asa.aip.org/" , you can find links to article titles and their abstracts from their Journal. Most of the authors are in academia. The Audio Engineering Society, http://www.aes.org/" , also let's you see Journal abstracts. Some of...

Consider a two dimensional analogy. Take a sheet of paper, draw a triangle on it. Now roll it into a cylinder. The paper didn't have to stretch, so the sum of the angles of the triangle is still 180 degrees. The two dimensional beings living on the paper can't really visualize the operation...