Re: OT: Covid's True Origins

On Tue, 22 Apr 2025 15:17:37 +1000, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
wrote:

On 22/04/2025 8:02 am, john larkin wrote:

On Mon, 21 Apr 2025 22:23:03 +0100, Cursitor Doom <cd@notformail.com>
wrote:
 

On Mon, 21 Apr 2025 08:26:40 -0700, john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>
wrote:
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Sine waves are boring.

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Well, square waves give rise to lots of harmonics which can be useful.
But what about triangles and sawtooths. Any interesting properies
hidden away in those?

 
Periodic waveforms are all boring. They just do the same thing, over
and over.
 
A complex pulse can do interesting things. Spin an airplane. Fuse
deuterium-tritium. Trigger a megaton boom.

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With the right effectors to translate the electrical waveform into the
physical displacement of moving mass.
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I wish the world would move on from the slide rule and graph paper
days, narrowband s-parameters and Smith charts and load pulls. We have
computers now.

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But if you don't know enough to understand what the computer could be
telling you, the computer is less helpful than it might be.
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The narrow road to comprehension is more easily negotiated with the
right crutches. What worked in the historical past can still work today.
There may be an easier route through more easily comprehended computer
graphics but I've not seen any evidence to suggest that it has yet been
found.

Sloman is boring. He just does the same thing, over and over.