tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2781337673308296390.post8482183723049843638..comments2023-12-27T05:51:51.028-05:00Comments on Jack Diederich's Python Blog: Analog AnalogiesJack Diederichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01875505174692466327noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2781337673308296390.post-76752717137206675112012-06-13T21:04:51.262-04:002012-06-13T21:04:51.262-04:00This is really satisfied by the nice services in t...This is really satisfied by the nice services in this blog that to really providing the wonderful info is visible in this blogprice per head call centerhttp://www.priceperheadcostarica.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2781337673308296390.post-57566198016644381542011-11-25T21:29:48.780-05:002011-11-25T21:29:48.780-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Gylesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2781337673308296390.post-10064171327362926412011-09-07T10:15:52.551-04:002011-09-07T10:15:52.551-04:00As an ex-EE, I feel compelled to clarify the conne...As an ex-EE, I feel compelled to clarify the connection between "analog" (as opposed to "digital") and "analogy". Way way back around the 1960s or so, the very active competition for the digital computer was the analog computer, usually an arrangement of op amps, integrators, potentiometers, and patch cords that looked like an old-fashioned telephone switchboard or an old-school Moog synthesizer (actually a very direct descendant). Check "analog computer" on wikipedia.<br /><br />Analog computers got their start in weapons targeting computation (just as did digital computers) but became more general-purpose over time. The "analogy" piece is that physical quantities (altitude, speed, friction force etc) were directly analogous to voltages or currents at various points in the circuit, and the progress of the circuit over time mirrored the behavior of the physical system.Will Warehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00852978068817644702noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2781337673308296390.post-1596184715611249932011-07-13T01:22:59.713-04:002011-07-13T01:22:59.713-04:00The pun caused a pilot in my office to tell a rela...The pun caused a pilot in my office to tell a related apocryphal story. As the story has it an allied WWII pilot is recounting his war days to a group of school children...<br /><br />Pilot: So as we got near the coast a Fokker appeared on my left and another Fokker appeared behind me.<br /><br />Teacher: Students, you should know that a Fokker was the name of a German fighter plane.<br /><br />Pilot: Sure, sure. So there's a fokker on my left and a fokker behind me and both the fokkers were flying Messerschmitts.Jack Diederichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01875505174692466327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2781337673308296390.post-75319151003068892342011-07-13T01:13:23.002-04:002011-07-13T01:13:23.002-04:00It was a half assed attempt at a homonym joke alon...It was a half assed attempt at a homonym joke along the lines of "das blinkenlights".<br /><br />If you want to know what to optimize you have to have metrics, and if you need metrics what do you have to do? MesserSchitz.Jack Diederichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01875505174692466327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2781337673308296390.post-67240600272315647592011-07-12T14:01:45.497-04:002011-07-12T14:01:45.497-04:00no the plane was a messerschmitt,
the mentioned w...no the plane was a messerschmitt, <br />the mentioned word is not for the ears or eyes of foreigners so you will not find any written account of itAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2781337673308296390.post-62434297388983521772011-07-12T07:15:57.832-04:002011-07-12T07:15:57.832-04:00messerschitz
Are you sure there is such a word? G...messerschitz<br /><br />Are you sure there is such a word? Google only knows about aircraft?Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01653822720483310423noreply@blogger.com