What math exactly would you like me to do? 16 bits gives a theoretical maximum range of 96dB while the human ear can hear over 130dB. Good headphones can handle over 100dB signal to noise. Maybe you should save your…
24 bits has more information. It's useful for mixing and in cases where things haven't been properly gain-staged, an engineer had an off day, a track hasn't been mastered, etc. Seems pretty basic to me.
As I ceded in another comment, dithering trades harmonic distortion for noise. > In order for it to be even theoretically possible to hear the difference between 16-bit and 24-bit audio, Only for professionally mastered…
Dithering basically raises the noise-floor by trading harmonic distortions for random noise at the cost of the last bit of information (for the uninitiated dithering means you randomly flip the last bit to create a soft…
This article is bordering on pseudoscience. When you do experiments you must understand your experimental design enough to understand exactly what you're testing and what conclusions can be drawn from that. If you do…
Momentum and Special Relativity don't conflict. Momentum is modified with a Lorentz Factor which for a particle with mass runs to infinity as the speed approaches the speed of light. For electromagnetic radiation like…
You think what's reckless? The guy who wrote the article has a degree in Electrical Engineering and the article's great. EMF is not a force and it's not the only thing the word electricity refers to. I've just checked a…
> I wonder what the turning point was when people stopped thinking of electricity as magic and instead thought of it as science Once they could make predictions and those predictions were verified by reality. "When I…
To say electricity is roughly the flow of charge looks perfectly fine to me. Opening statement of the wikipedia article on electricity: > Electricity is the set of physical phenomena associated with the presence and…
Without invoking the maximization of utility we could use game theory and ask if the players were simply minimizing their maximum regret. It was during the qualification rounds, not the finals. It looks like they each…
> This quote speaks volumes about your own perspective. Does it? I was pointing out that today there are motives for publicly supporting women in the sciences that didn't exist in 1966. In that quote Feynman pushed…
Feynman, 1966 (http://www.fotuva.org/feynman/what_is_science.html): > I listened to a conversation between two girls, and one was explaining that if you want to make a straight line, you see, you go over a certain…
As the blog comments suggest there's a difference between a good self-study book and a good textbook for a class. The book will be accompanied by (at least) what look to be a good set of course notes. Some googling…
Out of curiosity, what's the background that lets you be so dismissive of a Fields Medal winner? At this point I see a blog post written by a well respected mathematician whom I feel comfortable trusting and it's being…
For anybody who studies science that isn't an uncomfortable question and it's over century old at this point. The last time the field of science had a high level of certainty that it would solve everything ever was…
It's a good question that I wish I could answer. For me looking into String Theory's status as scientific/not-scientific is a good way to learn that the Popperian view of falsifiable==scientific is a bit too simplistsic…
Right, that's exactly why I chose String Theory as an example.
It's a good approximation but it misses the mark. String Theory is not verifiable but it's still a scientific theory. Bohmian Mechanics is, some say, by definition not verifiably different from Quantum Mechanics but…
Then come up with a better mnemonic or trick that captures the essence of the general case. Like Fanana: First times all of them, next times all of them, next times all of them... it's not 100% clear but it took 10…
For the opposing view see Street Fighting Mathematics which encourages not only using tricks but using them well and often. The problem is if you only learn the trick without the reasoning behind it. The solution isn't…
He lived in Arizona which is hot and a school full of space-heaters (humans) will probably run AC more often than heat. What grandparent commenter showed was the school district's numbers are plausible. I doubt the…
I think "Digital Taylorism" is more accurate and informative than calling it "scientific management". The quotes let you know The Economist is intentionally using a famous misnomer but I'm not sure that comes across in…
If it's a calm, rational discussion about evidence then science usually wins. In fact science wins that one so often it isn't very exciting. If it's a heated debate about who can call who which names then everybody…
> One huge problem with scientism is that it invites, as an almost allergic reaction, the total rejection of science. As we know to our cost, we witness this every day with climate change deniers... Just a few…
A quick Google search gives these top links for starters: NASA: Climate Change Evidence - http://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/ National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/indicators/ Union of…
What math exactly would you like me to do? 16 bits gives a theoretical maximum range of 96dB while the human ear can hear over 130dB. Good headphones can handle over 100dB signal to noise. Maybe you should save your…
24 bits has more information. It's useful for mixing and in cases where things haven't been properly gain-staged, an engineer had an off day, a track hasn't been mastered, etc. Seems pretty basic to me.
As I ceded in another comment, dithering trades harmonic distortion for noise. > In order for it to be even theoretically possible to hear the difference between 16-bit and 24-bit audio, Only for professionally mastered…
Dithering basically raises the noise-floor by trading harmonic distortions for random noise at the cost of the last bit of information (for the uninitiated dithering means you randomly flip the last bit to create a soft…
This article is bordering on pseudoscience. When you do experiments you must understand your experimental design enough to understand exactly what you're testing and what conclusions can be drawn from that. If you do…
Momentum and Special Relativity don't conflict. Momentum is modified with a Lorentz Factor which for a particle with mass runs to infinity as the speed approaches the speed of light. For electromagnetic radiation like…
You think what's reckless? The guy who wrote the article has a degree in Electrical Engineering and the article's great. EMF is not a force and it's not the only thing the word electricity refers to. I've just checked a…
> I wonder what the turning point was when people stopped thinking of electricity as magic and instead thought of it as science Once they could make predictions and those predictions were verified by reality. "When I…
To say electricity is roughly the flow of charge looks perfectly fine to me. Opening statement of the wikipedia article on electricity: > Electricity is the set of physical phenomena associated with the presence and…
Without invoking the maximization of utility we could use game theory and ask if the players were simply minimizing their maximum regret. It was during the qualification rounds, not the finals. It looks like they each…
> This quote speaks volumes about your own perspective. Does it? I was pointing out that today there are motives for publicly supporting women in the sciences that didn't exist in 1966. In that quote Feynman pushed…
Feynman, 1966 (http://www.fotuva.org/feynman/what_is_science.html): > I listened to a conversation between two girls, and one was explaining that if you want to make a straight line, you see, you go over a certain…
As the blog comments suggest there's a difference between a good self-study book and a good textbook for a class. The book will be accompanied by (at least) what look to be a good set of course notes. Some googling…
Out of curiosity, what's the background that lets you be so dismissive of a Fields Medal winner? At this point I see a blog post written by a well respected mathematician whom I feel comfortable trusting and it's being…
For anybody who studies science that isn't an uncomfortable question and it's over century old at this point. The last time the field of science had a high level of certainty that it would solve everything ever was…
It's a good question that I wish I could answer. For me looking into String Theory's status as scientific/not-scientific is a good way to learn that the Popperian view of falsifiable==scientific is a bit too simplistsic…
Right, that's exactly why I chose String Theory as an example.
It's a good approximation but it misses the mark. String Theory is not verifiable but it's still a scientific theory. Bohmian Mechanics is, some say, by definition not verifiably different from Quantum Mechanics but…
Then come up with a better mnemonic or trick that captures the essence of the general case. Like Fanana: First times all of them, next times all of them, next times all of them... it's not 100% clear but it took 10…
For the opposing view see Street Fighting Mathematics which encourages not only using tricks but using them well and often. The problem is if you only learn the trick without the reasoning behind it. The solution isn't…
He lived in Arizona which is hot and a school full of space-heaters (humans) will probably run AC more often than heat. What grandparent commenter showed was the school district's numbers are plausible. I doubt the…
I think "Digital Taylorism" is more accurate and informative than calling it "scientific management". The quotes let you know The Economist is intentionally using a famous misnomer but I'm not sure that comes across in…
If it's a calm, rational discussion about evidence then science usually wins. In fact science wins that one so often it isn't very exciting. If it's a heated debate about who can call who which names then everybody…
> One huge problem with scientism is that it invites, as an almost allergic reaction, the total rejection of science. As we know to our cost, we witness this every day with climate change deniers... Just a few…
A quick Google search gives these top links for starters: NASA: Climate Change Evidence - http://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/ National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/indicators/ Union of…