On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 12:41:18PM -0700, Ken Restivo wrote:
> I've been re-trained over the last few years by a German
> mechanical-engineer friend to think in a very reductionist,
> non-magickal, deterministic, cold-hard-reality kind of way.
Mechanical engineers, in particular those doing precision
mechanics, can be very Zen. I remember one of them, Alex.
Twenty years or so ago I was with a company making plotters,
me doing the DSP for motor control and Alex doing the mechanics.
A tolerance of 0.01 mm he'd call 'coarse'. He would take up a
screwdriver, adjust a screw by 5 degrees, then wipe it with a
white silk cloth and put it back into its place in his toolbox
which was off-limits to everyone except himself. Still makes me
feel guilty when looking at the pile of pliers and screwdrivers
in my box.
> It's all ones and zeroes. Given the same inputs, the same
> output should be obtained. Acoustics is physics. And if I
> can't measure it, it doesn't exist.
Science is not only physics. Today psychology is science as
well, a fact largely ignored not only by the unwashed masses
but even by many intellectuals who still consider Freud to be
the last word on these matters.
Ciao,
-- FA O tu, che porte, correndo si ? E guerra e morte ! _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@email-addr-hidden http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-userReceived on Wed Apr 14 00:15:02 2010
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