Rosemary Ainslie Quantum Magazine Circuit COP > 17 Claims

[Thaelin]

  This post is off topic so plz just ignore it really.

I want to thank all of you for the absolutely wonderful
hallarious ride this topic has given. Spelling is toast as
I have had one too many buddies today. I sometimes
go away with tears running down my face from laughter.

On a real note, I just hit one of the formalities of using
a probe in the wrong place. Once corrected, it makes more
sense.  So keep on keeping on

thay

[TinselKoala]

Not off topic at all, thanks for posting! Yes, the main value of the Ainslie affair at this point is for the Lulz.

We've all (except Ainslie) learned a little something here and there from the exploration and the running down of effects and causes, but that is mostly in the past, since it has been going on for so many years. The only new things lately have been the two demonstrations last year, which were the first indications that Ainslie might actually be responsive in a constructive way to analysis and criticism by those who know far more than she.

But as you can see, after a few weeks have passed, it is as if those demos never happened, for Ainslie has reverted to a much more primitive level of lack of understanding. The gains made by Steve Weir in boosting Ainslie's understanding have vanished, like water rolling off a duck's back. So the amusement factor is all that there is left, really.

Well, there is the annoyance factor as well. I took apart two much more interesting and important experiments that I had set up in my lab in order to defeat Ainslie in her latest silly ridiculous cynical "challenge".

Anyhow... hoist one for me, while you are at it!

Cheers... and stay tuned, it is impossible to believe that Ainslie will ever stop her comedic output.
--TK

[MarkE]

Due to popular demand the publishers have just announced another book in the series:

[TinselKoala]

I see what you did there... you snuck in a dI/dt term. But our correspondent has never had any math beyond simple arithmetic. Her exposure to differential calculus is nil. The smallest infinitesimal time interval she can handle is the duration of one of her scope's samples.

To her credit she, or more probably Donny, has "invented" a numerical approximation of an integral, by computing the area of the rectangles representing the sample interval x indicated "instantaneous" current (or power), and then adding the areas all up. Kind of a bastardized Rectangle Rule for approximating an integral from discrete samples. Yet, years ago when I mentioned "integration" as the proper term for what she was trying to do... she thought I was talking about some anti-apartheid racial thing.

[MarkE]

I see what you did there... you snuck in a dI/dt term. But our correspondent has never had any math beyond simple arithmetic. Her exposure to differential calculus is nil. The smallest infinitesimal time interval she can handle is the duration of one of her scope's samples.

To her credit she, or more probably Donny, has "invented" a numerical approximation of an integral, by computing the area of the rectangles representing the sample interval x indicated "instantaneous" current (or power), and then adding the areas all up. Kind of a bastardized Rectangle Rule for approximating an integral from discrete samples. Yet, years ago when I mentioned "integration" as the proper term for what she was trying to do... she thought I was talking about some anti-apartheid racial thing.

If you are not nice, I will introduce Euler!