Re: AM Modulation

On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 12:04:55 -0800, John Larkin
<jjlarkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 21:34:39 +1100, "Phil Allison"
<philallison@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[snip]

** Do academics or engineers EVER admit their mistakes ???

No matter how heinous ??


I do. When I make a really good blunder, I walk around and tell all my
other engineers about it, and sometimes my customers too. I relish
stories of truly monumental mistakes, particularly my own.

Me too. My mistakes are so funny. Particularly when I get in contact
with high voltage while the techs are standing there.

William L. Petersen as Gil Grissom on CSI said on last night's
episode, "I make mistakes and I learn from them".

[snip]

It's amazing how
someone else's insight can help, or even how many mistakes are found
by merely having to explain something out loud to someone else.

Explaining how you idea works "out loud" to someone else works great
at finding mistakes... particularly when there's a large crowd
watching. I once had a crowd claim I staged an explosion while I was
doing a demo... neeerp, it was a blunder ;-)

I often hand off a design to a person totally unfamiliar with the
project, and tell them, "Have at it".

When a
mistake is found this way, we say "Gotcha! cool! thanks!" instead of
getting all resentful about being caught making a mistake. Some
blunders are dumb and some are subtile works of beauty.

Yep, even the "subtle" ones. What's "subtile"? Under the floor ?:-)


Newsgroups are especially unforgiving of mistakes; some dork will
always jump on you if you say anything even slightly off, or define
something a way they don't like, or spell something wrong. That
environment is sheer poison to invention.

Circuit design consists somewhat, and programming consists primarily,
of the management of mistakes.

John


Absolutely! I've thrown away probably 10 times as many designs as
have seen the light of day. Ask my wife. In our first home in
Arizona I'd sit at the couch with a quadrille pad (probably 25 years
before PC's), wad up bad ideas and toss them over my shoulder into the
dining room. Not popular ;-)

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