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Nonlinearity makes people do strange things

Control engineers know that non-linearity causes problems - the rest of the world could maybe take note… What is non-linearity? Non-linearity is where the response of something is out-of-proportion with the change …

Sensible defaults

Last night I was woken up at midnight by the bleeping noise from downstairs. I blearily wandered down in search of it… It turned out to (as I’m sure you’d already surmised) to be clock radio in the …

How many languages does an engineer need?

Much of an electronic engineer’s life is spent in front of a screen. And much of that time is creating and debugging designs using some textual format or other. Arguably, even humble Excel falls into that category …

Scales for engineers

If you’re a professional (or even proficient amateur) musician, you practise your scales, and other exercises daily. This keeps your muscle-memory alive for the basics of how they will move when playing pieces of …

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This site contains my ramblings on a variety of subjects. No doubt much of it will relate to the design of electronics, especially FPGAs. There’ll likely be some music related items and some mention of Linux also. …