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Ahh, audiophiles

I’ve always enjoyed audiophiles; it’s pretty hard to find a single group with so much rich potential for mockery. But, through all my laughter at their talk of high quality digital cables (they haven’t heard of error correction perhaps?); through all the sniggering over their detailed discussions about bit rates when the Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem is a mystery unto them [...]

2008 07 06 giles rant Comments (0)

What is this Property?

I’m not a mathematician, just a computer scientist with an interest in maths, so please excuse the simplifications and inaccurarcies in this. I’m going to describe this with some rigour, but I’m bound to get things slightly wrong, please bear with me.

In maths, a function is defined as a relation between the members of two sets, S and R, [...]

2008 03 17 giles comp. sci. Comments (1)