Re: good post on LinkedIn

True, but those natives probably don't have the linguistic abilities of the foreign speaker. Your thinking is shaped by language, and speaking more languages is enriching.

I'm native Dutch, but I've been told I have a French accent now.

Jeroen Belleman

In sci.electronics.design Bill Sloman snipped-for-privacy@ieee.org wrote: |-----------------------------------------------------------------| |"the "Intelligence Quotient" is a remarkably ill-defined measure"| |-----------------------------------------------------------------|

True. (S.

Bill Sloman snipped-for-privacy@ieee.org wrote: |-------------------------------------------------------------------| |"> N.B. Bill Sloman misused "learned" instead of "learnt". | | | |It's not a misuse, merely a regional variant." | |-------------------------------------------------------------------|

Dear Doctor Sloman,

A use of "learned" instead of "learnt" is a regional misuse.

|--------------------------------------------------------| |"Many Dutch kids learn French[. . .] from an early age."| |--------------------------------------------------------|

I used to be employed in the Netherlands by an employer whose languages are French and English. The Anglophones who used to be employed by this then employer then vastly outnumber the Francophones who used to be employed by this employer then.

A then Anglophone neigbour used to persecute a then workmate who natively speaks French and who at that time used to work in French and English, by repeatedly saying to him in English (not French) that he must speak Dutch.

A friend of Belgian nationality told me that persons of Dutch nationality say things to her like "Wow! You can speak French!"

I detected noone in the Netherlands using French when I used to reside there, except for coworkers.

All then employees then in this section of this then employer are Anglophones. A majority (55%) are Francophones, an unusually high proportion. This then chief is natively a Francophone. English is this project's language.

A Dutch then company (before it went bust) on this project tried to apply for money to a French centre for an unrelated project. This Dutch ex-company's ex-chiefs are of Dutch nationality. They wanted to know if a tender must show a proposed price including tax or excluding tax. So they telephoned this French centre to ask. They did try asking in broken French, but they rapidly reverted to English while they frantically reached for their French dictionary to find a French word for tax. Given this lack of preparation and given this anti-engineering belief, this ex-company deservedly went bust.

|-----------------------------------------------------------------| |"Many Dutch kids learn [. . .] German [. . .] from an early age."| |-----------------------------------------------------------------|

I bought German magazines from a person of Dutch nationality who used to be raised in the Netherlands near the German border. He used to buy them by short travels into Germmany. He did not have a good grasp of German when I bought them, so he declined to use German.

|----------------------------------------------------------| |"Many Dutch kids learn [. . .] English from an early age."| |----------------------------------------------------------|

Yes. "Langenscheidt Expresskurs Niederländisch" alleges that persons who speak Dutch are less good at English than they believe. I do not detect so.

|---------------------------------------------------------| |"Lots of Belgians are raised as French/Dutch bilinguals."| |---------------------------------------------------------|

Of course. "Wow! You can speak French!" said an aforementioned friend of Belgian nationality acting like persons of Dutch nationality. "Yeah. [She can speak ]A little[ French]." said she herself as a response to downplay these amazements. (S.

Bill Sloman snipped-for-privacy@ieee.org wrote: |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| |"The comment is | | | |Sloman A.W. “Comment on ‘Modular digital box-car for applications in | |pulsed laser spectroscopy” Review of Scientific Instruments, 67 3763-4 | |(1996)" | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------|

Thanks.

ADSAbs.Harvard.edu and Google Scholar do show it but it was surprisingly tricky to get them to show it. It does not have a hyphen in its title. Cf.

(S.

In sci.electronics.design Bill Sloman snipped-for-privacy@ieee.org wrote: |------------------------------------------------------------------------| |"The editors have to find the referees. The IEEE does publish a lot of | |peer-reviewed scientific journal - some of them quite good - but the | |quality of a publication depends on the quality of the papers submitted | |to it for publication. A good editor can fish for papers from promising | |potential contributors, but if the community of researcher's being | |served isn't up to much, the journal serving them won't be either." | |------------------------------------------------------------------------|

The editors do not have to find the referees. Editors choose to use referees. It is clear that IEEE editors and referees do not even read what they accept for publications.

I submitted a good rebuttal about IEEE publications to the IEEE. The IEEE refuses to publish a rebuttal unsurprisingly so the IEEE contravenes its own code of ethics. (S.

Dear Don Y:

LinkedIn lies. LinkedIn violates legal duties. Laws permit reactions to illegalities, where such reactions would be otherwise illegal, if such reactions would be unprovoked actions (not reactions).

Don Y snipped-for-privacy@foo.invalid wrote: |---------------------------------------------------------------------| |"Your USE of linkedin coerces you. That is your choice." | |---------------------------------------------------------------------|

I choose to communicate with persons with whom I must communicate. They insist on using LinkedIn. I prefer non-LinkedIn media.

|---------------------------------------------------------------------| |"Do you imagine spending an hour walking to the post office to | |be of no value?" | |---------------------------------------------------------------------|

No, as well demonstrated by you.

|---------------------------------------------------------------------| |"I can drive and do the trip in 20 minutes -- assuming I am not | |impeded by any accidents or "road work" along the way. | | | |I can walk and do it in 60 minutes. The first 20 of those would have| |been required had I driven. So, I've "wasted" 40 minutes for the | |"same result". | | | |Yet, in the walking case, I've exercised for 60 minutes at a "cost" | |of only *40* minutes. The "wasteful" option is, in fact, the more | |efficient (given the need for daily exercise). [. . .]" | |---------------------------------------------------------------------|

I do not walk when I use LinkedIn. I do actually walk when I use setsid & to download a newsgroup.

|---------------------------------------------------------------------| |"How does 1 minute of USENET compare (content wise) to 1 minute | |of LinkedIn? | | | |Apples/Oranges." | |---------------------------------------------------------------------|

USENET discussions related to my profession are technically much more advanced than LinkedIn discussions. They are the other way around when they are discussions with professionals of more important professions.

LinkedIn is very limited. E.g. it uses buggy text fields restricted to a size of circa 1250 characters (maybe octets).

Many more persons detect LinkedIn publications, before LinkedIn secretly, illegally hides them or destroys them. Thus attempts by me to archive.

LinkedIn does not even offer a way to search thru comments.

Almost all the job advertisements which I post to the USENET are via LinkedIn. (S.

It's an integer that results from a standard IQ test. That is very well defined.

And the integer correlates highly with many measures of productivity and success.

The SAT tests are even better, because they have separate math and verbal scores.

John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center Lunatic Fringe Electronics

Which language is best for thinking about electronics?

I think circuits in pictures, not words, but people are very different.

John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center Lunatic Fringe Electronics

Consider a frequency divider.

Your prime motivation is to contradict, not to think. That's very common.

A true ripple counter is as fast as its first flop.

John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center Lunatic Fringe Electronics

Then you're the proverbial "tail" and not the "dog".

If you are reliant on those interactions, then you have to accept them on THEIR terms.

Years ago (decades), I disconnected my business phone. Because people wanted to talk to me at times that *I* didn't find reasonable. They were faced with a choice: cease contact or adjust to my communication medium of choice (email -- reply when convenient, document the conversation).

I had (obviously) made the decision that communicating with them on THEIR terms was unacceptable, to me.

Most youngsters have never heard of usenet, and certainly don't participate. Most ng's are dead.

I posted an ad for an intern on LinkedIn, for something like $45 per day, and got maybe 50 responses per day. It only took a few minutes per day to look at them and reject the 99% that were unsuitable.

LinkedIn looks like a giant waste of time if you use it as a social network and have a couple hundred connections. Like X and Facebook.

The local Maker space is interesting. We have 500 people events with free food and beer. It's much better to meet people physically than remotely.

John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center Lunatic Fringe Electronics

Am 31.01.26 um 16:41 schrieb john larkin:

Are you soliloquizing?

You know the count of a ripple counter when everything has come to a halt, including the carry chain. That is slower than the first flipflop. Even decoded outputs will feature transient wrong results.

Look ahead carry has been invented, just for this. An LFSR is hard to beat but will very probably also need some combinatorial delays.

Gerhard

Don Y wrote: |-----------------------------------------------------------| |"If you are reliant on those interactions, then you have to| |accept them on THEIR terms." | |-----------------------------------------------------------|

Exactly. (S.

A ripple counter has no carry chain. That's its charm. Of course ripple counters rarely make sense in an FPGA. We do use sort-of ripple counters in the PLLs.

That's actually interesting. I think if you decode count N with an AND gate, here are no decode glitches below N.

That's a tough way to make a counter.

John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center Lunatic Fringe Electronics

But you may not *care* about the actual "current count". Especially if the modulus of the counter is fixed and not reloadable.

Usually, the delays are at the input to the first stage (assuming a single LFSR counter, not a set of counters of different moduli, cascaded to obtain a specific modulus) assuming a Fibonacci configuration.

The number of levels of logic (as in number of shift register stages) can often be rejiggered using a Galois configuration.

Motogorilla (?) had an excellent app note in the 70's on creating LFSRs of various moduli. They also see use as pseudo-random number generators where lengths of 1000 bits are not uncommon (as you don't want an observer to be able to predict state from any rational number of observations!)

That has to be English, I think. Anyway, for quite some time now, English has been the common language of science and technology, electronics included. It has been French for a while, and Latin for a long period before that. And ancient Greek before that, and and ,,,

Jeroen Belleman

English is shockingly irregular. One word can mean six things and there are a zillion words to express a concept. Plus there are places like the UK with their own weird versions.

Given the concept that ambiguity generates creativity, maybe English is a good language to invent in.

John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center Lunatic Fringe Electronics

According to Bill Sloman snipped-for-privacy@ieee.org:

It's hard to belive that anyone who has used Excel would say that. In my experience, any Excel spreadsheet large enough to be interesting has bugs.

Back in the 1980s I worked on a financial modeling package called Javelin. You could use it for a lot of the financial stuff people do in spreadsheets (Lotus 1-2-3 at the time.) The models were a lot more structured and it was far easier to audit them and check that they did what you expected.

Users didn't care, they loved their spreadsheets. Best quote: "It's up to my boss to check if my speadsheets are right."

Forbes estimates that 88% of spreadsheets contain errors.

John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center Lunatic Fringe Electronics