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Zoltan’s diary: Wednesday 06/03/2013
posted by Zoltan Derzsi on March 6, 2013What makes you an engineer? Not the degree. Not the experience. And especially not the ability to fix things. What makes you an engineer is exercising and understanding the concept of healthy technical laziness. Healthy technical laziness is not general … Continue reading
Zoltan’s diary: Tuesday 05/03/2013
posted by Zoltan Derzsi on March 5, 2013What I am doing now is quite interesting. I managed to get some results in the past weeks, and now I made a test to either go against or verify what we found. This is quite important. Observations of the … Continue reading
Zoltan’s diary: Monday 04/03/2013
posted by Zoltan Derzsi on March 5, 2013I just kept on with my work today. Also realised that the phrase ‘I’ll honestly not take much of your time’ equals 2.5 hours. Poor Lisa tried to find me for the third day unsuccessfully. Stuart gave me an comms … Continue reading
Zoltan explains: Oscilloscope crash course
posted by Zoltan Derzsi on March 3, 2013This is some ramble about how to get the most out of your oscilloscope without going too much into details. I will talk about analogue oscilloscopes mostly, as digital scopes are more straightforward but sometimes can be very problematic, just … Continue reading
Stereoscopic silliness
posted by Jenny on March 3, 2013A 3D version of the popular World War II poster. Requires the ability to free fuse I’m afraid.
Zoltan’s diary: Friday 01/03/2013
posted by Zoltan Derzsi on March 1, 2013Having worked yesterday for so long, it’s quite frustrating to realise you are very close but you can’t finish because of time. Quality is more important than quantity though. I got my processing script finished. I only checked it twice, … Continue reading
Zoltan’s diary: Thursday 28/02/2013
posted by Zoltan Derzsi on March 1, 2013I got more data. Loads more. thankfully, they all seem to make sense, and I can see the difference from person to person and can tell how precise/careless the person was. Now, it comes to processing. I got some emails … Continue reading
Zoltan’s diary: Wednesday 27/02/2013
posted by Zoltan Derzsi on February 27, 2013Some more results were acquired today. It turned out that the full test can be done in only 45 minutes, comfortably. Since the problems in the experimental design have been eliminated, I think I now get the unbiased, unskewed , … Continue reading
Zoltan’s diary: Tuesday 26/02/2013
posted by Zoltan Derzsi on February 27, 2013The primate add-on practical was very interesting. Learned a lot about monkeys. I spent most of today rewriting my matlab code so it will comply to the new specification. It works. The measurement artefact I have been having is gone. … Continue reading
Cultural differences
posted by Jenny on February 26, 2013I came across this recently from The English Teachers Collective, and it struck me as very apt and funny. I think I often use “I would suggest…” and “Very interesting” with the meanings indicated. It would be amusing to add … Continue reading
Zoltan’s diary: Monday 25/02/2013
posted by Zoltan Derzsi on February 25, 2013The first part of today went with the remainder of Modules 1-3. Aurélie Thomas was really patient with me, and I passed the assessment afterwards. Primate practicals tomorrow. Then, I had the meeting with Jenny. Unfortunately she verified that there … Continue reading
Zoltan’s diary: Friday 22/02/2013
posted by Zoltan Derzsi on February 24, 2013The moral of this day was to realise that how hard it is to obtain reliable data. The worst thing you could do is to have a minimal amount of data, and make conclusions going too far from them. Valuable … Continue reading
Zoltan’s diary: Thursday 21/02/2013
posted by Zoltan Derzsi on February 22, 2013Spent some (most of today’s) time with Matlab. Basically, number crunching, plotting, added some functionality to the tests, and tested myself properly. Found an anomaly in the parameter randomisation method, which will give me a headache later on. They are … Continue reading
Zoltan’s diary: Tuesday 19/02/2013
posted by Zoltan Derzsi on February 19, 2013Yesterday, I managed to linearise my CRT monitor. I was not impressed by it, things looked awkward and the gamma value was way off the normal range. When I wrote my post yesterday, I went home thinking about an ageing … Continue reading
Zoltan’s diary: Monday 18/02/2013
posted by Zoltan Derzsi on February 19, 2013Today I implemented the data format, and calibrated the monitor (that is, three hundred individual measurements, by hand, the old-school way). Been away to see adapting boundary techniques as well. The monitor is today’s wierd one: Normally, the triode gamma … Continue reading
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