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abstrakraft commented on     · Posted by u/thrwwyfrobvrsns
abstrakraft · a month ago
This sounds like a modern version of the [Bible Code https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_code] in a different medium.
abstrakraft commented on Privately-Owned Rail Cars   amtrak.com/privately-owne... · Posted by u/jasoncartwright
Fade_Dance · 4 months ago
Hindenburg.

I know it's silly, but it was an instant mental blurt, and I can't be the only one.

abstrakraft · 4 months ago
Airship design has advanced since the Hindenburg. Notably, they don't use hydrogen anymore.
abstrakraft commented on How automotive radar measures the velocity of objects   viksnewsletter.com/p/how-... · Posted by u/subbdue
kube-system · a year ago
Yeah, by 'detect' above I think we've been referring to the end behavior (e.g. what's in the owners manual) of the automated systems, not the raw RF received. Obviously, radar reflectivity itself is not dependent on relative motion of the object compared to the receiver.
abstrakraft · a year ago
It's not a problem of reflectivity, it's a problem of resolution. In order to detect something distinctly from other things (i.e. resolve that thing), you must be able to distinguish its reflected energy from that of other things by separating them along one or more dimension. Range is usually a good discriminator, but there are many things at (nearly) equal range to the radar. Azimuth is typically not great, because azimuth resolution requires a physically wide aperture, and real estate on the bumper is expensive. Doppler is great for moving things because it's easy to design a waveform with a small doppler resolution, and most moving things (cars, bikes, people) don't move at exactly the same speed as other moving things. However, nonmoving things have a very consistent velocity of precisely 0, and there are lots of them. So they can be very hard to resolve, and thus to detect.
abstrakraft commented on How automotive radar measures the velocity of objects   viksnewsletter.com/p/how-... · Posted by u/subbdue
aidenn0 · a year ago
How is it continuous wave if it has a non-unity duty cycle?
abstrakraft · a year ago
In practice, the difference between pulsed radar and continuous wave radar is a continuum rather than a dichotomy. Historically, FMCW (frequency modulated continuous wave) had a high duty cycle (though not 100%, the ramp generators need finite time to reset (though you can alternate between up and downramps and get closer)). For some applications, though, requirements force you to short ramps and long PRIs, thus low duty cycles, but the name (FMCW) sticks.
abstrakraft commented on How automotive radar measures the velocity of objects   viksnewsletter.com/p/how-... · Posted by u/subbdue
curiousfab · a year ago
Typical FMCW radars transmit very short ramps (microseconds) at a very long (relatively) intervals (several ten milliseconds), i.e. a duty cycle of less than 0.1%.

In order to create interference between two radars, the ramps have to overlap pretty exactly, within a few nanoseconds of each other. This is very unlikely to happen.

Modern radars employ technologies to detect and/or avoid such collisions.

Overall it is not really an issue, even with many radars in crowded spaces.

abstrakraft · a year ago
This is true for some earlier lofi radars, but as driver assistance and self-driving have developed, so have the requirements and capabilities of the radar systems. Newer systems generally have shorter PRIs for higher doppler bandwidth, and much higher duty cycles for more energy on target - the FCC limits power, so you've got to get energy from the time axis. Both of these things make the interference problem harder.
abstrakraft commented on There are no particles, there are only fields (2012)   arxiv.org/abs/1204.4616... · Posted by u/primroot
strogonoff · a year ago
There’s nothing “real” in physics. Everything is a model, and every model is necessarily flawed—otherwise would imply a provably correct, complete formal description of the actual-really-“real”. To obtain that even in theory we would have to observe the real from the outside, which we by definition cannot: we’re necessarily part of what we’re describing, so if we could look at it from the outside all we would get then is a new indescribable “real”.

Hence, a question like “are fields real?” is besides the point: it is impossible to tell whether that theory is wrong or qualify how wrong it is, because the reference point is never available. It’s a model—it works for some purposes, it doesn’t for others.

abstrakraft · a year ago
I agree that you can't know what is "real" without looking at our universe from outside it, but that, in and of itself, doesn't imply that every model must be flawed, in the sense that its predictions must not be 100% consistent with observation. We could stumble across the "real" model, or something equivalent to it (in the sense of identical predictions) - we'd have no way of knowing whether the model is "real", but it could still be right.
abstrakraft commented on Tell HN: I salute everyone on call/working support through the holidays    · Posted by u/waynesoftware
mynameisnoone · 2 years ago
Blame doesn't really help solve or prevent problems. Root cause, blameless analysis with awareness and new tests and mitigation does. Also, career-wise, you won't become an IC9 by admitting to making a lot of mistakes. It's best to just solve them as fast as possible.
abstrakraft · 2 years ago
I find laying of blame to be the most egregious waste of time, for work as well as personal issues. People who insist on it are, by and large, not people you want to spend time or money with.

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abstrakraft commented on If you want people to show up, data shows these are the best meeting times   blog.boomerangapp.com/202... · Posted by u/Coko
pimpampum · 3 years ago
The title is not what it shows, that meetings are booked more on Monday 11am doesn't mean that people prefer or are more likely to show up. I guess they don't have data on attendance, only on booking.
abstrakraft · 3 years ago
I was confused by that terminology at first, too, but it appears their product has an "offer" phase where the meeting organizer suggests multiple times, and a "book" phase in which the invitees accept the meeting and it's booked. Which doesn't necessarily mean that the meeting is attended, but it is a higher level of confirmation/buy-in from the invitees than what happens at my work (FANG) where organizers just throw meetings on everyone's calendar.

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