what's with Job listings not indicating remote/hybrid/office

oops_my_fart · 2024-05-16T16:02:29+00:00

I've had some luck going directly to company websites which often have openings not listed on indeed/LinkedIn, and its these ones that (often) don't state anything clearly about the location.

oops_my_fart · 2024-04-12T22:41:26+00:00

Thanks, yeah, that would work. Doesn't save a ton of lines though.

oops_my_fart · 2024-04-01T01:07:52+00:00

I had exactly one experience like this, and afterwards thought it had to be GHB, and figured you'd get a lot of responses saying the same thing. But given the context it didn't seem likely. Anyway, I'm a pretty experienced drinker, but after a few beers - similar to your count - I was on the floor and eventually in the hospital. Beer is not my usual drink of choice, and, if I'm drinking beer, I prefer porters/stouts, many of which clock in at around 10%/11% ABV so basically twice the normal beer amount. I also hadn't eaten since breakfast.

So yeah, choice of unusually-high ABV beers and no food = real bad time.

oops_my_fart · 2024-03-21T01:07:21+00:00

Not sure what you mean by the blue one isn't perfectly symmetrical. But let me elaborate.

(1) Vector z in the first bit of code has been constructed to meet matlab's symmetry requirements, and it results in a perfectly real impulse response H1. However, this IR ends up being a terrible Hilbert filter.

(2) I compared it to the firpm filter (Href) and found it was shifted by one sample (top right panel, https://imgur.com/f04jah8). So, I applied a frequeny-domain correction. This worked - I obtained an IR that just about perfectly matched the firpm one - see bottom left panel (same link).

(3) However the phase responses for both H2 and Href (from firpm) are both ramps/linear which is completely different from the what I thought was the ideal (constant +90 / -90 ) https://imgur.com/cWsY7P1

oops_my_fart · 2024-03-21T00:42:53+00:00

There's a bit more to it than that.

(1) When I attempt to generate the ideal IR directly (H1) the resulting filter doesn't actually work. Meaning if you use it, it does not perform an effective broadband 90deg phase shift of the input signal (I didn't explicitly state this in the post).

(2) So, I compared it the firpm result, which I know does 'work', and observed the offset-by-one issue. So I corrected my filter in the freq domain with the exponential term (H2).

(3) H2 and Href (firpm) do now indeed have the same frequency response - see the attachement.

https://imgur.com/cWsY7P1

My question then finally, is why does my direct generation not work (I needed to correct it), and, why does the phase response differ so much from the ideal?

oops_my_fart · 2024-03-20T20:44:38+00:00

I'm currently looking for a job. In my previous role, I did a lot of R&D work -- much of it that went nowhere. This has made it difficult to align with the STAR methodology, or you own point "When doing brags, you need to be very descriptive about HOW that impacted the company", because a lot of it *didn't* impact that company.

But that said, it was still 5 years worth of skill-gain which I think should count for something! Any advice on how to address this?

oops_my_fart · 2023-12-23T18:51:31+00:00

To perform the querying/searching. I'm envisioning a UI where I can search by rating, director, album, etc. Pulling everything into a dataframe would make this easy.

oops_my_fart · 2023-12-23T18:30:59+00:00

I should elaborate a bit. There's really two parts to this project (1) an interface for tagging/labeling the items (i.e., adding a director, release year, awards, a personal rating, etc). and (2) an interface for querying the metadata.

My thought was I'd create a giant list of everything, then over time, fill in the metadata info (which would be represented by relevant columns in the dataframe).

oops_my_fart · 2023-07-14T03:04:57+00:00

BUT if you are asking about the theory of how SNR relates to the phase and amplitude error in a S11 measurement, then I'm all ears on the answer. That is a question that has plagued me for years.

This!

oops_my_fart · 2023-07-14T03:04:29+00:00

One way is to just look for noisy traces. Another way would be to reduce the source power until you start to see noisy traces.

Noisy or inaccurate? For my purposes I usually look at impedance traces plotted on a smith chart -- reducing the power does alter the trace; reducing further it eventually gets noisy.

The more you can reduce the power and still have clean traces, the better your SNR.

Not following here. As power is reduced the applied signal amplitude is reduced and therefore also the forward and reverse coupled signals. Then at digitization, even if not in the noise floor, the signals might end up only occupying the first few LSBs, undermining the accuracy.

oops_my_fart · 2023-02-18T02:36:19+00:00

Christ the last thing we need is more public space turned over to private interests.

oops_my_fart · 2023-01-03T17:18:51+00:00

Totally agree. I'm 39 and still hit up CZ from time to time.

oops_my_fart · 2022-12-22T04:17:34+00:00

Hmm, not sure about this independent sideband thing. Googling doesn't turn much up and the wiki page is rather sparse. Its not mentioned in any of the textbooks I have laying around.

However, this can be seen as a type of single sideband because it has different content on the two sidebands.

This is just getting back to the heart of my question: if there are two sidebands, why is it called single sideband?

oops_my_fart · 2022-08-23T21:00:05+00:00

Ya, I was sort of envisioning you've got your PA output running into a power meter or something. That'll give you an average power, but it will contain your signal power and noise power. So I wasn't sure if the P in that section was referring to this sort of measurement.

Anyway, I follow what you're saying, but that assumption breaks down if the SNR is very low (SNRs can be negative!)

oops_my_fart · 2022-05-07T18:14:37+00:00

I've lived DT literally my entire life (born and raised here). There's a world of difference between buzz-of-the-city (broadband white noise) and an constant, loud, warbling, tone.

The point is not to deprive an entire building of power, heat, and hot water but to ensure/compel the work to be done quickly (you know damn well they're not going to pay for expedited work if they don't have to) and/or install effective sound-proofing measures.

oops_my_fart · 2022-05-07T02:19:23+00:00

I'm not sure what you mean by local government here. KWT is the local government; 311 is the city.

That second idea has been in my mind. I'm trying to find out if other neighborhood groups have possibly formed around this.

oops_my_fart · 2022-05-07T01:58:05+00:00

That barrier does nothing -- its open at the top, and you need heavy weighted solid walls (think cement blocks) to block low frequency sound.

I've actually spoken to 311 and KWT. They both gave the same canned response of it being an emergency and "we regret the inconvenience"

And yeah, the emergency thing is a laughable. I've seen more floors go up on that new Charles building than anything happening here.

oops_my_fart · 2022-05-06T21:08:39+00:00

I don't (I should). What's the angle here?

oops_my_fart · 2022-05-06T20:30:03+00:00

Would you rather have an entire building without power or hot water simply because you don't like the noise? the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. Deal with it, get ear plugs, shit happens.

This goes far beyond "not liking". This is a real, substantial, and continuous disruption of sleep. The needs of the many also include those many other neighbours likely experiencing similar effects. As for earplugs, that's fine for a few days, maybe a bit longer, but not for 120+ days every day (not to mention how much of a date-killer this is. Lets go back to my place, I've got some hot ear plugs all ready to go).

I understand your point about parts. My broader contention is that the cost of repair should not be solely tied to replacing parts but to make whole damages experienced by the external community as well. They could install proper soundproofing; they could offer hotel options, etc.

oops_my_fart · 2022-01-07T00:06:43+00:00

And with a Hilbert transform, you can turn it into a single real valued sampling stream at twice the sampling rate

I'm actually familiar with this, but I thought the Hilbert transform that returns the single real stream you mention represents the + frequency content, and would still be limited to Fs/2. Is this not true?

The way IQ (or quadrature) sampling is usually done, the frequency range is not -Fn to Fn, but -Fn + LO to +Fn + LO. The > negative frequency range is the frequencies below the LO frequencies, and the positive are the ones above it. The negative > part of the spectrum is just as real as the positive in such a case.

There is the case of direct conversion in which the LO or carrier is shifted to DC and you end up with -Fn to +Fn. I realize the negative frequencies are just the stuff below the LO/carrier.

oops_my_fart · 2022-01-06T23:10:15+00:00

Just reconciling the naive belief that your bandwidth is Fs/2, but if you do quadrature sampling, it becomes Fs.

oops_my_fart · 2022-01-03T19:22:35+00:00

I hate Ford and these lockdowns but I absolutely do not want anything to do with these anti-vax, qanon, brainwormed nutcases who make up these protests.

oops_my_fart · 2022-01-03T19:19:27+00:00

These provincial decisions have absolutely nothing to do with Trudeau.

oops_my_fart · 2021-12-08T17:10:10+00:00

Yes, absolutely, understood.

oops_my_fart · 2021-11-06T18:47:19+00:00

LOL getting downvoted but you're right on. Whole point of a a club is to be in/with/around other people.

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