Month: September 2022

THE ODD AND THE WEIRD. "In troubleshooting, so many symptoms are discarded as they are illogical, but I've often had the really hard problems while at a large telco, and we get some very weird symptoms that lead to some odd root causes." https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3d3vct View in LinkedIn

ODD ROOT CAUSES. "A bunch of people had disconnections at a certain location, I looked at area on google maps and street view. Found a morgue called them up, and asked what time they run the electric furnaces for burning bodies. Another fault was clustered around a military base on radio frequencies that were not military reserved." https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3d3vct View in LinkedIn

WORKAROUNDS. "There are other electrical things going on (capacitance, crosstalk, etc) in chips that we normally design around." https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3d3vct View in LinkedIn

BUILT-IN BUG PATHS. "It's important to add that using those defects (instead of designing around them like humans do) can lead to improper work quite easily, depending on stability of the power supply, temperature or magnetic field." https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3d3vct View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE deals with the concept of imperfection in nature. Darwin had a massive influence on the subject, even though he broke with an even stronger world view before him that was based on a religious view. Even today, we have an underlying and often unspoken assumption that nature is always striving towards perfection, and these ideas are rooted in the past rather than reality. View in LinkedIn

PREVAILING VIEW. "On the uniformity and perfection of nature." (Philip Freneau,1815). https://lnkd.in/dKQSbZr View in LinkedIn

TRANSCENDENTALIST VIEW. "Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole." (Ralph Waldo Emerson). https://lnkd.in/dXaHRqi View in LinkedIn

MAGICAL THINKING. "Fabicconi numbers in nature, selective and seductive.” https://lnkd.in/dHb3uBz View in LinkedIn

SELECTIVE magical thinking has bred a mountain of erroneous publications whose primary motivation is to see the hand of god in nature. https://lnkd.in/dffiSnf View in LinkedIn

AN ORDERLY WORLD VIEW was driven by crystallography. “Why water boils at 100ºC and methane at -161ºC; why blood is red and grass is green; why diamond is hard and wax is soft; why graphite writes on paper and silk is strong; why glaciers flow and iron gets hard when you hammer it; how muscles contract; how sunlight makes plants grow and how living organisms have been able to evolve into ever more complex forms…? The answers to all these problems have come from structural analysis.” (Max Perutz) https://lnkd.in/dbrsipp View in LinkedIn