I don't know how widely known this is among the HN crowd, but: Sennheiser did professional audio equipment for many decades before they entered the consumer market. To me, it sounds like they're returning to their core business.
many sims use some variety of SPICE and some convergence algorithm a-la Newton's method to discover the voltages and currents at the nodes. simulating a system where every single component runs in parallel with every other component isn't easy.
speaker frequency response simulations will sometimes use an equivalent electronic circuit. it could help design better speakers. any time you interface digital circuitry with the real world, hybrid circuitry is used. also, with this increased processing capacity, you could be looking at simulating the parasitic properties of components, not just ideal versions of them.
i've had a lot trouble with analog simulations in SPICE. they often fail to converge or run incredibly slowly. i do a lot of audio circuitry. the speedups addressed here could potentially make it possible to simulate audio circuits in real time. suppose you feed a signal in via an audio interface, pass it through your analog processing circuitry and play it back in real time. the design cycle would be so much faster.
the article seems to skip over the entire field of colour science. there is a colour space for the human eye. it's called LMS. there is also a colour space, derived from it, called CIEXYZ. it's the colour space that all ICC profiles are specified in. they are RGB-like in nature and correspond to the three types of cone cells in the human eye. there are other colour spaces that derive from it, such as CIELab and CIELuv, which are luma-chroma versions of XYZ.
More like cabins in the wild than country cottages, some of them not accessible by car. Calling them country cottages makes them seem like they’re houses, but they’re more like cabins, often without water and electricity, because they’re not near population centres, so the infrastructure doesn’t exist. The entire point of a Norwegian cabin is to escape the urban life for a little while and go back to basics.
It helps to use linear gamma when manipulating RGB values. Linear gamma fixes most issues with interpolating and mixing RGB values and that’s also why most modern CG pipelines use it. It produces the most natural results.
This is what futures contracts are for. They are settled with a physical delivery or in cash, depending on the contract.
Futures trading is a prediction market. If you produce a commodity, you could, for example, place a sell order that is settled on a certain date in the future, and if you’re lucky, the market price will be below that of the price set in the order.
The buyer of the future will then purchase the commodity from you at the agreed price, or for cash settled futures, he’ll pay you the difference.
If the market price is higher, the difference is paid to the buyer, if the future is cash settled.
I think all those trains, cars, carriages and people would’ve made a lot more noise than the audio mix suggests. The trains and cars especially should be drowning out everything else as they pass near the camera. This sounds more like the audio track of a feature film than anything captured with a microphone in the field.
These are prescription medications being taken under the supervision of both a psychiatrist and a doctor. Again, I'm actually cutting back on the medications. I was on a much higher dose before.
I find it very funny that themes of self-realisation, self-discovery and insanity are often mentioned together. It's almost as if you have to be slightly mad to actually live a little.
And the moment you begin to express your joy of living, people come out to say "You should be careful. You might be going crazy." and other people, who have lost their fear in a similar way, come out to congratulate you on your self-development.
It's almost as if every idea is a double-edged sword if you take the time to examine it.
Some of the stuff on the hypomania page rings a bell, but I don’t think disinhibition requires testing and confronting your fears first. What I’m going through, behaviourally speaking, feels more like learning the actual vs believed limits of what I can do to affect my environment. It’s a bit like being a kid and testing borders with your parents to see how far you can take it and then gaining a little more confidence. I wait patiently to take the next step and plan things out and then execute them. Again, if I was feeling a loss of control and my behaviours made me dysfunctional, that would be the time to seek help. Instead, it would seem that I’m actually improving my life situation. The definition of mental illness isn’t symptoms but whether they are giving the patient issues interacting with their environment, and as far as I can see, I fail to satisfy that criterium.
It’s of relatively recent date, but thinking back on it, I’ve had vaguely similar experiences before. Difference is that there wasn’t the same bringing online of feelings and abilities. It wasn’t as powerful.
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