POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Dr POV-Ray : Re: Dr POV-Ray Server Time
6 Sep 2024 13:17:55 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Dr POV-Ray  
From: Invisible
Date: 20 Feb 2009 09:51:37
Message: <499ec379$1@news.povray.org>
>> Anyway, as to what percentage of the population understand the Fourier 
>> Transform, I wouldn't like to say.
> 
> In my experience very little. Which does not stop them from using it 
> when a package provides it.
> Proposition #6 from my thesis: the use of FFT to extract clinically 
> relevant parameters should be forbidden in the field of cardiology.

Uh... I was under the impression that most of the useful information in 
a cardiagram is in the time-domain anyway...? (OTOH, IANAD.)

>> I don't meet many people... I'm sure in any kind of competetive 
>> process though, you're going to meet a hell of a lot of them.
> 
> Then why do have to import our PhD students? After Dutch and English, 
> Russian is now the third language in our lab. Two years ago it was Italian.

No idea.


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