Is that a ham radio setup? Looks like he might be doing packet radio.

I need one of these for my Camry

extremely offline

Thanks for the link she’s awesome. New favorite youtuber. I just finished the ‘What Astrophysicists Think About Aliens’ and her analysis of the Drake equation was excellent.

I learned it thru EE but I’ve always been aware that it is a much larger field of study. Its so pervasive it seems like it reveals something fundamental about the nature of reality kind of like how probability theory permeates all of the important scientific advances of the 20th century. I’m gonna have to do a deep dive on cybernetics now.

So in EE signals and system analysis you have a system with an input and an output. You smack it with an impulse input and you get an output response. The output can be separated into a transient response and a steady state response. The transient goes away and the ss response remains. You use this info to get characteristic equation of system which can then be used to determine the response of the system to other inputs, determine stability and other useful stuff.

I think about system control every time someone mentions communism doesn’t take human nature into consideration. So your saying in order to control humans greedy resource hoarding nature you are going to control it with a greedy system? Good luck with that positive feedback.

Positive feedback? Ha ha thanks for the compliment bud your lookin pretty good yourself.

No not that kind of positive feedback it means literal positive and negative. If your input to the system is blowing up positive you need to feedback a negative portion of the output back into the input thereby bringing the input to the system down and stabilizing the output or vice versa.

I’m also thinking about systems where the USA is a linear(maybe) system and the inputs are natural and man made events and the American system has a characteristic equation and response to these events. At least since 9/11 the response is to print trillions of $$$ and distribute it top down to the half way point effectively paying half of Americans to murder the other half. 15 trillion print on 9/11, 8 trillion print in 2008 bank crash and recently 8 trillion print for covid and things like BLM, masking or anti-masking etc being the transient response and war in Ukraine and Middle East as part of USA’s characteristic response. I dunno I’m just rambling now none of this answers your question about using control systems for economics I’m gonna have to do some research.

If you feel like going on a wild ride google ‘Fat Leonard’

Fully Cooked Ready to Eat!

$15.79 at O’hare airport concourse B last week.
Cheeseburger french fries medium coke

I bought a cheap United Airlines ticket 6 months ago for bay area maker fair and they sold my ticket out from under me 3 times. Started as a direct flight by the time I left it was 3 leg flight with 2 long layovers both ways. By the time I made it back to O’hare I was really tired and hungry just wanted something to snack on while I waited 5 hours for the last connecting flight. I got a medium coffee instead for $3.79 and it was watered down.

somebody had a bad day in Bryansk

As of March, 1,113 American mercenaries had taken up arms for Ukraine, according to a tally released by the Russian Defense Ministry. At least 491 of these had been killed, the ministry stated.

These guys are learning what the term ‘peer warfare’ means

I’d put cash money on Z-man using this to get another round of financing from USA.

I watched a doc on costco founder and he uses a business model that is different than any other retailer. The profit the corp records comes directly from subscription fees and cc’s. All the merch in the store is marked up approximately 30% above cost and is used for all operating costs. So upper management’s main job is run costco at %30. The end result is you can get the best value from costco over other retail stores. It isn’t a huge amount but every bit helps.

Has anyone else noticed the flurry of anti china news articles in the last week?

Almost out of a movie: Iran’s parliamentary speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, visited south Beirut today and met with the crowd. Amid a reported blockade by the IDF on Iranian planes coming into Beirut, Ghalibaf, former Air Force commander, flew the plane into Beirut himself.

Seamus Malekafzali twitter post (xcancel)

I hope Iran puts a lid on this open discussion of nuclear weapons. One of the most dangerous scenarios in nuclear war game theory is when your opponent has nuclear weapons and you are developing them but do not yet have enough to assure mutual destruction of the enemy. I don’t think it’s even unique to Israel. USA used it to justify the use of conventional military invasion of Iraq in 2003. If they really thought Iraq had a few nukes we might have seen the first use since 1945. A similar thing played out between India and Pakistan when they were in a race to develop nukes.

probably this? Japan_Self-Defense_Forces

oldest sibling lives 1 mile from beach on peninsula north of St Petersburg. other sibs and kids spent all day on whatsapp telling them to GTFO. They are surrounded by canals but ‘ThEy aRN’t CONneCtEd to THe OcEAn’ lol. They finally left this morning at 2am. They said there were abandoned cars all along 175.

That works thanks

Israel and Chemical/Biological Weapons: History, Deterrence, and Arms Control Some disturbing information about previous use of bio weapons in Gaza.

The above is from the Avner Cohen Collection which includes some the best available information about Israels nuclear weapons program as well as chemical & biological weapons programs.

Avner Cohen also wrote two books about the history of Israel nuclear weapons development The Worst-Kept Secret and Israel and the bomb

I have not been able to find a free copy of ‘The Worst-Kept Secret’ but google books has an excerpt & the ‘Israel and the bomb’ link is an Internet Archive copy.