20 Hamming, Learning to Learn: Simulation III, 10 May 1995
Channel: Hamming on Hamming: Learning to Learn
Date: 2018-02-28

I will continue the general trend of the last chapter, but center on the old expression "garbage in - garbage out," often abbreviated GIGO. The idea is that if you use ill-determined numbers and equations (garbage) in then you can only get ill-determined numbers and equations out. By implication the converse is tacitly assumed, if what goes in is accurate then what comes out must be accurate. I shall show that both of these assumptions can be false. Because many simulations still involve differential equations we begin by considering the simplest first-order differential equations of the form that is often used.

00:00 Introduction
06:00 How will they splice glass fibers
07:20 Small glass fibers
09:50 Cladding affects photons
12:45 Story of coming to NPS
15:30 Drop cords
17:46 Satellites at the equator
23:00 Solitons
29:15 What’s going to happen with computers?
35:50 How will you design a computer?
39:34 Different methods of analysis and signaling may be fading
45:19 End

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