{"id":69,"date":"2004-09-06T18:05:51","date_gmt":"2004-09-07T02:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=69"},"modified":"2005-02-13T23:24:06","modified_gmt":"2005-02-14T07:24:06","slug":"closedloop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/?p=69","title":{"rendered":"Closedloop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<i><sub> Anyway, as the days grow visibly shorter and that general blahness sets in, I&#8217;m sort of absentmindedly examining the entrails of my last relationship. (Ha, that even predates this bloggg. Wow, that&#8217;s been a while.) It&#8217;s all there. The external disturbances. The oscillatory impulse response. Pre-ringing just before the point of failure, the runaway condition, the underdamped output ringing, hot and cold, hot and cold, after I (ahem, H(s)) was removed from the loop, gradually settling to zero.<\/sub><\/i><\/p>\n<p>\nHa, I don&#8217;t know why I&#8217;m thinking distractedly about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techonline.com\/community\/ed_resource\/course\/13049\">controls<\/a> theory right now. Or dating. Or both of these at the same time. I must be a nerd or something. <\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I&#8217;m thinking that I need to date a girl that writes about her daily life in an online diary\/journal\/blog thingy, especially if she doesn&#8217;t know that I know about it. As y&#8217;all may be well aware, I am a fullblooded geek-out artist, which can lead you to form some accurate conclusions about my girl-reading skills. With a public-secret journal though, if I&#8217;m somehow fucking up big time, I will actually know about it&#8230;some girls (not to generalize) have this tendency of, you know, not actually letting you know stuff like that (or at least not until it&#8217;s too late&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah&#8230; In googling for the above link, I found out that <i>closed-loop<\/i> also means something entirely different (and needless to say, having nothing to do with linear control systems). And kinda wish I hadn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>\nQOTD: &#8220;Jared? Come down to ELAB, I can&#8217;t reproduce.&#8221; &#8211; Me, diagnosing a heisenbug between LabView and some proprietary drivers. (It was several minutes before I realized what I&#8217;d just said&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyway, as the days grow visibly shorter and that general blahness sets in, I&#8217;m sort of absentmindedly examining the entrails of my last relationship. (Ha, that even predates this bloggg. Wow, that&#8217;s been a while.) It&#8217;s all there. The external disturbances. The oscillatory impulse response. Pre-ringing just before the point of failure, the runaway condition, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-rants-rambles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}