Category Archives: Engineering

Modern Masters

16Oct09 – 21:34

Further to my rant about clueless DJs replacing proper producers, here are a couple of funny little animations about the horrors of being a mastering engineer to today’s “talent”: Mastering: The Movie Part One and Part Two.
And, from an interview this month’s Sound on Sound magazine, here’s Bruce Swedien, studio engineer for Michael Jackson’s Off The Wall and Thriller albums, on Quincy […]

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Capable Of Universal Computation

18May09 – 15:31

The new “un-search engine” Wolfram Alpha beat Google in at least one of my tests:
Here are some of its answers to other, harder, questions.

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Reductionism

13Jun07 – 10:46

This civil engineering computer simulation [YouTube video] of one of the September 11 impacts is all the more shocking for being created without factoring in the explosions or heat damage. It also omits the fleeing spectating Jews, holographically concealed missiles, and shaped charges planted in the tower by giant lizards. Scientists and engineers, eh? They’re […]

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