On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 03:07:44PM -0500, Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote:
On Tue, 13 Apr 2010, Ken Restivo wrote:
After having been properly smacked upside the
head enough times,
nowadays I get very impatient and annoyed with any kind of "secret
sauce" nonsense, black boxes, and other types of voodoo that Richard
Feynman called "Cargo Cult Science".
I've come to call it "guitar-player-speak." :-)
I always found it amusing when Steve Albini (a guitar player, by the way, as well as an
engineer) who spent many pages blasting "producers" who used terms like
"warm" and "punchy", instead of describing things in mathematical
terms.
-ken