When IDL released version 6.3 they included a function called BUTTERWORTH. This function generates the Butterworth filter function commonly used in frequency filtering of time series data. I have previously used a Butterworth filter by generating my own array. Since it is almost always simpler to use provided functions, I decided to use this new […]
Now we just need a mosquito to bite us and then get encased in this amber… and then 65 million years into the future they will recreate us.
Still just playing with the camera. It’s all kids and flowers.
I am now capable of acquiring RAW images. I remain, however, incapable of taking a decent photo. Let’s try to improve on that.
Elder baby is now capable of removing diapers on her own. Every moment of quiet is actually the sound of impending trouble.
Even compact tokamaks get a lot better when you make them bigger: radiation damage to the central solenoid of spherical tokamaks as a function of device size


