What should I do with my 'adorable' new cat?

Gianluigi Mazzorana posted:

Where's the cat?

Rather elusive:

Wow! All of a sudden I feel like listening to Mr Tambourine Man. 

Top stuff Minh,

Will be trying it at the weekend - looked well tasty.Thanks for posting.Great to have you back.BTW how did your cable experiments go.I remember you posting a couple of years ago on that venture ?

Cheers Ian  

Tony2011 posted:

Wow! All of a sudden I feel like listening to Mr Tambourine Man. 

My take is more "Michael Moorcock & the Deep Fix, New Worlds Fair"  "Fair Dealer".

But then I do often deliberately take a darker outlook on life as doing so highlights the brighter bits all the clearer.

Hmm: How are you going to control the variables; for instance the cable construction and dielectric materials, to ensure that any effects you (and the test team) hear are due to the silver conductors rather than arising from other differences?

Huge posted:

Hmm: How are you going to control the variables; for instance the cable construction and dielectric materials, to ensure that any effects you (and the test team) hear are due to the silver conductors rather than arising from other differences?

What would you suggest?

Huge posted:

Tony2011 posted:

Wow! All of a sudden I feel like listening to Mr Tambourine Man. 

My take is more "Michael Moorcock & the Deep Fix, New Worlds Fair"  "Fair Dealer".

But then I do often deliberately take a darker outlook on life as doing so highlights the brighter bits all the clearer.

Prolific raconteur inbued with senseless and often opaque brilliance.    

Minh Nguyen posted:

Huge posted:

Hmm: How are you going to control the variables; for instance the cable construction and dielectric materials, to ensure that any effects you (and the test team) hear are due to the silver conductors rather than arising from other differences?

What would you suggest?

Sometimes one needs to rephrase the question....

If you want an answer to a question but find that you can't conclusively obtain an answer to that question, sometimes it's better to see if there's a related question to which you can obtain a definitive answer, and then ask "is the answer to that question sufficient to your needs?".

First you need to formulate the question, then using thought experiments and logic, test the limitations and controls of various experimental protocols to find if you can definitively answer the question; if you can't design an experimental protocol to control all the variables relevant to the question, then you can't definitively answer that question.

If you can't definitively answer that question, you have to ask whether the incomplete answer is sufficient to you needs (e.g. you can define a difference but cannot attribute the cause of the difference)?

If it is sufficient to you needs, then carry on: within the (then known) limitations of the experimental protocol you can still obtain a useful answer.

If it's not sufficient to your needs, then you need to change the question.

Asian food? I'm an expert! Let me show you my recipe

That stuff you have there looks excellent Minh. Spiciest hot food I have ever had in my mouth was Vietnamese food.