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SIMPLE (should be obvious) solution to noise cafes, etc
jonpaul:
Bonjour à tous
à moment please for a bit of history....
Claude Shannon discovered the mathematical Theory of Communication, with landmark papers on communication in the presence of noise, circa 1942, Bell Laboratoires.
The human eyes and ears are the signal transducers, and brain is Signal processing for extraction the signals from noise background.
The burden of attention and compréhension of voice in the high noise environ is stressful.
As we age the vision and hearing deteriorate, and our ability to focus and comprehend speech is degraded more and more. For me, it's a huge learning curve to understand French conversation in a noisey métro or street. The French tradition of politeness and consideration of others is still present.
Sadly in the US I find people are generally loud , rude and disrespectful.
Finally, à plot of environmental backround noise vs years, reveals a general increase of 1..2 db per year.
Listening intently for your thoughts ....
Très amicalement, je vous souhaite une bonne soirée !
Jon
eti:
--- Quote from: jonpaul on February 22, 2023, 02:12:16 am ---Bonjour à tous
à moment please for a bit of history....
Claude Shannon discovered the mathematical Theory of Communication, with landmark papers on communication in the presence of noise, circa 1942, Bell Laboratoires.
The human eyes and ears are the signal transducers, and brain is Signal processing for extraction the signals from noise background.
The burden of attention and compréhension of voice in the high noise environ is stressful.
As we age the vision and hearing deteriorate, and our ability to focus and comprehend speech is degraded more and more. For me, it's a huge learning curve to understand French conversation in a noisey métro or street. The French tradition of politeness and consideration of others is still present.
Sadly in the US I find people are generally loud , rude and disrespectful.
Finally, à plot of environmental backround noise vs years, reveals a general increase of 1..2 db per year.
Listening intently for your thoughts ....
Très amicalement, je vous souhaite une bonne soirée !
Jon
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**** That’s what becomes of living in a theme park. Hyperbole and excessive levels of exaggeration mean that “awesome” has lost its actual true meaning, and is about as impactful as “very nice”.
As much as I admire and love my American cousins, they could do with smartening up a little, too. Surely there’s more clothes available than baggy joggers and hoodies; smarten up, scruffs! Here, have an actual American speak on this:
Buriedcode:
Ahh yes, another eti rant disguised as a question related to technology
PlainName:
He's dropped the question disguise in favour of a solution looking for a problem.
pcprogrammer:
--- Quote from: Buriedcode on February 22, 2023, 08:46:45 am ---Ahh yes, another eti rant disguised as a question related to technology
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--- Quote from: PlainName on February 22, 2023, 09:37:17 am ---He's dropped the question disguise in favour of a solution looking for a problem.
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You know that at first he was trying to sell it. :-DD
I saw his original post yesterday in the "Buy/Sell/Wanted" section and thought "that is the wrong spot" and I guess either eti himself or a moderator thought that to :palm:
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