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petermcneeleylast Thursday at 9:59 PM3 repliesview on HN

I dont like the Fourier Transform. It is infinite which makes it coarse and rough and it it gets everywhere.


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ted_dunninglast Thursday at 10:32 PM

Anybody who does anything in the real world with Fourier transforms uses the fast Fourier transform operating on windowed data. This eliminates all of that infinite support and infinite resolution of frequencies.

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monuszeroyesterday at 4:57 AM

Not sure if an oblaque tomb raider reference or math metaphor.

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globalnodelast Thursday at 11:17 PM

not like here.