Viliam_Bur comments on Rationality Quotes February 2013 - Less Wrong

2 Post author: arundelo 05 February 2013 10:20PM

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 06 February 2013 03:27:48PM 1 point [-]

The capacitor is just a didactic example. Connect it across a laboratory power supply and twiddle the voltage up and down, and you get uncorrelated voltage and current signals.

Somewhere at home I have a gadget for using a computer as a signal generator and oscilloscope. I must try this.

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 06 February 2013 05:23:06PM *  0 points [-]

On the other hand, I'd guess that 99% of actual capacitors are the gates of digital FETs (simply due to the mindbogglingly large number of FETs). Given just a moment's glimpse of the current through such a capacitor, you can deduce quite a bit about its voltage.