They don't offer that course, but they should
— April 2, 2023Engineering complexification happens because of how we teach engineering.
Information about me, technical discussions, and personal musings on various topics that come up in the course of my work.
Nothing published here is intended to represent the views of my current or previous employers.Engineering complexification happens because of how we teach engineering.
With all this talk about AI chat bots, I wonder… do I need a new title?
How to use a model fitted to AMI data to do load forecasting.
Too many engineering papers I review get this basic economic concept totally wrong.
A solution to the transorming a z-domain transfer function to s-domain.
Revisiting the idea of a thermostat with no deadband
More musings, this time on whether AI is too dangerous
Musings on the state of modern science
How to generate loadshape clusters from AMI data.
What does it mean when you don’t even have a word for something?
“Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future”
If the future is so uncertain, then saving money you might never get to spend might not make sense.
How to fit a discrete linear-time-invariant dynamic model of building loads to meter data.
An essay on meeting the climate challenge in the absence of global leadership.
Is bitcoin’s energy use really excessive when compared with other currencies?
It’s not always easy to know whether your data has been manipulated before you received it.
Using EPA Continuous Emissions Monitoring Systems (CEMS) database to present the emissions from power plants in the western United States.
The original white paper introducing the TESS concept.
A Hamiltonian formulation as an alternative to the Lagrangian formulation of the optimal energy resource dispatch solution when resources are presented with both energy and ramping prices instead of only energy prices.
Medical testing serves as a warning about technology benefit claims.
Sometimes XKCD does not give you the full picture.
A thought about the Fermi Paradox.