Noise

In the book “the Signal and the noise”, author Nate Silver talks about prediction from many different angles. Silver explains how prediction is a part of our everyday life and how it affects us. From math to history, inside of a class room or on a court/field, prediction is something we deal with on a day to day basis unconsciously. Silver talks about the benefits of failure and how failure is helpful in the long run with making predictions. Throughout the years we have made progress with…

Noises Off Critique I went to see Noises Off on Thursday night 10/8/2015. Noises Off by Michael Frayn was presented by CNU theater with CNU theater students. Noises Off’s style is a farce/comedy. The play had nine actors and the plot was constructed by having a play inside a play. The play had three acts describing different performances inside the play. The first act was on Monday 14 January 1982 at Grand Theatre, Weston-super-Mare; the act II was on Wednesday 13 February 1982 at Theatre…

Introduction: The NRC, Noise Reduction Coefficient, is the average of the levels of absorptiveness in a material at four different frequencies; 250, 500, 1000, and 2000 Hz. If a material has an NRC of 0, it will reflect sound. If it has an NRC of 1, it is perfectly absorptive. These numbers can be converted into a percentage, therefore ranging from 0% to 100% in absorptiveness. (Noise Reduction Coefficients (NRC) Ratings for Common Building Materials & Products, n.d.) In order to soundproof…

In his book, “The Signal and the Noise,” Nate Silver discusses many statistical and analytic techniques as they relate to everyday events and phenomenon. For instance Silver writes about topics such as baseball, weather predictions, climate change, the stock market and terrorism to name a few. In each chapter he addresses the issues at hand and describes how statistical analysis can be employed to make the topic easy to understand and often predict certain outcomes. The book is very enjoyable…

Noise canceling technology in headphones changes the whole way someone listens to music or any other audio experience in that it doesn’t overpower external noise, it erases them. The solution to turn up the volume to drown out unwanted sounds like Aunt Petunia or the roar of the engine in an airplane doesn’t apply anymore for users with noise canceling headphones. The solution to nagging or thunderous noise is simply to switch the noise canceling button on and listen to a file of your choosing.…

seen that the first person to go and check out the strange noise, or creepy building is either the first one to be kidnaped or killed.…

The book “The Signal and the Noise” by Nate Silver, so far has emphasize the skill of using probability and statics which is a practical art of mathematical model building. I believe Silver takes a big-picture approach using statics, combining sources of data (ex. Baseball), sound statics and analysis, and historical data which is tested by many researchers and experts who have significant roles in the media. In the first six chapters, Silver covers the topics; the failure to predict the 2008…

Till Death Do Us Part White Noise written by Don Delillo, is a book of endless trivial pursuits that challenges the reader to great ends to draw conclusions from it. At the same time the book is a great commentary on contemporary issues in America. One of the major themes of the book is the role of marriage, tied with death, and how that plays a role in couple’s relationships, as well as personal lives. Marriage is never simple, but the intensity of the fear of death in Babette and Jack’s…

Throughout White Noise DeLillo makes a point of illustrating Blacksmith’s dependency on media. One of the few places the Gladney family congregates is in front of the television, whether it be for Babette’s weekly family viewings or because of some significant event. If they are not in front of the set, then they are tuned in to the radio. This in itself is not inherently detrimental: It leads to rare family time and keeps them informed about the world. However, the news broadcasts and media…

novel, White Noise, is Wilder, the youngest son of Babette, Jack Gladney’s wife. Jack Gladney worried about Wilder and states, “I also wondered why his vocabulary seemed to be stalled at twenty-five words” (DeLillo 35-36). We may infer from the text that Wilder may have a learning disability. Since Wilder may have a learning disability, Wilder is a child, and Wilder does not understand death, Wilder may be the symbol of youth and innocence throughout DeLillo’s novel, White Noise. Throughout…