Career change: No longer in DSP

I had to join a networking company. Few.. slowly forgetting all the DSP.
Looks like I have to do all dsp stuff at leisure time at home place.Any
advice? 

On 29 Nov, 11:15, "pal.debabrata123" <pal.debabrata...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I had to join a networking company. Few.. slowly forgetting all the DSP.
> Looks like I have to do all dsp stuff at leisure time at home place.Any
> advice?

Find a girlfriend? Or a hobby?

Seriously. The only way to maintain the DSP skills
is to use them. The only way to use them is to find
an application where they are needed. If you can't
find that through work, hobbies are the next step.

If you can't exercise your DSP skills through hobbies,
you ought to look for some totally different pasttimes.
(On second thought: You might want to do that, anyway.)

Rune

>On 29 Nov, 11:15, "pal.debabrata123" <pal.debabrata...@gmail.com>
>wrote:
>> I had to join a networking company. Few.. slowly forgetting all the
DSP.
>> Looks like I have to do all dsp stuff at leisure time at home
place.Any
>> advice?
>
>Find a girlfriend? Or a hobby?
>
>Seriously. The only way to maintain the DSP skills
>is to use them. The only way to use them is to find
>an application where they are needed. If you can't
>find that through work, hobbies are the next step.
>
>If you can't exercise your DSP skills through hobbies,
>you ought to look for some totally different pasttimes.
>(On second thought: You might want to do that, anyway.)
>
>Rune
>
Ha Ha Rune, How are you? I got some "touch of sugar" in my blood( 113
mg/dl fasting), so one of pastime is jogging. Already got married and have
a kid and expecting second one. Life is busy enough , but somehow missing 
DSP at workplace :-(   

>>On 29 Nov, 11:15, "pal.debabrata123" <pal.debabrata...@gmail.com>
>>wrote:
>>> I had to join a networking company. Few.. slowly forgetting all the
>DSP.
>>> Looks like I have to do all dsp stuff at leisure time at home
>place.Any
>>> advice?
>>
>>Find a girlfriend? Or a hobby?
>>
>>Seriously. The only way to maintain the DSP skills
>>is to use them. The only way to use them is to find
>>an application where they are needed. If you can't
>>find that through work, hobbies are the next step.
>>
>>If you can't exercise your DSP skills through hobbies,
>>you ought to look for some totally different pasttimes.
>>(On second thought: You might want to do that, anyway.)
>>
>>Rune
>>
>Ha Ha Rune, How are you? I got some "touch of sugar" in my blood( 113
>mg/dl fasting), so one of pastime is jogging. Already got married and
have
>a kid and expecting second one. Life is busy enough , but somehow missing

>DSP at workplace :-(   
>

By the way, I somehow believe the difficult DSP algorithms, if not handled
carefully,  can produce enough stress to raise sugar level , ha ha ha  

On 29 Nov, 11:49, "pal.debabrata123" <pal.debabrata...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> >On 29 Nov, 11:15, "pal.debabrata123" <pal.debabrata...@gmail.com>
> >wrote:
> >> I had to join a networking company. Few.. slowly forgetting all the
> DSP.
> >> Looks like I have to do all dsp stuff at leisure time at home
> place.Any
> >> advice?
>
> >Find a girlfriend? Or a hobby?
>
> >Seriously. The only way to maintain the DSP skills
> >is to use them. The only way to use them is to find
> >an application where they are needed. If you can't
> >find that through work, hobbies are the next step.
>
> >If you can't exercise your DSP skills through hobbies,
> >you ought to look for some totally different pasttimes.
> >(On second thought: You might want to do that, anyway.)
>
> >Rune
>
> Ha Ha Rune, How are you? I got some "touch of sugar" in my blood( 113
> mg/dl fasting), so one of pastime is jogging. Already got married and have
> a kid and expecting second one. Life is busy enough , but somehow missing
> DSP at workplace :-(

One option could be to get a DSP excercise collection,
like one of these,

http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Explorations-Signals-Systems-MATLAB/dp/0130421553/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1259495562&sr=8-3
http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Based-Exercises-Signal-Processing-MATLAB/dp/0137890095/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1259495218&sr=8-2

and start woking through them. These books are based on that
you have matlab available, but a lot of the material can be
covered with only a C or C++ compiler with only standard
libraries. You could also get one of the free matlab clones.

Then get a cheap mic and use your PC to collect data and
analyze. Do you have one of those propeller-like electric
fans? Are you able to count the number of blades just by
analyzing the sound? It can be done.

Rune

pal.debabrata123 wrote:

> I had to join a networking company. Few.. slowly forgetting all the DSP.
> Looks like I have to do all dsp stuff at leisure time at home place.Any
> advice? 

As one of my university professors used to say, "It is very easy to 
forget the things that you never knew".

VLV

On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 05:16:31 -0600, "pal.debabrata123"
<pal.debabrata123@gmail.com> wrote:

>>>On 29 Nov, 11:15, "pal.debabrata123" <pal.debabrata...@gmail.com>
>>>wrote:
>>>> I had to join a networking company. Few.. slowly forgetting all the
>>DSP.
>>>> Looks like I have to do all dsp stuff at leisure time at home
>>place.Any
>>>> advice?
>>>
>>>Find a girlfriend? Or a hobby?
>>>
>>>Seriously. The only way to maintain the DSP skills
>>>is to use them. The only way to use them is to find
>>>an application where they are needed. If you can't
>>>find that through work, hobbies are the next step.
>>>
>>>If you can't exercise your DSP skills through hobbies,
>>>you ought to look for some totally different pasttimes.
>>>(On second thought: You might want to do that, anyway.)
>>>
>>>Rune
>>>
>>Ha Ha Rune, How are you? I got some "touch of sugar" in my blood( 113
>>mg/dl fasting), so one of pastime is jogging. Already got married and
>have
>>a kid and expecting second one. Life is busy enough , but somehow missing
>
>>DSP at workplace :-(   
>>
>
>By the way, I somehow believe the difficult DSP algorithms, if not handled
>carefully,  can produce enough stress to raise sugar level , ha ha ha  

Hi,
  What I think happens is that working in DSP 
leads to alcoholism, which raises our blood sugar.

[-Rick-]

>Hi,
>  What I think happens is that working in DSP 
>leads to alcoholism, which raises our blood sugar.
>
>[-Rick-]
>
Ha ha Rick, that was of course true in my case.Implementing  DSP is such
an open ended and never ending affair, some times become difficult to draw
line.
By the way , Rick , please write a book on wavelets so that we can learn
about the subject be amazed to see it working.    

pal.debabrata123 <pal.debabrata123@gmail.com> wrote:

>>Hi,

>>  What I think happens is that working in DSP 
>>leads to alcoholism, which raises our blood sugar.
>>
>>[-Rick-]

>Ha ha Rick, that was of course true in my case.Implementing  DSP is such
>an open ended and never ending affair, some times become difficult to draw
>line.

Is it evidence-based that alcoholism raises blood sugar?

The next off-topic discussion should be on medical research fraud....

Steve

Steve Pope wrote:

>>>Hi,
> 
>>> What I think happens is that working in DSP 
>>>leads to alcoholism, which raises our blood sugar.

That also improves Hardware Abstraction Level.

> Is it evidence-based that alcoholism raises blood sugar?

Isn't it dependent on what you drink?

> The next off-topic discussion should be on medical research fraud....

Too late. Medical fraud was already signed into law.
May I suggest different offtopic?

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So, repeatng exactly the same thing which already blowed the housing 
bubble? Isn't it wonderful?



Vladimir Vassilevsky
DSP and Mixed Signal Design Consultant
http://www.abvolt.com