Lazy Friday TN: 2006 Pinon Vouvray Cuvee Tradition

originally posted by Mark Davis:
In my view, base 2 is the most interesting of them all, given this core basic-block...at least until the days of quantum computing become more broadly useful.
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Do you see this changing with quantum computing? I don't know a lot about it, but what I've seen involves qbits with two observable states, so I'd expect that data would still be represented in base 2.
 
back to more mundane things like vouvray (yes, but who's asking). a recent while back the pichot 'le peu de la moriette' vouvray 2007 was sort of summarily dismissed on a thread here. i've had this wine for many vintages back to the mid 90's, and have always found it to be a wine of merit. the 2007 has plenty (loads?) of body, full of beeswax, honey, chalk, density, grip, medium sweetness (demi-sec style) and cries out for a few (or more) years in the cellar. fuller and less focused than a huet, but for a fraction of the price. not for those that want rapier precision, but for a mouth full of density and soil, a great value.
 
It's OK, but I don't buy it myself. The balance tilts too far in the sweet direction for may taste, and the aromatics are less than incredible.
 
originally posted by SFJoe:
VikingIt's OK, but I don't buy it myself. The balance tilts too far in the sweet direction for may taste, and the aromatics are less than incredible.
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Yes, the general consensus around these parts are that Vikings had best stick to kittens.

Mark Lipton
 
originally posted by Mark Davis:
...bits...
originally posted by VLM:
originally posted by Yule Kim:
Lazy Friday TN: 2006 Pinon Vouvray Cuvee TraditionMy first tasting note on Wine Disorder and the second Vouvray I ever had:

Smells good. Lots of YUM! on the palate [Score: 1.9213 out of Log2(4)]
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I've really never understood the reason people use log base 2.
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Nathan-

A more general answer would be because we tend to use "bits", and thus binary, to represent a multitude of things in math and computer arithmetic....which leads to a huge application area in digital circuits, microprocessors, and DSPs, for instance. In my view, base 2 is the most interesting of them all, given this core basic-block...at least until the days of quantum computing become more broadly useful.

-mark
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Thanks, that and the above makes a lot of sense. Medical scientists use it because they are (arbitrarily) interested in "two-fold" changes. WTF?
 
originally posted by VLM:

Thanks, that and the above makes a lot of sense. Medical scientists use it because they are (arbitrarily) interested in "two-fold" changes. WTF?
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By two-fold do you mean doubling? If so, the reason for using log_2 versus log_10 is the same as the reasons those of us who work in base 2 use log_2: the values in a sequence of doublings grow exponentially. We can relate any of those values to the number of doublings by taking log_2 of that value. It's similar to looking at decibel or Richter scale values, which characterize the number of ten-fold increases.

If your question is why use two-fold rather than ten-fold, that's something field-specific that I can't answer.

Note that the difference between the logs to any two fixed bases is a constant factor: log_a x and log_b x differ by a factor of log_b a. Thus a log plot using log_2 will differ from a log_10 plot by a scaling of the log axis. If you don't like working with log_2 you can always make that change. The same holds for natural logs.
 
originally posted by VLM:

Thanks, that and the above makes a lot of sense. Medical scientists use it because they are (arbitrarily) interested in "two-fold" changes. WTF?
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It's an old biology hangover: changes are only significant if they are at least 2-fold. That had a lot to do with the typical error bars on the numbers they were measuring, but it also has a lot to do with human psychology.

Mark Lipton
 
originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:
originally posted by Thor:
Shameless CC bait.
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When does CC come up to feed these days?
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Living on a diet of manatee as he does, he's able to go long periods between feedings. CC may also be nocturnal, but so little documentation exists of his habits in the wild.

Mark Lipton
 
originally posted by SFJoe:
VikingIt's OK, but I don't buy it myself. The balance tilts too far in the sweet direction for may taste, and the aromatics are less than incredible.
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I just find them incredibly boring.
 
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