Today’s episode covers two tales of human ingenuity from different points in time – The Loretto Chapel staircase, and the Discrete Cosine Transform developed by Nasir Ahmed. We learn that there is evidence all around us, and from all points in human history, that our incredible brains can create real-life miracles.
SHOW NOTES:
Nasir Ahmed’s Books:
· Orthogonal Transforms for Digital Signal Processing
· Discrete Time Signals and Systems
SOURCES:
https://www.lorettochapel.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loretto_Chapel
https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/entertainment/a35539211/who-is-nasir-ahmed-esther-true-story/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasir_Ahmed_(engineer)
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=fJ9_Og0AAAAJ&hl=en
https://dblp.org/pid/60/3286-1.html
https://users.cs.cf.ac.uk/Dave.Marshall/Multimedia/node231.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete_cosine_transform
https://squidarth.com/rc/math/2018/06/24/fourier.html
https://news.yahoo.com/incredible-true-story-behind-nasir-000000344.html
https://people.com/tv/this-is-us-nasir-ahmed-pearsons-births-covid/
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