[time-nuts] Oh dear

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Mon May 7 19:04:41 UTC 2012


In message <CABbxVHtad_Ewe_PTrMkifkRYWzjFHw3XmYpFeV6B5su3xw+8Pw at mail.gmail.com>
, Chris Albertson writes:

>Advantages are that you
>can sample higher frequency than 1/2 the average sample rate and
>alieasing is less a problem.

Disadvantage: on playback you get both a sample and a standard deviation :-)

I don't think anybody uses random sampling unless they have to
(think "when can we actually see this star with this telescope" etc)

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