Hofuku said, "Right here is the peak of the mystic mountain." Chokei looked and said, "So it is, what a pity." -- Zen mondo That being said, a seemingly simple

Hofuku said, "Right here is the peak of the mystic mountain." Chokei looked and said, "So it is, what a pity." -- Zen mondo That being said, a seemingly simple (and long finished) hobby hardware+software project somehow led me down to the path of engulfing myself in the theory of Digital Signal Processing. It is mostly math, far more than I used to be confronted with in my career as a software engineer, even with a solid analog+digital hardware hobby, and I'm diving deep into the very fundamentals: Discrete Fourier transforms, Z-Transforms, Quadrature Amplitude Modulation... not just learning how to apply it, but how it's actually derived. For some reason, this time the magic sticks. For one, there is the immensely satisfactory feeling when I actually understood, really got a grasp, on a complex subject within that field. You would expect that, as usual, this is where the magic stops. But then actually applying that daunting theory to real world problems, and watching it actually perform what you intended to, is still just very... magical.