And the Winner Is...
Mixed news on the contest front. My outline and draft novel did not make the finals of the Mackinac Center's Freedom in Fiction Prize.
However, my 3-minute climate video did win second place in the Kids and Globaloney contest.
The results surprise me a bit. I really felt good about my story concept for the fiction prize, so much so I will likely finish it and at least release it as an e-book. On the other hand, I found the 3-minute limit almost impossible to make work in the video contest, and thought my video, which I include below, was rushed.
A better version is the 9-minute version here which covers the same subjects but with a bit more leisure and explanation. This video, however, is a bit dated. As I write in the YouTube comments, I want to take a better shot at explaining the issues around positive feedback. I think I can fix it with just a rewrite of the narration. That longer video is here and below.
My really long video, 60-minutes in 6 parts, is here.
Frank Ch. Eigler:
For what it's worth, your use of the phrase "dominated by positive
feedback" may not be a very rigorous synonym for what you really
seem to mean: "high gain" in signal processing lingo.
Even in your "dominated by positive feedback" curves, *negative*
April 17, 2008, 4:53 amfeedback must limit the temperature (since if it didn't, the
temperature would rise indefinitely without any further forcing
function input - infinite gain). IOW, even in those cases,
negative feedback "dominates" over "positive", but not before
some amplification had taken place.
M. Hodak:
I thought the three minute version was excellent.
April 17, 2008, 10:16 pmM. Hodak:
I thought the three minute version was excellent.
April 17, 2008, 10:16 pm