Neutrinos Faster Than Light, or FPGA artifacts?
A nit, but this struck me as highly speculative. I, like the author, want to see the FGPA equipment analyzed further.I kinda felt like I was led down the garden path a bit here. In the end, the entire essay (to me) boils down to "Stuff we don't know about could be stuff we should worry about" This is a true statement, but I'm not sure how useful it is to the reader.Perhaps it would have been better to list all of the possible problems, then show why the FGPA was the biggest concern. That way I would be more informed about what the state of the discussion is. While it's really cool the author can outline the myriad ways an FPGA device reading can be misread, context here is more important than the ability to impress us with all the technical details (which are also important, no doubt, but only with context) Put another way, this was a bit of "nerd porn" -- lots of cool little technical details that need to be considered when dealing with FPGAs in places like this. For that, it's definitely great HN material.Just a structural criticism of the essay, not the topic or author. The topic and writing quality were awesome.