Re: [ARTIQ] changing "experiment" terminology

2015-12-11 Thread Sebastien Bourdeauducq
On Friday, December 11, 2015 04:21 PM, Robert Jördens wrote: I don't follow. Even the most complicated experiment is just a bunch of DDS frequency settings, TTL line settings, rotating wall changes and a bit of gated edge counting. My thinking is that the word "experiment" evokes something

Re: [ARTIQ] changing "experiment" terminology

2015-12-11 Thread Sebastien Bourdeauducq
On Friday, December 11, 2015 04:36 PM, Sebastien Bourdeauducq wrote: My thinking is that the word "experiment" evokes something more advanced Or more precisely: something that produces science results directly. ___ ARTIQ mailing list

Re: [ARTIQ] changing "experiment" terminology

2015-12-11 Thread Robert Jördens
On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 1:37 AM, Sebastien Bourdeauducq wrote: > On Friday, December 11, 2015 04:36 PM, Sebastien Bourdeauducq wrote: >> My thinking is that the word "experiment" evokes something more advanced > Or more precisely: something that produces science results directly.

Re: [ARTIQ] changing "experiment" terminology

2015-12-10 Thread Sebastien Bourdeauducq
On Friday, December 11, 2015 01:21 PM, Robert Jördens wrote: The three items you list above are exactly what an experiment would do. Why would setting DDS frequencies, configuring the rotating wall clearing/building a reference histogram_not_ be something done in an Experiment? They are each

Re: [ARTIQ] changing "experiment" terminology

2015-12-10 Thread Robert Jördens
On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 8:32 PM, Sebastien Bourdeauducq wrote: > a number of "experiments" used with ARTIQ are actually not experiments at > all: they are small programs that e.g. clear the reference histogram, set > DDS frequencies, configure the rotating wall, etc. > > I think