Fundamentals Of Control Theory: An Intuitive Ap... May 2026
"The Future." This looks at how fast the error is changing. It acts as a brake to prevent "overshooting" the goal. 4. Stability and Damping Intuitive control is often about balance.
The "brain" that decides what to do based on the error. Actuator: The muscle (e.g., the car's engine or a heater). Plant: The physical system being controlled. Fundamentals of Control Theory: An Intuitive Ap...
If you poke a system, does it return to equilibrium or blow up? A stable system settles; an unstable one oscillates wildly or accelerates to destruction. Damping: Think of a door closer. Underdamped: The door swings back and forth before closing. Overdamped: The door takes forever to close. "The Future
“this is alas just another film that panders to the image Thompson himself tried to shirk – the reckless buffoon that is more at home on fraternity posters than library shelves. It is a missed opportunity to take the man seriously.”
This is an excellent summary on the attitude of the seeming majority of HST ‘admirers’.
It just makes me think that they read Fear and Loathing, looked up similar stories of HST’s unhinged behaviour and didn’t bother with the rest of his work.
There is such a raw, human element of Thompsons work, showing an amazing mind, sense of humour, critical thinking and an uncanny ability to have his finger on the pulse of many issues of his time.
Booze feature prominently in most of his writing and he is always flirting with ‘the edge’, but this obsession with remembering him more as Raoul Duke and less as Hunter Thompson, is a sad reflection of most ‘fans’; even if it was a self inflicted wound by Thompson himself.