User:Dicklyon



Hi, I'm Dick Lyon. I am a research scientist/engineer in Silicon Valley, California. I've been contributing to Wikipedia since May, 2005.

Some of my work outside Wikipedia is linked on my ancient techie home page dicklyon.com. More recent research pubs are found here. And don't forget my always-popular Otis King pages, from 1997 (the contact phone numbers there are hopelessly out of date, but I've lost the formula for how to update the site; some of the comments about being on a modem line are also a bit quaint).

And now I'm an author; so buy my book (or see my book blog to access a free online copy) if you're interested in Human and Machine Hearing.

My contributions are mostly related to photography, photometry, color, electronics, and signal processing. And in recent years, mostly photos and style gnoming. And creeks.

Thanks
I just noticed that I've received about twice as many WP:THANKs as I've given, so I'm going to try to be more appreciative going forward, and give more. Dicklyon (talk) 16:03, 31 October 2021 (UTC)

I'm particularly grateful whenever someone reverts a mistake I made, so I always thank those! Dicklyon (talk) 23:30, 9 July 2022 (UTC)

I've reduced the discrepancy to more like 4:3 in the last year. That feels better. Dicklyon (talk) 09:20, 26 March 2023 (UTC)

People bios
• Robert L. White (engineer)

• Esther Clark (physician)

• Yoshiaki Hagiwara

• Richard R. Burton

• Ray Meddis

• Dení Ramírez Macías

• Alissa Chavez

• David D. Colton

• James Spilker

• Akira Nakashima

• Boce W. Barlow Jr.

• John Niparko

• Eleanor Lyon Duke

• Grant R. Williams

• Robert Royce Johnson

• Wilcox P. Overbeck

• Dave Asprey

• James Black (physician, born 1787)

• Herbert H. Anderson

• Fred Sammartino

• Lee Boysel

• Amnon Yariv

• Peter B. Denyer

• Eugene F. Lally

• Larned B. Asprey

• Robert B. Asprey

• Johann Scheibler

• Andrew Witkin

• Robert Arns

• Richard B. Merrill

• Amy L. Lansky

• Désiré van Monckhoven

• S. David Freeman

• Gary Starkweather

• August Seebeck

• Hurter and Driffield

• Wally Rippel

• Rolf Rodenstock

• Herbert E. Ives

• James M. Early

• Frederic C. Billingsley

• Wilfred Corrigan

• Oskar Heil

• Karl Küpfmüller

• John Waterhouse (astronomer)

• Joseph Henry Lumpkin

• Rudolf Kompfner

• Siegfried Czapski

• Moritz von Rohr

• Otis King

• Richard F. Lyon (judge)

Technical stuff
• Stanag 4285

• Hockey stick graph

• Reciprocals of primes

• Square root of 7

• Square root of 6

• Square root of 4

• Warburg–Christian method

• Gate capacitance

• Mean square

• 2N696

• Andy and Bill's law

• Stanford Telecommunications

• Line driver

• Fill factor (image sensor)

• Eigen (C++ library)

• Kharasch–Sosnovsky reaction

• Power–delay product

• Depletion and enhancement modes

• Matched Z-transform method

• Musical tone

• Signal tone

• Gammatone filter

• Blocking (radio)

• Zero-mode waveguide

• History of centrifugal and centripetal forces

• Joint source and channel coding

• Color chart

• Color triangle

• Image histogram

• Imatest

• Lightness

• Electronic circuit

• Actinograph

• Wood wool

• Differential pulse-code modulation

• Shannon–Fano–Elias coding

• Euler's pump and turbine equation

• Archiv für die gesamte Psychologie

• Nachrichtentechnische Fachberichte

• General Microelectronics

• Film grain

• Raster scan

• APEX system

• Convergent (continued fraction)

• Zeiss formula

Creeks and other bodies of water
• Squalicum Creek

• Baker Creek (Washington)

• Jones Bay Wharf

• Arroyos of Santa Fe

• Rio del Oso

• Thompson Creek (Santa Clara County, California)

• Thompson Creek (Siskiyou County, California)

• Prosser Creek

• Alder Creek (Nevada County, California)

• Donner Creek

• Silver Creek (Santa Clara County, California)

• Moore Creek (California)

• Watson Creek (California)

• Deer Creek (Santa Clara County, California)

• Miguelita Creek

• Mills Creek (San Mateo County)

• Bitter Creek (Utah)

• Echo Canyon Reservoir State Wildlife Area

• Mill Creek (San Juan River tributary)

• Clear Creek (Little Colorado River tributary)

• Little Navajo River

• Neary Quarry

• Washington Lake (California)

• Rio San Jose

• Birch Creek (Chouteau County, Montana)

• Blakely Harbor

• Eagle Harbor (Washington)

Other stuff
• Tripper navigation system

• Gateway Pacific Terminal

• Suffrage Science awards

• River Fire

• Numbers Fire

• Central subway (Boston)

• High-speed launch

• Smeltertown, Texas

• Dewees, Texas

• Nustar Fire

• Great Transcontinental Electric Car Race

• Hawaiʻi Uncharted Research Collective

• Save Our Seas Foundation

• Patrol torpedo boat PT-305

• San Juan Generating Station

• Engine Company No. 11

• Charles Brown's saw mill

• Border West Expressway

• Ariel Rios Federal Building

• Association for Research in Otolaryngology

• Wood–Morris–Bonfils House

• DaSH PA

• Whisky bond

• The Bit Player

• Trash interceptor

• Delisle triple murder

• State constitution (Australia)

• Business in Sport and Leisure

• Mulberry High School (Arkansas)

• Pesticide Action Network

• United States–Japan Advisory Commission

Pictures added
Here I collect most of the pictures I've uploaded, mostly my own, but including some public domain images and photos licensed by a few friends.

I uploaded over 100 photos in 2017, and well over 100 in 2018, about 300 in 2019, and somewhat fewer in 2020 and 2021 with reduced travel. Hundreds more from several big trips in 2022 and 2023. Now a few from 2024 (including a few 2024 uploads of older shots).

R.I.P.
Some of my dead friends and relatives.