Rockwell Retro Encabulator
rlcarnes1 HN recommender · recommended in 1 month, 2010–2025
comedy · general · evergreen · 2010–2025 on HN
A spoof industrial promo for the Rockwell Retro Encabulator, a deadpan stream of technobabble about an imaginary machine. It is a classic engineering in-joke.
HN uses it as a joke whenever jargon-heavy or meaningless technical pitches appear, and praises it as a masterclass in technobabble.
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12 comments from Hacker News
If you haven't seen it yet, the retroencabultaor video [1] is a masterclass on how to do it. [1] ▶ this video
Indeed, complexity (both cyclomatic and post-frontal) must be reduced such that the two spurving bearings make a direct line with the panametric fan. For more details consult this instructional video: ▶ this video
There are youtube channels with old TV Ads. Some of those will be non-existant. You could also go down the Turbo Encabulator rabbit hole: link ▶ this video
But that is my point, ChatGPT connected the rockwell retro encabulator[0] in reverse, which will of course make the resonance tank split capacitor bridge oscillate out of sync with the active input bias triodes. This will of course immediately fry the dual-bifet transistor driver stage. Not sure why they call this AI. [0] ▶ this video
The video is good, but I couldn't help but draw a parallel to the famous Rockwell Retro Encabulator: ▶ this video
Nah, they need Rockwell Automation's retro encabulator. The inverse reactive current it produces (designed for use in unilateral phase detractors) should also be capable of automatically synchronising cardinal gram meters. My guess would be that the gram meters have become unsynchronised. ▶ this video
I'm okay with jargon, but the ratio can be off sometimes. When the ratio becomes too skewed, there's risk of side-fumbling or even encabuloration [0]. [0]: ▶ this video
He used the Retro Encabulator to generate this text. ▶ this video (my favorite version) It's an old engineering in-joke. Edit: oops, thought your comment was a reply to 'mindcrime. I'm keeping it here though for the lucky (very lucky in this case) 10,000.
Hahaha "The first step of Byzantine Fault Tolerance is tolerance" omg. That cracked me up. Reminded me of the Rockwell Encabulator: ▶ this video
The obvious way to subvert this is by infiltrating the expert pool. Send in your own guys, who will vote to give all the money to you for inventing the critical retro encabulator[1]. I think the only defence is to make the expert pool large (ie. thousands of people), with a good chunk from academia, and have the expert pool anonymous, with the 'votes' of each expert also anonymous (so they can't go to their boss and show how they voted entirely for their own company). And finally, have some system to throw out the 20% highest and lowest votes before taking an average of the rest. [1]: ▶ this video
Here is the fun take - ▶ this video And the original - link Also curious as this was on Twitter the other day...how social mixed if this is the OPs reason for sharing.
> As a result, we propose regularizing plain Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) networks by searching for the optimal combination/cocktail of 13 regularization techniques for each dataset using a joint optimization over the decision on which regularizers to apply and their subsidiary hyperparameters. Pardon? ▶ this video