Iread with great interest and a certain amount of perturbation the August Editorial by Laurie Goodman (1999). In sharp disagreement with the author, I believe that rather than being the “most efficient means of advancing our scientific understanding” hypothesis-free data collection would be completely devoid of any advancement at all. It is indeed the hypothesis that “follows the data”. No one ...

Shannon's sampling theorem, at the heart of digital signal processing, is well understood and explored. However, its practical realization still suffers from a fundamental bottleneck due to dynamic range limitations underlying analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). This results in clipping or saturation for amplitudes exceeding their maximum recordable voltage thus leading significant information...