<story><title>Antenna Theory (2016)</title><url>http://www.antenna-theory.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>etaioinshrdlu</author><text>I think with good simulation tools, optimization processes, maybe even deep learning, we could make it a lot less of black magic. Make it boring and approachable instead.&lt;p&gt;It kind of reminds me of chemistry. You have physical laws that are fairly simple but the interactions are hard to describe without a bunch of computation.</text></item><item><author>dazhbog</author><text>I once went to an antenna tuning&amp;#x2F;design&amp;#x2F;factory for my startup&amp;#x27;s product and I told the guy there, I want an antenna to support X frequencies, this that dBs, good VSWR, hopefully achieve X kilometers range, etc etc.&lt;p&gt;Two days later he had 3 designs of antennas ready to be made into a flexible PCB and two days after that we got the FPCB samples.&lt;p&gt;I was amazed so I asked to see how he works. He took copper tape, and with a boxcutter he carves the antenna, and adds solder blobs to tune with the network analyzer. Then, once he was satisfied, he shoved them into the anechoic chamber and boom, done. Black magic stuff.&lt;p&gt;Antenna intuition is really hard to attain, it takes years playing with the right equipment in the right environment..</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pavel_lishin</author><text>How does slathering deep learning onto something make it &lt;i&gt;less&lt;/i&gt; of a black magic?</text></comment>
<story><title>Antenna Theory (2016)</title><url>http://www.antenna-theory.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>etaioinshrdlu</author><text>I think with good simulation tools, optimization processes, maybe even deep learning, we could make it a lot less of black magic. Make it boring and approachable instead.&lt;p&gt;It kind of reminds me of chemistry. You have physical laws that are fairly simple but the interactions are hard to describe without a bunch of computation.</text></item><item><author>dazhbog</author><text>I once went to an antenna tuning&amp;#x2F;design&amp;#x2F;factory for my startup&amp;#x27;s product and I told the guy there, I want an antenna to support X frequencies, this that dBs, good VSWR, hopefully achieve X kilometers range, etc etc.&lt;p&gt;Two days later he had 3 designs of antennas ready to be made into a flexible PCB and two days after that we got the FPCB samples.&lt;p&gt;I was amazed so I asked to see how he works. He took copper tape, and with a boxcutter he carves the antenna, and adds solder blobs to tune with the network analyzer. Then, once he was satisfied, he shoved them into the anechoic chamber and boom, done. Black magic stuff.&lt;p&gt;Antenna intuition is really hard to attain, it takes years playing with the right equipment in the right environment..</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nisuni</author><text>What’s the point of applying deep learning to something for which we have an exact mathematical theory?</text></comment>