The point of that is that the 40 % level was used as clear evidence of a temperature signal
as pure noise would only pass to a much lower level — indicating a good signal to correlate to.
Actually, of course, there is no pure message any more than there is
a pure noise; formal and informal interpretation goes on all the time.
It strikes a rare and refreshing balance for the «big, dumb explosion» genre where stories can either become tangled expository messes or
pure noise.
But most spread movement reveals nothing more than
pure noise and has little directional value.
Phenomenally loud, MBV's guitar - driven avant - rock features drifting, haunted melodic lines that emerge from a deluge of electronic distortion, dissonance, and
pure noise.
Bennett's expertly edited mash - ups never become indiscernible to the point of being
pure noise.
The new works presented at the White Cube are inspired by comic strips, retaining the form but changing the content to leave space to the mimesis of
the pure noise of brush strokes, dripping, pouring and splashing.
The blog you attached is a prime example of what gives bloggers a really bad name; somebody with no idea what he [presumably McIntyre] is talking about is spouting absolute nonsense, making no distinctions between what is essential (the facts he consistently omits) and what is
pure noise (which he is concentrating on exclusively).
In fact, they showed that Mann's algorithm would generate a Hockeystick graph — even if the input data was
pure noise.