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by dwringer 4y ago
If Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo, might as well let let let let let. In seriousness I like the ability to make such distinctions even if it can be a huge footgun.
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I've always felt to an extent that conscious actions can be at some level impulsive - any attempt to explain how we made the decision to act, no matter how well-founded and seemingly logical, invariably involves some post-hoc rationali
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People routinely cross the threshold from thinking about something and processing it on their own time into a state of nonproductive recurrence of said thoughts in which no real processing is done. Managing this kind of symptom is often the
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Toward the end, the article states "unfortunately I won't be playing this instrument very often, and I most definitely won't practice for hours to improve my left-hand technique. This rather undermines the potential for the C
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Cool font, the topmost two banner examples are a little big for optimal legibility on my monitor though, and zooming in/out doesn't change the size (it does for the lower ones, though). Because it expands past my normal reading FO
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Solving Elgar's Enigma (2010)(journals.library.columbia.edu)
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Whoa, thanks to your comment, which helpfully illustrates some of the "poetic" aspects of the digits' decimal arrangement, I became instantly convinced the digits of pi are the theme on which Elgar wrote his "Enigma&quot
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by dwringer 4y ago
This evokes thoughts of 3-LISP and what is, to me, one of the most compellingly titled papers in CS: "The Mystery of the Tower Revealed"[0] [0] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/319838.319871
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by dwringer 4y ago
JWST is undeniably a superior and remarkable instrument, but there has been a bit of a trend I have noticed on social media - and this may just be my perception rather than reality - of comparing it with suboptimal alternatives rather than
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by dwringer 4y ago
See here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33247735
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Really nice work. Some really good sounds in there, I especially like the opening which makes me think of a heavily processed chorused piano, and then some of the sounds after that bordering right on the edge of distortion. Very atmospheric
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Rather Borgesian I think.
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On Wikipedia is the claim "The telescope also originally had military intelligence uses, including locating Soviet radar installations by detecting their signals bouncing off the Moon."[0], which gives this[1](by name, but unlinke
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Sun Tzu?
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> At what point do they start breaking up into unrelated orbits? I can't speak with any authority, but in general a train of satellites would likely be moving in an orbit with either the apogee/perigee similar to the target orb
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A passenger tampering with the flight controls of a 747 is also insane, but if there are no pilots and the plane is in an uncontrolled dive, then it's still not necessarily a bad idea.
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There are pros and cons to the approach. Information from such actively hostile sites tends to be of a lesser quality and of questionable reliability anyway IMHO.
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I'm not familiar enough with existing implementations of such systems to dispute it, but there's no fundamental reason algorithmic composition systems could not include modulation parameters of all kinds (pitch/breath/ef
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MIDI is extraordinarily expressive and is likely used to sequence a large majority of music produced within the last three decades. A lot of the instruments you hear are synthesizers or samplers running directly from MIDI. There is a lot mo
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It means they are effectively the same as you shift rightwards or leftwards on the neck. So you can play a G major chord, move the same exact shape "down one string" and now it's a C major chord. This is not a feature of stan
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by dwringer 4y ago
Unfortunately I don't have the full working codebase anymore. Although I think I have enough I could recreate it, it was pretty rudimentary and I've always intended to revisit the idea one day and flesh it out as at least a blog p
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by dwringer 4y ago
Amazon specifically does not want third party sellers contacting customers through side channels other than Amazon itself, and thus does not typically give out emails directly. Third-party sellers are typically given an address like <gib
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Several years ago I implemented some very basic rules outlining some distance metrics between two chords and ran some multiobjective evolutionary algorithms to generate, say, a 16 bar progression while trying to minimize these distances bet
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Interested to know more about your experience with uncompressed audio generated from pseudorandom numbers. Do you know what PRNG you were using? I would think the simplest common ones would indeed be terrible but it could be very interestin
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For this reason I actually thought it was a good comment. I've seen the reference come up almost without fail in discussions like this, but I've never seen it so elaborated.
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I wonder if everyone has a different optimum here based on different eyesight, screen size, and usage patterns. I always have a slightly different zoom on every website I visit. With this one I tend to agree, I can't see enough text at
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by dwringer 4y ago
I believe the answer is already in the comment to which you've replied: > they chose the numbers big enough to result in [...] overflows
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I think that's been upscaled, as it shows Neptune being over 300px in diameter. Unless I'm misinterpreting something (a distinct possibility), that would require an angular resolution of nearly 10x what the JWST is capable of. I d
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Thanks for the links! I checked out the source image and it still appears to be 80 pixels high in the "full resolution for display" image, same as the article's crop. There is a "close up" view which shows Neptune a
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I tried comparing this image with some from the Hubble and this one appears to be slightly sharper (not to mention much more detailed in terms of the atmosphere thanks to the infrared wavelengths). I don't think it gets too much high

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