iainctduncan

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by iainctduncan 12d ago
I work both in the creative arts (currently phd candidate in music and CS, run a jazz night, author of open source music hacking tools) and in the bowels of the tech investment world (diligence practitioner for a company that assesses for P
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by iainctduncan 14d ago
Especially if you're not a pianist. I play a monophonic instrument, so even though I did plenty of piano, it sure it wasn't up to "casually sightreading examples from the literature" level.
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by iainctduncan 14d ago
I wouldn't even call this "humans planning poorly", I'd call it "humans pretending to plan poorly for publicity". Weasels gonna weasel.
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by iainctduncan 15d ago
It has embedded youtube videos of examples. I certainly didn't have that in my 20th century theory text books and it would have been very helpful! This resource looks excellent
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by iainctduncan 20d ago
I guess we disagree on whether that should change anything.
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by iainctduncan 20d ago
In the all the textbooks I have or have seen, those are called "acoustics" (and more specifically "tuning and temperament"). They are covered in the text book I had for acoustics, and not covered in any of the textbooks
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by iainctduncan 20d ago
It seems you arguing how things should be, not what they are . I don't disagree that in music we have lots of inconsistent nomenclature that could have better names. But writing an intro to a topic and using non-standard nomenclat
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by iainctduncan 20d ago
Sure, but none of that changes the fact that is someone reads that article and says "wow I like music theory!" and orders the best theory books or signs up for a course or lessons, they are going to be PISSED. They will get some b
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by iainctduncan 20d ago
"Music theory" has a near universally accepted meaning. This article is not about that, it's about what we all call in music academia acoustics and digital synthesis (which of course I know you know as I know your work). The
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by iainctduncan 20d ago
This is not an article about music theory, it's an introduction to what is called "acoustics" in educated music circles, along with examples from digital synthesis. It's a decent enough intro to acoustics and digital syn
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by iainctduncan 20d ago
PhD Candidate in music and computer science and gigging jazz musicain here. It is not too harsh. Articles like this confuse people who interested in learning a topic more than they help. Yet another case of programmers thinking "I&#x27
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by iainctduncan 20d ago
Our clients do indeed see multi-cloud as a nice-to-have, but it costs so much more to do, and the big clouds are so trusted, that it's rare that I see it. On the other hand, nobody trusts the big AI companies not to pull shenanigans or
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by iainctduncan 22d ago
The thing is, for big companies (or even small ones owned by PE, which is MOST of them), it's not just about cost. The big thing is risk . In my experience as a tech diligence assessor for PE firms for the last 7 years, investors real
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by iainctduncan 1mo ago
uh no...it's not gatekeeping... because it's an article of advice from a professional to students . That's called teaching . Having people who know how to do something well tell you how to get better at – even by doing
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by iainctduncan 1mo ago
you mean, because of the em dashes? Five years ago I was happil using them without having to worry about this bullshit. sigh
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by iainctduncan 1mo ago
The article is about writers , not regular people. It's explicitly directed at people trying to make a living writing. We found it because of HN, but his audience - the only one's who's opinion he should give a shit about
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by iainctduncan 1mo ago
You are quoting him out of context. That was directed at wannabe-writers who don't make time to read . Which is completely fucking batshit crazy. If anyone deserves some f-bombs, it's them. Additionally, the very next sentence is
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by iainctduncan 1mo ago
If you like those, a less well knowned Scheme you will likely really like is s7. :-)
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by iainctduncan 1mo ago
Racket is made by academics. Academics piss on each other a lot, it's unfortanately part of the culture and has (historically) been rewarded in the system (I am a PhD candidate, FWIW, and so have many, many friends "in the system&
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by iainctduncan 1mo ago
:-)
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by iainctduncan 1mo ago
Oh wait, there it is, sitting over top of the fat part and under the cork...
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by iainctduncan 1mo ago
I am so dying to read more about the new/current/real bottleneck! Where is the bottleneck? WHERE?? Tell me! No evidence needed, just lay it on, man to man, thought-leader to thought-leader!
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by iainctduncan 2mo ago
This is the germane point here. I'm not into LLM coding myself, but was talking about just this with my CS PhD supervisor yesterday, and porting language implementations is basically a perfect use case for them. He's been using th
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by iainctduncan 2mo ago
Congrats, this is awesome! I have followed your writing and have your book, so was excited to see this was you. I have one question, can one drop into Scheme the way one can call Java in clojure, or is one totally firewalled from the underl
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by iainctduncan 2mo ago
Well no shit, but that doesn't mean you just trust them just because they say it works. The cost of a false accusation can be very high.
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by iainctduncan 2mo ago
Are you serious? Pangram is notorios for false positives!
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by iainctduncan 2mo ago
You know those HN posts where someone who barely knows how to program decides to tell you why language X is terribly designed? This is that. Anyone with a decent understanding of music and acoustics can tell it's silly from the title a
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by iainctduncan 2mo ago
Wow, what an idiotic retitling. I guess they figure it's better clickbait. Makes the actually thoughtful and interesting article sound like it will be stupid.
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by iainctduncan 3mo ago
Do the masters. None of us know what the hell is going to happen with coding as a job right now, but a graduate degree carries weight well outside its narrow area. If coding goes to complete shit and you're in or done school, you'
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by iainctduncan 3mo ago
Many aspiring writers (perhaps most?) love the idea of having written, not so much the work of actually writing.

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