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by lohankin 10y ago
Looks like philosophical treatise. Is there TL;DR? Quick search didn't detect any mention of bacteria there.
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by lohankin 10y ago
Why do we need artificial intelligence when we have natural intelligence galore everywhere around us? Human is intelligent, monkey is intelligent, raccoon is intelligent... clearly, it all goes all the way down to bacteria. Bacteria is inte
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by lohankin 10y ago
A bit better modification of the argument: continue cycle of 5th. After 12 steps, you get (3/2)^12=129.7, which is really close to 128=2^7 (whole number of octaves). That's where 12 steps come from! And from here, the natural idea
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by lohankin 10y ago
Answer to question 1 is simple: good resolution is a semitone up, but scale step down (normally, whole tone). No symmetry here. If you play backwards, you won't get resolutions - it will sound as nonsense.
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by lohankin 10y ago
I'm not learning it from wikipedia. I'm playing for 50+ years. Best resource is Jazz Piano Book by M.Levine. (I read lots of others, but... everything I learned, I learned from this one).
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by lohankin 10y ago
Please read the part of the article starting with "The twelfth root of two may be irrational, but it turns out to almost create several nice ratios". The author excludes minor third from the set of "nice ratios". I refer
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by lohankin 10y ago
Please read wikipedia article on temperament. 7-note scales were "discovered" long before equal temperament was introduced. Equal temperament is a relatively recent invention, initially was very controversial, and remained so for
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by lohankin 10y ago
Interesting idea indeed. I need to think about it. Edit after thinking: still, it doesn't explain the number 12 IMO. It could be 17 or something else. Probably, it's a long chain of coincidences at play: Western music settled on 7
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by lohankin 10y ago
No, it's not the same. Current music notation is a result of long evolution, unlike QWERTY. Try to invent usable alternative - then you will appreciate the convenience of current notation.
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by lohankin 10y ago
The explanation of the origin of major scale in the article is pure voodoo. Minor third is not a simple fraction - is that the reason to exclude it from the scale? How do you explain minor scale then? Maybe it should be excluded, too? Here&
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by lohankin 10y ago
From other news: Consciousness Isn’t a Mystery, It’s Backpropagation
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by lohankin 10y ago
"... attached to it with atomic specificity" - and then what?
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by lohankin 10y ago
They cracked some vulnerability in HN ranking algo. "Go" is a magic word
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by lohankin 10y ago
This seems to be changing. Hardware is trying to move closer to java -by adding support of GC, bounds checks, etc - something that won't help C programs as much.
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by lohankin 10y ago
BTW, where's the guy who replies "What an amazing time to be alive!" to every go post? I'm worried.
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by lohankin 10y ago
The main problem of rust is that it's not implemented in go. The reverse is also true.
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by lohankin 10y ago
No, I meant something different. Let's consider primes, say, between 1 and 1000000. a) Compute the number of cases when p is prime AND p+2 is prime; b) number of cases when p is prime AND p+4 is prime; c) number of cases when p is prim
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by lohankin 10y ago
Let p-prime. Consider 3 "probabilities": a) p+2 is prime; b) p+4 is prime; c) p+6 is prime. Obviously p(c)=2 p(a)=2 p(b). Probability of p+30 being prime is even higher.
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by lohankin 11y ago
Possible generalization (example): 23=(7) 3+(2); 7=(2) 3+(1); 2=(0) 3+(2); 0=(0) 3+(0); Take only remainders, and form a vector a=(2 1 2 0) What can be said about components of the vector for the prime next to p? E.g., do i-th components re
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by lohankin 12y ago
By taking away the ability of programmer to read and understand the code written by somebody else, or by himself 1 week ago
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by lohankin 12y ago
Noisy, unreadable code, obsessed with ownership, may give rise to whole new classes of errors that otherwise won't be there. Good that someone experimented with building a language around ownership, but for me it all demonstrates that
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by lohankin 12y ago
Some serious voodoo science is going on here, with a good chance to become a next fad. Programming is difficult as it is, but apparently not difficult enough for someone's taste.
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by lohankin 12y ago
are there ready-to-use soft synthesizers for specific instruments, e.g. piano?
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by lohankin 12y ago
doesn't work for me on Chrome. What exactly is this emulator supposed to emulate?
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by lohankin 12y ago
Behavior becomes more interesting if you replace (in any formula) time with (time+sin(time)) - and, more generally, with (time+k sin(w time))
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by lohankin 12y ago
Author makes generalizations based on her own individual experience - the process which she doesn't understand. Rot-learning in music (mentioned as example of good practice) produces millions of classically-trained musicians that don&#
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by lohankin 12y ago
Much simpler derivation of Lorentz transform: http://www.jackpenkethman.com/speedoflight/speedoflight.html
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by lohankin 12y ago
There was a recent article on code optimization technique in Safari involving on-the-fly javascript -> LLVM compilation. So the entire chain now will look as C++ -> LLVM -> javascript (asm.js) -> LLVM Things are getting curiouse
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by lohankin 12y ago
Sorry for the question that might be a bit off-topic. Will we ever have support for sound fonts in a browser? E.g. piano sound fonts? With at least rudimentary support for MIDI (e.g. noteOn, noteOff)?
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by lohankin 12y ago
> To assume humans are not special among all life is to ignore evolution and our dominant position on Earth. And bacteria didn't evolve during last 2 billion years, right? Whoever downvoted me: you can't have it both ways. Aver

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