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by sideshowb 11y ago
Mozart struggled with poverty towards the end of his life.
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by sideshowb 11y ago
Fair play to the author for being honest about their tastes, but I can't see these issues being shared by the majority of readers. The counterargument to some of those issues was drafted over 50 years ago in the form of Clarke's f
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by sideshowb 11y ago
Agreed on the research front: here in the UK research grants are so competitive that unless you have some university money to start your project before even asking for external funding, you're not likely to win the grant. And from the
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by sideshowb 11y ago
Too many notes? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_UsmvtyxEI (To clarify - I feel the clip from Amadeus is somewhat amusing in this context, but to those who critique black midi as music, I don't think it is really ...
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Plastic eating mealworms could help reduce landfill waste(iflscience.com)
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by sideshowb 11y ago
Maybe the 2^n version is necessary to support consciousness?
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by sideshowb 11y ago
So while we're at it, here's a shameless plug for my own spatial network analysis tool with a python API. It produces weighted network stats (accessibility, flows, severance, efficiency) which typically feed into spatial data ana
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by sideshowb 11y ago
US security forces can affect things for the average person, just not the same things that China can. Not credit scores at the moment (well not legally on a mass scale), but they can for example put you on a no fly list; or if you're
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by sideshowb 12y ago
I presume Aoyagi meant a system like this but for monitoring, not shaping behaviour.
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by sideshowb 12y ago
As an aside, "Is it acceptable to browse Facebook while you shunt the problem to a mental background process?" I'm interested in how many productive engineers here think this is what they're doing for at least some of th
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by sideshowb 12y ago
I agree with most of these points. I should have been clearer in what I meant, RMS is a measure of power and a proxy for perception - according to you, a worse proxy than I thought, so thanks for educating me on that point. "I don&#x2
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by sideshowb 12y ago
Damn. But I can still hope.
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by sideshowb 12y ago
The main weapons in raising perceived loudness are brickwall limiters such as Waves L3 which raise RMS (root mean square) amplitude while keeping peak levels constant. I think soundcheck is based on RMS, please correct me if I'm wrong
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by sideshowb 12y ago
We are already starting to win the loudness war now thanks to iTunes SoundCheck. I'm not an iTunes user but as far as I understand it, it causes iTunes to adjust all tunes in a mix to the same perceptual loudness. If everyone adopted
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by sideshowb 12y ago
Reading - because I can go at my own pace. Videos are like tl;dw.
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by sideshowb 12y ago
Not as deep an article as I'd hoped, but it points to a difficult question. As reviewers of scientific papers have unprecedented power over what research gets published, who reviews the reviewers ? (A personal example - I have just s
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by sideshowb 12y ago
Like everyone else here says, entanglement doesn't give rise to FTL communication. So can someone explain to me how this paper even exists / has anything to explain via wormholes?