whycombs

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   by whycombs 4y ago

   A lot like Joe Rogan, he doesn't pretend to know more than he does. That can be very refreshing, and makes guests feel comfortable and empowered. His podcast's success comes from the letters MIT on his resume and the high profiles
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   by whycombs 4y ago

   I've been using hylang lately to build libraries for my python projects. It's a lot of fun, and close enough to Clojure that there's very little learning curve.
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   by whycombs 5y ago

   Take one minute and try to sing a perfect 5th over a drone note. You'll waver around that beautiful sturdy 3:2. And if you're lucky, or if you practice you'll eventually lock in to that resonance/ratio and feel a univers
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   by whycombs 5y ago

   Harmonics are the stacked ratios of primes. There's no 9th harmonic, there's the overtonal stacking of the two 5th harmonics. Or more literally, when you play a maj 9th on the piano, your ear is filling in the missing perfect 5th
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   by whycombs 5y ago

   Sorry, a lot of this is wrong. A major 7th is not 17:9 but 15:8. Our ear tries to represent all these rich resonances in as simple primes as possible (Think, combos of 2's 3's and 5's - and occasionally 7's in blue not