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by widdershins 13y ago
Your anxiety at the tritone is not just a culturally learned response - as the Wikipedia article you linked explains, the harmonic ratios in a tritone really are mathematically 'dissonant' when compared to, say, a perfect fifth or
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by widdershins 13y ago
Computer generated music wasn't that hard at the time the author's writing about. To be honest the process the author describes is just about the simplest there is in computer music: choose a sampler instrument, pick a sequence of
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by widdershins 13y ago
Some people, including myself and it seems OP, love open source but aren't dogmatic about it. I see no contradiction between using open source and proprietary software. In fact I think both models have benefits that the other lacks.
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by widdershins 13y ago
If you play a chord into an arpeggiator, it... well, it arpeggiates it. In other words, it plays each note of the chord individually in a particular rhythm (e.g. 16th notes) in a particular pattern (e.g. up/down, up, random). Very, ver
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by widdershins 13y ago
She did that as a protest against airport scanners, I believe.
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by widdershins 13y ago
Been exploring the gov.uk site, and I'm very very impressed. Unlike the Manchester.gov site[1], there's an excellent information density yet a very lightweight feel. Maybe it's my preference for text-based designs over icon-b
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by widdershins 13y ago
Brave New World is a much more ambiguous dystopia. Many people could read it and say, "Hey, everyone's happy with their lot. They are conditioned to love their work and the entertainment's great. What's the problem?&quot
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by widdershins 13y ago
By the same token 99.9% of consumers don't care about the legalities and 'freedoms' that Atwood talks about - only what they can do with their computers and the ease with which they can do it.
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by widdershins 13y ago
"You will definitely suffer a terrorist attack" certainly sounds like something that a person who sells insurance would say.
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by widdershins 13y ago
Yeah, this is the obvious implementation. As he said in his follow-up post: >And second, I’d like to know which patents are in play. Because I just couldn’t think that something this easy (music-fingerprint is a hash, and we do a lookup
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by widdershins 13y ago
I'll add a chorus to the voice of those who have been inspired by Brett. I'm a musician, and his ideas have led me to explore live improvisation in a 'duet' with the computer, where I can allow the computer to improvise, or guide it as I ch
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by widdershins 13y ago
That's their problem. Kickstarter isn't exactly duping them.
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Because he oversaw the creation of 3 of the most successful operating systems of all time? I know he didn't design them, but he was involved in managing the projects. Just playing devil's advocate.
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by widdershins 14y ago
You could do a remaster from a vinyl, but it would only happen in cases when the original master tapes were lost. Yes, you could record a vinyl losslessly and it would sound indistinguishable from the vinyl. But why bother, when you already
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by widdershins 14y ago
>Are there any startups here doing this? These kinds of articles generate more pageviews than boring, measured, and technically correct articles, so presumably if there were startups doing what you suggest, they wouldn't be doing very w
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by widdershins 14y ago
Really? Wow, I thought optimisations had to provably avoid affecting the correctness of your program. Hence: "This need to avoid imprecise intermediate results often prevents compilers from exploiting mathematical properties like associativ
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Jeff Hawkins explains his computational model of the brain(youtube.com)
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by widdershins 14y ago
Australian/NZ (Gotye & Keith Urban) counts as Anglophone. Anglophone just means English speaking.
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by widdershins 14y ago
Obvious to some of us, perhaps, but fanboy wars continue to rage in tech news comments, so there are still many who aren't getting the message.
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Problem is, I dont want to fix my operating system. I want it to... operate, so I can get on with work.
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by widdershins 14y ago
What would have been more professional? To just sit back and let the guy recite his PR release from memory? A professional interviewer asks the questions that his audience want answered.