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by xhevahir 3y ago
I was reminded that there was a guy who wrote a Python wrapper for Csound a long time ago. Apparently it's been superseded by this project, pyo: http://ajaxsoundstudio.com/software/pyo/
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If it manages to be "relatable," it does so at the expense of a great deal of precision. OP doesn't explain his choice of wording, and it does not match any usage of "vibe." that I'm familiar with. Was "gi
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Something tells me the Party's support or funding of an author's work could have a lot to do with the author's ideology (or the perception thereof).
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Maybe it's time to retire the term? Sounds like it's extremely prone to misuse.
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This assumes too much about Jordan's psychology. Yes, he was aware that a great deal of money was riding on his image, and he was could be very shrewd and even his cynical when it came to business, viz., his remark that "Republica
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Come on. You can't demand that the other person cite a study in support of their argument and then just blithely throw around a lot of bald assertions and accusations.
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I think at least part of the reason is that in the early-modern period books as objects still had a lot of the specialness, for lack of a better word, that they had when they were entirely handmade and extremely rare. With the spread of mac
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"You should fight for some more rights sometime" comes across as pretty condescending, regardless of the trailing emoticon. And unduly self- congratulatory, too--just as it's not within the realm of possibility for the averag
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> Maybe critics don't like him for his formulaic writing - copying the plot over and over after Angels & Demons. I think a big part of what makes this article funny and effective is that it shows you lots of what Brown does so p
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I've read 56 books this year--keeping track of them is pretty much all I use GoodReads for--and it's feeling like too much. Not many of them stand out in my memory. I've seen people on GoodReads reading 200+ a year, which sou
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by xhevahir 3y ago
This article about Microsoft's research on recommendation algorithms was interesting. It's from several years ago, so I imagine some people have begun using it. https://news.mit.edu/2017/better-recommendation-
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Considering how hostile Windows has been to MIDI, I wouldn't put much store by this. Working with MIDI on Windows is such a PITA; the SoundFont player I used to use (VirtualMIDISynth) was constantly breaking due to some change Microsof
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I'll have to play around with this. Here's something similar for microrythms that I found on GitHub a while ago: https://github.com/davetremblay/Marathon
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> That's why the author of the article says he's joking when he calls Albanian and Welsh "almost Romance" - loan words, even a lot of them, may make a language easier to learn, but don't move it to another family
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These sound like examples of Sprachbünder, not some category of "almost-" X languages. Does the lexicon of Albanian really owe as much to Latin as it does to its position within the Balkan Sprachbund? Not to mention, does a table
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by xhevahir 3y ago
Why do you say there's no more geopolitical reason for the country to exist? The Cold War is long over but China may well see DPRK as a valuable buffer and a means of diluting the military capabilities of rival countries. Belarus, anot
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Huh? What does one mean by using the verb "self-destruct" transitively?
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Me, too. I tried using Dvorak on the phone once I saw it was available but soon realized that my Dvorak skill was entirely muscle memory and that I had no visual sense of the layout. QWERTY (plus "glide" or "swipe" typin
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Nim is quite imperative, too. And its BDFL(Araq) takes a dim view of functional programming: https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/8927
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As far as I can tell it's China that's done the most to dam up the Mekong. On top of all the dams within their borders they've financed the building of still more downstream.
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West of the Cascades, it's mild. To the east of them the climate is decidedly less mild, though, so I'd be interested to see how the numbers would compare between the two regions.
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A lot of commenters here seem to be thinking of the sense of "charisma" that one unusually encounters in conversation nowadays, the quality some people have of being very outgoing and engaging. This article isn't about that.
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Some people have reported CIA involvement in the Iowa Writers' Workshop, which had a great deal of influence on the direction that literary fiction took in post-WWII America. I'm inclined to believe that such projects were likely
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You still haven't answered my question as to whether this medical code of conduct applies to a writer working in the fields of history or literary criticism (such as the scholar whose paper I mentioned above); nor the question of wheth
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So, to take another example, if I were to say that Jonathan Swift appears to have suffered from depression, that would be a breach of ethics as you understand it?
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I'll bite. Why is it unethical? As for its being unscientific, I'm also curious as to what standards of evidence people think are appropriate to biographical and literary-historical matters.
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Yes, he's dead. So, for that matter, are Newton and Einstein, whose autistic traits have been discerned by none other than the world's leading expert in the field: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn3676-e
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I read an article a few years ago that convinced me that Kafka's peculiar quality--the famous "Kafkaesque"--isn't due to his experience with Austro-Hungarian bureaucracy, or his being a German-speaking Jew surrounded by
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When I saw "Romanian" I figured the medieval texts were Byzantine and therefore might contain ancient Greek fragments. Since the library belonged instead to Transylvanian Saxons, that's probably not the case.
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The Donald Frame translation I read a long time ago had numbers or letters marking the different editions within the text. I didn't study the essays carefully enough to say how useful these were but they were there.

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