acjohnson55

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by acjohnson55 6d ago
You might enjoy this unfinished project of mine: https://fakestory.acjay.com/ It's the culmination of years spent chasing an explanation of where all this stuff came from. Highly informed by Tymoczko, who was mentioned
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The first signs of dark matter particles may have been spotted(newscientist.com)
4 points by acjohnson55 15d ago|0 comments
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by acjohnson55 16d ago
This is the case for me. I finally got diagnosed last year and prescribed Ritalin this year, and it has been transformative in aiding me in getting out of ruts/stalls.
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by acjohnson55 29d ago
For families, do children also cost $500/mo?
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by acjohnson55 1mo ago
This is so sad to hear. Prof. Liu was my advisor when I did my masters degree. He was so encouraging and welcoming, and a fantastic teacher. One of my favorite memories was when I was discussing my first semester schedule with him. I was in
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by acjohnson55 1mo ago
Something I've been worried about for years is the proliferation of technologies that give ever smaller numbers of people with smaller amounts resources the ability to impact billions of people, in potentially irreversible ways. Combin
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by acjohnson55 1mo ago
Airplane was an awesome product, but I think that was basically just an aquihire. I don't think Airplane had built a sustainable business.
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Bending Spoons makes first post-IPO acquisition with $1.3B Airtable deal(reuters.com)
5 points by acjohnson55 1mo ago|1 comments
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by acjohnson55 2mo ago
Wow, well, that's one of the more f'd up things I've ever read about. Not sure what else there is to say.
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by acjohnson55 2mo ago
I don't think a redundant recognizer algorithm is required to explain minor. Centuries before we had major and minor tonality, we had the diatonic scale. Through the Renaissance, thirds began to be accepted as stable consonances, and f
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by acjohnson55 2mo ago
I would actually invert that and say that melody and rhythm are the most fundamental aspects of music. A harmonic progression with no sense of melody or rhythm is quite boring. Harmony is derived from composing music with multiple melodic p
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by acjohnson55 2mo ago
The primacy of the major scale happened many centuries after the diatonic scale came to be predominant in Western music. The primary development that led to major tonality was the acceptance of thirds as stable consonances. As that happened
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by acjohnson55 2mo ago
Yes, not having had the time to read TFA or the paper you shared yet, it immediately stands out to me that the bibliography of the latter paper is far more comprehensive.
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by acjohnson55 2mo ago
If you want to go way deep, check out Tymoczko's first book: https://dmitri.mycpanel.princeton.edu/geometry-of-music.html It's a challenging read, but extremely thorough and enlightening. Tymoczko wrote a follow u
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by acjohnson55 2mo ago
I also jumped straight to the bibliography to look for those two. Not seeing any reference to their work is disappointing and makes me a little pessimistic that digesting the entire piece will be worthwhile, as a scientific piece. He refere
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by acjohnson55 2mo ago
Apparently, they do
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by acjohnson55 2mo ago
Found the robot, y'all
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by acjohnson55 3mo ago
Yep. The Crisis of the Third Century, especially. But also, pre-imperial Rome, a number of times. The Conflicts of the Orders, the entire late-Republican period from the Gracchi to the final demise of the Republic under Augustus. And then t
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by acjohnson55 3mo ago
> These findings differ from earlier studies that associated rudeness with poorer outcomes, suggesting that newer LLMs may respond differently to tonal variation. Unless the mechanism is understood, my assumption is that this is a moving
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by acjohnson55 3mo ago
It would be interesting to understand the data on this. But I suspect that the results would vary by model. But I avoid unnecessary emotion in my prompts because I don't want potentially distracting activations. Kind of like communicat
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by acjohnson55 4mo ago
Every now and then, a random math or science concept hits front page. Usually, people chime in with interesting perspectives on it. Guess we'll see.
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by acjohnson55 4mo ago
I do think there is going to be an entire risk market for insuring against AI mistakes.
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by acjohnson55 5mo ago
I've used Vim plenty for the past 30 years. I don't prefer it to GUI text editors.
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by acjohnson55 5mo ago
I've always been a bit mystified by the popularity of TUIs. To me, the power of the terminal is the streaming model. Composible utilities is something that is much less common in GUIs. I get it that maybe the constraints of terminals f
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by acjohnson55 5mo ago
I use VSCode and Conductor right now.
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by acjohnson55 5mo ago
They recently got bought by Cursor.
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by acjohnson55 5mo ago
I think there's a pretty good chance Adam Back is Satoshi, but I don't think this is a great article. Perhaps he's rendering a careful scientific process in a way that makes for a readable narrative, but as written, it sounds
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by acjohnson55 5mo ago
When I read the article, I was taken aback by the clear references to fraud in the before and after photos. We're in an absolutely golden age of grift.
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by acjohnson55 5mo ago
Depends on what you mean by "win". It would be possible to go in, topple the regime and secure the nuclear material. But only at astronomical cost and years of blowback
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by acjohnson55 5mo ago
All those ships stuck on either side of the Strait of Hormuz and their insurers would beg to differ.

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