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by jimm 4y ago
There are ten and two different notes, or steps, in my people's music. The sounds go up and down such that a note that is ten and three higher than another sounds the same but higher up. We group those notes into pleasing sounds, and t
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by jimm 5y ago
If you select a region with transient mode on, then `query-replace` (`M-%` by default) will only affect the region. So select the region you want the change to effect (just like in the demo video), hit `M-%`, then type the old and new text,
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by jimm 5y ago
A camp counselor introduced a bunch of us to "Nick Danger" one summer back in the '70's, and it was instant infatuation for me. I bought all of their albums I could find and listened to them all the time. No drugs involv
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by jimm 7y ago
Yes, but if they did they are giving away security information: they are acknowledging that the entered email address is a legit delegated login. That's a bad thing to do, security-wise. You don't want bad guys to start trying ema
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by jimm 7y ago
The article's title is misleading. The mathematician has suggested an improvement or clarification to the notation used to describe a second derivative which makes it easier to manipulate formulaically.
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by jimm 9y ago
Additionally, the meaning of "obvious" is non-obvious. It means obvious to somebody with knowledge of the relevant field.
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by jimm 10y ago
With writing, music, and perhaps even software it is best to know and understand the rules and be able to use them before you start breaking them. When you do, you'll know why and do so for a purpose.
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by jimm 10y ago
I've had the same Tom Binh Brain Bag backpack for about 15 years and I love it. Wearing it right now in fact. I also have an insert accessory for organizing papers, pens, etc. and a padded laptop protector.
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by jimm 10y ago
There are different kinds of infinity. The integers are countable, the real numbers aren't. You can prove that if you try to map each integer to some rational number, there will be some rational numbers that are not on that list --- th
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by jimm 10y ago
Yes, in theory. In practice, you'd not only remove this function but all of its calls. When somebody down the road realizes that they want this function back, they have to (A) realize it's in the VC history and (B) not only get ba
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by jimm 10y ago
The Lilypond input would allow the NN to discover structure (repeats, sections, voices). A MIDI file doesn't have any concept of repeats or sections.
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by jimm 11y ago
They are very different beasts, even setting aside the syntax. ChucK is geared towards (musical) audio signal generation, with modules for wave generation, filtering, delay, etc. It also can generate notes, but the support for doing so is f
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by jimm 11y ago
Let's say I want to simulate acceleration going forward. First, there's the burst of forward motion provided by the cable rig, and that can be > 1G. By also gradually flipping the person onto their back you can simulate continu
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by jimm 11y ago
I have often mentioned this project to others over the years, when talking about audio cues and using audio to help understand large data sets.
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by jimm 11y ago
Not sure about cheap. I spend about $350/month for the Metro North train ride from Connecticut into NYC, and half the time am riding in the 40-year old cars with dilapidated, uncomfortable seats. The NYC subway just bumped up its rates
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by jimm 12y ago
My father was a math professor at a community college. He was proud of his teaching and his students. Those students --- largely people looking to become nurses, firemen, or other professionals --- benefited from his love of teaching. He go
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by jimm 12y ago
I've been playing with Sonic Pi and loving it. It's by Sam Aaron, the same person who wrote Overtone ( http://overtone.github.io/ ), a fantastic Clojure wrapper around SuperCollider ( http://supercollider.
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by jimm 12y ago
I wouldn't be so sure about that. I believe the core database from which BDB evolved (and which was also written by Keith Bostic) is part of some pretty widely-used Unix software (SMTP servers, or DNS, or something like that).
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by jimm 12y ago
It's an old-school Slashdot meme: "a Beowulf cluster of X", where X = commodity hardware, microprocessor, or Furby.
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by jimm 12y ago
Will it quit? A failed fork() will return -1, which is non-zero thus true in a boolean context. The while(fork()) {...} will run.
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by jimm 12y ago
Then how do you move multiple lines at a time (4, 16, 64, 256)? To move 16 lines down, I press C-u C-u C-n (of course, the control key stays down the whole time). You either have to press C-u C-u then move your forearm to the arrow key and
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by jimm 12y ago
Can't wait for the Emacs Lisp client library! (Wish I had time to work on that.)
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by jimm 13y ago
Apparently Isaac Asimov did it all the time. He didn't rewrite, or did so very infrequently.
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by jimm 13y ago
There's an old musicians' saying: If you don't practice for one day, you notice. If you don't practice for two, other musicians notice. Three days and everybody notices.
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by jimm 13y ago
By this formula, I can have four pages. My resume is four pages plus four lines that spill over onto the fifth page. If your formula handled floating point instead of integers, I'd be fine.
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by jimm 13y ago
Pshaw! I don't know how you define "disjointed", but Manhattan is around 22 square miles large, and most of the tech sector is concentrated in the southern half. There are multiple meet-ups and user groups meeting pretty much
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by jimm 13y ago
Good point. Also, new knowledge often builds on old by adding layers of abstraction, allowing the creation of new knowledge using these higher layers. More importantly, it allows the teaching (and learning) of these abstractions which impli
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by jimm 13y ago
If you're old enough to remember the start of cable TV, one of the promises was that it would have few/no commercials, because you're paying for it. I'd trust very few web sites to stay ad-free if they switched to a pay
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by jimm 14y ago
Not at all. If the original statement was something like, "Top Secret Agent Spongebob Squarepants determined that rot13 is not a good encryption scheme," then redacting the name of the top secret agent while releasing the rest of the statem
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The Impact of Heroku's Routing Mesh and Random Routing(artsy.github.com)
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