mfragin

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by mfragin 2y ago
Wolfram's "A New Kind of Science" is not on the list.
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by mfragin 3y ago
I got a free piano from a lady that paid 25k for it back in 1980. Mice had lived in it while in storage, but I could tell it was in good shape. Spent a summer going down the rabbit hole of tuning it myself. I found the Entropy Piano Tuner
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by mfragin 3y ago
I'm too drunk to comment on that. And I'm online! Seriously, I feel the same way. As a former teacher, I remember when kids started having smart phones and you'd hear a notification go off in class. Other kids were like, &
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by mfragin 3y ago
To a point, sure. Fluid vs Crystallized. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluid_and_crystallized_intelli...
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by mfragin 3y ago
True story: I adopted a pit bull mix (mostly beagle, I'd guess) and she was a wonderful dog. One day she chased a rabbit (in Conejos county, so yeah, rabbits were pretty common) that ran under our car. It drove her nuts trying to ge
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by mfragin 3y ago
Just wait until midi 2.0 catches on! /sarcasm I once recorded an album and had to deal with latency issues. This was way back using an IBM Aptiva and Magix music software (because it was pretty affordable). I spent so much time tryi
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by mfragin 3y ago
Yeah I understand your point, but vinyl is kinda sacred. I mean, of all the things you mentioned, it's by far the most likely to still be usable in the future. Even in a post-apocalyptic world people might figure out how to play vinyl
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by mfragin 3y ago
This reminds me of https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-19343140 I am totally unqualified to judge this current topic [except for a degree in Biology], but I'm just curious if the "foldiscope" was success
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by mfragin 3y ago
And this is why I still hang out here, after abandoning nearly everything else. I love how a discussion like this can occur here and there's no flaming or egos getting hurt. When you post a labor of love like this, it's great to
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by mfragin 3y ago
I've always known that the mirror never lies.
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by mfragin 3y ago
I have attended two conferences for educators using Alice in their Computer Science curriculum (back in the mid 2000s, I think). The Alice Team at Carnegie Mellon were great in their efforts to make something for educators teaching CS at t
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by mfragin 3y ago
Funny (or sad) story: When my student's first showed me SIRI, I didn't have a smartphone and was basically just going by Stallman ethics (shut up--just saying...). They said, ask Siri to do anything and she can. I picked up my stu
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by mfragin 3y ago
Yeah, those cds and tapes you could get remarkably cheap and they sounded like total s*it as far as sound quality, but at the same time those were some of my favorite performances. Like hearing Donald sing "Brooklyn" on piano. Th
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by mfragin 3y ago
This is unethical in so many ways. People are going to be thinking these are like Tuff-Sheds or something. They should have a button that says "Show Me What I Actually Get" and then show them just that. And yes, I know it says &
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by mfragin 3y ago
Couldn't agree more. I had an active computer programming club for years at the high school level. One year, some of the very same kids proposed that we start a "tabletop gaming" club. Computers weren't allowed. Noth
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by mfragin 3y ago
I posted about this at top level, but should have done so here. My friends and I assumed our buddy's car had a warped disk or something that caused her to sound slightly pissed off. :-)
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by mfragin 3y ago
I can't believe this showed up on the front page today! I was just talking to a co-worker about this: Back in 1989, my college buddy Matt had a used Sentra that had that same voice. We assumed his got "warped" or something
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by mfragin 3y ago
I see these and I say "oh yeah, that Antarctica blog that I tell everyone about." I have always loved reading about people who live in extreme environments. It's also a great topic in science fiction. Not sure how to explain
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by mfragin 3y ago
And you can still find his code there! Sometimes the internet proves it's not all junk: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/ai-repository/ai/lang/...
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by mfragin 3y ago
Wow, this is worth watching if you're a guitar player. There are so many variables in the sound of an electric, and he certainly provides a strong argument as to which ones matter the most (his "air" guitar at the end is gre
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by mfragin 3y ago
Thanks! We also open for appointment, in case you can't make our regular hours (Tues and Sat 10-4)! Just let us know and you can come in whenever!
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by mfragin 3y ago
Definitely an ambitious project with a great start. I'm impressed by the scope of this, and have found myself writing smaller scripts for various functions that are already included here. Nice job! The "algorithms" and &quo
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by mfragin 3y ago
Oh, I hope he comes to Pueblo, CO sometime and checks out the niche museum I volunteer at. We have basically 3 people running it, including Nell Mitchell, who made it all possible: https://coloradostatehospitalmuseum.org/
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by mfragin 3y ago
I read George R.R. Martin's novella "Nightflyers" when my dad bought me a great anthology (Years Best SF #10). It mentions in there that there are remarkable coincidental similarities between the novella and "Alien&quot
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by mfragin 3y ago
This immediately reminded me of the Processing sketch called yellowtail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjIYJnc3vLQ Processing: https://processing.org/ This was a popular built-in example in the Processin
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by mfragin 3y ago
When I was teaching math and comp sci, I used broccoli in an example to explain self-similarity: imagine you're playing with your Barbies or GI Joes and you want to make their dinner plates look like they have real food on them. You c
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by mfragin 3y ago
Things like that explain how some people get obsessed with numerology. Except, I find the anagrams like you and the previous commenter mentioned to be more impressive than anything numerologists produce. Some of those are almost creepy in
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by mfragin 3y ago
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by mfragin 3y ago
This is something I deal with all the time. I volunteer at our local historical society and also at the museum of our state hospital (insane asylum) museum. I do research for people trying to find answers for their relatives who were patie
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by mfragin 3y ago
Although I can understand the purpose of the author, part of me thinks Beethoven's music is on such a higher plane than current politics. Or maybe that WAS his message.... When people talk about "desert island" picks, I pref

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