quaverquaver

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by quaverquaver 6d ago
I guess it could be neat to play 100 of these at the same tempo at once but otherwise I'm having trouble coming up a use case for this...
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by quaverquaver 9d ago
it is hilarious that they include Marcel Duchamp in this discussion! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_(Duchamp)
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by quaverquaver 29d ago
family life is not about "compounding gains" -- in part because family life is not about "gain" at all. On the contrary - you sacrifice and are ultimately consumed! The language of investing is entirely out of place in
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by quaverquaver 1mo ago
^hell yeah! thx
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by quaverquaver 1mo ago
we are seeing robust profits and growth in margins in the S&P even ex tech and some of this spillover from the hyperscaling but some may be due to productivity enhancement from AI.
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by quaverquaver 1mo ago
maybe the comment length is a ruse to increase token consumption
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by quaverquaver 1mo ago
I have codex rewrite all Opus' comments with great results.
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by quaverquaver 1mo ago
while it is a groovy into to recursion and other cool ideas, GEB annoys me in that I feel like the three figures in the title are ill matched. Godel proves a super important result in math, sure... Escher was a skilled draughtsman who had a
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by quaverquaver 1mo ago
research tilts towards grades not helping learners in contrast to non-quantitative feedback so there's that.
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by quaverquaver 1mo ago
perhaps a representation of movement rather than a series of frames would better model what people see when watching video - highly compressed formats might even be directly useful in this regard?
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by quaverquaver 2mo ago
concatenative code is sort of a natural fit for audio in terms of representing signal flow...
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by quaverquaver 2mo ago
for FORTH like synthesis environment you will want to check out SAPF! (by James McCartney author of SuperCollider) https://github.com/lfnoise/sapf
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by quaverquaver 3mo ago
these are capital intensive commodity businesses. They can be plenty big - see railroads or airplanes... or refining... but that doesn't mean that most value won't be added elsewhere.
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by quaverquaver 3mo ago
I would not take "space data centers" as a given! from most to least likely these will be vaporware, vaprorized-ware, rubble-ware, loss leaders.
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by quaverquaver 3mo ago
marginal tax rates reached 94% in 1944 on income over 200k in the US. The high marginal tax regime gave rise to a period of relative equality. Nothing stupid about it - if a long right tail is a social ill (it is) then why have it?
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by quaverquaver 3mo ago
...but there is data that there are issues upstream - there are fewer couples to begin with! That is not economical (economies of scale) suggesting that we are looking at changes in social structure rather than some kind of aggregate econom
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by quaverquaver 4mo ago
...but one of your examples has had disastrous consequences. Sure cars prevailed but they have changed the climate and let to unfriendly development patterns. Likewise social media may make people less happy, less likely to couple etc. Nove
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by quaverquaver 4mo ago
...yes but apparently while the posterior hippocampus actually grows in these people the anterior hippocampus shrinks... so there may be tradeoffs required to get this level of spatial knowledge... https://www.pnas.org/doi&#
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by quaverquaver 5mo ago
X is a rare platform where an individual manipulates the algorithm per his own personal political whims. And, yes he is explicitly racist and anti-democratic. No org that cares about freedom should contribute to what is really a persona
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by quaverquaver 8mo ago
In the US per official data ~5% have more than one job (and that includes lawyers doing consultancy for example) https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS12026620
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by quaverquaver 9mo ago
I got my start programming in Forth - we were making PC games for the Japanese market in the early 80s - Epson and Sharp machines... and Forth was just magic - I've missed it - must check Factor out!ppl interested in a concatenate audi
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by quaverquaver 9mo ago
also this explains squirrels
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by quaverquaver 9mo ago
these things are 100% true. I eat one hazelnut per hour and have lived already 230 years.
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by quaverquaver 10mo ago
suggest many many cups of 1/3 caffeinated and 2/3 decaf. There are some observed health benefits to even decaf coffee... and its got potassium besides. I drink around 10 of these. lower longer peak. Joy!
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by quaverquaver 10mo ago
the great advantage over DAWs etc is that you can name things and slowly build your own bespoke tools... for this work all timing was done in reference to the words rather than beats and bars - I can re-flow the whole piece by tapping throu
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by quaverquaver 10mo ago
here's a whole opera from a Star Trek episode I coded in Supercollider - can indeed code things other than EDM... (its a screen grab - being synthesized in real time) https://vimeo.com/944533415?fl=ip&fe=ec