skwosh

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by skwosh 3y ago
Spot on. It's telling that most DAW UIs are based on archaic ideas (like mixers/tracks and MIDI/step-sequencer grids). Even BuzzTracker (2009) outshines many of the current DAWs with DAG instrument/effects-chaining and a
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by skwosh 3y ago
The project started a few years ago adapting generating functions to Complex waveshaping, with the waveforms correspond to certain constructions in optics, celestial dynamics, etc. This has since been extended with an algebraic/modular
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by skwosh 3y ago
I make my own digital synthesis algorithms using (relatively, w.r.t. the field) esoteric mathematics. [1] At some point (e.g. once I obtain patents) I hope to commercialize the processes involved as software/hardware instruments, but f
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by skwosh 3y ago
Relatively speaking... Cultural optimism is likely to follow periods of growth and abundance, like buying a property in the 1970s for $5K and selling it in the 2000s for $2M. The last couple of decades have seen a reversal of this effect, s
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by skwosh 10y ago
The connection between language and humour is an interesting topic, and brings to mind the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis (or more generally, linguistic relativity [1]). It can be difficult to tell how much of a cue (or "clown" as you men
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by skwosh 10y ago
I agree of course - a society with at least some understanding of statistics, logic, anthropology (of media), etc is essential to a healthy democracy. It would be great to see political/cultural literacy taken more seriously, but the
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by skwosh 10y ago
> I never said arts/humanities are useless. >> inability to pick a useless major I agree with the sentiment though, that (in general) an Arts degree (or whatever) alone it's not enough to sustain a career. I just think it
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by skwosh 10y ago
Yes, those things are also wrong. As are decreasing socioeconomic mobility, racially & religiously motivated violence, lack of code hygiene and unit testing, etc... If you read my and other responses in this thread, the arts/humani
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by skwosh 10y ago
If I was designing policy? Really all I'm talking about is not defunding/sidelining Arts etc "because it's not financially viable". The idea is really to provide a well rounded education, (giving students a broader
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by skwosh 10y ago
Sure, through the lens of "smart investing", an arts degree is a shitty investment, and therefore shouldn't be funded. I just think that's a bit reductive, and that the value provided by those programs can be hard to qua
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by skwosh 10y ago
Part of the problem here is that the terms/interest is so crippling that they can't take out another $160K debt to "pivot" into something more financially practical. Further, I think having the availability/flexibil
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by skwosh 10y ago
Not inversely proportional, just somewhat orthogonal, reflecting a (largely) different set of priorities. Plus I'm not sure that the "mechanisms of compensation have been democratized so well", as you claim. (Which is to say
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by skwosh 10y ago
You could say that about anything though, and I'm sure many in engineering do (about everything from design patterns to category theory...). The value added by quality in-person tuition shouldn't be underrated though, not to menti
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by skwosh 10y ago
Emphasis on "usually"... As far as evidence goes, more experiential - I've studied visual and sonic arts at a few different universities/colleges (in Australia). Generally, not many found financial success in their chose
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by skwosh 10y ago
There seems to be a strong sentiment in this thread that the only value provided by education is the contribution to career (e.g. that loans should only be provided for financially viable courses, that studying arts is as useful to one&#x27
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by skwosh 10y ago
It's not clear to me why (in the pattern presented) the decorators don't return a subclass (which would preserve the dynamic and static properties and methods, etc). Instead you get hacks like `hoist-non-react-statics` to copy the
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by skwosh 11y ago
> Where, in any of my day-to-day job duties, ... Off the top of my head, or at least where I've used them recently: > kth permutation of a set of numbers? Producing all pairs of a collection, e.g. for computing the minimum distan
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by skwosh 11y ago
My guess is that in OO you are typically only parameterising `this`, and therefore only talking about one facet of the domain. Family polymorphism (or virtual classes) provide a way around this...
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by skwosh 11y ago
I think the most important skills you can learn as a programmer are the fundamentals , including control (continuations, generators, etc), data patterns/structures (template method, functors, etc), and systems (distributed, databases,
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by skwosh 11y ago
I tend to agree (though I appreciate divergence from time to time). The real value (for me) in HN (and Reddit) is the discussion (as opposed to the articles themselves). HN is somewhat unique in having a diverse and (usually highly) techn
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by skwosh 11y ago
> The goods and services consumed have to come from someone working somewhere. Like your former self? Retirement fund contribution is compulsory in Australia (as a %age of income), and probably elsewhere.
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by skwosh 11y ago
It is kind of absurd. Music is intrinsically about reuse, recycling, and reinvention [1]. Sampling is really just a continuation of that. [1] Axis of Awesome, The Four Chord Song, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pidokakU4I
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by skwosh 11y ago
The song that the article refers to is Amen by The Winstons (1969), a cover of the gospel-like Amen by Jester Hairston (1963). Though the drum break was played (and probably "composed") by band-member G. C. Coleman, the cheque was
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by skwosh 11y ago
Apologies in advance for the unsolicited monad tutorial (it's my turn to be that asshole)... Firstly, saying "`X` is a monad" is the same as saying "class `X` implements the monad interface". The monad interface is
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by skwosh 11y ago
I think using Haskell's type syntax is misleading in this context (and doesn't really imply the required associativity (much less commutativity if you wanted to consider Abelian monoids)). The operation of a monoid maps from pairs
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by skwosh 11y ago
It's considered a feature I think not just because it's a ring but because it's an area of higher than expected density of Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs).
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by skwosh 11y ago
Our perception of time is an also at odds with our scientific understanding of the universe, but that doesn't mean that it isn't real...
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by skwosh 11y ago
Licensing etc feels like it would work with the larger and more homogeneous parts of the industry (creating a more fungible work force). Outside of that environment, technology varies so much between companies, and changes so much over time
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by skwosh 11y ago
Thanks, that's what I mean. My feeling is that some of the syntactic extensions to the language are piecemeal and don't reflect the full expressivity of JavaScript.
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by skwosh 11y ago
As a corollary I'd like to say: stop pushing JavaScript forward. There seems to be a lot of focus on providing syntactic sugar for things that already exist (like classes, decorators, etc) at the expense of flexibility and composabilit

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