Database Management Systems, aka "The Cow Book"
Readit NewsBFay commented on Ask HN: Nicknames for Computer Science Books? · Posted by u/temeya
Thanks! Pretty neat really. But suspicion got me - I used Shazaam and a substantial part of the song is directly lifted from:
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=XFXmr1CVO74
Wow, yeah it seems entirely plagiarized. It's still a very strange song, but I don't think the AI did anything noteworthy here. Thanks for looking into it!
I can't find that track. Any link you might have?
Oh, yes sorry I didn't realize I could actually link:
https://www.musi-co.com/listen/track/test_energylevel
I highly highly recommend listening to the track called "Test_energylevel", it is absolutely bonkers, and more interesting than any of the other tracks I clicked on here. (You have to click on "Explore" and then scroll down a bit to find it)
It starts with a choir of ambient vocals singing "it's a sunshine", there's some bird noises and traffic sounds, a snippet of organ synth flourishes.
Then it all gets started - guitar, sitar, horns, strings a vocal duet singing "Shine your sweet loving down on me"
There's actually a ton going on, every few bars it changes things up, there's clever little harpsichord.
Then a male singer starts proclaiming "It's a sunshine daaaayyy", backed up by a chorus of "yeah, yeah, yeah"s. Honestly it's kind of catchy
The last 30 seconds or so are truly cursed, there's a voice in the right speaker moaning "wide eyed retina. mostly logical", which gets delayed, bitcrushed, and pingponged between the speakers.
Wow! I wonder why this specific track has so much going on compared to the others.
BFay commented on Asking for a date of birth (2013) designnotes.blog.gov.uk/2... · Posted by u/edward
What really bothers me is that most of time when the date of birth is asked it is done as a way to determine some age criteria. The same could be achieved simply asking "are you older than N years old? [Yes] or [No]".
For example, I want to buy Quake on the Nintendo eShop. The website wants to know my age in order to show me a age restricted game. So it will always ask me the age same question even if I have already answered hundred of times. So does Steam and many other websites. Is this a by-product of some compliance or self-regulatory requirement like ESRB?
If not, it would make much more sense to just ask a yes/no question for the age criteria. Usually this argument is answered with "what about fraud?". Well, asking the birthday is no guarantee at all that the birthday is correct. It only adds friction.
As a small revenge I always use an absurdly old birth date on these forms. This way if they are collecting this data, my input will be discarded or pollute their datasets.
I also enter an absurdly old date, and usually I'll try setting an impossible day/month combo like February 31st... sometimes it actually works!
I really like Jeremy Kun's writing: https://jeremykun.com/ and recommend his book, A Programmer's Introduction to Mathematics: https://pimbook.org/.
So far I've only read the first few chapters of the book, and the exercises often feel too difficult to me. But I think he does a great job of easing into mathematical notation, pausing to reflect on what a seasoned mathematician might be thinking when they come across that notation. He also makes a lot of analogies to programming, and has example programs that are easy to follow. It's helpful to have that angle to understand things from.
This may seem silly, but one of my main reasons for using IntelliJ over Eclipse is because it has a nice looking dark theme. I've tried using the dark theme on Eclipse, and on both Windows and OS X it had very bright scroll bars that clash with the dark editor.
I think my favorite keyboard shortcut in IntelliJ is double-tapping shift to get a really smart search to pop up.
BFay commented on Aerodynamic by Daft-Punk in 100 lines of code with Sonic Pi aimxhaisse.com/aerodynami... · Posted by u/edouardb
I have no fixed goal so interested to know the different trade-offs between each one e.g. which ones excel at different goals you suggest?
Also general comments about things like quality, extendibility, community, momentum, learning curve, level of fun, reliability etc. would be really helpful - thanks!
I'll have to look into WavePot, but I'll say that SonicPi is built first and foremost for live-coding; making music in realtime while coding. There's some other languages that focus on this - Gibber in the browser, Tidal in Haskell. Those are probably the best languages to start playing with if you want to get something musical happening quickly.
SuperCollider is much more general - you have a server that can build and execute graphs of unit generators, and a language that has a ton of convenience features for interacting with the server, and abstractions for scheduling events. (sidenote, I'm starting to build an audio patching environment using SuperCollider. It doesn't do anything yet but I'm hoping to have something soon https://github.com/YottaSecond/Triggerfish)
SuperCollider also has a great community - questions on the mailing list are usually answered within a couple of hours, and there's a team of people furiously working on the upcoming 3.7 release.
I love Pure Data to death, it has an amazing community and is actively being developed, but I have some trouble recommending it because of the aging Tcl/Tk interface.
ChucK looks really interesting. In most environments you need to write unit generators in C/C++ to actually do low-level audio processing. ChucK uses a "strongly-timed" programming model, where you can actually use the same language to process sound sample-by-sample and schedule things at real musical intervals.
Extempore is also worth looking into if you aren't afraid of lisp.
So yeah, it depends largely on what you want to do. The live-coding languages like SonicPi are probably the best for getting music going quickly, but the others all have unique things to offer.
BFay commented on Stop listening to music while you work finance.yahoo.com/news/ne... · Posted by u/indus
Maybe the enjoyment you get from listening to the music is valuable in itself. There are worse things than pleasure. Just a thought.
And maybe that enjoyment will make you a happier person in general, which will in turn make you more productive because you won't worry and second-guess yourself so much.
BFay commented on Koel: A personal music streaming server github.com/phanan/koel... · Posted by u/vive-la-liberte
What I'm looking for is better music discovery. This would require some form of machine learning/statistics/collaborative filtering, but basically, if I like a number of songs, I'd want the system to automatically recommend new songs/artists.
Check out The Echo Nest API for some inspiration - I'm pretty sure Spotify and some similar services use it for their recommendations. http://developer.echonest.com/docs/v4