Somebody ought to train an LLM exclusively on this text, just for funsies.
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Woah woah, slow down there. Pythagoras applied his aesthetic desire for pure ratios to an idealized model for musical intervals. Funny enough, this ended up being the reason that the west discovered that such an approach does not scale (figuratively and literally). We literally call this delta between the ideal tuning and the limits of a fixed-pitch tuning a “Pythagorean comma”. This comma became the basis for a lot of tuning systems (meantone, etc) developed by the west. It’s only in the last hundred years that, in my opinion, forces of industrialization and mass production erased all such effort and replaced it with the boring compromise that is 12 tone equal temperament.
Other, far older, musical cultures took things in a different direction and ended up building systems on pure ratios that just become more complex in their relationships (Indian shruti, Turkish makam, etc).
This does not mean that Pythagorean ratios are irrelevant. They remain a great tool for analysis of universal human experience of music. The authors of this paper are literally doing just that.
Birds generate pure ratios in their songs. Smacking a metal anvil (as Pythagoras discovered) naturally generates pure ratios. They’re everywhere. If anything we need MORE of this understanding in Western music, which is missing out on some really tasty (low integer) intervals like 7/4, 8/5, 10/9, 7/5, many of which have naturally emerged in the West via genres like Blues.
I see your Metric Time and I raise you a Dozenal Society of America.
12 is divisible into whole halves, thirds, and quarters.
bugeats commented on XML is better than YAML – Hear me out changelog.com/posts/xml-b... · Posted by u/nalgeon
No offense to the creator of YAML, but: The fact that it became one of the de-facto standards for cloud tooling is an absolutely damning statement about the state of the industry.
I get that XML is about as sexy as mainframes, and that a lot of folks here probably have PTSD from working with Java/Spring web apps, but YAML is about the worst of all worlds.
Though I think the real problem is that real-world configuration files are way too complicated for a simple/dumb/logic-less representation like a .ini/.conf file, so someone thinks to add some logic to is - which is just config-as-code. In a terrible programming language.
If you want config-as-code (and you want to!), just do it properly and use a proper programming language for it. Don't care which one, be it JavaScript, Python, Go, PDP-11 Assembly, or Rust. But please stop with these half-measure DSLs that just don't cut it.
The Nix Language, while goofy at times, is built for config-as-code and is hiding a decent little functional language in what looks like just attribute assignments.
Likewise, CUE Lang is built for config (esp merging docs with shared refs) and is highly under-appreciated. You can express powerful computations if you puzzle over the logical inferencing for a bit.
bugeats commented on My IDE is too heavy so I moved to Emacs renato.athaydes.com/posts... · Posted by u/lycopodiopsida
Slightly off topic: any reviews of Zed or Helix here?
How does it compare?
A couple of months ago I switched from Neovim with a carefully crafted config file to Helix with zero config. I haven't looked back.
As far a performance, well, Helix + Alacritty is the fastest thing I know of. Snappy AF. You're still at the mercy of whatever language server might be grinding away, but at least it doesn't block the UI in any way. Every other component (tree-sitter, ropey) is performance optimized by Rust nerds who love that sort of thing.
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- Architect fast backend services for a massive geospatial data lake
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- Optimize onboard compute and embedded systems for power and efficiency
- Apply Machine Learning and Machine Vision models for real-time object detection
- Build beautiful and interactive web GUIs for aircraft fleets
- Use and abuse WebGL for 3D graphics visualizations
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I am 26. I have been off of social media for about 5 years now. Friends that I want to stay in touch with are on Signal. Don't regret it one bit. Pretty happy.
This gives me hope. I've been thinking lately that one of the ways that we get through this intense disequilibrium is through a youth counterculture that treats social media as something deeply uncool that only their out of touch parents use. Youth rebellion is humanity's cultural immune system.
Philanthropy is a predictable outcome of an individual having met the basic needs of Maslow’s hierarchy. Consider how many more philanthropists would be created by returning this 30% back to individual discernment.