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At my employer, we'd been using a similar scheme to build and ship interpreters along with releases of various pieces of software for years. Although I was interested in p-b-s for …

I was going to post this as well, its delightful to see that other people enjoy it since it was really mind-blowing when I read it. It's interesting since I saw another comment nea…

hey thanks!!

By complete coincidence, yesterday I came across this link to an article Peter Naur wrote in 1985 ( https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf ) which I haven't been able to stop th…

I haven't actively looked into it, but on a couple of occasions after google began inserting gemini results at the top of the list, I decided to try using some of the generated cod…

related: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ntsb-investigation-waymo-robota...

I listened to an interview with the woman who was at the time I believe overseeing the efforts of the Audio Engineering Society to address the problem of the countless recordings m…

I learned of Michael Levin via Sally Adee's "We Are Electric", one of the more interesting pop-sci titles I've read in a while, the section on Levin's lab was definitely the highli…

Made me think of one of my favorite books as a kid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_(Macaulay_book) , loved getting to pass them on to my own kids.

i'm also an audio nerd and although I do everything in the box when i'm recording, i agree completely that it's way easier to use outboard stuff for this case. i had an analog chan…

I don't know quite what it is either, but I do know with certainty because it was my own experience that the act of inventing songs doesn't require any kind of experience at all, a…

I've struggled to teach this to jazz students, I know when I was a kid I read the same kind of advice in guitar magazines, and while I don't think that the theory-first advocates a…

I grew up in this area of West Virginia, it's such a crazy thing that a community of really amazing scientists are nestled in the middle of this incredibly rural area. It's really …

an interesting article on this topic: https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2024/02/more-christian-th...

If you consider the idea of music as language, genre as somewhat akin to regional dialects, and performance as akin to a recitation in that dialect to an audience, then the most fu…

At risk of sounding argumentative, another way of looking at this I think is that the community of people in the US who have known only a facts-first approach to reality are now di…

The closing on the sale of my house in Quincy was that day. I was moving far away immediately after the closing, had my car packed with most of my worldly goods and all I had left …

you might enjoy some of Lee Smolin's writing on the "Fecund Universes Theory"

i wouldn't sweat it. if orch-or works out it won't matter who was on board early. sometimes i think that a group of people guess that some theory is correct before some clever acad…

my favorite completely unprovable yet strongly enticing theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_natural_selection

I've been playing jazz most of my life and one of the most frustrating parts of it has been this idea that there should be some immediately obvious virtue in jazz as a musical styl…

Have wondered for years whether Akamai's Query system ( https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/lisa10/tech/full_papers... , sadly never open sourced) had any influence on the creatio…

high five I won't need to worry about this again

well im a dope, I never noticed the edit option. So if I edit the hunk and toggle the subset of changes I don't want, I'll get prompted to accept the diff of the diff? brb I need t…