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There are ten and two different notes, or steps, in my people's music. The sounds go up and down such that a note that is ten and three higher than another sounds the same but high…

If you select a region with transient mode on, then `query-replace` (`M-%` by default) will only affect the region. So select the region you want the change to effect (just like in…

A camp counselor introduced a bunch of us to "Nick Danger" one summer back in the '70's, and it was instant infatuation for me. I bought all of their albums I could find and listen…

Yes, but if they did they are giving away security information: they are acknowledging that the entered email address is a legit delegated login. That's a bad thing to do, security…

The article's title is misleading. The mathematician has suggested an improvement or clarification to the notation used to describe a second derivative which makes it easier to man…

Additionally, the meaning of "obvious" is non-obvious. It means obvious to somebody with knowledge of the relevant field.

With writing, music, and perhaps even software it is best to know and understand the rules and be able to use them before you start breaking them. When you do, you'll know why and …

I've had the same Tom Binh Brain Bag backpack for about 15 years and I love it. Wearing it right now in fact. I also have an insert accessory for organizing papers, pens, etc. and …

There are different kinds of infinity. The integers are countable, the real numbers aren't. You can prove that if you try to map each integer to some rational number, there will be…

Yes, in theory. In practice, you'd not only remove this function but all of its calls. When somebody down the road realizes that they want this function back, they have to (A) real…

The Lilypond input would allow the NN to discover structure (repeats, sections, voices). A MIDI file doesn't have any concept of repeats or sections.

They are very different beasts, even setting aside the syntax. ChucK is geared towards (musical) audio signal generation, with modules for wave generation, filtering, delay, etc. I…

Let's say I want to simulate acceleration going forward. First, there's the burst of forward motion provided by the cable rig, and that can be > 1G. By also gradually flipping the …

I have often mentioned this project to others over the years, when talking about audio cues and using audio to help understand large data sets.

Not sure about cheap. I spend about $350/month for the Metro North train ride from Connecticut into NYC, and half the time am riding in the 40-year old cars with dilapidated, uncom…

My father was a math professor at a community college. He was proud of his teaching and his students. Those students --- largely people looking to become nurses, firemen, or other …

I've been playing with Sonic Pi and loving it. It's by Sam Aaron, the same person who wrote Overtone ( http://overtone.github.io/ ), a fantastic Clojure wrapper around SuperCollide…

I wouldn't be so sure about that. I believe the core database from which BDB evolved (and which was also written by Keith Bostic) is part of some pretty widely-used Unix software (…

It's an old-school Slashdot meme: "a Beowulf cluster of X", where X = commodity hardware, microprocessor, or Furby.

Will it quit? A failed fork() will return -1, which is non-zero thus true in a boolean context. The while(fork()) {...} will run.

Then how do you move multiple lines at a time (4, 16, 64, 256)? To move 16 lines down, I press C-u C-u C-n (of course, the control key stays down the whole time). You either have t…

Can't wait for the Emacs Lisp client library! (Wish I had time to work on that.)

Apparently Isaac Asimov did it all the time. He didn't rewrite, or did so very infrequently.