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Wolfram's "A New Kind of Science" is not on the list.

I got a free piano from a lady that paid 25k for it back in 1980. Mice had lived in it while in storage, but I could tell it was in good shape. Spent a summer going down the rabbit…

I'm too drunk to comment on that. And I'm online! Seriously, I feel the same way. As a former teacher, I remember when kids started having smart phones and you'd hear a notificatio…

To a point, sure. Fluid vs Crystallized. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluid_and_crystallized_intelli...

True story: I adopted a pit bull mix (mostly beagle, I'd guess) and she was a wonderful dog. One day she chased a rabbit (in Conejos county, so yeah, rabbits were pretty common) th…

Just wait until midi 2.0 catches on! /sarcasm I once recorded an album and had to deal with latency issues. This was way back using an IBM Aptiva and Magix music software (because …

Yeah I understand your point, but vinyl is kinda sacred. I mean, of all the things you mentioned, it's by far the most likely to still be usable in the future. Even in a post-apoca…

This reminds me of https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-19343140 I am totally unqualified to judge this current topic [except for a degree in Biology], but I'm just curious if the "…

And this is why I still hang out here, after abandoning nearly everything else. I love how a discussion like this can occur here and there's no flaming or egos getting hurt. When y…

I've always known that the mirror never lies.

I have attended two conferences for educators using Alice in their Computer Science curriculum (back in the mid 2000s, I think). The Alice Team at Carnegie Mellon were great in the…

Funny (or sad) story: When my student's first showed me SIRI, I didn't have a smartphone and was basically just going by Stallman ethics (shut up--just saying...). They said, ask S…

Yeah, those cds and tapes you could get remarkably cheap and they sounded like total s*it as far as sound quality, but at the same time those were some of my favorite performances.…

This is unethical in so many ways. People are going to be thinking these are like Tuff-Sheds or something. They should have a button that says "Show Me What I Actually Get" and the…

Couldn't agree more. I had an active computer programming club for years at the high school level. One year, some of the very same kids proposed that we start a "tabletop gaming" c…

I posted about this at top level, but should have done so here. My friends and I assumed our buddy's car had a warped disk or something that caused her to sound slightly pissed off…

I can't believe this showed up on the front page today! I was just talking to a co-worker about this: Back in 1989, my college buddy Matt had a used Sentra that had that same voice…

I see these and I say "oh yeah, that Antarctica blog that I tell everyone about." I have always loved reading about people who live in extreme environments. It's also a great topic…

And you can still find his code there! Sometimes the internet proves it's not all junk: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/ai-repository/ai/lang/...

Wow, this is worth watching if you're a guitar player. There are so many variables in the sound of an electric, and he certainly provides a strong argument as to which ones matter …

Thanks! We also open for appointment, in case you can't make our regular hours (Tues and Sat 10-4)! Just let us know and you can come in whenever!

Definitely an ambitious project with a great start. I'm impressed by the scope of this, and have found myself writing smaller scripts for various functions that are already include…

Oh, I hope he comes to Pueblo, CO sometime and checks out the niche museum I volunteer at. We have basically 3 people running it, including Nell Mitchell, who made it all possible:…

I read George R.R. Martin's novella "Nightflyers" when my dad bought me a great anthology (Years Best SF #10). It mentions in there that there are remarkable coincidental similarit…

This immediately reminded me of the Processing sketch called yellowtail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjIYJnc3vLQ Processing: https://processing.org/ This was a popular built-in…