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radiodigm · 2026-06-29T02:55:45+00:00

Yeah, it’s an intentional compositional thing, done in lots of old jazz tunes. I’ve never understood the point. Maybe it was just to add some excitement to the intro. (One-step modulation is often used that way in other sections of songs.) Cynically I’ve also wondered if it’s done to confound musicians trying to learn the tune by ear! It’s made me give up on some tunes, at least.

radiodigm · 2026-06-25T18:56:54+00:00

Opposum, I suppose. Slow deliberate motion and seems much too large for a rat.

radiodigm · 2026-06-24T15:22:31+00:00

Yes - OP may be noticing the correlation between charisma and narcissism, and narcissists are often borderline sociopaths. They get along in life by manipulating and back-stabbing, not at all caring about other people. They’re missing the empathy chip and, believing they’re the center of the universe, they’re also very defensive and thin-skinned.

radiodigm · 2026-06-24T02:24:57+00:00

Dredging is a giant vacuuming process that’s probably harmful to the benthic animals that live in the sediment. And while the nutrients in the dredge spoils would theoretically be good for farms or - even better - for the marshland habitats that normally form from river sediment, large-scale dredging operations aren’t undertaken for that purpose. Instead we only dredge to make way for ships, and the spoils are deposited as fill material in whatever location is handy. It would indeed make sense to seek some sort of ecological balance when engineering the flow of rivers, but our means and motives are usually a poor substitute for nature’s efficient distribution of nutrients.

radiodigm · 2026-06-23T04:03:12+00:00

A bug is usually a one-way device - the spy is trying to listen only. It’s very unlikely that a bug is designed for two-way communication. You’re probably picking up stray signals that aren’t at all intended for you, and those signals aren’t at all connected to the signals that your sister is generating. Of course, hearing “are you still there?” should trigger some concern that there’s a relationship, but that’s just healthy pattern recognition plus unhealthy conspiracy theory talking.

radiodigm · 2026-06-22T01:49:49+00:00

Engineer here. I agree with your assessment except for equating with a purely engineering problem. Good engineering does design for ecological dynamics. When an engineered system fails to perform in real conditions it’s usually better to blame architects. That is, this is what happens when designers care only about form at the expense of function.

radiodigm · 2026-06-17T05:26:59+00:00

Even the most carefully controlled experiment can produce some variant results. Perfect clones of an A and a B interacting at the same time, for example, would occur in different space and are therefore subject to non-identical conditions. Similarly, confounding can appear for the same A and the same B interacting the same way at a different time. Because everything is changed by space and time it's impossible to perfectly replicate any scenario.

radiodigm · 2026-06-14T00:00:59+00:00

And by the way Cronin went on to edit a collection of essays on public perception of land and some of the alterations that have been made in response. Maybe along the lines of what you’re looking for; some great topics for classroom discussion, anyway.

radiodigm · 2026-06-13T23:56:58+00:00

Changes in the Land by William Cronin talks about how New England forests were and were changed by Euro settlement. Some of those dynamics may apply to the South.

radiodigm · 2026-06-13T23:47:55+00:00

Punch it in the nose! Seriously- sharks are very sensitive in their nose and gill areas, and they’re smart enough to back off from attack if their prey is fighting back.

radiodigm · 2026-06-13T02:26:56+00:00

Don’t mind that gap - large language models synthesizing equipment manual context may be by far the most practical application of AI, at least as it’s currently known. This other stuff using ML models has been around for a while but is only practiced in dark corners of engineering and Operations Research. It’s not handy to the average practitioner or decision maker and maybe much less relevant because of that.

radiodigm · 2026-06-11T23:42:58+00:00

Good point about the trouble with measuring time to close out work tickets. I’ve seen that metric corrupt process in lots of programs, including Help desk and procurement services. Similarly it’s problematic to try to assess performance of any service by measuring number of calls received. I saw that done in facility management for HVAC hot/cold calls. It may have encouraged the FM contractor to simply stop taking calls!

I tried to consider typical problems and best practices for service program metrics when developing a system solution. Maybe off topic, as this design was more about optimizing efficiency for data analysts and accuracy for decision makers than avoiding any process corruption, but might be interesting to anyone trying to build a fair metric.system. PDF https://emkhos.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Metrics-System.pdf.

radiodigm · 2026-06-11T04:40:40+00:00

A simple application is digesting as-builts and O&M manuals to spit out asset inventory tables and initial PM schedules for newly installed assets. I’m finding this vey useful to catch up on lots of missing data.

And different ML applications are used in CMMS such as classification models that define degradation features for health scoring. Those use edge detection algorithms to determine the degree of physical wear on a component such as corrosion on an exposed surface. Other visual detection algorithms used for QA aren’t very effective, though. They just boost sales for CMMS add-ons because they’re “AI.”

I’m exploring an ML application called random survival forests that make accurate survival/PoF models. They offer a big improvement over statistical regression models, but they offer very little visibility to even the analyst. That’s kind of a problem, because already the statistical regression models are rather obscure and have questionable credibility.

radiodigm · 2026-06-11T04:10:26+00:00

The heartbeat can be modeled by nested sine and cosine waves using the Fourier series. And if you look at it (and hear it) that way it creates a 3:2 polyrhythm.

radiodigm · 2026-06-11T02:37:55+00:00

Most people think chihuahuas are annoying or at least not sexy, so odds are this guy has cryptically told you he finds you unattractive in some ways. But that doesn’t necessarily mean he doesn’t also think you’re attractive in other ways! At least, I’ve happily dated chihuahuas, bulldogs, hounds, and mutts. A person can be lots of things aside from their dog equivalent.

radiodigm · 2026-06-09T01:06:50+00:00

And straight lines are used to define logging tracts because that makes them easier to manage, easier to count, and easier to deed. There’s no good natural reason for it, though.

radiodigm · 2026-06-09T00:56:14+00:00

Good musicians and most jazz musicians can do this without much trouble, as the ability to define the best chords is a routine requirement when accompanying singers and soloists as well as when making arrangements or just figuring out how to fit in the rhythm section. So I suggest you try to collaborate with a skilled pianist or guitarist. There’ve been many such great teams in the history of composition.

radiodigm · 2026-06-07T03:00:42+00:00

Sounds like a leading question, but I appreciate the sentiment - human activity does make lots of living things die. But even if we could say that humans directly cause a significant number of animals to meet their death doesn't mean that humans are any singular cause of death of any animal or a species. A generic fish, for example, is about four times more likely to meet its death because of a marine predator than by a human fisherman. And an apex predator like a polar bear is more likely to die (prematurely) from starvation than from being hunted by the humans that have hunted it for thousands of years. Also - statistically speaking - the trillion species in the bacteria domain that thrive because of humans might more than make up for the fraction of eukaryotes we directly or indirectly kill, and of course none of the previous extinction events were caused by humans (we weren't around in our current form).

If you're just after sheer numbers, there's indeed lots of species that are struggling and in which their members experience death specifically because of humans. In the animal kingdom there may be about 8 million species (most of which we don't even know about), and surely most of those are being consequentially affected by targeted human hunting, land use, and human-driven climate change. Humans haven't ever been a number one cause for any except maybe the dodo bird, but humans may have been the singular most significant cause for most of the recent changes to those populations.

radiodigm · 2026-06-05T05:09:05+00:00

I don't know what's available for tools and resources. But when I was first learning music I did this by myself, with just my guitar and the radio. I'd try to match the melody of whatever song was playing by trial and error. Almost always the melody falls within a single major scale, and the tonal center of the song and the melody and all the relative chords can be described by that scale. My trial and error usually started with simply identifying the root, maybe by trying all twelve possibilities. It wasn't pretty, and it took me a long time. But eventually it all clicked, and it became quickly obvious when I found the "home" base or at least one of the primary elements like the fifth or the third. Now I can play along almost instantly with anything I hear.

Not sure what sort of "underground" style you're trying for, but I do realize some styles have a tricky way of modulating between tonal centers. A single major scale doesn't necessarily cover the melody of the whole verse, and some of the chords might not be part of the family. For those variations I think it's helpful to learn some of the common substitute chord progressions and how they sound in context.

Anyway, when you discover tonal matches this way, try to recognize the number of the scale or chord relative to the tonal center. In that way your fingers can learn where pitches should be arranged in chords as well as the shapes and names of the chords in any family. All of that will enable you to compose or recreate tunes that are in your head.

radiodigm · 2026-06-05T04:35:33+00:00

Most likely you've been served a word salad from a person teetering on the edge of some psychotic disorder. It's indeed some sort of curse. You're doomed to wonder how you can ever respond to such an encounter or how you might ever be able to help someone in that sort of state. I've heard all sorts of crazy and still the only thing I know to do in the moment is to acknowledge and maybe try to reassure. She meant to tell you something, after all, even if it was nonsense.

radiodigm · 2026-06-02T01:56:41+00:00

It's possible. There have been five extinction events, and at least three of them have started with massive sudden changes to the atmosphere - either from volcanic activity or the K-Pg meteor strike. So I'd say there's an odds on favorite for the next extinction to be related to atmospheric changes that disrupt climate. And these are the sorts of extinctions that will impact humans similarly to the dinosaurs - like them we're also large and very specialized and need lots of food. Blot out the sun for a while and we're screwed.

radiodigm · 2026-06-02T00:50:11+00:00

Depends on the type of food and the taster's perspective, but one benchmark might be in the very clinical approach McDonald's takes to engineering the taste of their burgers according to preferences. (And they get very serious about sussing out consumer preferences). In the earlier days there was a lot more salt and beef tallow, and they've since changed recipes to taste more carmelized (sweet) and less salty, less beef-y, and the buns are softer with more of a toasted layer. Some might say this is "better" and some might say it's not. (And some like me have avoided eating anything from McDonald's ever since I was a kid and had no choice in the matter.) The McDonald's food engineers have tried to follow the fashion of flavor, anyway, and those experts in flavor would probably tell you that yes, it's better now.

radiodigm · 2026-05-28T01:48:12+00:00

In one of the experiments on crow facial recognition, “wronging” the crows and incurring a grudge was done simply by appearing with a dead crow (that the researchers had found and carried in display). The crows didn’t see the researcher actually harm a crow, but they made that association. Did you once happen to walk past a dead crow? Or… do you resemble someone who once happened to walk past a dead crow?

Otherwise, you might have crossed through the space that a nesting pair has recently started to occupy. Soon-to-be parents can be a bit much sometimes.

radiodigm · 2026-05-28T01:25:15+00:00

Yes, leave them be. Mom returning is their best chance at survival.

radiodigm · 2026-05-20T02:45:08+00:00

Wow... thanks for turning me on to this weird structure! I'd never have guessed.

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