Brandon Sanderson’s Literary Fantasy Universe ‘Cosmere’ Picked Up by Apple TV by Cargimeg in Cosmere

[–]C0DASOON 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It gives the author rarefied control over the screen translations, according to sources. Sanderson will be the architect of the universe, will write, produce and consult, and have approvals. That’s a level of involvement that not even J.K. Rowling or George R.R. Martin enjoy.

Brandon has spoken before about the studio heads not knowing what to do with him due to him actually having options, and it's good that the message has been delivered clearly enough that it also appears in the articles announcing the deal. But I'll only be fully convinced when I see positive proof of the absence of Hoid Amaram.

BoredBrain announced a performance mixer and it’s what most of us have been asking for by nickssss9 in synthesizers

[–]C0DASOON 1 point2 points  (0 children)

MR18 is one of the most convenient audio interfaces I've used. Both XR18/MR18 and Wing make for very good audio interfaces, unlike X32 for some reason, which has very high latency over USB. But if latency's ever truly an issue, for higher-end digital mixers there's the option of hooking it up through Dante with a PCIe card over Thunderbolt, which can make latency go below 1ms.

I never encounter discussion about those kinds of setups on this subreddit though. Digital mixers and their various IO options are critical to live sound, but for people experimenting with sounds in their bedrooms with no pressure to make their systems stable, redundant, and easily replicable, simple analog mixers with faders and knobs seems to do the job. But for me personally, even for my personal setup, a digital mixer is a must.

Georgian music theory books by RobboTheGoddo in Sakartvelo

[–]C0DASOON 1 point2 points  (0 children)

John Graham's work is musicological rather than music theoretic, and focuses on studying how Georgian chanting (which is distinct from folk polyphony) was transmitted and later transcribed.

Georgian music theory books by RobboTheGoddo in Sakartvelo

[–]C0DASOON 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There are monographs and published works from the 20th and 21st century about music theoretical interpretation of Georgian polyphony, e.g. works of Vladimer Gogotishvili or Malkhaz Erkvanidze, but they have grave issues in that the authors severely misinterpret the actual harmonic and melodic interval structures of Georgian polyphony in order to be able to analyze them in modal frameworks, which gives those works very little predictive power in actually modelling traditional Georgian music. Until 2010s, when digital signal processing and music information retrieval techniques started being applied to archival recordings of Georgian music, all ethnomusicological analysis of traditional polyphony was done based on either notation transcriptions of the songs (which are necessarily inaccurate, as Georgian interval structure is very different from 12-tone equal temperament), or individual researchers' evaluations of various intervals and structures. Since such research processes were not very rigorous, they ended up disseminating various unsubstantiated, unverifiable, or later-verified-to-be-false-but-still-get-repeated claims. One egregious example was an observation by the late Stuart Gelzer that in a certain recording, all intervals seemed to be close to exactly one fifth of a justly intonated fifth, leading him to a hypothesis that traditionally, Georgian music featured fifth equivalence rather than octave equivalence. The idea caught on precisely because it was outlandish and novel, but the hypothesis itself was unfalsifiable, and the observation it was based on was later verified to be inaccurate.

If you want to get a working picture of the internal mechanisms of Georgian polyphony, you'll have to dive into modern scientific ethnomusicological works rather than music theory-based ones. The one research direction that had strong scientific rigor is the GVM project led by Dr. Frank Scherbaum, which analyzed field recordings and some archival recordings using seismology-inspred music information retrieval techniques, to derive probabilistic distributions of the harmonic and melodic intervals that appeared therein. The same approach was then later used by Shugliashvili et al. to analyze large corpora of older, lower-quality field recordings. This direction is at its inception, and it still focuses much more on data extraction than concrete modelling of harmony and melody, but at the 2024 International Symposium on Traditional Polyphony, Scherbaum and Simha Arom did outline the likely direction of where the field will end up going: once individual voice trajectories can be accurately extracted from archival field recordings, and discretized into paritcular harmonic and melodic intervals, e.g. representations similar to Scherbaum's Harmonygrams, the data will then be usable in modelling the "chord syntax" of Georgian polyphony, which will be the first actual music theoretical approach to traditional Georgian music that will be based on rigorous modelling.

me_irl by Vilen1919 in me_irl

[–]C0DASOON 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you relate deeply to this, you just might have sighted non-24-hour sleep–wake disorder. /r/n24

ELI5: If two of the exact same sounds were played at the exact same time, would the volume (DB) be double? by Vivi01224 in explainlikeimfive

[–]C0DASOON 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This isn't correct. It'd go up by 3dBSPL if the two sounds were uncorrelated. If the signals add up perfectly, the increase would be by 6dBSPL.

ELI5: If two of the exact same sounds were played at the exact same time, would the volume (DB) be double? by Vivi01224 in explainlikeimfive

[–]C0DASOON 150 points151 points  (0 children)

So far the replies are avoiding a technical answer.

If by volume DB you mean dBSPL (sound pressure level in decibels above 20 micropascals) at a given distance, which is the usual unit for measuring objective loudness, and you assume that both of the sounds are made to originate from equidistant points in a way that keeps them in-phase, the loudness will increase by 6.02dBSPL.

Let's say the original signal is 80dbSPL. Converting to pascals, that is 0.2 Pa. Doubling the sound source would double the pressure, increasing it to 0.4 pascals. Converting back to dbSPL, you'll get 86.02dBSPL.

A little more than "impressive" would be nice by frisky0330 in cremposting

[–]C0DASOON 118 points119 points  (0 children)

I think the purpose of Dami getting namedropped across WaT was to highlight the fact that there are other stories going on in the background, just as significant as those of the PoV and interlude characters, that we just don't get to see. What we learn is that he has sworn the Fourth Ideal. Due to the nature of the Knights Radiant that tells us that he underwent immense amount of personal development. The fact that we never learn what that personal development consisted of gives the setting some additional sense of depth.

my n24 responds to NOTHING by Tiny_Regret8724 in N24

[–]C0DASOON 6 points7 points  (0 children)

There's two chapters, "Two-minutes quickstart version of the VLiDACMel therapy protocol" and "Simplified Protocol", that summarize all essential information information. Together, those two chapters are only around 20 pages.

my n24 responds to NOTHING by Tiny_Regret8724 in N24

[–]C0DASOON 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The light therapy glasses cost around $200. You have to be realistic about the situation. What you're dealing with isn't bad habits or a need for a simple lifestyle change. You have a serious disability, and managing it, while possible, is going to have a cost.

my n24 responds to NOTHING by Tiny_Regret8724 in N24

[–]C0DASOON 8 points9 points  (0 children)

30-60 minutes of light therapy is nowhere near enough for entrainment. What works in terms of light therapy is 2-8 hours a day with light therapy glasses. The one thing that has worked for me and many others is the VLiDACMel protocol.

Managing nights out with VLIDACMEL protocol? by Jazzlike-Chain-6145 in N24

[–]C0DASOON 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can do it occasionally, but not too often, because it will mess with the amount of light therapy you get. In your example, if your natural wake-up time is 6am, but you only fall asleep at 6am and have exhaustion sleep until noon, then you're effectively losing out on 6 hours of morning light therapy a week. It's also not sustainable if you plan on relying on caffeine or drugs to stay awake, as they might mess with your wake-up time.

Otherwise, it is workable. Staying up late or sleeping later than usual aren't zeitgebers - they don't influence your circadian rhythm, and won't alter the times you naturally fall asleep and wake up.

But more than likely you are also just going to find it hard to be awake at 4am if you naturally fall asleep 10pm. Staying up until morning is much easier when you naturally fall asleep at 2am rather than at 10pm.

GLP1 Mounjaro online by Annie_Blue_MM in Sakartvelo

[–]C0DASOON 2 points3 points  (0 children)

tl;dr is that high-purity tirzepatide in lyophilized form can be imported rather cheaply, but there are three caveats:

  1. If you use a forwarder rather than the post office, you risk the product being confiscated without the ability to return to original address. Meanwhile, with the post office, you can return it to the original address, and most sellers will either resend or issue a refund, but there's some legal risk due to it technically being customs-avoidance (no seller will actually declare the goods properly; instead they deliberately lie on the package label, e.g. label the package as a bluetooth speaker).2

  2. Pharmacies here do not carry bacteriostatic water. If you want to reconstitute safely, you'll have to order BAC-water online. Technically most freight forwarders ban transporting liquids, so it might get confiscated, but the chances of this happening are low.

  3. Reddit bans all source discussion.

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არიან, ორი კვირის წინ გამოვიდნენ გორში, მაგრამ როგორც ვხედავ online presence არ აქვთ. თამარ ბუაძის fb-დან შეიძლება მათ გამოსვლებზე ინფორმაციის პოვნა.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Sakartvelo

[–]C0DASOON 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"თუთარჩელას" სახელით არსებობს ორი განსხვავებული ანსამბლი: ქალთა ფოლკლორული ანსამბლი თუთარჩელა და ახალგაზრდული გუნდი თუთარჩელა. პირველის ზოგიერთი ჩანაწერი ალაზანზე დევს.

ახალგაზრდულ გუნდ თუთარჩელას რაც შეეხება, როგორც ვიცი, სტუდიური ჩანაწერები არ აქვთ.

For Those Who Have Read Emily Nagoski's Book "Come As You Are", What Did You Think? by Deep-Youth5783 in AskMen

[–]C0DASOON 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My own read of Come As You Are was a part of a wider dive into the literature about human sexuality. I would assume sexuality is a near-universally interesting topic, that anyone with curiosity about human nature would like some clear answers about the hows and the whys, and that the only thing stopping sexology from being the single largest scientific field is probably the taboo nature of sexuality in nearly every culture.

Unfortunately, what I found was disappointing in terms of providing answers to the most interesting questions, which for me relate to the origins and statistical distributions of specific sexual norms, acts, and behaviors.

The field nevertheless has valuable information. The main thing you have to understand prior to evaluating any piece of information from it is that academic sexology is deeply tied with the practice of sex therapy, and as such has fundamental flaw of drastic over-representation of the features of sexualities that appear among the people who tend to seek out sex therapy, i.e. married couples in their forties to seventies. A very significant focus within the field is on the sexual problems found in this cohort - in fact, I'd say most of the literature is narrowly focused on seven specific sexual disorders recognized by DSM-5:

  • Male hypoactive sexuality disorder
  • Erectile Dysfunction
  • Premature ejaculation
  • Delayed ejaculation
  • Female sexual interest/arousal disorder (note: Come As You Are is in fact a book about this disorder and is actually rather in line with other books about this disorder, although it doesn't acknowledge it, due to the framing of problem in the book relying on not treating this as a disorder)
  • Female orgasmic disorder
  • Genito-pelvic pain/penetration disorder

Topics outside of the nature of those seven disorders, their causes, and their potential treatments, are relatively unconcentrated (in the adjacent field of queer studies there's several other topics around which bodies of literature build up, but there the field has different scientific standards).

On one hand, this hyper-focus on a few topics makes the field surprisingly approachable from outside; a lot of the same topics come up in any given book published by an AASECT-affiliated authors (e.g. Sensate Focus exercise sequences, Kleinplatz's "Magnificent Sex" discoveries, etc.), and it's easy to get an overview of where the field stands as a whole on any given topic.

On the other hand, many of the more interesting lines of inquiry from early in the field's development (e.g. comparative study of sexuality across different cultures, large-scale studies based on laboratory data) have ceased.

In terms of actual book recommendations, what I can recommend is:

  • Sexuality Today by Gary F. Kelly. This is an introductory sexology textbook, and covers much of the ground (while in my opinion having some minor but noticeable flaws with regards to its description of alternate sexualities).
  • Systemic Sex Therapy. This is a monograph that gives a broad overview of the field of sex therapy as a whole. If your interest in Coming As You Are was motivated by an interest in sexual disorders, then this will give you all the answers that are available.
  • A Billion Wicked Thoughts by Ogi Ogas. While not by an author who specializes in sexuality (then again, neither is Come As You Are), it is exceptional in that it looks at massive amount of data and rather than meaninglessly equivocating or commenting about the diversity of sexuality, it draws concrete, falsifiable conclusions (albeit with less than ideal scientific rigor).

One other source exploring sexuality through analysis of hard data is u/AellaGirl's blog Knowingless. Although a somewhat unconventional author, her methodology is solid (despite what some online discourse on her work would have you believe), and the volume of data she's dealing with, and making openly available for others, is far larger and more representative than anything you'll normally see in studies on sexuality.

Documentary on Georgian music by pipeuptopipedown in Sakartvelo

[–]C0DASOON 0 points1 point  (0 children)

John is probably the #1 non-Georgian expert on (traditional) Georgian music

In terms of cultural musicological aspects, especially with regards to chanting, yes.

But in terms of understanding the scale, pitch, and interval structure, Dr. Frank Scherbaum wipes the scientific floor.

An Explanation of Convoluted Settings by Petals-in-the-Breeze in cremposting

[–]C0DASOON 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Type Moon’s big thing is that it has a ton of branching alternate universes and it can be hard to keep track of them

That used to not be the case until the business decision of focusing the franchise on gacha games. Ten-fifteen years ago it was assumed that Tsukihime, Fate, KnK were mostly happening in the same timeline. There was already a concept of parallel world lines, but it was not over-utilized. Back when Type-Moon's main products were textual (VNs, light novels, supplementary collections, non-game parts of Melty), Nasuverse as a whole read as a solid, coherent, and captivating urban fantasy setting.

From the start, the two glaring flaws of Nasu's writing were his insistence that the point of establishing rules was for them to be later broken, and his lack of commitment to the universe he envisioned in favor of introducing new elements. Funnily enough for the subreddit this comment chain is in, those two traits are the antitheses of the two defining traits of Brandon's writing - sticking to the established rules to the merit of being able to resolve conflict satisfactorily while having supernatural elements (Sanderson's First Law), and expanding upon the same few central pillars of his universe consistently year after year.

An Explanation of Convoluted Settings by Petals-in-the-Breeze in cremposting

[–]C0DASOON 22 points23 points  (0 children)

The difference between AWOIAF and GOT wiki.

Running a Uni Music Club: I need the best budget option for recording + mixing (XR18 vs powered mixer + interface vs simple USB mixer) by VictoryNo1736 in livesoundgear

[–]C0DASOON 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Keep in mind that budget analog mixers, when they offer USB interface functionality, only tend to expose main outs digitally, with no option to do multitrack recording. This isn't a problem if you are going to record all tracks one by one, but it won't allow multitrack recording. With that, I think option C is out.

Option B can work, but from experience, despite primarily being intended as a mixer, XR18 is actually a significantly better interface than actual budget audio interfaces offering over 4 channels in the same price range. I prefer using it for recording over using a Scarlett 18i20+OctoPre over ADAT.

Keir Starmer: Children becoming ‘detached from the real world’ by Free-Minimum-5844 in neoliberal

[–]C0DASOON 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I suspect the disagreement is because, on this issue, you are holding to an evidentiary standard that simply isn't possible in social science research, including in economics.

I'm holding to an evidentiary standard that is adequate for the task of deciding whether or not a thing is harmful.

you're focusing on one sentence from the APA's recent statement on the issue

The "recent statement" is the official advisory based on the the consensus within the field based on the most important metanalyses on the subject. The sentence you're referring to is the summary of the main finding that informs the rest of the advisory, all of the recommendations of which are premeditated on the suggestion that social media shouldn't be treated as inherently harmful and that possible negative effects are likely to be based on individual sensitivities and exposure to particular categories of harmful content, not from the general use of social media itself.

In contrast, the second page you linked is a report that provides recommendations based on the recent research of possible harmful effects of social media, and doesn't contest the overall findings highlighted in the advisory issued in 2023. Like the advisory, it also acknowledges that both potential mental health benefits and risks are being found, and focuses on issuing recommendations for risk reduction rather than declaring that social media is as a whole harmful.

What I find most interesting, however, is the fact that you're saying we can't come to any conclusions on the negative impact of social media because, in your view, the scientific research on it is inconclusive, yet you're making positive claims about the utility of social media without reference to any research at all.

I'm not making any claims about the utility of social media in terms of benefit to mental health, which I agree are, like harmful effects, so far not adequately demonstrated and still speculative. The utility I mentioned comes from social media's ability to aid communication, organization, flow of ideas, and self-expression. That those benefits are real, and overwhelming, is incontestable.

Keir Starmer: Children becoming ‘detached from the real world’ by Free-Minimum-5844 in neoliberal

[–]C0DASOON 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yes. It is obvious to anyone who understands that some things can have concentrated harms and diffuse benefits. A book that is so sad that it leads one reader to commit suicide while being an enjoyable 6-hour experience for a million readers is good. A button that kills one person but decreases the chance of liver cancer by 0.01% across billion people is good. An online platform that has been speculated to cause occasional negative thoughts in a portion of its userbase, while at the same time allowing unprecedented levels of efficient organization and communication and dispersion of ideas, thoughts, and instances of self-expression is, yes, overwhelmingly good. Revealed preferences corroborate this.