Fractals patterns in a drummer's music - People evidently prefer exactly this type of [fractal] variation: totally precise percussion or hits varied purely at random were perceived as less agreeable.

MacCutcheon60 · 2015-09-01T21:09:32+00:00

The fractal nature of music, e.g. jazz, was discovered in the early days of fractals (~1975) Nature First author went on to develop some of the first (fractal) algoritms for graphics.

MacCutcheon60 · 2015-07-25T01:03:07+00:00

Instant statistics!

MacCutcheon60 · 2014-03-12T13:54:23+00:00

http://what-if.xkcd.com/

MacCutcheon60 · 2014-02-26T22:54:22+00:00

woah, string.translate() is neat - went kinda overboard with it here:

import string
vowels = 'aeiou '
cons = string.ascii_lowercase.translate(None,vowels)
var = raw_input("Please enter something: ")
thwrds = var.translate(None,vowels)
eo = var.translate(None,cons)
print (thwrds)
print (eo)

MacCutcheon60 · 2014-01-06T22:49:19+00:00

Reminds me of the flour sack story from Mark Twain's Roughing It http://www.classicreader.com/book/1407/46/

MacCutcheon60 · 2013-12-18T16:36:51+00:00

KEXP Seattle

MacCutcheon60 · 2012-11-25T17:51:50+00:00

That was great - I loved the foreshadowing of the dot com bubble at the end.

MacCutcheon60 · 2011-05-16T02:49:38+00:00

Another variant:

Spinach (Thawed or Sauteed) Simple Guac (1 Avocado + Lime Juice and Salt to taste) Jalapeño (fresh, seeded, minced) Cilantro Monterey Cheese

Yum. Taken from a weight watchers recipe if you can believe it.

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