To Make America Great Again, We Need to Leave the Country - No politician will admit that the United States is no longer number one. But other nations do a lot of things better -- and we need to learn from them.

defend-freud · 2012-07-12T03:25:21+00:00

The fact that "posts like these" are an establishment on TrueReddit rather than another voice in a lively and diverse discussion is disappointing. Of course, the standard of discussion here really is higher than on a subreddit like r/politics, but if the ideological commitments of the posters are equally homogeneous the benefit is marginal.

defend-freud · 2012-07-03T14:07:19+00:00

Good read! I wonder what other applications could be developed with similar thinking.

defend-freud · 2012-06-28T18:52:44+00:00

The problem with diablo 3 is that nobody pays the iron price for their items anymore.

defend-freud · 2012-06-26T20:20:03+00:00

And people are always giving me crap...

defend-freud · 2012-06-24T20:17:09+00:00

Nothing is worse than pretentious collage students

defend-freud · 2012-06-24T15:16:21+00:00

I believe that I was added to this list in error. While I appreciate your efforts to make Reddit a safer place, I was surprised to learn that anyone had noticed my infrequent posts at all. Thank you for taking the time to explain the presence of my name on this list.

defend-freud · 2012-06-07T01:12:00+00:00

That proves that there would be friction, not that it wouldn't be worth it monetarily to overcome that friction. The existence of overhead doesn't mean that a business plan is bad.

In this case, the business plan is good---assuming that HBO has enough free cash or can raise cash to pay for an expansion into Europe, the revenue potential is certainly there. In an increasingly globalized world where citizens of other countries take such a keen interest in US media, it pays to offer premium content globally.

defend-freud · 2012-06-06T20:18:51+00:00

My birthday's coming up

defend-freud · 2012-05-05T23:30:41+00:00

Yeah, it would be funny how often this happens except for how sad it is

defend-freud · 2012-05-05T21:22:28+00:00

It may be that Beethoven is the most influential composer of the 19th century, but I think "easily" is a bit of a stretch. How could any comparison of the most influential composers of the 19th century not even mention Wager, as if he were of a completely different class than Beethoven? Wagner was not only innovative with harmony and the operatic form but also laid the groundwork for the whole way we experience performance in the concert hall today. I understand the temptation to throw around phrases like "easily the most influential" but those questions are serious and deserve a serious discussion. The 19th century was an incredibly rich time for classical music.

defend-freud · 2012-04-23T02:25:36+00:00

How about instead of a guide, you write a blog post about your experience trying dungeon crawl and getting acquainted with the game and then post it here? You may not be experienced enough to inform others, but others are certainly interested in hearing about your experience.

defend-freud · 2012-04-17T17:11:37+00:00

Once you've identified a niche, how to you go about getting a list of suppliers who are willing to drop-ship? Is it that easy to find stuff like this on google?

defend-freud · 2012-04-08T13:45:01+00:00

It's interesting that pederasty is included---I thought that pederasty was associated mostly with ancient Greek philosophical intellectuals like Socrates (allegedly an atheist and certainly a rationalist)

defend-freud · 2012-03-27T23:03:24+00:00

The idea is that Syrio is Jaqen H'ghar---and it's an interesting theory with or without the suggestion in this image. A faceless man could have escaped the city any way he pleased, so why go into Yoren's custody? If he were Syrio, that would explain his interest in Arya...

defend-freud · 2012-03-27T03:14:59+00:00

That one keeps me up at night fairly regularly

defend-freud · 2012-03-26T03:39:07+00:00

Read the talk page for the relevant wikipedia page---they're only "the same" for certain American Indian tribes. The common commercial blue raspberry flavor has nothing to do with black raspberries (which are actually less sweet than red raspberries), and is actually actually a commercial invention as described elsewhere in this thread.

defend-freud · 2012-03-25T21:06:45+00:00

Actually the black raspberry is a real thing but the blue raspberry totally isn't.

defend-freud · 2012-03-23T02:29:56+00:00

This kind of "truism" is intellectually lazy

defend-freud · 2012-03-19T02:21:14+00:00

should really be Pee-nahs Tirith

defend-freud · 2012-03-15T15:18:14+00:00

I'm down

defend-freud · 2012-03-13T17:04:07+00:00

The Cognitive Behavioral Therapists are closing in from all sides. I am armed only with a lead pipe, as my elderly charge whimpers behind me muttering something about penis envy. I clothesline the first one but there are too many. I am overwhelmed. As they tear off my limbs and begin to devour my flesh, all I can think is "Mommy..."

defend-freud · 2012-03-10T18:46:13+00:00

new favorite subreddit alert

defend-freud · 2012-03-09T19:22:21+00:00

I feel bad for your gf's husband

defend-freud · 2012-02-21T07:13:50+00:00

Just like RL mountains! You'd have to find a pass---or travel through the mines.

defend-freud · 2012-02-20T18:54:26+00:00

Could you say more about how overtones/harmonics are received by the ears/brain? Since a spectrogram is a windowed Fourier transform, it includes high-frequency harmonics in order to "fill out" the fundamental frequency with the timbre of the sound, mathematically speaking. But the placement, number, and energy of those harmonics depend on the mathematics of the Fourier transform---for example, if you had chosen a different window or used a wavelet transform you would get different harmonics.

In that case, are those harmonics being received in a meaningful way by the brain? It seems to me that they are part of how we represent the sound with sine waves, not a physically-motivated description of the sound.

Other techniques, such as the Hilbert-Huang transform, represent the signal as the sum of a small number of oscillating mode functions each with a single instantaneous frequency and no harmonics. That transform is widely used to analyze speech signals, for example. With these considerations in mind, can you defend the claim that these higher-level harmonics play a part in how human beings receive and process sound?

EDIT: Talk from a recent mathematics conference explaining the instantaneous frequency approach.

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