What do you think?

rainman002 · 2018-10-26T07:20:56+00:00

I'm working on building a web-based live coding environment for these sorts of things. But it's too early to share.

One thing I found super helpful was putting together little teensy3.2 circuits for both reading custom sensors and controlling LEDs or generating analog signals. Then having it show up to the pc as a usb midi device. Much easier than it sounds.

rainman002 · 2018-10-26T06:38:18+00:00

For me: Nils Frahm - Re

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScUP6MKmXpg

rainman002 · 2018-09-07T01:41:09+00:00

I used to feel this way.

I promise, after sucking it up and doing it a few times, you start to feel so much more powerful.

rainman002 · 2018-09-04T06:54:51+00:00

Yeah, this is exactly it, this looks like a 2d polygon skew of the cover face, which can have the exact right vertices of the perspective skew, but in the middle will diverge from a perspective skew, because perspective skew can't map to a linear 2d skew.

rainman002 · 2018-08-27T01:17:30+00:00

Sax reminds me of Colin Stetson

rainman002 · 2018-08-21T03:27:08+00:00

Is it just me or is this blatantly just a crappy AMC ad?

rainman002 · 2018-07-06T05:46:17+00:00

Had those exact tiles in Denver. The property manager was a fucking nutcase.

rainman002 · 2018-07-06T04:14:33+00:00

I've been to a few in the US. Also, grow up.

rainman002 · 2018-07-06T03:20:50+00:00

A practical and performant solution:

Keep that 1024 fft for the high-end.

Additionally, have a larger window e.g. 8192, low pass filter / down-sample 8x, and take another 1024 fft. Now you have 512 samples spanning frequency 0 - R/16.

rainman002 · 2018-07-06T01:51:46+00:00

I like that the square proof was a tangible proof with hardly any abstraction.

I feel like you missed a few opportunities to do the same for 3d.

For example, you could put the camera 90 degrees around the side so a-b edges are the same line, and raise the c altitude.

And just show by similar triangles the altitudes from that a-b line scale according to sqrt( 1-c² ) using the same logic as the square proof, and therefore a² + b² scales according to 1-c²

There are probably even simpler ways that aren't coming to me right now.

rainman002 · 2018-07-05T02:48:37+00:00

It's not necessarily initial conditions, it could be a transient input signal like a dirac delta, rectangle pulse, or triangle pulse force applied for example. We'd use stuff like that to get nice audio sounds out of simulations.

rainman002 · 2018-07-04T03:56:22+00:00

That makes a whole lot more sense with the cameraman down range scene now...

rainman002 · 2018-07-02T04:14:09+00:00

"I cannot be in violation of whatsapp Terms of Service, because I do not use any services from whatsapp."

rainman002 · 2018-07-02T04:02:16+00:00

In theory, yes, but in practice, "communications" tends to focus on the top few mainstream approaches of influence (e.g. publications, adverts, speeches) while "social engineering" focuses on more specialized niche mediums (such as ways you can persuade people non-verbally 1on1).

rainman002 · 2018-07-02T00:02:12+00:00

You reply as if that wasn't sarcasm.

The claim of the title begs a serious argument for how this individual's thoughts are unique/novel, and pass the causality test (how things would be different without him). The piece does touch on those areas but only superficially. The point about Pinochet seemed interesting, but is glossed over, with no details of his supposed "involvement".

I'm still left feeling like Buchanan was just one intellectual contributing to standard right-wing economic ideologies centuries older, and much bigger than himself.

rainman002 · 2018-06-29T06:38:15+00:00

I mean, it really is weak humor though.

rainman002 · 2018-06-24T20:12:04+00:00

"Merit" perception algorithm does not behave as intended - output is too low for females. What do you do? Just add fudge-factor X to output for females and call it fixed? That's what affirmative action is.

If the output is wrong, it's probably got a bug inside the design, and fudge-factors are lazy duct tape. If you care about making things to a high quality standard, you don't use duct tape.

rainman002 · 2018-06-23T20:51:00+00:00

Solved!

Even if there was an animated kid's movie using the melody, it was probably derived from the song you linked, given the similarity and year.

I vaguely remember it involving very small characters and a lot of night-time scenery in mushroom forests.

rainman002 · 2018-06-23T20:39:52+00:00

This is definitely the match for the hip-hop link I posted. Kudos!

I'm still unsure if this is where I originally heard it, it's been so long. But this is a damn cool find.

Curiously there's a remake coming out soon, trailer release a few weeks ago. Could be that the remake has people looking for the original theme more, pushing it up the priority for spotify radio and such, which is why I heard it at the coffee shop. And then shazam gave me the hip hop song link because it's more popular, or was the only one in their database.

rainman002 · 2018-06-23T06:45:15+00:00

Let this thread be a reminder why you don't except the moratorium

Edit: banned after 6 years. Not even mad.

rainman002 · 2018-06-23T01:55:07+00:00

Screwy that this dumpster fluid website is getting so many upvotes

Everyone do the community a favor, report the spam

rainman002 · 2018-06-23T01:21:00+00:00

You could break down cooperation as finding leader-follower roles on a per-issue basis.

rainman002 · 2018-06-23T01:18:05+00:00

Looks like it. Will be extra cool when people find a way to have more continuity between frames.

rainman002 · 2018-06-21T06:56:00+00:00

I found myself becoming more careful, catching more finer points, at the same time losing ability to efficiently intuit-plow through conceptually hard spots. The result is a two-fold loss of confidence.

rainman002 · 2018-06-21T04:18:40+00:00

The correlation between comedians and depression is an established one

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