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Dig the big bang

Monday, May 24, 2010

In Annie Hall, young Woody Allen explains to his doctor that he won’t do his homework because the universe is expanding, so what’s the point? His mother exasperatedly tells him, “You’re here in Brooklyn. Brooklyn is not expanding!” I post this because I’ve been rereading Coming Of Age In The Milky Way by Tim Ferris. [...]

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Life in one day

Monday, April 26, 2010

One of the funnest wikipedia articles is their timeline of evolution, a chronological listing of all the major happenings since the Earth’s formation. I’ve been familiar with this story since my geeky childhood, but the pacing came as a big surprise when I saw it all laid out. Life appeared very early in the planet’s [...]

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Auto-tune the cosmos

Friday, September 25, 2009

Not much context to offer on this except that I saw it on Wayne Marshall’s Twitter, it has Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking, and it’s beyond delightful.

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Brian Eno writes songs with the mixing desk

Sunday, August 9, 2009

“Once In A Lifetime” by Talking Heads and Brian Eno is one of my favorite songs by anyone ever.

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How to make a hot beat

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Here’s a more specific post on programming various well-known beats. The brain is a pattern recognition machine. We like repetition and symmetry. But we only like it up to a point. Once we’ve recognized and memorized the pattern, we get bored and stop paying attention. If the pattern changes or breaks, it grabs our attention [...]

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Be brave, go ahead and divide by zero

Thursday, May 14, 2009

When you learned division in school, the teacher probably brushed off the issue of dividing by zero in one sentence: you can’t do it, moving on. You might feel like you got shortchanged by that explanation. Why not? What happens when you divide by zero?

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