Charlesworth Bay Polka and Regressions to Questions
Hi everyone,
Perhaps now I will recall what exactly I wanted to type about. I have been working quite hard on my advanced data visualisation project and have come to the abrupt realisation that spectographs/ spectograms are not effective visualisation methods for audio analysis, as they look cluttered and are visually difficult to measure or discretise. This means that I am going to be investigating various transformations / discretisations I can use on spectograph visualised audio data or alternate methods of visualising audio data.
Currently the software I have been looking into includes Sonic Visualiser, Wavesurfer (which I will probably eventually get working with TCL / TK 8.5 after lots of sed magic to remove the GUI effects that have been made invalid / redudant due to the graphic tile updates), sndPeek (which I haven’t found a use for , other than it being a realtime audio visualiser, still working out whether it takes files as input or only audio devices) Marsyas ,bpM and Echonest on the analysis front. I am also looking at hooking into libvisual just to provide an aethestic visualisation option.
On the subject of spectral analysis and pretty pictures, on the way into the city, I saw a double rainbow in the sky. What was interesting about the second rainbow has the colour spectrum back to front due to the angle of refraction, another interesting thing is whilst people claim to see triple rainbows and quadruple rainbows the rainbows they see are actually double rainbows that both have a supernumerary rainbow each.
rebecca(my laptop) seems to be update package wise, and I now have scim autostarting along with KDE 4.3, my gentoo overlay seems to be slowly growing to. I really need to spend sometime on the cluster, not to mention my Partial Differential Equations study. Recently I discovered animedb.net, the fact that it has a random function, is something that I find quite impressive. Apparently I am /was/ still am insane for having the debug and doc USE flags enabled globally.
In terms of philosphy I tumbled across the Münchhausen Trilemma, which fits together nicely with various thoughts and gedakens I have been investigating. Another intriguing thought is that is not thinking that causes us to exist but rather believing that we exist or believing that we think we exist to is more likely to implicate existence. This has to do with the philosophical zombie and sentient thought gedanken.
My Japanese is improving to the anime exposure and my French from the movies on SBS, I still have to work on my Mandarin,Russian,Italian, German, Dutch, Swedish, etc. I also have to get comfortable with the style of coding that the programming competitions like ANZAC and ACM expect, particular given that chances are Visual Studio ends up getting used as IDE… (Visual Studio makes me ARGHHH…). I also need to revise my knowledge of dynamic programming and various other programming algorithms for ACM.
IOU seems to running ok, all things considered, and it is possible that the Kali-Ma campaign may be ressurected, so their is plenty of GURPs fun for me to find. I also have to get around to either writing or typing down some poetry/ lyrics or starting to formalise scripts, skits and storyboarding and dialogue for the various manga / anime in my head. I recently reheard the poem the arrival of the Bee Box, I like that poem, the absolute depth and varation of the imagery, meaning and metaphor align to the level of immersion that I have become accustomed to. (Having said this my brain is now think what it would like to be in MMRLEICE (Massively Multiplayer Real Life Emerged in Custard Experience or Extravaganza… take your pick …))
My question for this week, is what makes something taboo ? If something that was taboo from your phenomenological experience was considered a consensus reality or common place in another place you were experiencing what your beliefs and connatations of it change ? Why or Why not ?
Best of luck and best wishes,
Benjamin Southall aka Appleman1234 