Notices by Don Romano (alt) (thor@noagendasocial.com), page 25

@wistahe The Piano Roll mode in most DAW (digital audio workstation) softwares is easier to comprehend than sheet music.

I compose music, so if you have questions about that, feel free to ask. I mostly compose on a computer without sheet music, but I know the basics of how to read it, plus some music theory (chords, modes, scales, time signatures, circle of fifths, etc.)
I can also tell you about audio synthesis and processing.

Understanding your own personality is a powerful tool, so long as it is based on observation of your own actual behaviour and not ideas you have about who you are (your ego), and you don't obsess over it too much. It should be used pragmatically in order to work around your flaws and leverage your strengths.

Which one are you?

[ ] Idealist
[ ] Pragmatist

My landlord is a sneaky bastard.

I offered him to pay back a month of missing rent by working for him, since he needs IT stuff done in the future.

He'd heard that I needed to practice my driving though, so he offered to give me some lessons.

Result: I'm actually working up *more* debt to him, in the form of a favour I now have to return, and the original problem hasn't been solved.

He's very good at getting you into situations like this. All you have to do is have a conversation with him...

Some word pairs that are hard to get the hang of if you're not a native English speaker:

teach-learn

lie-lay

was-were

who-whom

sang-sung

Eating yoghurt with granola and drinking a bit of soda as a night snack.

They say you shouldn't lie in bed if you can't sleep, so I'm at my standing desk.

Underpants computing FTW.

03:40. Can't sleep.

@wistahe BTW, I like that you're mad enough to think that you could solve this problem. I'm equally mad at times.

@wistahe I think what you have to do is sort of get it to where a *biological* neural net *could* figure it out if you just converted your float ins/outs into pulse density modulated signals. Neuroplasticity basically.

@wistahe Computer hardware is essentially entirely functional and you trick it into changing state by using clocks and memory, so it's not all that different from a neural network.

@wistahe In CPUs there is a concept of an internal bus, so if you activate two subcircuits and one is a reading circuit and the other is a writing circuit, the data is placed on the internal bus momentarily and that's how it's passed between different bits of the system.

@wistahe And the subcircuits are the APIs you need to integrate, represented as a bunch of floating point inputs and outputs.

@wistahe It would seem to me that you could make a neural network integrate by making it the music box with access to all the subcircuits.

@wistahe A CPU looks an awful lot like a sort of music box or player piano. A small ROM area with wide words serves as the pattern table and op codes are indices into that table, and op codes are executed by ticking steps through it, like a music box, and each bit triggers a different subcircuit, so you tell it to do particular sequences of activation.

@wistahe If you look at how computers work on the electrical level, a subcircuit in a CPU is often simply called upon by switching on a single wire, while sinultaneously encoding all the bits to be processed by that subcircuit on 8 to 64 extra lines in parallel, and if you are sending data between circuits, you clock it with pulses to mark when the next bit of data is coming along.

@wistahe Brains only understand one protocol: Pulse density modulation on a parallel bus. Perhaps the clue to integration is to make everything look the same.

@wistahe It's a concept from reactive programming:

http://reactivex.io/documentation/observable.html

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactive_extensions

Imagine a JS async-await/Promise system, but you could use for(let x of await f()) or a then() construct to iterate through an indefinitely long sequence of return values / receive an indefinite number of callbacks.

Suppose further that you could use the functional methods on JS Array objects on these, such as map, reduce or filter.

That's basically what Observers do.

Got up early today but slept all afternoon. Its Sunday. Stupid me.

The word "spouse" looks a bit like the Norwegian word "ause", meaning "ladle", so whenever anyone talks about spouses, I'm picturing a ladle with clothes and a wig.