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Category Archives: Geek
AI vs. AI. – Two chatbots talking to each other
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DarwinTunes software ‘evolves’ music without composers
DarwinTunes software 'evolves' music without composers – latimes.com.
Noise filtered through generations of listeners eventually becomes melodic, offering insights into how our tastes evolved.
Robert MacCallum of Imperial College London and his colleagues asked 120 undergraduates to listen to continuous loops of the computer-generated tunes and rate them on a 5-point scale that ranged from “I can’t stand it” to “I love it.” The tunes were also posted on the Web (at darwintunes.org/evolve-music), where anonymous critics added their feedback.
Each time tunes were rated, the half that came out on top were selected to contribute to the next generation of music. Each successful melody would mate with another successful melody, spawning similar-but-not-identical daughters before expiring from the collection.
Tunes that didn’t make the cut were relegated to the evolutionary trash heap without leaving behind any musical legacy.
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Classic Beagle Bros Apple ][ fun
Anyone else remember this?
From the glory days of computing fun. Who the heck first figured out that one line of Applesoft BASIC could make your Apple ][ moo like a cow?
More at the Beagle Bros Software Repository.
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Brilliant XKCD today re: Steve Jobs
“The Eternal Flame”
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The Shakespeare Programming Language
This is possibly the greatest programming language ever invented; the Shakespeare Programming Language (SPL).
The following program reverses the characters in a given string:
Othello, a stacky man.
Lady Macbeth, who pushes him around till he pops.
Act I: The one and only.
Scene I: In the beginning, there was nothing.
[Enter Othello and Lady Macbeth]
Othello:
You are nothing!
Scene II: Pushing to the very end.
Lady Macbeth:
Open your mind! Remember yourself.
Othello:
You are as hard as the sum of yourself and a stone wall. Am I as horrid as a flirt-gill?
Lady Macbeth:
If not, let us return to scene II. Recall your imminent death!
Othello:
You are as small as the difference between yourself and a hair!
Scene III: Once you pop, you can't stop!
Lady Macbeth:
Recall your unhappy childhood. Speak your mind!
Othello:
You are as vile as the sum of yourself and a toad! Are you better than nothing?
Lady Macbeth:
If so, let us return to scene III.
Scene IV: The end.
[Exeunt]
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Cathode – realistic terminal emulator for OS X
Very nice terminal emulator that realistically renders the whole terminal – reflection, high phosphor burn in, jitter, and interlacing. Reminds me of the computer lab at Canisius back in 1984.
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Programmer Joke of the Day
A woman asks her husband, a programmer, to go shopping.
Wife: “Dear, please, go to the nearby grocery store to buy some bread. Also, if they have eggs, buy 6.”
Husband: “O.K., hun.”
Twenty minutes later the husband comes back bringing 6 loaves of bread. His wife is flabbergasted.
Wife: “Dear, why on earth did you buy 6 loaves of bread?”
Husband: “They had eggs.”