You’re doing it wrong.

thinking more about soup spoons and soup bowls. like melodies as pods that fit onto soup spoons. and projecting the composition in fill-in-the-blank notation in the bowl somehow…

hmm

Source

liking this more neutral color. time to sell the red ones that i have…

2 Pinter plays that were the best thing I've seen in a while

A Kind of Alaska and Collection

Both breathtaking. 

2 Pinter plays that were the best thing I've seen in a while

Good compilation of experiments in music notation

working on my music electronics project from back in the day. thinking about projecting some version of music notation on the base. leaning towards piano roll…

Good compilation of experiments in music notation

So you want to know who is teaching what next term? Blammo:

note that this list is a 1 to 1 bijection between course # and prof, so doesn’t really show who Else is teaching what….

So you want to know who is teaching what next term? Blammo:

LOL

so weird

cedricrivrain:

Cédric Rivrain as Carrie Bradshaw photographed by Andrea Spotorno in French magazine Double.

Rochas Sweater, American Apparel shorts, Christian Loubotin shoes and Olympia Le-Tan minaudiere.

http://www.andreaspotorno.com/

http://www.lemagazinedouble.com/

ramallah underground tracks

ramallah underground tracks

The eye that hears and the ear that sees.

Dr. Pace on making and playing music (My piano teacher’s teacher)

interesting article that I found, here:

The Essentials of Keyboard Pedagogy: Sight Reading and Music Literacy (first topic) 

Anna Tang Acquitted, are you kidding me.

she stabbed him 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 times. one of the nicest guys. 

lawyers are ruining america. just like the sophists destroyed greece. 

Anna Tang Acquitted, are you kidding me.

artificial intelligence has made games seem dumb

not chess

or Go

but Sudoku? why does anyone play sudoku. just slowly cutting away at arbitrary domains. I guess it’s cool to be able to see which is the most constrained. but still, so boring.

Time complexity of Python's built-in function

also for next semester ;.)

Time complexity of Python's built-in function

Writing code in Latex

for use next semester. and the one after. ugh

Writing code in Latex

[audio https://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/berglar/2157686122/tumblr_ld6julaefi1qex889?plead=please-dont-download-this-or-our-lawyers-wont-let-us-host-audio]

Gorgeous. 

(ramallah underground - aswatt il zaman)

still having trouble with this whole internet persona thing

I don’t really twitter, I’m often really uncomfortable with facebook. I’m trying to get better and convince myself of this always being on exhibition thing. 

This is an interesting story by amanda palmer about how to make your online identity a makeshift marketing frenzy, in an indie non-corporate way. i think it’s pretty cool. 

i think kickstarter is also a step in this direction. If I ever need to monetize the music thing, it’s going to be something I have to figure out. 

still having trouble with this whole internet persona thing

woah

the LCS (longest common subsequence) problem is the basis of diff! so cool! i use diff all the time!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diff

the missing piece

a plugin for scratch that enables you to make your very own blocks. I feel like this just might supply what was missing from the already powerful metaphor for programming that scratch is built around. Will have to mess around with it over iap :.)

Pretty exciting. Thanks ben for the link. 

also ben wrote a really good article here: 

https://itmoves.wordpress.com/2010/12/08/cs-ed-day/

the missing piece

chamomile citrus. 

[audio https://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/berglar/2136256899/tumblr_ld2wy7gC4R1qex889?plead=please-dont-download-this-or-our-lawyers-wont-let-us-host-audio]

I’ve been listening to this on repeat.

Mike made a french flashcards app!

Mike made a french flashcards app!

I never realized how Shel Silverstein’s "The Missing Piece Meets the Big O" is a parody off of the story of the circle people in Plato’s Phaedrus. 

So many interpretations of the circle people in the Phaedrus confuse the intention I think, but Shel gets it just right and makes it more accessible. 

Thanks Clare for the link. 

Montessori education can’t be too successful if it didn’t result in you knowing what you want to do for your life.

G. Sussman

haha

Scott: oh that’s really funny longest common subsequence

Scott: when i was at bear, i wrote a program to do precisely that

Larisa: what was the O of your algorithm?

Scott: i respected my algorithm’s privacy in that regard

One Day...

that will be my summer. 

not this summer though. maybe next summer. 

One Day...

Division on Computers is non-deterministic!?

unless you’re dealing with 2’s of course. 

I know you were wondering how it would all end, kaboom here it is. 

Division on Computers is non-deterministic!?

Picking next term's subjects and came upon this.

interview w/ my algorithms prof. LOL

Picking next term's subjects and came upon this.

After Thanksgiving dinner we watched Tao Ruspoli’s Being in the World. 

It’s been a long time since I’ve seen a documentary that didn’t piss me off. A nice introduction to Heidegger and a healthy level of skepticism towards our more abstract and over-intellectual look at nature and the world.

So nice to leave MIT for Thanksgiving, my favorite holiday.  

Also,  the movie was inspired by former MIT Prof. Hubert Dreyfus and this semester I’ve been TAing a seminar with Lee Perelman who’s kind of the Greek philosophy expert. I wonder if they know each other and I wonder what the spiritual and non-ivory tower Lee will think of the movie, and if he will agree with its interpretation of Plato. 

It's Lulu in the news!

It's Lulu in the news!

I finally see why singing is like playing violin.

outside of the most direct mimicking violin sounds. 

practicing the shifts, and the slides and the scoops is the same. 

interesting take on the loafer? oxford? what do we even call those

hair and bag of course, and the slightest hint of red lipstick :.)

husna! you could totally rock this.

Imperial feminism is a term used by Pratibha Parmar, a black British filmmaker, to describe the struggles of black women in Britain in the 1970s, when the wave of feminism which emerged rarely captured the experiences of those women. If it did, it was often from a racist perspective. It claims to stand in solidarity with Third World women but in fact perpetuates stereotypes of these cultures as backward through the use of marginalising language and sweeping assumptions.

This form of feminism overlooks the important fact that many of the cultural practices shunned by white feminists have been reinforced by a cycle of colonialism.

Source: Durkhanai Ayubi for The Age

In writing, you must kill all your darlings.

Faulkner

nice hip hop mashups from deru

thank you ben and sahar!

nice hip hop mashups from deru

MIT does do research on education.

MIT does do research on education.

such a great story, and amanda palmer is such a great writer!

such a great story, and amanda palmer is such a great writer!

this is a good one, (algorithm i mean)

Transposing is so cool. flips my brain, and not quite sure when to actually do it. but don’t want to forget this one. plus his name is cool. way cooler than dijkstra. dutch people should use more letters so that they don’t keep coming up with ridic combinations.

this is a good one, (algorithm i mean)

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVIKF03KkVM?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0&w=500&h=374]

I like how you can only hear the hint of the recorded version at the beginning. so great.

(Source: http://www.youtube.com/)

wow Fendi (boots)

so cool without even trying.

DAM-hip hop crew from Palestine

Saw these guys at the student center of all places yesterday. Amazing vibe.

"how many dudes do you know flow like this, not many..if any!"

DAM-hip hop crew from Palestine

everytime I read the tech i throw up inside my mouth a little

this is a response to a letter to the editor written by Dr. Finer, a.k.a really awesome researcher at the guttmacher institute who calls him on his extremely manipulative and warping use of a statistic that the guttmacher institute produced. 

the original article is here, Dr. Finer’s letter to the editor is in this issue. 

Seriously Tech, just because it’s someone’s opinion, does not mean you need to publish it. I realize that the Opinion section might be difficult to fill, but abortion. we’re really scraping the barrel here..

everytime I read the tech i throw up inside my mouth a little

patent-law.remove(possible career paths)

I was thoroughly convinced today by Terence Kealey, biochemist and most recently author of this book, that patents are bad, except maybe for pharmecuticals. 

In summary, progress in science and technology is most enabled when people can freely share their ideas with each other. Coming up with an idea and then failing to contribute it to the relavent community is pretty useless. 

This we knew, but what about the lowly inventor in her basement? Maybe it’s naive, but I had at least grown up thinking that patents existed to protect the future Edisons and Alexander Graham Bells. That was also a lot of the reason behind why I wanted to go into patent law in addition to the fact that I felt like it could leverage my skills in that field better than I could in straight up engineering. But the fact is that’s really not how it works, and we’d be much better off without them. So cross that one off the list I guess. phew!

patent-law.remove(possible career paths)

Next-Weekend Reading

main character is named Madeleine!? I have a feeling this is going to be spectacular. 

Thanks Lulu!

Next-Weekend Reading

muslimswearingthings:

Tabla master Zakir Hussain usually wears a kurta, and can wear out a pair of drums like nobody’s business.

Amaze. Listened to a lot of Zakir Hussain in Rucker’s Music of India class. 

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg5wkZ-dJXA?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0&w=500&h=281]

I was wondering about the significance since it had occurred to me before, so I checked if it had occurred to the internet. And yes, I think there is some fire-bird theme being explored—like for instance when the ballerinas freeze, and then only one comes back to life; the whole thing about her wanting her freedom etc etc (that one’s a little more blatant).

kanye—bringing stravinsky to the people. oh geeze

my last memorable trick-or-treating costume was firebird. i wonder where those pictures are. that was a good one. 

(Source: http://www.youtube.com/)

At fourteen I couldn’t find words (or words I liked) for the marvelous feeling of recognition that came with these characters who had my hair, my eyes, my skin, even the ancestors of the rhythm of my speech. These forms of identification are so natural to white readers-(Of course Rabbit Angstrom is like me! Of course Madame Bovary is like me!)-that they believe themselves above personal identification, or at least believe that they are identifying only at the highest, existential levels (His soul is like my soul. He is human; I am human.)

Zadie Smith, “Their Eyes Were Watching God: What Does Soulful Mean?”; from the collection, Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays (via walkoutofhermind)

How are you enjoying her book of essays? Did you see her essay “hair” on eyeshot.net?

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Ideas for my next big haircut. 

I’m thinking short on the top is the only way to eliminate constant hair in my face. 

A little worried about how that will be to maintain when it grows out, and if it’s a little to edgy for spring jobs/job interviews….

on using an explicit stack to implement depth-first-search

on using an explicit stack to implement depth-first-search

best halloween costume

best halloween costume

Pretty freaking cool. 

And when you click the right one, you “train” it. 

nice nice

http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html

pretty fucking awesome

make your laptop match your lighting

oh and sleep better in the process….

pretty fucking awesome

delicious cucumber+read onion + seaweed salad from last night.

cameronr:

DOOM FUCKS SHIT UP IN PARIS | Stones Throw Records

oh Snap! he’s back.

It is not the premise that reality
Is solid. It may be a shade that traverses
A dust, a force that traverses a shade.

Wallace Stevens

http://payingattentiontothesky.com/the-idea-of-order-at-key-west-by-wallace-stevens/an-ordinary-evening-in-new-haven-wallace-stevens/

fozzy bear we love you

fozzy bear we love you

"the problem is that fashion designers don’t know crystallography, so then you can’t get get clothes that actually fit. Only one number to specify a 3D person? What the hell does 8 mean?"

Sadoway for everything is entertaining (chem lecture on chrystallograpy).