In another realm, look at Japanese transverse flutes ("shinobue" or simply
"fue"). So-called modern flutes are tuned to a western scale so that you
can get people from different parts of the world to play songs to some
reference. For example, I have a #8 "uta" flute that is tuned to C, and
#6
Well, there's order, duration, frequency and a bunch of other stuff.
There is work from the signal analysis world, where people are concerned
with fractal structure in signals as a means of compression, and tho its
been years since I've done neural nets, I imagine heartbeats or nervous
system
Hi, Carl,
Good to hear your “voice” again?
I think you might be the person best positioned in my life to talk to me about
temporal fractality. Are complex drumbeats fractal; and in what degree?
Am I over stretching the term?
Nick
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Emeritus
Well, I think the weather forecast does not particularly care about your
particular location. It cares about what area you are in where they can
make statements. So, the statement that it may rain in Santa Fe with a
50% probability either means that in some larger region of which your
specific
Many birds do tend to migrate, so wondering what "stable environment" means
here.
Also thinking there is at play the developmental environment (extended
time of egg-to-bird-of-the-now) of the bird, as well as the outer
moment-of-the-song environment. How does one talk about developmental
David,
Thanks for pitching in.
I have some hazy data concerning bobolink song that might relate to your
hypothesis. We did two studies of bobolink song in relatively stable and
relatively disrupted habitats. At least that is what we thought was the
relevant variable. In the more
Nick,
The second point I made, i.e. about Alexander, Richard Gabriel confirmed
that Alexander did cite Mandelbrot and fractal geometry as
"confirmation" of his ideas about liveness arising from proper
composition using the fifteen properties. Also cited the work of Nikos
Salingaros as a rich
Hi Nick,
In an effort to diaspeirein(?), let me offer the following:
According to the axioms of probability (maybe you heard this already on
Friday), saying that something has a probability of 1 (or .5) doesn't mean
that it will happen (or happen half of the time); it just means that the
This idea reminded me of the recent article:
Seeing shapes in seemingly random spatial patterns: Fractal analysis of
Rorschach inkblots
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0171289
On 02/16/2017 09:53 AM, Prof David West wrote:
> A different way to approach the
holy shite REC! Looks like pretty good KoolAid!
I cut my teeth 40 years ago on APL. Feels like what I *wished for* back
then (studying Physics/Math with CS "just a tool").
As we talked a few years ago, I have a (still open, hanging fire)
project to do real-time stitching on a 360
Nick,
As asked (effect, affect impose?), my answer would be no. A partial test
of the answer would be to see if the songs of birds living, even for
multiple generations, in arguably non-fractal environments, e.g. mid-
town Manhattan, lost their fractal nature. This test would not rule out
the
I watched the livestream from the TensorFlow Dev Summit in Mountainview
yesterday. The individual talks are already packaged up as individual
videos at
https://events.withgoogle.com/tensorflow-dev-summit/videos-and-agenda/#content,
but watching the livestream with the enforced moments of deadtime
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