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The abstract states their usage scenario is where clean audio input is not available

The author of this book is also the creator of the fantastic Hedy gradual programming language https://hedycode.com/

Mirabai Knight's talk about this is one of my all time faves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wpv-Qb-dB6g

Inspired me to try to create a live coding musical instrument based on it: https://github.com/jarmitage/stenophone / https://iclc.toplap.org/2017/cameraReady/stenophone_camready...

There should be another version of nand2tetris called sand2nand

The authors were on Mushroom Revival Podcast recently: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/mushroom-revival-podca...

I quickly hacked this together as a PoC to see if Google Cloud TTS's WaveNet voice was "good enough" for reviewing my thesis writing on the go in audio form.

It works quite well, I noticed a bunch of writing errors that I hadn't picked up visually. And it's just about listenable enough that I can see this being a good way to reduce some screen time while the weather is good.

The code is obviously pretty terrible as a starting point for anything more complete or complex though :)

Does this idea resonate with you? How would you suggest rewriting it? What features would you add next? Have you already seen this done better (I couldn't find much prior art)?

When I get asked to give talks about interaction design I show Figure 3 from Kay and Goldberg's Personal Dynamic Media (1977) [1], with the "interim Dynabook" part of the caption redacted, and ask the students to fill in the blank. They usually guess "personal computer" and are then shocked to learn the actual framing and the overall backstory.

[1] http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.656...

Have you considered linking this to Notion / Roam Research API etc?

Higher level concept than standalone 'sticky note' is worth exploring. Lots of indigenous cultures were/are based on memory techniques based on tying specific pieces of knowledge to exact locations: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29759605-the-memory-code

There's a brilliant set of live performances from the artist, of music made with these machines: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLafsplTntnuaL2ARcXtij...

In case you didn't know, Freesound has an API: https://freesound.org/docs/api/

And publications: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=freesound

I believe it's managed by the Music Technology Group at Universitat Pompeu Fabra https://www.upf.edu/web/mtg

You can support it with donations: https://freesound.org/donations/donate/

Are there scenarios where this would be more efficient than using regenerative agriculture techniques like cover cropping to naturally out-compete weeds?

I feel like I gained more from this comment than the last month of mainstream media combined, so thank you for sharing.

That's good to hear. Maybe I don't read enough UK media widely enough (for health reasons!) to really have a say here, but I don't remember reading similar articles recently. It must be out there though, perhaps in more specialised media.

All good points indeed!

I was referring more to the discourse, which seems to be about heightening nationalistic sentiments by pitting governments against each other fighting over a small stockpile, rather than highlighting the progress/pitfalls/ongoing support needs of collaborative initiatives to provide scaled solutions.

But maybe this is just a sign that I need to broaden my media inputs, always a good thing to do.

I would have taken your question seriously if you didn't follow it up with an over-generalised and rude remark.

Nowhere in particular. Perhaps my sentiment is more a reflection of media coverage focusing on issues like TFA, rather than on increasing supply which is less scandalous.

Thanks for this link. I would much rather that the media kept me up to date on this instead!

Me neither, but I find it hard to believe that it is more difficult than remaining stuck in the pandemic.

Does anyone know why all of the geopolitical discourse in the UK and Europe has been around arguing over a small supply, rather than about increasing manufacturing capacity?

For those wondering about an update, they posted a "Narrative Description of Activities" document (something to do with 501c status) recently (https://twitter.com/worrydream/status/1367894681342799875), choice quote re comments in this thread:

> The Dynamicland researchers are not developing a product. The computers that the researchers build are models: not for distribution, but for studying and evaluating. The goal of the research is not to provide hardware or software to users, but to discover a new set of ideas which will enable all people to create computational environments for themselves, with no dependence on Dynamicland or anyone else, and to understand how these ideas can be taught and learned. The end result of the research is fundamentally intended to be a form of education, empowering communities to be self-sufficient and teach these ideas to each other.

Great, very handy! Just FYI `readlink -f` doesn't work on macOS

May I suggest the name txtree?

I should clarify that I was being facetious about the idea of blatantly memorialising suicide.

> We simply don't have the power to right this wrong; we can only stay vigilant in the present day and honour the memory of Turing (and countless others) by preventing similar injustice now.

Quite agree, but has anything been done towards the latter? Every tribute to Turing I can think of has been about science and war, not justice.

I would go the other way and say it's more accurate to call it the London government ;)

Although I was being deliberately over the top in my original comment, it wouldn't have hurt to add something tasteful to the note to symbolise the injustice and struggle he (and many) faced, and the direction of progress since then. Instead we get the palatable war hero parts only.

And to clarify what I meant by 'disgrace': Erasmus is gone because of Brexit, and to wash the fiasco clean they're using Turing's name to market its replacement. I don't know what else you can call that other than shameless.

Much appreciated, thank you for sharing!

I don't have a specific interest at the moment, but have been more curious about this area recently after getting into regen ag podcasts.

Fascinating, thank you - I have some more questions if you don't mind! Was that your first degree or did you switch to this domain from something else? Would you care to name/recommend your degree program, and any key texts, for someone interested in following in your footsteps?

If you don’t mind me asking, what is/was your educational/career route that led you to the knowledge that you currently have? It seems interestingly diverse, like you have biology, agriculture, but also some mechanical?

In this case, being off the coast of Falmouth, the ship is more than likely standing still.

My favourite part is still the 'demo' of tying a brick to a pen to prove the power of augmentation via de-augmentation

The FOI part means this is dead on arrival and will be abused all ends up.

For this to work you need the public to understand why DARPA worked. Hiding details of failures makes that impossible (and again, completely open to corruption).

By the same author (David Griffiths), who is a creative genius and runs the FoAM Kernow studio with his partner Amber:

Pattern Matrix, tangible live coding interface w/ magnetic tokens and AR overlay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLpHBUmwGCk / https://penelope.hypotheses.org/2232

Viruscraft digital/tangible platform for exploring viruses: https://fo.am/activities/viruscraft/

Swarms of live coded robots doing maypole dancing (yes): https://penelope.hypotheses.org/1512

Scheme Bricks, 3D visual live coding in Scheme: http://davesblog.fo.am/?s=bricks / https://github.com/nebogeo/scheme-bricks

Al-Jazari: Minecraft meets Fluxus / Scheme Bricks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8Mp6f65nWM / http://davesblog.fo.am/2013/02/al-jazari-2-minecraft-meets-f...

And poopfluencers who have secret diets that give you psychedelic brain-gut experiences