Recent content by Slothrop

This reminds me, I recently saw this on another forum: https://washingtonspectator.org/understanding-tescreal-silicon-valleys-rightward-turn/ and wondered what our man on the ground in the Silicon Valley elite would make of it? Gut reaction is that the TESCREAL concept feels a bit like a...

IIRC there's a bit in the David Toop book about improvisation where he talks about the early free improv scene, and how people who were interested in "non-idiomatic improvisation" either tended towards total mastery of their instrument, to express themselves as fluently as possible without...

I'll be going to see Vibracathedral at Shakespeare's a couple of days later, though.

Oh, no I won't, it's sold out already.

On the other side of the Pennines, I'll probably go to this: https://www.sidneyandmatilda.com/events/library-of-lazy-thinking

Snow-Balls have flown their Arcs...

And this is tricky because to anyone outside the bubble, voting for Trump looks completely fucking stupid. And the most natural argument to draw for is basically are you fucking serious, you wouldn't lend your car to this guy, why would you want him to be commander in chief? But it's hard to say...

I was actually meeting up with Tall Ginger Tom who I think you know from weird computer and/or jungle stuff...

I'm going to be back in the cradle of the Dalston Cultural Mafia on Saturday, for the first time since COVID / kids / moving North. Looking forward to performatively connoisseuring some Kernel IPAs.

This sounds super cool - could you go into a bit more detail about what you're mean by "replacing the phase information with a steady clock" - are you doing something like converting the complex coefficients that the fft spits out to amplitudes and phases then swapping in a new set of phases and...

@woops, did you go to the bookshop across the road?

It's brewed in Tadcaster. Pure simulacrum.

Brett Devereux is a military historian who's written some quite interesting stuff about Tolkien / other fantasy fiction. He's good here on the contrast between how Peter Jackson views war and how Tolkien sees it:

We find out that Frodo wrote down his and his friends' account of what had happened in a book called something very similar to The Lord of the Rings, but I don't think Tolkein explicitly frames his work as a direct translation of that. And as someone who worked extensively with translations and...