A rhythm generator based on stigmergy

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Interesting to see the theoretical inroads stigmergy is now making into the field of music.

[t]he idea for this research is to create a new rhythmic generator technology. This system will be capable of generating multiple lines of percussion that sound natural. The synchronization will be self-organising and thus will be governed by a Stigmergic model that must be derived. The rhythm generator based on this Stigmergic system will be suitable neural network technology that can manage both short-term and long-term patterns in the percussive line.

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Jesus of Cool

Nick Lowe

Another fabulous evening in the company of Nick Lowe and the razor-sharp Los Straitjackets. A lovely balanced set from across his amazing back catalogue. I’m pleased to learn that a biography of Nick is forthcoming: here is an interview with biographer Will Birch.

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To Take the Writer’s Meaning: An Unpublished Manuscript on “Peirce and Modern Semiotic” by Walker Percy

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In Walker Percy, Philosopher

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Trailer Park Boys

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No finer way to mark Canadian Thanksgiving long weekend than to binge-watch Trailer Park Boys. A quick and informative read about TPB can be found here. A special toast to John Dunsworth whose death just about a year ago was a profound loss to the show. (C’mon Canada, within the year we must get rid of the prevailing shit-puppetry and other miscellaneous regressive fuck-wittery that has blighted Canada of late).

You know what a shit barometer is, Bubs? It measures the shit pressure in the air. You can feel it. Listen, Bubs. Hear that? Sounds of the whispering winds of shit.

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Walter Laqueur

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New York Times — Washington Post

The possibility that Europe will become a museum or a cultural amusement park for the nouveau riche of globalization is not completely out of the question.

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Bertrand Russell: Science and philosophy

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My chum and Russell scholar par excellence has this piece in the TLS.

As Wittgenstein sums up Russell’s insight, “Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity”. Something similar might be said of science as well.

Bertrand Russell, 1951

Design and simulation of the emergent behavior of small drones swarming for distributed target localization

stigmergy

Just published in the Journal of Computational Science.

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Marty Balin

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Marty and especially Grace Slick at their best. Joe Viglione understands. My chum Carmella Scaggs had much to say about Jefferson Airplane/Starship (maybe for some other time).

It’s probably the only time Slick and Balin ever made love, their voices pure sex together inside this tune about the potential of that once-in-a-lifetime friendship.