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New comment by kian in "Music and Geometry: Intervals and Scales"

kian — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 23:24:51 +0000

If you take the chromatic scale and then swap every other pair of notes on opposite sides of the circle, it yields the circle of fifths. You'll notice that on the circle of fifths notes that skip a step are a whole tone apart in the chromatic scale.

Although there have been some claims in these comments to the contrary, harmony is particularly mathematical. Symmetry and the breaking of within the integers mod 12 form the foundational principles of harmony.

New comment by kian in "Everyone is capable of, and can benefit from, mathematical thinking"

kian — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 18:38:00 +0000

Abstract Algebra, Combinatorics, and Discrete Mathematics are all definitely worth the squeeze; and incidentally something that could easily be taught to middle- and high-schoolers with the right examples.

New comment by kian in "Surveillance and the history of 19th-century wearable tech"

kian — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 22:38:52 +0000

and now we program the fabric of society ;)

New comment by kian in "OpenAI, Google and Anthropic are struggling to build more advanced AI"

kian — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 01:31:03 +0000

This is why I exclusively use the API to 'chat' with GPT -- complete control over the context presented.

New comment by kian in "Artificial Intelligence Cheapens the Artistic Imagination (2023)"

kian — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 01:24:41 +0000

Many artists in fact do exactly this -- they do not make the art themselves, but instead imagine and manage the 'art project' and delegate tasks to other artists that work for them. Leonardo (Da Vinci) in fact himself did this with much of the work required for his paintings, although the most crucial parts he left for himself.

New comment by kian in "FDA warns top U.S. bakery not to claim foods contain allergens when they don't"

kian — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 00:53:19 +0000

They are slant rhymes of one another. B and M are phonetically nearby, as are ia and ih and ao and ou. In no way like hacker news and cake her knees -- but more like hacker news and hagger moos ;)

New comment by kian in "I rewired my brain to become fluent in math (2014)"

kian — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 18:17:53 +0000

I have also found that programming is the gateway drug to Math B. Thanks to Functional Programming and Type Theory I eventually found may way into Abstract Algebra, Topology, and Category Theory... Wish I had time to go back and study these with a mentor, though!

New comment by kian in "I rewired my brain to become fluent in math (2014)"

kian — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 18:13:03 +0000

>>> The Pythagorean theorem becomes intuitively true not when you have some deep insight about Euclidean space, but when, on seeing a right triangle, three proofs of it spring instantly to mind.

To be honest, this sounds like orienting one's self in the 'space of mathematics'. Is it not possible that, just like one can navigate by landmarks (proofs) or by the space itself (deep understanding), that there are in fact two roads to intuition in mathematics, of which ones is practice and fluency, and the other is deep insight and understanding?

New comment by kian in "Geoffrey Hinton: Open sourcing AI models akin to open sourcing nuclear weapons"

kian — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 23:05:49 +0000

perhaps he's suggesting that they seize the software, weights, and training data from every company who's engaged in this? Or maybe he's just trying to protect profits and doesn't mean a word of it...

New comment by kian in "The Defenestrations of Prague (1419–1997)"

kian — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 20:44:11 +0000

Thanks for the pointer!

New comment by kian in "The Defenestrations of Prague (1419–1997)"

kian — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 23:11:01 +0000

Democracy: Rule of the Mob. Pretty sure the above sentiment is why the US is a republic...

New comment by kian in "The Defenestrations of Prague (1419–1997)"

kian — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 23:05:51 +0000

I'm stealing that parenthetical...

New comment by kian in "What Computers Cannot Do: The Consequences of Turing-Completeness"

kian — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 22:53:41 +0000

that's a good question, but the electron transport chain and photosynthesis are both postulated/(known?) to exploit quantum effects at room temperature.

New comment by kian in "A neural code for time and space in the human brain [pdf]"

kian — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 21:57:05 +0000

Were temples not themselves often used to encode [spatio-]temporal information (about the time of the year, our location within the solar system and cosmos, etc) within their construction, now that you mention it?

New comment by kian in "How to Build an Origami Computer"

kian — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 20:51:43 +0000

I love this response. On a slightly smaller scale, there are also ideas of protein interaction-network computational 'circuitry' -- I think that showing that folding can also compute is a nice addendum to this.

New comment by kian in "How to Build an Origami Computer"

kian — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 20:04:42 +0000

So, then, protein folding is likely also possible to make Turing complete, no?

New comment by kian in "Ask HN: Who else is working on nothing?"

kian — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 23:46:12 +0000

I'd also call out Eternal September in 1993, when AOL made it easy for anyone with a computer to connect online. This permanently changed the composition of the internet, and paved the way for the social networks that would later come to dominance after the iPhone was released.

New comment by kian in "Nestflix"

kian — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 06:16:40 +0000

This sounds like the end-state is an increase in the relative value of extremely well-written films, as special effects and eye candy lose their luster as they become extremely common-place (see the Marvel universe of films, for an example of this happening already).

New comment by kian in "How is AI impacting science?"

kian — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 16:48:10 +0000

I think in this case that problem even exists in their own code that they don't fully understand.

New comment by kian in "The Final Speech from The Great Dictator (1940)"

kian — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 01:41:31 +0000

>> you don't know what is my way of life, so can't note anything about this.

"I'll also note that you don't seem to be very forthcoming"

Literally the only thing I noted was that you didn't seem to be very forthcoming about what that way of life was -- something you appear to have confirmed in the comment above.

Since you do not seem to be concerned with addressing any of the substantive points in our conversation, and seem more concerned about telling others how they should do hard work rather than sharing the fruits of your labor (if indeed you have done it at all, and aren't just grandstanding for internet points) -- let's leave this discussion at I won't be statistically murdering any innocents to get at answers that you don't think are important enough to share, and that I hope that in your personal life you still choose kindness over 'right-think' that is statistically unlikely to make a difference at the state or national level -- or, heck, choose both.

Either way, thanks for helping clarify your position -- even if it isn't exactly the one you thought you were elucidating ;)

Happy holidays, I hope your personal exchange rate allows for you delivering presents and possibly visiting far away family!