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Chip tunes versions of J S Bach pieces.
Gives many of the fundamentals of both human psychoacoustics and Western music in a form (simple waveforms) that admits abstract mathematical analysis that doesn’t rely on human perception.
In other words, crash course in “how do humans hear are what are some common building blocks of their music?”
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One of the best things about Minneapolis: the city set an urban planning policy that there should be a public park within a short walk (6 blocks, I think?) of every single residence in the city…
…and they set that policy something like •140 years ago•.
The whole city was designed and laid out around the premise of ubiquitous public space. It’s hard to overstate the positive cascading effects of this.
You know how young children will see some toy or shiny object on a store shelf, and somehow — by design! Marketers know what they’re doing! — they instantly •have• to have it, and are obsessed, and all sense and proportion go out they window and they need it now now NOW, but if they get it they soon abandon it because it’s junk that only looked good on the shelf?
It’s like that with CEOs and AI right now.
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Caveat / apology: not law school and therefore not quite what you asked, but…
…Macalester’s CST does really awesome •sustained• mutual mentoring work for faculty, and IMO is a model many sorts of institutions should study:
https://www.macalester.edu/seriecenter/
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A foolish question beside the (very important!) point:
Why does the curve have such a strong seasonal shape? Shouldn’t it be more or less flat, as opposing seasons in the northern and southern hemispheres cancel each other out?
Great news: newly updated fall COVID booster vaccine is not only •available to• but •recommended for• everyone ages six months and older. Everyone.
There was concern the CDC would only recommend it for the highest risk groups, but “[CDC committee] members strongly pushed back against this possibility.”
American Medical Association liaison: "There is no group that clearly has no risk from COVID."
https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/09/everyone-should-get-a-covid-booster-this-fall-cdc-says/
A question for Law Mastodon, because I have absolutely no idea:
Does Elon Musk using Starlink to intentionally disrupt a Ukraine military operation against Russia potentially violate laws about who may conduct foreign policy? (Logan Act, Article II, whatever, who knows??)
#legal #law #uslaw
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