In "The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat," there's a chapter where Oliver Sacks makes a similar argument about music stemming from the case of two autistic twins who couldn't do arithmetic but played a game with each other where they named increasingly large primes. Basically says that music/harmony is a kind of innate appreciation of the numerical relationship between sounds, much like naming primes is an appreciation of the _lack_ of a numerical relationship between numbers. The experience of a resonance between two different things (frequencies, numbers, and in this blog's case words) can exist extremely strongly outside of the ability to operate on those things in the first place. Interesting read.
I'm a multimedia / digital artist and this is the first in an in-depth multi-part series of posts I'm doing documenting the the whole process from start to finish (er... maintenance)!
thanks rob! yeah, my favorite learning was the one about CSS. this project really helped me understand where the AI and I understand things the same way, and where me being a human and the AI being an LLM will necessarily have friction
I nerd sniped myself a week or so ago when I had a full day of stuff to do and had this idea in the shower. Tried to make it in Python, then tried to make it in Node, then when both failed miserably I said screw it they're both trying to wrap C libraries so I putzed with Claude till I got it working in C.
The repo is only missing the original moan folder, which you can record yourself. I'm loath to give mine away for free ¯\_(ツ)_/¯