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A lot like Joe Rogan, he doesn't pretend to know more than he does. That can be very refreshing, and makes guests feel comfortable and empowered. His podcast's success comes from the letters MIT on his resume and the high profiles of the guests he's had on.

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I've been using hylang lately to build libraries for my python projects. It's a lot of fun, and close enough to Clojure that there's very little learning curve.

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Take one minute and try to sing a perfect 5th over a drone note. You'll waver around that beautiful sturdy 3:2. And if you're lucky, or if you practice you'll eventually lock in to that resonance/ratio and feel a universal truth as important as the right triangle.

All of music is based on resonance. And resonance is a ratio

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Harmonics are the stacked ratios of primes. There's no 9th harmonic, there's the overtonal stacking of the two 5th harmonics. Or more literally, when you play a maj 9th on the piano, your ear is filling in the missing perfect 5th between them.

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Sorry, a lot of this is wrong. A major 7th is not 17:9 but 15:8. Our ear tries to represent all these rich resonances in as simple primes as possible (Think, combos of 2's 3's and 5's - and occasionally 7's in blue notes).

A minor 6th isn't just a note in between, but a simple 4:5, The minor sound that we associate with sadness is simply the reciprocal nature of the ratio - the more complicated prime is in the denominator (as opposed to the overtonal nature of the M7 above)

Short answer: read Harmonic Experience by W.A. Mathieu

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