Ruarl · HackerTrans

If Rick Rubin could take a tape to his car to listen to his mixes, your product people can try their websites on £20 phones from Tesco. They can ask to sit in on user tests with minority groups. Extending your knowledge like this is trivial, but rarely done.

Ruarl

9 ay öncediscuss

I'm the wrong kind of engineer to work it out, but I'd be interested to know what the implications for the strength of the cable and specifications for the winch would be for a heavy cargo glider.

Thinking on, specifying the weak links and managing failed winch launches (which happen fairly regularly) is interesting to consider. Recreational gliders are light enough to be manoeuvred by hand, although old farm tractors are used to move them more than a few dozen feet. How would all that work?

Ruarl

10 ay öncediscuss

The neat thing about Go is that, whilst the winning strategy is exactly to think ahead and enumerate all possible positions, to do so is impossible. (Even the superhuman AI fudge it. They can just read farther ahead than humans.)

So to do well you have to learn how to support your reading ahead with heuristics and a feel for the game.

A famous amateur player and advocate for the game once went through all the game records of Go Seigen in order to digitize them. This means having to pore over hand-written diagrams looking for the next number in the sequence of moves. Obviously this is easier if you can guess where to look. But, if you guess them all correctly, then you are playing just as well as the old master! After spending a good few months on the task, he was a significantly better player!

Ruarl

10 ay öncediscuss

Happiness as the default state has nothing to do with being happy all the time. Perhaps you need to refine your understanding of “default”.

Ruarl

10 ay öncediscuss

I guess this is a similar idea to the Peterson Strobe tuner? I think they have a rotating object which presents dark and light regions at the chosen frequency, which is a similar idea to building a visualisation on a set of samples whose length is the period of the chosen frequency.

Ruarl

10 ay öncediscuss

I see. Was there an example of that in the video? Perhaps I missed it.

In what way does the visualisation vary when the note is not in tune? How does the visualisation indicate flat or sharp?

Ruarl

10 ay öncediscuss

This is an interesting project. It isn’t immediately obvious to me how the visualisations aid the tuning process. Please can you say a little more about how you expect a user to interpret those as they perform tuning work?

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