Cecelia E.V. Alexander

[Pukicho @pukicho]

Tumblr has released their SECOND worst update in its tumultuous history. This is astronomically bad. It gives every reblog the same capacity of a quote retweet, but it isn't nested nor designed for such use. It completely obliterates how conversations are held on the site.

[Cecelia E.V. Alexander @aspidoscelis]

@tumblr I mean, y'all made me login to my unused twitter account just to find another place to complain. Why make me do that?

[Cecelia E.V. Alexander @aspidoscelis]

@tumblr Please fix it. Revert!

[Cecelia E.V. Alexander @aspidoscelis]

@tumblr WTF, why did you break tumblr?

[Cecelia E.V. Alexander @aspidoscelis]

@MarisaSzubryt I think Hennig's conceptual framework is very helpful.

[Cecelia E.V. Alexander @aspidoscelis]

Output from the R package 'AWclust'. Followed roughly the linked process to get make a dictionary and filter text to shared 'lemmas'... https://t.co/J7Wkm5llej

[Cecelia E.V. Alexander @aspidoscelis]

A Woolf scatterplot. An exciting new method in contemporary textual analysis!

[Cecelia E.V. Alexander @aspidoscelis]

(OK, it's an UPGMA tree and thus not really phylogenetic. Still amusing to me. :-) )

[Cecelia E.V. Alexander @aspidoscelis]

Did you know you can run a phylogenetic analysis on sentences?

[Cecelia E.V. Alexander @aspidoscelis]

@mary_hrovat Will it end?

[Cecelia E.V. Alexander @aspidoscelis]

@GregAlexander8 Haven't got the faintest idea what the UI would look like in R, though. It occurs to me the only UIs I've created are minimalist "click on a thing in a web app and it'll give you a table" doohickies.

[Cecelia E.V. Alexander @aspidoscelis]

@GregAlexander8 If you wanted to make noises triggered by a computer keyboard such that the output frequency is the combination of one set of keys specifying a fundamental pitch and a second set of keys specifying the overtone of that fundamental pitch... how might you do so?

[Cecelia E.V. Alexander @aspidoscelis]

@GregAlexander8 Unfortunately, the only thing I'm remotely competent at is R—which I've never thought of as having any audio capabilities, although now I notice there is a "sound" package that might work. If you don't get there first, I might poke at that...

[Cecelia E.V. Alexander @aspidoscelis]

@GregAlexander8 Well, although you may well have better things to do, I'd certainly appreciate it if you did. :-) Especially if it were relatively easily modifiable by me later, once I figure out what behavior I didn't want.

[Cecelia E.V. Alexander @aspidoscelis]

@GregAlexander8 Yeah, waveform complexity is not really desirable in this context.

[Cecelia E.V. Alexander @aspidoscelis]

@GregAlexander8 I would try messing with GGB if I had an easy way to do something with linux source code...

[Cecelia E.V. Alexander @aspidoscelis]

@GregAlexander8 It seems like this kind of thing would exist in various software synthesizers, but those are designed for, you know, musicians, to do music stuff. So it would be hidden somewhere and I wouldn't know where to look for it...

[Cecelia E.V. Alexander @aspidoscelis]

@GregAlexander8 I'm mostly thinking it would be a fun thing to play with for audiating (or whatever the equivalent is to "visualizing") tone relationships.

[Cecelia E.V. Alexander @aspidoscelis]

@GregAlexander8 Sequence of key presses:
key4: nothing! (undefined)
key2: nothing! (sets fundamental)
key3: 440hz
key4: 880hz
key3 and key4: 440 hz and 880hz
key1: nothing!
key4: 800hz
hold key4, press key2: 800hz, then 880hz

[Cecelia E.V. Alexander @aspidoscelis]

@GregAlexander8 Given in frequencies because I'm terrible at note letters...
fundamentals (sticky, do not trigger sound, configurable to arbitrary values):
key1: 400hz
key2: 440hz
harmonics (sound for duration of key press):
key3: fundamental × 1
key4: × 2
key5: × 3