Paul Walmsley

Architect/Developer on Dorico music scoring at Steinberg. PhD on Bayesian musical signal modelling. Lover of Brazilian percussion. Maracatu player. Mandrill

[Paul Walmsley @pjwhams]

@fesshole My technique is to say "Hang on, let me get a pen". They think they've finally got someone so they hang on. Record is 10 minutes

[Paul Walmsley @pjwhams]

@argle please remember to test for all moon phases in the future

[Bartłomiej Cupiał @CupiaBart]

So here's a story of, by far, the weirdest bug I've encountered in my CS career.

Along with @maciejwolczyk we've been training a neural network that learns how to play NetHack, an old roguelike game, that looks like in the screenshot. Recenlty, something unexpected happened.

[Paul Walmsley @pjwhams]

@Juppelbow Classic Bembe Clave - crops up loads in Afro-Brazilian percussion

[Graeme @spacecadet0697]

I made an edit of the best chalkboards from #TheTraitorsUK some of the spelling has been amazing...

#TheTraitors

[Paul Walmsley @pjwhams]

@allgoodbookshop Outer casing for a good old parallel port cable. Ain't seen one of them for a long time

[Paul Walmsley @pjwhams]

@O2ForumKTown @clowncoreWORLD @marywallopers @MalevolenceRiff Do you have the stage times for @clowncoreWORLD tonight?

[Paul Walmsley @pjwhams]

@umpedronosapato @ISMIRConf @Sadkins65 @berkerbanar3 You had me at Leprous... Is the paper online?

[Paul Walmsley @pjwhams]

@AdamBienkov I'm generally supportive of ULEZ, but I don't think you can compare the affected % in the zone to how many would be affected as it expands

[Paul Walmsley @pjwhams]

@AdamBienkov The reason it affects few in the current zone is that many have had to change their cars before the ULEZ came in 3 years ago. I had to buy a new(er) car as my old one (modest family car, not a gas-guzzler) was a diesel outside the thresholds.

[UNC Children's @uncchildrens]

Professional soccer players for Chelsea Football Club and Wrexham AFC visited patients and families at UNC Children's - North Carolina Children's Hospital in advance of their game tonight at Kenan Stadium.

Thank you for bringing some joy to our little ones!

[Zach London @zach_london]

I administered the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) to the image-generating AI program DALL-E this morning. Thing really went off the rails.

Let's see how it did. 🧵

[Paul Walmsley @pjwhams]

@MooseAllain I'm sure most of the Hoi Polloi have never heard of it

[Paul Walmsley @pjwhams]

@RevRichardColes Good they didn't put you on before the puppet show

[Paul Walmsley @pjwhams]

@MooseAllain I've collected some great names over the years that are satisfying to say. Some of my faves are:
Alice Pip-Pips
PJ Tinkleworthy
Scott Bear Don't Walk
Persephone Wellbelove
Chad Lion-Cachet (a rugby player, so I like to say 'catch-it')
Norbert Dentresangle

[Paul Walmsley @pjwhams]

@ManofV @greg_jenner @volaband Yeah, I absolutely love Leprous!

[Paul Walmsley @pjwhams]

@ManofV @greg_jenner @volaband They supported Vola on the last tour (and both were very good indeed)

[Paul Walmsley @pjwhams]

@joshduffney @PoSHYoungTeam I love psreadline - I have Vi mode set for command line editing in powershell

[Paul Walmsley @pjwhams]

@janwilmans @ericniebler @code I use a different addin - https://t.co/MckLv95kb8 and this does also add colour to the debug output

[Paul Walmsley @pjwhams]

@janwilmans @ericniebler @code Like this? https://t.co/8qZHTUhofW

[Paul Walmsley @pjwhams]

@jonno In a good way?