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LOL tell us how you really feel about Cage. You live on the other side of the pond, so it makes sense Stockhausen is more popular over there, but people in the states love Cage. I'm sure you've seen that vid on youtube of him playing a cactus:

Hahaha that's so nerdy. I took a couple seminars with a student of Stockhausen. He had some interesting stories to tell about him, most of which I've already forgotten.

The entire concept of harmonic progression is a resolution of dissonance to consonance in a tonal hierarchy, so yes, all tonal music from Lully to Haydn to Mahler has dissonance tautologically. Hell, polyphony from the Middle Ages has dissonance and consonance. My point is some things that were considered dissonant in "western music" at some point are no longer, and vice versa. The intervals most agree on that are consonances are octaves and perfect fifths, because of their simplicity in relationship and appearance in the harmonic series of a tone. Octaves are powers of two and perfect fifths are in a 3:2 ratio. The harmonic series is largely part of the rationale behind Schenkerian analysis. Schoenberg sought to dissolve the traditional concept of dissonance and consonance by getting rid of tonal centers altogether, though he chose to find certain analogues in his twelve-tone system that ended up still emphasizing certain pitch classes over others. Stravinsky achieved a lot of success with his neoclassicism before developing his own atonal system after Schoenberg died (there was enmity between the two, as two great masters can develop). Schoenberg basically opened Pandora's Box, once it was discovered that there was a whole universe outside of tonality. One of Messaien's most prominent students, Iannis Xenakis, was actually also an engineer and used stochastic processes and set theory in his works. Cage was a student of Schoenberg and developed his own style incorporating random variation, drawing aleatoricism from Asian music and culture.

If the researchers had just picked up a music textbook, they'd have known that the western concept of consonance and dissonance has always been changing, with different temperaments and tunings. Pythagorean tuning was used into the 16th century and it's based on harmonic ratios. Even after tonality with triadic harmony as we know it today had been established, different intervals were considered consonant or dissonant depending on time period, such as the perfect fourth in contrapuntal contexts. This is just considering the "standard" heptatonic major and minor scales, so not including any other pitch number base like pentatonic or octatonic. Western classical music has largely done away with tonality and with it the tonal hierarchies, starting about 100 years ago with Schoenberg.

It's the only way to be sure... of the time

My Agumon dark digivolved to Skullgreymon and now it won't listen to me, wut do?

I learn from the best

Astroglide is still on HC? That slick motherfucker

Thanks, that helped a lot. I'm having problems with just pin OUT5 of all 4 MAX4820s for some reason, it won't toggle the voltages like all the other pins. What do you think I might have done wrong? Seems too specific to just be a poor soldering job, thought that's always a possibility. Will start probing more in-depth with a DMM tomorrow.

I wrote a Python implementation with full GUI on Raspberry Pi 3 with touchscreen, which works fully on the old I2C boards balanced with balance control like the one I did for 4D systems touchscreen. I will take the next few weeks to incorporate that into a full web server implementing a RESTful API. However, just to make sure, is the pdf Kevin posted in the beginning of the thread the correct wiring for the relays? As in first 4 flipped compared to the second 4, etc. Also, the MAX4820s are daisy chained so do you just write commands in series? I have to implement bit banging SPI because the touchscreen uses the hardware SPI

Saw some really great things tonight in the Lakers Pels game. Looks like they learned more in one week with Luke Walton than all of last year with Byron Scott. D'angelo, Larry Nance, Ingram, and Zubac looking beastly. Will be interesting to see them measure up against the Timberwolves in even a year or two.

In order to have a third best player, you need to have a best and a second best player, which are tautologically better than the third player. You also need to define metrics as to judge "best" by, because everyone has their own defined role in the team. Simply basing it on PPG or TS% doesn't tell anywhere near the whole story. Salary doesn't correlate with skill, either, which was made very apparent in this off season.

There's a lot of basketball that happens before the finals. And now it's been rendered pretty much pointless to watch. I'm still down for DWade teaming back up with Lebron to give Cavs a fighting chance next year.

Thanks, I'll try to check it out next weekend but probably not much will be left

NBE gonna NBE. Draymond should've been suspended back in the OKC series though, so they possibly altered the narrative twice.

They were hoping for some calls because Steph and Iggy are clearly injured, Bogut is obviously injured, and the role players aren't showing up. That's also why Lebron went off again tonight, getting guarded by injured players. Warriors also basically don't have a center now that Bogut is gone, since Varejao (other than flopping) and Ezeli are straight up ghosts. I hope Warriors look into picking up a center this offseason. 6'6 Draymond simply doesn't cut it as center outside of quick spurts in the Death Lineup, and Bogut is injury prone. Barnes 0-8 FG...

Make it stop, make it stop! Turning the TV off at the half if they're still down 20.

He got a flagrant 2 for kicking Steven Adams in the nuts. and a flagrant 1 for body slamming Beasley. The NBE obviously wants the series to continue rather than a 4-1 gentleman's sweep, so it makes sense from that perspective.

Edit: Steve beat me to it

Can't wait to see what happens tonight. It's do or die for the Cavs, and Kevin Love is out so they'll have to either go big (Mozgov?) or small. JR also needs to show up at some point or Lue's gotta replace him with someone else. Shump's new hairdo would probably play better defense than some of the Cavs have been doing on the court. Edit: just remembered this gem from last year

OKC did so well against GSW as the bigger, lengthier, more athletic team and exploited that really well by crashing the boards hard and being physical. Right now the Warriors are able to play their own game which is largely predicated on ball movement, switches off screens and exploiting the resulting mismatch, as well as capitalizing on turnovers with fast breaks. Cavs also love iso ball, which clearly doesn't work well as OKC reverted back to it in the clutch and look where that got them. I also think Tyronn could do a better job with player rotation... his bench is also fairly deep (Cavs have the largest payroll in NBA history), but he's not utilizing his rotations well. Agreed, Kyrie and Kevin Love have atrocious PnR defense so putting them both on the floor at the same time is a huge liability defensively.

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I'm not sure that you have read the wiki entry you linked? The study mentioned in the wikipedia entry is moot, as when you try to single out variables and remove external factors you destroy any chance of measuring anything resembling the point of the experiment. Analyzing free throws or doing shooting contests has nothing to do with trying to run sets and make shots in a game. Confidence level due to being "hot" is easily observed through body language and, for example, whether or not players defer to teammates instead of taking the shot (which they think they will miss, and because of that, more likely will). A lot of basketball plays are made based on who currently has the hot hand. To assign hot or not as if they were coin tosses to a completely unrelated situation, you might as well be measuring the color blue in the number 938. The hot hand fallacy framed by that experiment is a fallacy in itself. "However, later research has questioned whether the belief is indeed a fallacy.[1][2] More recent studies using modern statistical analysis have shown that there is evidence for the "hot hand" and that in fact, it may not be a fallacy.[2] " This "survey" mentioned in the entry consists of two clearly loaded questions (and you can't prove a fallacy on another fallacy): "(1) Does a basketball player have a better chance of making a shot after having just made the last two or three shots than after having missed the last two or three shots? (2) Is it important to pass the ball to someone who has just made several shots in a row?[4] " Happy for the GSW win, Steph looking more like himself out there.

So sad that a historic 73 win season will end like this. Didn't even think about it but you're probably right, Steph may not be at 100%, possibly due to playing those huge minutes his first game back from the injury. Well, at least we know KD isn't leaving OKC/Westbrook anytime soon.