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yaxu

@yaxu@post.lurk.org

Non-academic #UKRIFLF research fellow at non-profit org https://mastodon.thentrythis.org/@thentrythis, working on algorithmic patterns (@alpaca).

Instigator of https://post.lurk.org/@tidalcycles, and co-founder of https://post.lurk.org/@algorave, https://assemblag.es/@toplap, algomech festival, etc

I tend to post live coding related things as https://social.toplap.org/@yaxu

he/him

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TodePond, to random
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if you're in england or wales you MUST VOTE tomorrow

you MUST VOTE

for fucks sake VOTE

and BRING PHOTO IDENTIFICATION

YOU NEED IT THIS TIME

yaxu,
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@TodePond Unless you REGISTERED FOR A POSTAL BALLOT and FORGOT TO POST IT, then you can still fill it out and DROP IT OFF AT ANY POLLING STATION although I think I saw somewhere that you have to FILL OUT A FORM THIS TIME

yaxu,
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@TodePond GREAT

yaxu, (edited ) to random
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Studio recordings are so overrated
Spiritualized live 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Bd7IKGtKwE

grahamdunning, to random
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Coming to the end of writing revisions to a conferemce paper. Now 350 words over the maximum, and one of the comments was already that it was too long.
This process is really bloody hard.

yaxu,
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@grahamdunning I treat any word limits as a guideline, and find it ok to disagree with reviewers ;)

sean_ae, to random
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wait what

yaxu,
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@sean_ae æ-ziq ? Reminds me of talking to my friends after going to the warp lighthouse party and it was clear that we'd all seen different autechres. No one knew what anyone looked like in those days and the information architecture was not strong that night. Also you didn't play your greatest hits

yaxu,
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@sean_ae Heh yes that rings a distant bell!! and tells me we probably had the right autechre then ;)

yaxu,
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@adeward @sean_ae You have way better memories than me, I'm impressed

yaxu, to random
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If you're on an online community, please search "elephant in the room" and share what the elephants are.

Here's the ones from the future of coding slack:

  • DCI architecture (not sure what that is)
  • Haskell crypto
  • Code quality
  • Incoherence of ownership
  • No one in UK government listens to evidence
  • Functional reactive programming
  • IDEs
  • Browsers being crap at resizing in tiling window managers
  • The elephant being the room
  • Bret Victor
yaxu,
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@noggynoggy @allpurposemat I think they were talking about layout

yaxu, to random
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Open access is all good, but non-academic folks now have to pay as much as $1k to contribute a paper to an ACM conference, on top of registration cost and other expenses. Perversely, this could see academic computer scientists become even more isolated.. https://audiomostly.com/2024/call/acm-policy/ https://www.acm.org/publications/icps/author-guidance

TodePond, to random
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Append

do you know how hard it was to get this right

https://www.todepond.com/lab/append

a user interface where you type in two text boxes and they get appended. its bi directional though and you can edit the resultant string too

yaxu,
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@TodePond For some reason I alternated pasting the bottom one between the left and right ones and realised like all good FoC demos it was generating the fibonacci sequence

yaxu, to random
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My 'why we bleep' conversation with Mylar Melodies is up! https://www.whywebleep.com/whywebleep/2024/algorave

yaxu, to random
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When I first started making algorithmic music with Ade Ward 24 years ago (as Slub), we decided to only make music with software we'd made ourselves. I've mostly stuck to that aim ever since, although after a couple of years we added a rule that we'd make a fundamental part of the software during performances to keep things interesting.
I'm starting to get a bit fed up with just doing that so now I'm thinking about adding an additional rule - only live code algorithmic music that I can run without a computer. My plan is to switch between live coding and manually performing algorithms. If I'm brave enough I'll try this out for my next gig..

yaxu,
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Here's our original manifesto from Y2K..

yaxu, to random
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I've been thinking about doing a bigger live coding event in Sheffield but it's difficult to get funding to pay artist fees and expenses, and it's not really possible to cover them from ticket sales. In the old days people often weren't paid to play but this excludes people who can't afford it.. But it was much easier to make events happen. How do people feel about this these days, both organisers and people travelling to perform (and of course those who do both)?

yaxu,
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@vegemitepumpkin Yep that sounds good. One problem is that different people have very different benchmarks to compare themselves with financially, and the more privileged background you have the less familiar you are with the idea of sharing what you have..
Plus academics in particular are very used to claiming for expenses whereas others aren't even familiar with the process of invoicing.

TodePond, to random
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Tool

https://www.todepond.com/lab/tool/

dragging and drawing with a pencil and rubber

yaxu,
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@TodePond The rubber got stuck in the middle of my portrait :(

yaxu, to random
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Nice podcast chat between Auriel Majumdar and Rian Treanor "Rotherham is the new Berlin"
https://shows.acast.com/state-of-the-arts/episodes/rotherham-is-the-new-berlin

yaxu, to random
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Whoop I got accepted to ! Looking forward to it including working with @mikst and @lizziewlsn on some e-textile sensor + sound stuff
https://pif.camp/what-is-pifcamp/

celesteh, to random
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Today I learned there exists a thing called two body coupled oscillators, which can be mass spring or pendulums in series and they're chaotic.

My questions:

  • Are there any physical musical instruments that use this as their sound generation system?

  • Can this be modelled using a standard analogue modular synthesiser?

  • Is there any sample code of using this kind of system to generate audio or control waves for DSP?

yaxu,
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@celesteh Christian Faubel @derstrudel does this sort of thing

yaxu, to random
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Strudel is too addictive https://strudel.cc/?Er88OsfCyeGt

yaxu,
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can you work out the pattern? https://strudel.cc/?6xjR_r7RUaPn

yaxu,
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@polinski It'd be great to see what you can do with it! https://strudel.cc/?FTWzDTIdjMGD

publicdatalab, to random

Special issue on Critical Technical Practice(s) in Digital Research co-edited by Public Data Lab members Daniela van Geenen, @kfvanes & @jwyg is now out!

Featuring contributions on machine learning, digital methods, art-based interventions, one-click network trouble, web page snapshotting, social media tool-making, sensory media, supercuts, climate futures and more: https://publicdatalab.org/2024/04/24/critical-technical-practices/

If you’re interested in critical technical practices, there's also a new list: https://jiscmail.ac.uk/CRITICAL-TECHNICAL-PRACTICES

yaxu,
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@publicdatalab @kfvanes @jwyg super interesting but a shame some of the articles have a £29 paywall..

yaxu, to random
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On the train to Aachen, falling in love with @strudel's new stepwise functions https://strudel.cc/?LSngl_Vg2IBs

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