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HHornbein replied to the thread Who is your favorite Jazz musician and what is your favorite song?.Cybil Shepard sings Blue Moon. Bruce Willis pretends to play the trumpet. (Trumpet is one of the most difficult instruments.)
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HHornbein replied to the thread Who is your favorite Jazz musician and what is your favorite song?.Julie London was so popular in Japan the TV network flew her across the Pacific and back, no small thing in 1962 or whenever. This song...
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HHornbein replied to the thread The Ultimate Fusion Keyboard Solo.They are similar. That effect is a triggered bandpass filter, sometimes called an envelope follower. This tune reminds of Baby...
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HHornbein reacted to jackjack2025's post in the thread What do computer science engineers do? with
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Mostly fix bugs that other people have left behind :) -
HHornbein reacted to DaveC426913's post in the thread Anyone like “2001: A Space Odyssey?” with
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Not a lot of people know this but a lot of these scenes were filmed on Earth to save production costs. -
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Consider a cloud of non-interacting dust particles in free fall near a black hole: no electric forces at all, yet the cloud stretches... -
HHornbein replied to the thread Today I Learned.Today I learned that commercially sold teak oil contains no teak oil.
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HHornbein replied to the thread Making a Giant Telescope Mirror Takes Years.In Bangkok's Don Mueng airport is a corridor. The floor is polished by a robot. Shiniest floor you ever saw, reflects the lights like...
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HHornbein posted the thread An AI to Write Data Analysis and Modeling Programs in Computing and Technology.https://seas.harvard.edu/news/ai-system-automates-coding-scientific-research They say it's faster and better than what humans can do...
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HHornbein replied to the thread Undergrad MOND disproved at large scales.MOND is just fitting a curve to data. As such it can't be proved or disproved.
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HI happened to tune in to the premier of this. I missed breakfast because I was afraid if I left and came back later it would no longer...
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HHornbein replied to the thread A homemade mechanics problem: A beetle on a globe.He says it isn't required to be a great circle so the path isn't required to be straight. The idea could be that the insect's path is...
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HHornbein replied to the thread An "Untranslatable" Word?.Indonesian, same. I suspect most languages are like this. Requiring a pronoun is artificial, unnecessary. In Indonesian gendered...
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HHornbein replied to the thread Extremely Weird Music.The "singer" is now a deacon in Hawaii.
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HHornbein replied to the thread A homemade mechanics problem: A beetle on a globe.If it were obliged to rotate around a fixed axis then one number would be enough to describe it's motion so it would have one degree of...