apparently Europe passed regulations banning wireless devices that can be flashed with #free-software: “Beschreiben Sie im Detail, wie das Gerät gegen ‘flashen’ und die Installation von Drittanbieter-Firmware wie DD-WRT geschützt ist”.
Skunking Stroustrup’s lame example program for downloading a web page and extracting links from it in like 50 lines of C++, including one version in bash using /dev/tcp/$domain/80, which I had forgotten existed.
Confucianists and Legalists categorized society into “shi (gentry scholars), the nong (peasant farmers), the gong (artisans and craftsmen), and the shang (merchants and traders).” In that order of value. (This #caste system is an interesting contrast interestingly with brahmins, kshatriyas, vaishyas, and shudras: shi is a hybrid brahmin-kshatriya caste, the nong, gong, and shang are lumped together into the vaishyas, and the shudras don’t appear at all.) This inspired Physiocracy, the first school of #economics, in France, with Taoist “wu wei” becoming “laissez faire”.
A dissertation #paper on #OCR (or rather “OMR”) of #music scores in #handwriting. #computer-vision
an #ebook on “#music and computers” with some math stuff but mostly simple #DSP stuff, along with how it's used in practice in synthesizers.
a #pdf #ebook “Linear Predictive Coding and the Internet Protocol”, by Robert M. Gray, explaining the history of #LPC #speech-codecs in #DSP and the history of the development of IP, especially UDP. Covers all the #math of LPC. #protocols
An online copy of Paul Lansky’s 1988 #music "Notjustmoreidlechatter", played with segments of his wife talking.
The #MP3 of #Notjustmoreidlechatter from the Acousmata blogpost about it.
“Cardinal spline filters: Stability and convergence to the ideal sinc interpolator”, "Aldroubi 1992", shows that polynomial spline interpolants (?) converge to the sinc function rapidly (?). #splines #math
the 1252-page #ebook, al Muqaddimah, by Ibn Khaldun, about basically everything in the entire human world, written in 1377. This is Book One of the Kitab al 'Ibar, Ibn Khaldun’s seven-book history of the world, which survives. This is from the late 1300s.