DimensionX

Heh-heh, it's okay, I'm a bit too sleey for your wit today.

Though tomorrow would be grand. It's nearly twelve o'clock and I have to crowd under the loving palms of radio four for the night.

Tick-tock-tick-tock.

Dear sir, I can never catch you on Msn.

So tell me, how are you wasting your good time?

31 *sigh*
How are you?

Hello, love. Quite well. Kind of starting the day with browsing the forums while I wait for these things to print. I start on my next section today, so I'm pretty excited. How has your day been going so far?

To catch me.

Oh. Considering the pros of celibacy.
Thinking about reading.


You?

Sleepy sleep.

Excellent, actually! I finished all the tests I wanted to do today, and tomorrow, I start on the new section. How about you?

I don't think I'll be catching you later today after all. I found a groove and I'm working with it
Talk to you tomorrow!

Hey Lee, could you PM me the message that you were trying to tell me last time in tinychat? The time where I couldn't register because I was too tired at the moment.

Oh you are too much. Thanks, though, for keeping me on track.

I've accomplished about.... oh... one and a half hours worth of work today. heh.
It's been an odd one. Random people calling.

It is a crafty ploy. Back to work. I'vebeen a frazzled ball of distraction today.

Not toiling at all. lol.

*snuggle*
All right, all right. Back to work. Hope you're TOILING too
I'll catch you after dinner, hopefully.

Lee, what the shit, it's 6am for you and you're already awake.

I really hope it's because you've got to be somewhere.

An Interesting quote:


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Vipassana meditation is a set of training procedures which open us gradually to this new view of reality as it truly is. Along with this new reality goes a new view of the most central aspect of reality: 'me'. A close inspection reveals that we have done the same thing to 'me' that we have done to all other perceptions. We have taken a flowing vortex of thought, feeling and sensation and we have solidified that into a mental construct. Then we have stuck a label onto it, 'me'. And forever after, we treat it as if it were a static and enduring entity. We view it as a thing separate from all other things. We pinch ourselves off from the rest of that process of eternal change which is the universe. And then we grieve over how lonely we feel. We ignore our inherent connectedness to all other beings and we decide that 'I' have to get more for 'me'; then we marvel at how greedy and insensitive human beings are. And on it goes. Every evil deed, every example of heartlessness in the world stems directly from this false sense of 'me' as distinct from all else that is out there.
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I thought this was relevant to our conversation about the concept of the self and the idea of rewards based solely around the concept of personal gain.

Actually, I will trade you Ti for Fe (plus some Ni).

I did too. I think future conversations with you would give me an excellent opportunity to exercise my Fe in a more personal manner than in text; I didn't utilize it much with our last conversation. Not sure what you stand to gain besides strengthening of your own ideas and perhaps picking up on some random topics thrown out there.

My co-workers like to use me as a springboard for ideas sometimes.

I was thinking about that whole music/software programming thing, that wouldn't actually be a bad idea. Not sure if it has been done before (I am sure it has) but a module could be made to summarize a musical composition and make recommendations based on the analysis of the existing material.

The hardest part would be the theme recognition/summarization algorithm, but I am not exactly sure what all factors would come into play because I am not advanced enough in music. Certain weighting factors could be implemented for interval, melody, harmony, rhythm. As the music goes further away from the current location of where a recommendation would take place, the summarization would become greater, although I would think there would be a fairly granular analysis of the first and last beats in a measure. Something like that could be sold directly to a company or licensed out to multiple companies.

The distance from the relevant location where generated music would go could affect the weighting priority placed on, it gets less the further out it goes, although those would need some sort of isolated algorithm in itself to recognized theme patterns. There would need to be a large dictionary of theme patterns and how they are classified.

As a beginning build something more simple could be done such as only analysis of the tempo, timing, and a selectable theme which then just generates a random bar or measure in the key of the composition. Maybe some limited analysis of rhythm, melody, harmony.

The idea is to create a generator that doesn't necessarily create a perfect filler, but rather kicks off ideas to kill composition block.