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Intelligent MIDI Sequencing with Hamster Control
An anonymous reader writes "Levy Lorenzo managed to build a MIDI sequencer that is powered and operated by hamsters. The hamsters work in teams of two to control melody and rhythm, and Markov chains are used to modify the hamster-based inputs. The sample MP3 sounds pretty good." From the article: "The MIDI sequencer intelligently produced melodies by manipulating the musical elements of rhythm and note-choice. Guided by inputs based on hamster movements, Markov chains were used to perform such beat and note computations. In culmination, 3 simultaneous voices were produced spanning 3 octaves and 3 rhythmic tiers."
You really have to wonder why when posting an article on slashdot about a MIDI output that you would post an MP3 of it and not the MIDI file generated.
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Table-ized A.I.
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"Ad infinitem et ultra!" - Buzz Lightyear
"I like Slashdot for what it is. With users picking the stories I might up with a site substantially different."
Yea and for all you know it might be better.
What exactly is it that makes the people that are doing most of the picking special? OK if Rob and Hemos did all the picking maybe that would be true to the original spirit of Slashdot and adhere to his Faq answer, that he wants to post stuff he finds interesting to the front page. Well Rob doesn't do the lions share of the front page filtering any more and I think Hemos is long gone. Its now done by a semi random and often fluid bunch of employees who don't have anything special to offer over the average Slashdot reader.
And the key point you seem to miss is they apparently don't even seem to be reading Slashdot otherwise they would notice all the dupe submissions. So what exactly is it about them thats magic, at least slashdot readers doing the moderation would probably mean the people picking the front page stories would have actually read Slashdot which doesn't appear to be the case now.
Like I said give it a try and just post a couple stories a day from user moderation on the front page and see how it works, assuming some one takes the time to set it up right and work out the kinks. I'm willing to bet it couldn't be worse than what we've been seeing lately. You also can't bury moderated submissions in a section of their own because no one will read them. The front page is the only thing most people read, you can tell by the dearth of postings on all the articles that don't make the front page.
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