July 2009
30 posts
Play
Play
Play
“Yesterday, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the moon landing, the three astronauts from Apollo 11 visited the White House. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were allowed to set foot inside the White House, while Michael Collins was forced to drive around in circles outside.”
—Conan O’Brien
“Prisons used to be a non-profit business, too. And for good reason — who the hell wants to own a prison? By definition you’re going to have trouble with the tenants. But now prisons are big business. A company called the Corrections Corporation of America is on the New York Stock Exchange, which is convenient since that’s where all the real crime is happening anyway. The CCA and similar corporations actually lobby Congress for stiffer sentencing laws so they can lock more people up and make more money. That’s why America has the world’s largest prison population — because actually rehabilitating people would have a negative impact on the bottom line.”
—
Bill Maher (via azspot) This has always infuriated me. (via asprettyasasong) (via mikehudack)
I feel really strongly about this. It’s one of the worst things about California, who imprisons practically as many people as Texas and whose prison guard union is one of the most powerful groups in Sacramento.
(via justinday)
Recursion Rocks
def __flatten_list(parent_list):
this_list = []
child_list = []
if type(parent_list) is not list:
return [parent_list]
for i in parent_list:
if type(i) is list:
child_list = __flatten_list(i)
for j in child_list:
this_list.append(j)
else:
this_list.append(i)
return this_list
That turns: [1, [2, [3, 4], 5], 6] into [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]. I’m sure I’ll discover a better pythonic way of doing this later.
Python CSD Package
I’m four weeks into learning python, and have spent most of this time writing a package for parsing and modifying Csound code. Last night, I finally got it to the point where it can do some pretty useful stuff with very little code. For example:
def swap_pan_position(x): return 1.0 - x
selection = sco.select(score, {0: ‘i’, 1: 2})
selection = sco.operate_numeric(selection, 6, swap_pan_position)
new_score = sco.merge(score, selection)
That small snippet of code selects all instrument 2 i-events, runs every 6th parameter with the swap_pan_position() function, and merges the results back with the original score.
Before:
i 2 0 4 1.0 880 1.0 ; p6 is pan
i 2 + 4 . . 0.25
i 2 + 4 . . 0.999
i 2 + 4 . . 0.0
After (look at the far right column):
i 2 0 4 1.0 880 0.0 ; p6 is pan
i 2 + . . . 0.75
i 2 + . . . 0.001
i 2 + . . . 1.0
Very convenient to have something like this, especially if one is to modify dozens, if not hundreds of fields.
Download csd_v0.0.3alpha. Online docs here.
“Joe the Plumber — you can quote me — is a dumbass. He should stick to plumbing.”
—Meghan McCain (source)
Play
