Converting hundreds of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach into mathematical networks reveals that they store lots of information and convey it very effectively

I didn’t need proof myself, but I suppose it’s comforting nevertheless to have it mathematically confirmed.

  • ulkesh@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    5 months ago

    He was! But he overused the harpsichord, in my very humble and unfounded opinion, and it hurts my ears to listen to a lot of his creation. I get why he did (the piano was still a very new creation, and the harpsichord could be more easily heard in concert halls), but it sure does pierce the eardrum these days.

  • gregorum@lemm.eeEnglish
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    5 months ago

    was this really a worthwhile expenditure of effort? certainly mathematicians could have found something better to do with their time?

    • driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br
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      5 months ago

      You really never know what mathematics discoveries can do. Number theory was an useless brach of mathematics, considered an useless endeavor of theoretical mathematics and basically a hobby. Until modern computation and the RSA algorithm gave number theory an use, and without it, the internet as we know it, couldn’t exist.

      • rooster_butt@lemm.ee
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        5 months ago

        a or an is based on the next words consonant or vowel sound. It’s a useless and a use. Because the word use has a y sound not a u sound. An example of a u word that uses an would be an umpire.

        Sorry on mobile so adding quotes is a pain.

    • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
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      5 months ago

      i choose to believe that this is what maths nerds do in their spare time when theyre not using their abilities to cure cancer and stuff.

      this sand is cold

      • gregorum@lemm.eeEnglish
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        5 months ago

        fair, i guess? when i’m not professionally graphic designing, i shitpost star trek memes, although nobody can convince me that that’s not a worthwhile expenditure of my time :)

        • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
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          5 months ago

          my kid reminded me of something similar one day… i was kinnda making fun of all these kids sitting around watching some guy play a video game… youtube or whatnot… it was a whole big genre i guess.

          anyway i was having a problem identifying with this arrangement…lightly teasing them about watching this when my then 12 year old says ‘how is it different than sitting at/watching on tv any ballpark watching other people play those games?’ … he might as well have added ‘old man’.

          for some reason, when it he put it like that it just kinda slapped some reality into me.