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In this video we see Sir George Martin, Giles Martin (his son), and Dhani Harrison listening to the mix of "Here Comes The Sun".

Suddenly Dhani opens the channel with the "lost solo guitar". And now, with the master track in the background, you can hear how it sounds in music.

That was George Harrison. A true genius. ]]> Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:16:20 CST crunchy Images & Videos 1 http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=here-comes-the-sun-the-lost-guitar-solo-by-george-harrison-%7C-open-culture http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=trey-anastasio-and-the-art-of-improvisation-interview
In what ways do you work with Phish on improvisation? Like, improvising as a full band, rather than as four individual soloists.

We had this series of exercises that we developed, called “Including Your Own Hey.” It sounds weird, but we did them a lot. They start off with a pulse. [Snaps in time] The first level is, I play a four-note phrase [sings "do-do-do-do"]; Page [McConnell] is on my right, and he imitates it on the piano; Fish [Jon Fishman] does his best to play it on the drums; then Mike [Gordon] does it on the bass. Now everyone goes around the room in a circle and everyone starts one.

It’s a copycat listening exercise.

Yeah, and then there were more levels. The next level is, I start a pattern and then Page harmonizes with it. We make a jigsaw-puzzle pattern. Then Mike finds his place in the pattern, and Fish finds his place in it. And we’re all listening to each other. Now, only when you hear that all the other musicians have stopped searching, once you hear they’ve locked in with what you’re playing, you say, “Hey!” So, since we’re still listening so intently to each other, we should all say “Hey” at the same time, but if we don’t — if someone says “Hey” when you’re still searching, they’ve basically just told you, “I’m not listening to you.” So we found, very quickly that it meant you had to always be listening to three people other than yourself. And the music, we found, improved immensely by not navel-gazing. So now the idea is, I’m not paying any attention to myself at all. I’m just responding to what they’re playing.

Then there were other levels, where you’d leave a hole in a musical phrase, and the other person could only play in that hole. That was called “Including Your Own Hey Hole.” [Laughs] So the bass lands, then the cymbal, then the guitar. [Sings, "Ba-bo-da-bing, ba-bo-da-bing."]

And this helped solidify you as a band?

Oh, yeah. We should do it again, though. We haven’t done that stuff in years. Then, in the early ’90s, we started realizing we were having tempo battles onstage. Fish would decide he’d lay back, and I’d want to rush. Every band who’s ever improvised goes through this. Then someone gives the angry glare. What are you doing? Oh my god! The gig is falling apart because you’re rushing! So one day we went into the practice room and we decided, we’re never doing that again. We did “Tempo Heys” for a week. So we’d play one note. I’d slow down. Everyone follows me. I’d speed up. Everyone follows me. I can’t lose them. And there’s no fear. That’s the important thing. Slowing down is cool. Speeding up is cool. Then we say, “Hey.” Now it’s Page’s turn. Page is speeding up and slowing down. Within two days, it stopped being a problem. When we were onstage and someone sped up or slowed down, instead of glaring, we all looked over at each other and followed them.

This is all a pretty analytical approach to improvisation, where I think a lot of people consider Phish’s music to be just “made up on the spot.”

We’re the most analytical band, in some ways. We’d talk and talk for hours about this stuff. I see improvisation as a craft and as an art. The craft part is important. There’s a lot of preparation and discipline that goes into it just so that, when you’re in the moment, you’re not supposed to be thinking at all.


Did you ever learn anything about improvisation through a book?

A lot. A lot. I studied with a guy named Ted Dunbar at the UMass jazz summer workshop. He taught me the system of tonal convergence. When I give guitar lessons, I recommend his book. There are 28 scales that converge or bombard the tonal center. They are all tension scales, and they all come with a series of chords. If you listen to the great improvisers — Pat Martino, Sonny Rollins, someone on that level — these guys all studied this stuff. Yusef Lateef. All those ’60s jazz guys. They’re not playing the diatonic notes of the chord. They’re playing outside the chord, but it’s a very natural thing to do.

Natural how?

Let me see if I can explain this. There are only three chords in music, period. Minor, major and dominant. A dominant chord wants to go somewhere because it has a tritone in it. A G dominant chord wants to go to C. That principle is physics. That’s not something that was assigned to music by theorists. When two strings are vibrating together a tritone apart, there are so many overtones that all you feel is tense, and the notes want to squish together into the home chord.

Stewie sings about it on Family Guy. [Sings, "You've got your G chord right here / It's like your cozy house where you live / That's where you start your journey / Here I am in my house nice and cozy / and then you poke your head out the door with a C chord / And everything looks OK out here / Maybe I'll take a walk outside to the D chord / Walkin' around outside, look at all the stuff out here / And then we go to an A-minor, gettin' a little cloudy out here / lookin' like we might get some weather / Then we go to E-minor, oh definitely got some weather / Things are a little more complicated than they seemed at first / And then we go back to my house."] It’s great. The 12-bar blues are based on this, too. But the jazz guys from the ’60s took this concept to Mars. They came up with 28 scales, all of which were basically substitutions for that dominant chord. The music is still simple: Major is happy. Minor is sad. Dominant is tense. That’s all there is. It never goes further than that with chords.

And you’re working with these sorts of “tonal convergence” theories when you improv onstage?

If you’re going to be doing a long improvisation, it’s boring to sit on one scale and just go up and down. There’s a lot of jam music like this, and that’s why people don’t like it. It never goes beyond that. Sonny Rollins isn’t doing that, even though he’s playing over a G-major chord for 18 minutes. It’s not just a G-major when Sonny Rollins plays it.

Herbie Hancock has this thing about an informed vocabulary but a childlike approach. He plays simple, simple, catchy melodies, but all his chord voicings have 40 or 50 years of this theory in them. So when he gets onstage it can be all childlike. Not childish. But if you ever stopped a Hancock recording and looked at a few measures of what he’s playing, you’d be floored. The voice leadings are filled with all these ideas. It doesn’t sound complicated, but it’s a more mature, elegant palette of emotions. These guys can hit an emotional chord that a lesser player couldn’t. It’s the same way a great writer with a great vocabulary can bring out subtler emotions. ]]> Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:16:00 CST crunchy News & Articles 1 http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=trey-anastasio-and-the-art-of-improvisation-interview http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=mel-blancs-letterman-interview-youtube Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:26:07 CST crunchy Images & Videos 1 http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=mel-blancs-letterman-interview-youtube http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=mel-blanc-the-man-of-a-thousand-voices-documentary Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:22:19 CST crunchy Images & Videos 1 http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=mel-blanc-the-man-of-a-thousand-voices-documentary http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=van-halens-new-album-a-different-kind-of-truth-you-and-your-blues-song Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:42:44 CST crunchy Music & Sounds 2 http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=van-halens-new-album-a-different-kind-of-truth-you-and-your-blues-song http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=world-champion-masturbation-youtube Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:07:52 CST crunchy Images & Videos 1 http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=world-champion-masturbation-youtube http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=full-zelda-the-ocarina-of-time-soundtrack-youtube Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:05:29 CST crunchy Music & Sounds 1 http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=full-zelda-the-ocarina-of-time-soundtrack-youtube http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=why-the-iphone-is-made-in-china-and-why-it-will-never-be-%E2%80%9Cmade-in-the-usa%E2%80%9D Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:36:46 CST crunchy News & Articles 1 http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=why-the-iphone-is-made-in-china-and-why-it-will-never-be-%E2%80%9Cmade-in-the-usa%E2%80%9D http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=ask-slashdot-money-making-home-based-tech-skills-good-comment-section Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:11:32 CST crunchy News & Articles 1 http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=ask-slashdot-money-making-home-based-tech-skills-good-comment-section http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=8000x8000-pixel-image-of-earth-from-nasa-2012 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:10:59 CST crunchy Images & Videos 1 http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=8000x8000-pixel-image-of-earth-from-nasa-2012 http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=national-geographic-doomsday-preppers- Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:19:44 CST crunchy Images & Videos 1 http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=national-geographic-doomsday-preppers- http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=udacity-cs-101-building-a-search-engine-learn-programming-in-seven-weeks-free Learn programming in seven weeks. We'll teach you enough about computer science that you can build a web search engine like Google or Yahoo!

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Sebastian Thrun is a Research Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, a Google Fellow, a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the German Academy of Sciences. Thrun is best known for his research in robotics and machine learning, specifically his work with self-driving cars. ]]> Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:12:20 CST crunchy News & Articles 1 http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=udacity-cs-101-building-a-search-engine-learn-programming-in-seven-weeks-free http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=any-headline-which-ends-in-a-question-mark-can-be-answered-by-the-word-no From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Betteridge's Law of Headlines is an adage that states, "Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word 'no'".
This is based on a point made by Ian Betteridge (a technology journalist who primarily covers topics relating to Apple/Mac), about sensational headlines that end in a question mark. Best explained in an article he wrote in February 2009:
One thing though: This story is a great demonstration of my maxim that any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word "no". The reason why journalists use that style of headline is that they know the story is probably bullshit, and don’t actually have the sources and facts to back it up, but still want to run it.
— [1]
The maxim trends towards being universally true because of a simple principle of headline writing: if a story has enough sources to have a high chance of accuracy, a headline will be assertive (e.g. "Apple to release OS update on Friday").[citation needed] If sources are weak, or only a single source is found, headline writers will hedge their bets by posing the headline as a question (e.g. "Will Apple release an OS update on Friday?").[citation needed]
Betteridge himself has admitted to breaking his own law, in an article published at his own site[2] addressing concerns as to whether purchases made through Apple's Mac App Store are licensed for commercial use as opposed to solely personal use.
The law seems to be derived from a maxim thought to be long-standing among journalists. Its earliest appearance in print was in UK journalist Andrew Marr's 2004 book My Trade. It was among Marr's suggestions for how to read a newspaper if you really want to know what is going on:
If the headline asks a question, try answering 'no'. Is This the True Face of Britain's Young? (Sensible reader: No.) Have We Found the Cure for AIDS? (No; or you wouldn't have put the question mark in.) Does This Map Provide the Key for Peace? (Probably not.) A headline with a question mark at the end means, in the vast majority of cases, that the story is tendentious or over-sold. It is often a scare story, or an attempt to elevate some run-of-the-mill piece of reporting into a national controversy and, preferably, a national panic. To a busy journalist hunting for real information a question mark means 'don't bother reading this bit'. [3]
The operation of the law may be referenced directly by a writer under the relevant headline, as in "Will iMessage kill wireless carriers' SMS revenues?"[4] More often it is through comments from a third party blog, for example in a response to "Can the Middle Class Be Saved?"[5] , or in the comments to an online article, "Is Apple's share price being manipulated?"[6] Since its formulation, the adage has been used extensively on tech blogs, including mentions by Merlin Mann[7] and others. ]]> Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:50:17 CST crunchy News & Articles 1 http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=any-headline-which-ends-in-a-question-mark-can-be-answered-by-the-word-no http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=kizomba-thats-a-nice-butt-- Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:01:19 CST crunchy Images & Videos 1 http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=kizomba-thats-a-nice-butt-- http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=what-is-the-real-purpose-of-women-a-bit-misogynistic-- Addicts of smartphones? Mindless consumers of corporate brands?

No, it’s simply to reproduce.

Quick—name a female scientist besides Marie Curie. Name a female artist during the Renaissance. Name a famous female architect or Nobel Prize winner. Women have been quiet in the history of the world not because of male privilege, but because they’re not designed to achieve. The advantage that nature has given them concerns solely their appearance.

[Nature] has provided her with superabundant beauty and charm for a few years at the expense of the whole remainder of her life, so that during these years she may so capture the imagination of a man that he is carried away into undertaking to support her honorably in some form or another for the rest of her life, a step he would seem hardly likely to take for purely rational considerations.

A woman loses her beauty during motherhood because it’s superfluous to her existence. For every MILF you encounter there are 100 mothers whose drab appearance would not even breach your consciousness. Western women, through their stupidity and lack of self-control, have rebuked nature’s call of taking advantage of those few years of beauty by staying fat and masculine for their entire lives. It’s too little, too late when she’s unable to attract decent men in her mid 30s or silence the call of her genes telling her to become a mother. She will remain barren, a failure in life.

I’ve always said that even shy and young girls have a competence of game that would rival that of experienced men who are much older. Female game, in the form of cunning, manipulation, lying, and charm, is hard-wired into their genetics. While some men are also born with such skills, most have to learn it through trial and error. Men of the past have found it much easier at becoming skilled at a specific trade and earning money in order to land a wife than to compete with women in the game arena. But when having a good job is no longer sufficient, like it is today, the arduous process of becoming competent at game must be undertaken. The demand for game advice has become so great that it has spawned its own industry in several countries, the first time that has happened in world history.

[Women] are sexus sequior, the inferior second sex in everything respect: one should be indulgent towards their weaknesses, but to pay them honour is ridiculous beyond measure and demeans us even in their eyes.

This is a fact that white knights will never understand. As any game practitioner knows, a woman does not respect you if you respect her. Call this sad or unfortunate but that’s the reality of human nature. Women do not like you if you attribute value to them that is not actually there. Complimenting a woman beyond her appearance, such as on her personality, courage, intelligence, or what have you, is a sure-fire way to not sleep with her. Even complimenting her beauty has become dangerous. Do so at your own peril and be hated by your penis for all eternity.

That the property which has cost men long years of toil and effort, and been won with so much difficulty, should afterwards come into the hands of women, who then, in their lack of reason, squander it in a short time, or otherwise fool it away, is a grievance and a wrong as serious as it common, which should be prevented by limiting the right of women to inherit.

There is a reason why a woman’s vagina was locked up and guarded in ancient times until marriage: she could not be trusted with her sexual choices. Look at a modern woman’s sexual behavior and ask yourself who is gaining from her promiscuity. Alpha men are gaining. She’s wasting the few years of beauty she has to fuck them with absolutely no commitment or strings, and soon will be left alone, without a provider, and nothing to show for her prime years of beauty besides HPV and a bitter attitude. Ancient practices were followed to specifically avoid this outcome, no matter how “misogynist” they are to the modern feminist cunt.

There is no point in wasting any more energy worrying about their plight. They made their bed and will now lie in it while sucking off the alpha she just met in the bar. Having game, being alpha, and understanding the true nature of women allow today’s man to be harem masters of the past. I’m enjoying this party to no end, but one day the music will stop. And then I’ll adapt again. ]]> Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:25:37 CST crunchy News & Articles 1 http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=what-is-the-real-purpose-of-women-a-bit-misogynistic-- http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=using-amazons-cloud-supercomputer-to-render-your-3dsmax-animations-tutorial The Elastic Renderfarm - an inexpensive rendering solution

Amazon offers a great service through Amazon Web Services called “Elastic Computing.” Through EC2, you can build your own renderfarm with render core costs as low as $0.06 per core hour.

Through these tutorials, I demonstrate how to set up your own Backburner renderfarm for Autodesk’s 3DS Max and Maya software. ]]> Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:35:15 CST crunchy News & Articles 1 http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=using-amazons-cloud-supercomputer-to-render-your-3dsmax-animations-tutorial http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=how-to-clean-up-old-code 2. Set debug breakpoints at the start of each piece of cruft code and rigorously test the app.
3. Create a custom exception (e.g. CrapCodeHitException) and throw it at the beginning of each code segment you want to remove. If you don't hit any of the exceptions after, say, a week of normal browsing doing other things, plus testing, then proceed to step 4.
4. Catch the CrapCodeHitExceptions at the highest level you dare, log this into a separate log file you will have permission to read. Commit the code into a releaseable branch so that it ends up on your QA and staging servers.
5. Get approval to have the logging code be pushed to staging. Add comments above each cruft piece of code stating a) the level of risk you think if it is removed, b) when one should feel free to remove it (pick increments like 3 mo, 6 mo, 1 yr, based on risk), c) your name. If shit hits the fan cuz of removal, you want to man up and accept responsibility so your peers don't waste precious cycles needlessly troubleshooting why this "perfectly fine" code was seemingly arbitrarily removed.
6. After each time of your comments has elapsed, if the code was never triggered (parse the logs!), feel free to remove it. Please leave a note behind that you removed such and such, tho, and stick your name on it. Remove these notes after a year.

I've personally cleaned up 100,000s lines of code using this mechanism on several large and complex sites, without a single failure. ]]> Fri, 13 Jan 2012 23:59:04 CST crunchy News & Articles 1 http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=how-to-clean-up-old-code http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=password-haystacks-how-to-design-a-super-strong-password%C2%A0%C2%A0
Every password you use can be thought of as a needle hiding in a haystack. After all searches of common passwords and dictionaries have failed, an attacker must resort to a “brute force” search – ultimately trying every possible combination of letters, numbers and then symbols until the combination you chose, is discovered.

If every possible password is tried, sooner or later yours will be found.
The question is: Will that be too soon . . . or enough later?

This interactive brute force search space calculator allows you to experiment with password length and composition to develop an accurate and quantified sense for the safety of using passwords that can only be found through exhaustive search. Please see the discussion below for additional information. ]]> Fri, 13 Jan 2012 23:13:02 CST crunchy News & Articles 1 http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=password-haystacks-how-to-design-a-super-strong-password%C2%A0%C2%A0