All disciplines have interesting histories that explain their development. For some reason, different studies seem to ‘value’ their history differently. Art and music students are required to study art and music history with multiple dedicated classes. Computer science and mathematics students do not have to study math or computer science history in a typical undergraduate […]
Frequency bands are often used in analysis or input representation, for example, in mel spectogram, there are a number of bands of differing frequency widths used to represent the signal. In synthesis, frequency bands are also used. However, synthesizing a frequency band of non zero width is usually a noisy process. The most common way […]
I wanted to write in-depth book reviews for books that I enjoyed in 2020 at the very start of the year. Well, it’s already a month and I haven’t gotten to it. So to kickstart it, I’m just going to make the task easier and just list some of the books I read in 2020 […]
Probability is a hard thing for humans to think about. The debate between Bayesian and orthodox (frequentist) statistics around the relationship of event frequency and probability makes that clear. Setting that aside, there are a whole bunch of fields that care about log probability. Log probability is an elemental quantity of information theory. Entropy is […]
We accept that certain events that happened in the early course of our lives influence us with a permanence that lives on in our identity. For many people music will be one of those events. In the opening of High Fidelity the main character sarcastically warns about the dangers of music for kids. In this […]