How different is writing from code? How different the sensation of identifying in language, and the sensation of almost-identifying in code? I feel a bit of empty shame giving over the process of identification and remembering like this, to a digital object. I think we’re all wondering about this a bit. It isn’t clear. Where. […]
Author Archives: pitchflock
naturalizing
… and what should be natural, in starting, on a Tuesday morning? I must go to the bottom of things, it’s early. What is a file, how does VS Code place itself on the Terminal? Still a new environment for me, I feel myself questioning the decisions behind its organization, and not being able to […]
Skimming
After a period of highlighting and detail, I had to get an overview of the chapters beyond chapter 4 in “TensorFlow for Deep Learning.” Convolutional Neural Networks look most promising, in passing. Meanwhile, I have to start poring over the statistical examples in Chapter 4 (see below: ‘Impediments’), to make sure I’ve got clear visions […]
Impediments
Or what I have been doing all these years is approaching these impediments. There are three examples in chapter 3 of TensorFlow for Deep Learning. Only one seems to work: A patient debugging of linear_regression_tf.py shows that line 37 brings a world of pain. And the shortcode doesn’t work here… new WordPress. Fixing this will […]
Starting with Visual Studio Code
Notating my own slow progress: Editing Python in Visual Studio Code. There are strange impediments, always. It is almost impossible to understand instructions on the first reading. But patience. Who wants to blog about reading the strange prose of tech-splanation? Unless it’s blogging about the strange patience that it takes to read online instructions. So: […]
Visual Studio Code / Python / TensorFlow
The basic installation of Visual Studio Code is simple enough. Python is setup with Anaconda. This seems to open up a lot of options. Tensorflow also was an easy install. The Python in Visual Studio Code page gives a pithy introduction to the environment, though generating a launch.json file with the red-dotted ‘Settings’ button produced an […]
… and enough theories
so now a step-by-step account of progress. Somethings have been built. Some things need building. All needs description, for my own account and memory, and for anyone in the ether.
Platform
The algorithm has been written in C. This is convenient in that the entirety of it can be reduced to unsigned short integers. Portable and permanent. However — ultimately the vector libraries of Python, along with the power of TensorFlow and other ML resources, must likely be the goal. C/C++ is better for integration with […]
Flocking bits
I think of all this as a sensible introduction to non-binary computing. It is more than just interesting that: 1) a musical, number-theoretical treatment of groups of bits can contain such a vast amount of harmonic information of a more or less intuitive (Jazz-related) type; 2) the problem of indefinite location/identification appears as a problem […]
Doing
Watching people learn instruments, it is hard not to wonder whether some of the beauty of playing lies in the simple fact of its being done — a fact wildly underrepresented in digital music. There is in digital music the fact of things being conceived. But moment-for-moment facts, unpaste-able, in real contact, making sensual sense, […]