[dba-Tech] Building a self-driving car

[Arthur Fuller]

Point taken, Jim. I unsub'd from dba-OT a while back because so much of its
content was a waste of time, but your point is well-taken, so I'm going to
re-sub as soon as I post this reply.

Lately I've found myself un-subscribing to dozens of sites that I deemed
essential reading a year or two ago. But in recent months the
Signal-to-Noise ratio has overwhelmed me, and I've been un-subbing to more
and more and more outlets.

But dba-OT and AccessD and dba-SQL are worth my attention, and shall remain
so. So I'm about to re-sub to dba-OT.

A.

On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 7:25 PM, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:

> This is such an interesting topic. :-) Too bad it is not on the OT. ;-)
>
> Jim
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Arthur Fuller" <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
> To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <
> dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
> Sent: Saturday, January 2, 2016 1:26:41 PM
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Building a self-driving car
>
> Good for her, Rocky. I cannot claim such immediate proficiency; it took me
> several months to apprehend the wah-wah-wah discordancies and to resolve
> them to wah-wah and ultimately wahhh-wahhhh. It's impossible to tune a
> guitar or any other stringed instrument perfectly; you instead tune it to
> the piece you're about to play In your case, stand-up bass, you've got
> considerably more leeway, and even if the humidity undermines your current
> settings, you as a skilled player can sharpen or flatten a note to suit,
> with a mere half-centimeter shift to find the right harmonic shift. I
> admire that sort of adept acuity immensely. Can't do it quite so quickly on
> guitar, due to frets, but I deeply admire those such as yourself who
> consider frets beneath your skill-set.
>
> There is a piece, perhaps the most celebrated of all time, for solo violin,
> called the Chaconne, from Bach's Partita in A minor, with a D Major section
> that makes me weep, in the right hands. You have to play it with some
> rubato to pull out the reluctant sadness in this superficially sunny
> movement.
>
> I've heard the Chaconne played on bass a couple of times. Can you do it? I
> meant that as a mere hopeful question, not a challenge. It's probably my
> fave piece in the world. I have about 30 versions, and opinions to match
> them as to how well they unfolded the treasures in that ostensibly simple
> 8-chord walk through the park. But it continues to slay me, again and
> again, since I first stumbled upon it about 50 years ago.
>
> I wish I could write code that good. I fear that this is the province of
> genius, and I don't live there. I'm competent but certainly not a genius.
>
> A.
>
> A.
>
> On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 12:38 PM, Rocky Smolin <rockysmolin at bchacc.com>
> wrote:
>
> > A lost skill. Now that you can have a cheap Snark tuner clipped to the
> head
> > and it shows you exactly where you are relative to the pitch you want.
> >
> > I recently taught my son's GF to play the uke.  First lesson - tuning,
> and
> > I
> > made her tune it by ear to see how good her pitch perception was. It was
> > spot on.
> >
> > r
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: dba-Tech [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf
> Of
> > Arthur Fuller
> > Sent: Saturday, January 02, 2016 8:40 AM
> > To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> > Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Building a self-driving car
> >
> > Way back when, I owned a BMW 2003 ti. Man, I loved that car! I was so
> > atuned
> > to the music of its engine that I could slam-shift it through the four
> > gears
> > without touching the clutch pedal, and no gear-grinding at all, ever.
> > Almost
> > like tuning a guitar.
> >
> > Speaking of guitars, when I first began guitar it would take me a long
> time
> > to successfully tune it. But a year later I could do it in a few seconds,
> > and that has stuck with me over the decades. Recently I was in a nearby
> > pawn
> > shop looking for a guitar, and tried out about 5 of them, all of which
> > needed tuning (surprise). I had brought my tuning fork with me and in the
> > space of about 3 minutes had tuned them all. But I decided none was
> > appropriate so I left empty-handed. But it was nice to realize that the
> > skill of guitar-tuning, once mastered, never leaves you. And it's the
> same
> > with manual transmissions. There's a joy to be hand in sensing the music
> > inherent in them (well, actually, in the engine itself rather than the
> > tranny). But you get the idea.
> >
> > On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 9:09 AM, Jon Tydda <jon at tydda.plus.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Manual transmissions aren't about efficiency, they're about fun :-)
> > >
> > >
> > > Jon
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Arthur