[dba-Tech] Building a self-driving car

Sun Jan 3 01:35:24 CST 2016

I don't read everything on OT.  I just blow through a lot of hit - read the
fist 140 characters and hit delete.

r 

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-Tech [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of
Arthur Fuller
Sent: Saturday, January 02, 2016 5:02 PM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Building a self-driving car

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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