A really cool YouTube video by Numberphile. Professor Philip Moriarty maps a giant string of numbers in Pi to notes in C# and plays them back. On his computer, and on his badass electric guitar.
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From the predetermined consequence of an electronic slot machine, to all the advanced algorithms that recommend what entertainment to consume. Mankind’s vision of a predetermined destiny changes significantly. Rather than being of a supposed divine essence -divinity created by humans to begin with- it misfires and is rationally interpreted as man-made phenomena. This in turn can perhaps have a negative effect when culture, human activity, is involved. No futile, insensitive, code-strip should decide what I want to see and hear. Continue reading