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Now that Ruby has crested the hype cycle, settled down and taken out a mortgage, you’d expect the posts around the community to be more about big business concerns. Whilst that might be true, I’d like to row against the tide by telling you about the fun I had figuring out how to write my first C extension - fast_osc - and how I made Sonic Pi 10x faster in the process.
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Working with Sonic Pi one of the exciting things about being able to code music is the potential for using algorithms. For the non-technical reader, I like to think of algorithms like following a recipe. You might start with the same ingredients but the order in which you do things can affect to outcome.
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There are many solutions for getting data from pdfs. I’m going to describe how to use the excellent Java library PDFTextStream by Chas Emerick (of Clojure fame) to get data out of tricky pdfs.
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This is more of a reminder to myself than a blog post, but it might prove useful to others.
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A quick note for anyone else who runs into this.
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In a 1993 paper by Anders Ericsson, he was one of the first to make the claim that mastery of a skill took around 10 years (about 10,000 hours) of deliberate practice.
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This is more of a reminder to myself than a blog post, but it might prove useful to others.
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Now that Ruby has crested the hype cycle, settled down and taken out a mortgage, you’d expect the posts around the community to be more about big business concerns. Whilst that might be true, I’d like to row against the tide by telling you about the fun I had figuring out how to write my first C extension - fast_osc - and how I made Sonic Pi 10x faster in the process.
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There are many solutions for getting data from pdfs. I’m going to describe how to use the excellent Java library PDFTextStream by Chas Emerick (of Clojure fame) to get data out of tricky pdfs.
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This is more of a reminder to myself than a blog post, but it might prove useful to others.