https://vimeo.com/194116649

Steve Martin in conversation, 2002. 34:20 to 36:00 is this exact question.

Later, Robin Williams joins him on stage. My cameo starts at 1:01:40, inaudible and off-camera, because I'd traded a seat up close for two in the balcony so my future wife could join me.

I threw together a logarithmic slider for HTML (when I knew little about JavaScript and HTML). I hoped someone would take it and run with it and we would see more logarithmic slide rule calculators on the web.

(Top, yellow slider, cannot be interacted with):

https://www.engineersneedart.com/ohmslaw/index.html

Sources (such as they are):

https://github.com/EngineersNeedArt/SlideRule

This post is by the same author as the Lost Art of Logarithms. https://www.lostartoflogarithms.com/

Discussed about a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43356314 (196 comments)

Hard to believe that article doesn't contain the phrase "slide guitar".

I'm blocked for some reason, probably too much HN referred requests...

• altairprime

  today at 12:32 AM

  Enable JavaScript and let the site issue a “not an AI” cookie and it should then be usable. (I have a JS button for this on my toolbar and it’s come in handy a lot recently..)

  • karim79

    today at 2:17 AM

    Are you serious you have a "I am not an AI" widget?

Loved the article. Didn't love being blue-balled by the conclusion but still great stuff.

The question is can those frets run Doom

Vibrating strings are Turing-complete

• ycombiredd

  today at 2:34 AM

  That just reminded ne of something from here I had completely forgotten about. Someone had posted making sort of dubious claim of guitar power chords being Turing complete. I made some small improvements (as I saw it, chiefly around how they had implemented their clock) to the code they posted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42294766 which lead me down a rabbit hole of guitar tab as opcodes, which eventually lead to something useful after throwing away the silly guitar virtual machine, since I had now done the work of implementing far more than the simple tablature parsing code I intended. That project that resulted from the silly toying around with tab notation as machine code lead to a midi-to-tab generator, which lead to audio to midi to tab, and a bunch more.

  That project, for anyone interested in such things, is today https://github.com/scottvr/gtrsnipe There are useful demonstrations in the repo's wiki.

• glouwbug

  today at 3:14 AM

  Now they need templates