Just going to add this RE: reliability. Today CPUs are so powerful you don't need DSP systems anymore to do things like low latency tracking. It is still up to the user to manage latency by carefully selecting plugins, etc. With DSP based systems, the latency is generally fixed and extremely stable. I still use a very old PTHD system because it works great for recording audio :)
My 286 with a Voyetra Sequencer, which is still in use, is much more reliable then my modern PC in terms of tracking and timing.
You need a real time system, perfect task separation and _not_ an unreliable USB interface.
It has absolutely nothing to do with CPU power.
Also my Atari with Cubase 3.1 is much much better with MIDI timing then every modern PC setup.
Think about it. :-)
Just to be clear I'm talking about digital audio, not MIDI. I ran Cakewalk on my 386/486 as well, it worked great including SMPTE sync over to an analog tape machine
As a practical matter, the CPU has to deal with IO as well, I don't believe any 486 systems could handle this.
DSP based systems struggled a lot with IO in the late 90s until faster SATA drives became ubiquitous. Lots of them used SCSI or exotic hardware cards to deal with large track counts.
The first version of Ardour was written on a 25Mhz 486 and could record 24 tracks of 24bit 48kHz audio without breaking a sweat.
It did have a SCSI drive, but in 1999 I did not consider that "exotic", having been using them on various Unix workstations for more than a decade before that.
I used to use special FireWire extension card to have low latency, however I think this has been fixed in usb 3.0. the problem is when you have multitrack mixer that sends you many outputs all of them being different soundcards visible to the computer. Of course one guitar + VST will give you a little lag but you'll just push it back a little and it will do. Or will it?
Music is very latency sensitive. If you are recording any source you generally want to have overall latency < 5ms. Input and monitoring latency is usually either handled by using fancy DSP systems or a "hack" where input audio bypasses any internal processing and gets routed directly back for monitoring.
I feel I must point out that education buildings in Missouri do not share designs with prisons as a norm. Maybe this is true somewhere in the state but not here.
People look at ugly schools, and they look like prisons, and the kids are captive in the ugly buildings, so it invites the prison metaphor. But makes no sense. Schools are a series of classrooms, prisons are a series of small cells. The designs would not be reusable at a fundamental level, or any practical level.
There are in fact a great many school room sized cells in the United States. "Dormitory" housing is the norm for a significant percentage of inmates in jails, prisons, and immigration detention centers (imagine a school gym filled with bunks and you're often not far off). To add to the school-prison linkage, many facilities have lockers as well, replete with padlocks that make dandy weapons.
That said, I am still doubtful there are 1:1 copies of jails being used as schools, regardless of visible similarities. I don't see any of these supposed jail/high schools with secured rec yards for instance, which generally make up part of the structure of the facilities that look most like the examples given.
Don't listen to this Ozarkian tweaker. He has been fed some fringe anti-education propaganda his whole life and chooses to maintain life inside a glass bubble.
We have something that has been dubbed a "divergeabout" which is a hybrid diverging diamond intersection with roundabouts chucked on both ends. I'm pretty sure these work based entirely on fear and confusion. Fortunately this particular intersection is not really in a pedestrian area. We have roundabouts in our neighborhood and I had the same concerns about crossing when my kids were younger and walking to school.
I had a chademo fast charging station clamp on my car and refuse to let go, along with not actually doing any charging. They tried resetting the charger but nothing worked. It eventually timed out and gave up after 12 hours or so. No harm done to the car but quite annoying.
The authors of the paper do make a few concrete points about the problems with using AI to perform assessments on candidates. For example they mentioned that an AI designed to perform a Big Five assessment on a candidate might be meaningfully impacted by the candidate wearing glasses or having a bunch of books in the background.
The vast majority of the critique is that to the extent anonymization works, it does not produce the outcome the authors desire. They explicitly ask for group based discrimination to be pre-baked into any sort of AI system to produce equity, not equality.
"First, industry practitioners developing hiring AI technologies must shift from trying to correct individualized instances of “bias” to considering the broader inequalities that shape recruitment processes. Pratyusha Kalluri argues that AI experts should not focus on whether or not their technologies are technically fair but whether they are “shifting power” towards the marginalized (Kalluri, 2020). This requires aban- doning the “veneer of objectivity” that is grafted onto AI systems (Benjamin, 2019a, 2019b) so that technologists can better understand their implication—and that of the corporations within which they work—in the hiring process. For example, practitioners should engage with how the categories being used to sort, process, and categorize candidates may have historically harmed the individuals captured within them. They can then begin to problematize the assumptions about “gender” and “race” they are building into AI hiring tools even as they intend to strip racial and gender attributes out of recruitment."
Further, it’s important to compare the outcomes here to the counter factual, which must involve lots of individuals making decisions that are not based on explicitly coded up rules… ie rules that can be reviewed for bias and improved on collectively.
My experience is that spacers or not, using these with glasses is uncomfortable. Adding prescription inserts are more comfortable and provide a better visual experience. I bought some very cheap glasses and 3d printed the inserts. They have magnetic mounts and you can remove them easily.
The district where my kids attend have suggested this on a few occasions. Frequently advanced math is the target. The district has hired a consultant that is charged with professional development for educators in the district. Among other things, the consultant makes claims that tracking is "... a racialized system of exclusion.” and compares it to Apartheid on multiple occasions. The rationale is explicit: "The biggest problem with tracking–by a million miles — is the equity issue." In my opinion combatting inequity in this way, by eliminating a resource that students need to succeed, is an example of “leveling down” or "Harrison Bergeroning" the situation if you will.
The Scouts who responded to this incident were passengers on the train that derailed. They were returning from Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico. It is traditional for Scouts to take the trip to and from Philmont on a train.
