I found this entertaining, like all her videos:
Part 6: You cannot hear radio waves.
https://youtu.be/0j4_-7rwWjE?si=9XKhErO03LQLPgvp&t=3910
I like the genre "noise". But some of my friends who are true fans have some perverse
tastes in music. E.g. a couple of them *hate* what they call "noodling" ... like Joe
Satriani or Yngwie Malmsteen ... mostly sounds like they're playing scales. They argue that chords
and rhythm guitar, as well as drums, are way more interesting/entertaining to them. I find that
somewhat contradictory. It just seems like you can't really be a fan of noise without liking
noodling, at least when it's appropriate ... not gratuitous. But apophenia's a thing. So maybe
noise is an ultimate art form, where the artist can intend anything she wants without constraining
the audience in their imputation?
Composers *think* they're generating these things. But most mathematicians are
Platonic. Maybe the composers are actually *discovering* music as opposed to
generating it?
On 9/10/25 8:57 AM, Steve Smith wrote:
Yes. Thank you. I was beginning to fear i had asked an unfair q. Gpt got it on
the first pass and then went on to say some interesting things about
mathematics and semantics
i think questions of this type *are* implicitly "unfair" (whatever that means). Without
attributing malice to Nick, it is of the type of question known as "trick", either deliberately
misleading gesturing in an arbitrary (mis)direction or simply deliberately obscuring/withholding context
which might otherwisemake the question "obvious".
I'm not a big fan of the whole domain of "trick questions" generally up to and including highly respected
(e.g. NYT) crossword puzzles, "Trivial Pursuit" or "Jeapordy". This might seem odd as I *am* a
fan of esoteric knowledge... perhaps just not using it as tool for "getting one over on others" (still not
impugning Nick as having intended such).
I do appreciate some of the responses here, including Glen's meta-narrative and Nick's
tease of "GPT nailed it right away!" though that does have the taste of shaming
the rest of us (as if GPT IS one of us?) for not being as broadly trained on obscure
facts and patterns as GPT is?
Grumbling about "trick questions" aside, Nick's claim of: "interesting things about
mathematics and semantics" is compelling to me. I can't help but want to know what that
actually grounds out as?
I'm wondering if GPT calls this question out as a "category ambiguity" (/ambiguity/
being.a subcategory of /error/)? I could dive in with GPT and discuss these sequences and
everyone's guesses, etc... but despite my fascination with LLM-relations I don't want to compound
my already over/mis-use and speed the paving of the planet with Data Centers beyond what I'm
already doing with GPT. Like noodling (yet) better/more-subtle methods for using natural materials
to build an a addition onto my home (just in time for a massive data-center blob to grow, looming
over the horizon, inevitably sucking my humble adobe-abode into "the Matrix"?
- grumbleSteve
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