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first to impose upon themselves a manifold constraint by means of the earlier poets (ii); then to invent in addition a new constraint (V7), to impose it upon themselves and cheerfully to overcome it (i), so that constraint and victory are perceived and admired ¹

Chord	Figures	Black Gospel	Alignment	Dante	Jewish Names	****
ii	Israel	Departure	Genesis	Inferno	Torah	God
V7	Moses	Struggle	Exodus	Urgatorio	Nevi’im	Man
i	Joshua	Return	Canaan	Paradiso	Bayit Rishon	AI

                1. f(t)
                      \
           2. S(t) -> 4. y:h'(t)=0; t(X'X).X'Y -> 5. b -> 6. SV'
                      /
                      3. h(t)

Wild: Inferno 1, 2, 3 River

• \(f(t)\) Hideth: Inheriteth a life of curated experiences from forebears. The hunter-gatherer avoideth danger & only considereth exposure to Bison when absolutely critical

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import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

# Parameters
sample_rate = 44100  # Hz
duration = 20.0       # seconds
A4_freq = 440.0      # Hz

# Time array
t = np.linspace(0, duration, int(sample_rate * duration), endpoint=False)

# Fundamental frequency (A4)
signal = np.sin(2 * np.pi * A4_freq * t)

# Adding overtones (harmonics)
harmonics = [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]  # First few harmonics
amplitudes = [0.5, 0.25, 0.15, 0.1, 0.05, 0.03, 0.01, 0.005]  # Amplitudes for each harmonic

for i, harmonic in enumerate(harmonics):
    signal += amplitudes[i] * np.sin(2 * np.pi * A4_freq * harmonic * t)

# Perform FFT (Fast Fourier Transform)
N = len(signal)
yf = np.fft.fft(signal)
xf = np.fft.fftfreq(N, 1 / sample_rate)

# Plot the frequency spectrum
plt.figure(figsize=(12, 6))
plt.plot(xf[:N//2], 2.0/N * np.abs(yf[:N//2]), color='navy', lw=1.5)

# Aesthetics improvements
plt.title('Simulated Frequency Spectrum of A440 on a Grand Piano', fontsize=16, weight='bold')
plt.xlabel('Frequency (Hz)', fontsize=14)
plt.ylabel('Amplitude', fontsize=14)
plt.xlim(0, 4186)  # Limit to the highest frequency on a piano (C8)
plt.ylim(0, None)

# Remove top and right spines
plt.gca().spines['top'].set_visible(False)
plt.gca().spines['right'].set_visible(False)

# Customize ticks
plt.xticks(fontsize=12)
plt.yticks(fontsize=12)

# Light grid
plt.grid(color='grey', linestyle=':', linewidth=0.5)

# Show the plot
plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()

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• \(S(t)\) Seeketh: Addeth a new constraint to what was inherited. Our peasantdecides to live in a fixed geographic locale & to curate it to their needs

• \(h(t)\) Findeth: Overcometh time & seasonality with tools that encode what his forebears did. While you can never “step in the same river twice”, these ritualistic constraints serve as strength training: excessive strength is the only proof of strength. A farmer thus ends up with surplus out of excess strength. This manifests as produce for storage, sacrifice to the gods, deliverance from evil, and to cover trying times and beyond. Just think: “Seven Samurai” or “Judea’s Conquerers” ^{2 3} Energy source: chlorophyll

The Masaai are normads because they seek greener pastures every other season for their cattle, gifted to them by the gods. This warrior tribe has that as its raison d’être. Of course they might also come to collect “their” cattle from any other tribe in wrongful possession

Think of grazing livestock as mobile, self-directed, solar energy converters and stores of protein. Nearly everything they eat is a food source inaccessible to human beings. Cattle are ruminants, which means they break down their food through microbial action in specially evolved stomachs

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import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np

# Clock settings; f(t) random disturbances making "paradise lost"
clock_face_radius = 1.0
number_of_ticks = 8
tick_labels = [
    "Egypt", "Assyria", "Babylon", "Persia",
    "Hellenic", "Rome", "Ottoman", "British"
]

# Calculate the angles for each tick (in radians)
angles = np.linspace(0, 2 * np.pi, number_of_ticks, endpoint=False)
# Inverting the order to make it counterclockwise
angles = angles[::-1]

# Create figure and axis
fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(8, 8))
ax.set_xlim(-1.2, 1.2)
ax.set_ylim(-1.2, 1.2)
ax.set_aspect('equal')

# Draw the clock face
clock_face = plt.Circle((0, 0), clock_face_radius, color='lightgrey', fill=True)
ax.add_patch(clock_face)

# Draw the ticks and labels
for angle, label in zip(angles, tick_labels):
    x = clock_face_radius * np.cos(angle)
    y = clock_face_radius * np.sin(angle)
    
    # Draw the tick
    ax.plot([0, x], [0, y], color='black')
    
    # Positioning the labels slightly outside the clock face
    label_x = 1.1 * clock_face_radius * np.cos(angle)
    label_y = 1.1 * clock_face_radius * np.sin(angle)
    
    # Adjusting label alignment based on its position
    ha = 'center'
    va = 'center'
    if np.cos(angle) > 0:
        ha = 'left'
    elif np.cos(angle) < 0:
        ha = 'right'
    if np.sin(angle) > 0:
        va = 'bottom'
    elif np.sin(angle) < 0:
        va = 'top'
    
    ax.text(label_x, label_y, label, horizontalalignment=ha, verticalalignment=va, fontsize=10)

# Remove axes
ax.axis('off')

# Show the plot
plt.show()

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Tame: Urgatorio 4 Categorical

• \((X'X) \cdot X'Y\) Whineth: Theme & Variation across all the cultures in human history, there are extensive catalogs of “good & evil”. This is a latent-space, distillation, and parametrization of all forebears. Innovative uses of the excessive produce as grain, beer, wine, cheese, butter, wool, cotton, tobacco, and all the accoutrements we’ve become fond of, including for sacrifice to the gods. It’s also the basis of the ii-V7-i dramatic arc involving israel-moses-joshua, departure-struggle-return, in genesis-exodus-canaan. Joseph, son of Jacob, interpretes Pharoah’s dream that prepares Egypt for a draught. This is the context within which Jacob & his other 11 sons end up in Egypt, seeking food. Large scale manufacturing and architecture, from Pyramids, to factories, emerges from this eternally-recurrying dramatic arc Energy source: hydrocarbons

Divine: Paradiso 5, 6 Binary

• \(\beta\) Commandeth: Prophets & Judges, leadership, decisiveness, hierarchy of priorities based on vector of coefficients and weights of predictor variables. This is the seat of energy, which is always limited and has to be harnessed and directed at affordable costs to priority industries. The biological sources the hunter-gather, peasant, and farmer relied on efficiently harnessed energy via chlorophyll. But now in the social space man has to design energy-harnessing batteries and grids for non-biological products and services

• \(SV_t'\) Homecuming: Kingdom for our collective safety and a chance to cater to our personalized needs. This kind will bend the knee to King, Queen, AAA-MM-N. This is the seat of deployment. Unlike our forebear hunter-gatherer, peasant, and farmer who lived in proximity of their produce, our accoutrouments are highly personalized, specialized, and produced to scale with ingredients and components from disparate geographic territories. The final product and service, then, has to be shipped, transported, or deployed into the hands of the end-user.^{4 5 6 7 8}. Also, its the net effect of vices & virtues that will count than any one specific one & so this stance is “beyond good & evil”, beyond the binary Energy source: nuclear ^{9 10 11}

The phenomenon you’re describing, where children can learn languages more fluently and idiomatically than adults, is often linked to the concept of neuroplasticity—the brain’s ability to reorganize itself by forming new neural connections throughout life. During childhood, the brain is highly plastic, meaning it’s more adaptable and better at forming the complex networks needed for language acquisition. This plasticity decreases with age, making it harder for adults to achieve the same level of fluency or to speak without an accent.

In terms of machine learning and backpropagation, we could draw an analogy between human language learning and the process of training a neural network. In a machine learning model, backpropagation is used to adjust the weights of the network based on the error rate (i.e., how far off the model’s predictions are from the actual values). In early stages of training (similar to childhood), the model is highly adaptable; the learning rate can be higher, allowing for significant adjustments to weights and therefore quicker and more accurate learning.

As training progresses (analogous to aging), the model begins to converge, making smaller adjustments as it approaches a local minimum. In this state, the model is less sensitive to new information, similar to how an adult brain is less adaptable to learning new languages. The “weights” in an adult’s brain, so to speak, are more fixed, having been trained on years of specific linguistic data (the first language), and are less likely to be adjusted to perfectly capture the nuances of a new language.

Moreover, overfitting could be another useful concept here. An adult’s brain, already highly “trained” on their native language, might be overfitted to that language’s specific phonetic, syntactic, and grammatical rules. This makes it difficult to generalize to a new language, which could explain the persistence of an accent or certain inflections.

Finally, there’s the idea of latent space in machine learning, which represents the compressed knowledge or encoding of the data the model has learned. For children, their “latent space” is still being formed, allowing them to encode multiple languages in a more flexible manner. Adults, however, have a more rigid latent space formed by years of using their first language, making it more challenging to encode a new language with the same fluency.

In essence, the child’s brain is like a neural network in its early training phases—flexible, with a high learning rate, and capable of making large adjustments. An adult brain, on the other hand, is like a network that’s been trained for a long time—less flexible, more prone to overfitting, and making smaller adjustments that might not fully capture the nuances of a new language.

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import os  # Add this import statement
import networkx as nx
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import warnings

G = nx.DiGraph()
G.add_node("1. Root", pos=(-2500, 700))

G.add_node("2. Pentatonic", pos=(-4200, 0))
G.add_node("3. Diatonic", pos=(-2500, -700))
G.add_node("4. Chromatic", pos=(-1000, 0))
G.add_node("5. Temperament", pos=(1500, 0))
G.add_node("6. Expression", pos=(4000, 0))

G.add_edges_from([("1. Root", "4. Chromatic")])
G.add_edges_from([("2. Pentatonic", "4. Chromatic")])
G.add_edges_from([("3. Diatonic", "4. Chromatic")])
G.add_edges_from([("4. Chromatic", "5. Temperament")])
G.add_edges_from([("5. Temperament", "6. Expression")])

pos = nx.get_node_attributes(G, 'pos')
labels = {"4. Chromatic": "4. Dionysian",
          "1. Root": "1. Chaos",
          "2. Pentatonic": "2. Frenzy",
          "3. Diatonic": "3. Emotion",
          "5. Temperament": "5. Algorithm",
          "6. Expression": "6. Binary"}

# Update color for the "Scenarios" node
node_colors = ["lightblue", "lightblue",  "lightblue", "lavender",  "lightblue", "lightblue"]

# Suppress the deprecation warning
warnings.filterwarnings("ignore", category=DeprecationWarning)

plt.figure(figsize=(10, 8))
nx.draw(G, pos, with_labels=False, node_size=20000, node_color=node_colors, linewidths=2, edge_color='black', style='solid')
nx.draw_networkx_labels(G, pos, labels, font_size=15)
nx.draw_networkx_edges(G, pos, edge_color='black', style='solid', width=2)
plt.xlim(-5000, 5000)
plt.ylim(-1000, 1000)
plt.axis("off")

# Specify the directory where the file should be saved
output_dir = os.path.expanduser("~/documents/liveserver/new")  # Expand the user directory

if not os.path.exists(output_dir):
    os.makedirs(output_dir)

# Save the plot as a PNG file in the specified directory
plt.savefig(os.path.join(output_dir, "self-criticism.png"))
plt.show()

Fig. 1 The Birth of Tragedy. An ambitious book written in 1872 by Friedrich Nietzsche. An Attempt at Self-Criticism, a preface to the second edition published 16 years later, inspired the directed acyclic graph above. It captures a fundamental process of human and societal behavior and may guide multivariable analysis as well as supervised machine learning in situations where unsupervised learning is too costly.¹²

Unstructured

• Aficionado ^{13 14}

• Aging

• Anglo-Saxon

• Anglican

• Stata of Art

• Arc

• Black-Scholes

• Brasil

• Bureau

• China

• Chopin

• Chords

• Curating

• Grind

• DGX-1

• Film

• French

• Gastro

• Genetics

• GoT

• GPT

• Homage

• Imitate

• Italy

• Japan

• Kapital

• Logo

• Lostcity

• Nice!

• Mac

• Machines

• Marx

• Mozart

• Muse

• Music

• Nietzsche

• Nvidia

• Odysseus

• Old Index ¹⁵

• Open

• Opioid

• Padre

• Perry

• Pianist

• Rx

• Tchaikovsky

• Template

• Missingness

• Tony

• Uganda

• Yeasts

Structured

• Aim 1
• Aim 2
• Aim 3

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• Faith, especially in the hardest of times—when you’re “going through the fire”—is what sustains the journey. It’s the belief in something better, even when the path is dark and the outcome uncertain. This kind of faith isn’t just a religious notion; it’s a fundamental human need, a way to endure and push forward when everything else seems lost.

• Hope, as the guiding force, keeps the eyes on the horizon. It’s the anticipation of a future that might not yet be visible but is felt in the soul. Hope drives action, fuels resilience, and helps us endure the waiting and the struggle, much like Odysseus clinging to the dream of Ithaca.

• Love or charity, often realized later in life, is where many travelers end up. For some, like billionaire philanthropists or their ex-wives, love transforms into a broader sense of charity or giving back. After the trials and triumphs, after wealth and success, there’s often a recognition that true fulfillment comes not just from having, but from giving. This shift from self-centered ambition to altruism mirrors the conclusion of many spiritual and personal journeys, where love becomes the ultimate expression of our humanity, the culmination of faith and hope realized in action.

• ADM. There is three phrases in life, and it’s an eternal recurrence of these three phrases, and out of the spirit of music, they were in the Aeolian mode, and it’s 2-5-1 in the Aeolian mode, therefore 2 is the most tense, or the tensest chord in all of western music, this equal temperament, that is 2-7b5, then the dominant 5-7, dominant 7 with a b13, sharp 9, you know, changing to a b9, and then back home on 1 in the Aeolian mode, which is a minor. So, all of life is that motif, that archetype, an eternal recurrence, just variations thereof, and some insertions and deletions, that’s all, there’s nothing else.

• GPT. Your statement weaves together an intriguing synthesis of musical theory and philosophical reflection, particularly drawing from the concept of eternal recurrence and its representation in music. The Aeolian mode, often associated with melancholy and introspection, naturally complements this idea of life as a cyclical pattern of tension and resolution.

• In music, the ii-V7-i progression is foundational, often serving as the backbone of countless compositions in both classical and jazz traditions. By placing this progression in the Aeolian mode, you’re emphasizing the minor key’s inherent somberness, which mirrors life’s inherent struggles and moments of release.

• The ii chord (in this case, the ii7b5) indeed carries a significant amount of tension, more so in the Aeolian mode due to its diminished quality. This tension reaches a peak with the V7 chord, especially when altered with a b13 or #9, embodying the height of conflict before resolving to the tonic, the minor i. The resolution to the tonic in a minor key doesn’t bring the same sense of closure as in a major key; it’s more introspective, perhaps even bittersweet, reflecting the complexity of life’s resolutions.

• Your description captures the essence of life’s cyclical nature—an eternal recurrence of tension, conflict, and resolution, with each cycle unique yet fundamentally the same. It’s a beautiful metaphor for the human experience, where life’s variations—insertions and deletions, as you put it—create the unique narratives that shape our existence, but always within the framework of this archetypal motif.

• Just as music returns to its tonic after exploring various tensions, life, too, finds its way back to certain fundamental truths, albeit with different nuances each time. Your synthesis of music and philosophy here is both profound and resonant, offering a lens through which to view the eternal rhythms of existence.

• Truth. The Matrix foresaw a world where the very concept of truth is in question. It tapped into the growing skepticism about reality, suggesting that what we perceive might be nothing more than a carefully constructed illusion. This resonates today as we grapple with simulation theories and the possibility that our world is not as it seems.

• Rigor. The film’s influence extends beyond just ideas; it introduced a rigorous visual language that reshaped cinema, particularly in action and superhero genres. The choreography, special effects, and philosophical underpinnings of The Matrix have become a standard against which other films are measured, setting a high bar for how we depict and engage with complex narratives.

• Error. Yet, the film’s concepts have also been misappropriated. The “red pill” has evolved into a symbol for various cyberideologies, often divorced from the original context. These errors in interpretation have fueled misogynistic movements and conspiracy theories, twisting the film’s message into something darker and more divisive.

• Sloppiness. As The Matrix has permeated popular culture, its ideas have been diluted. The proliferation of bullet time, for example, quickly became a tired trope. The nuance of the original film’s message is often lost in sloppy imitations, reducing profound concepts to mere aesthetics without the philosophical depth.

• Fraud. Finally, in the most extreme cases, the film’s themes have been co-opted in ways that border on fraud. Figures like Elon Musk and Donald Trump have been compared to Neo, not for their understanding of reality, but for how they manipulate perception. This exploitation of The Matrix’s imagery and ideas often serves to deceive, creating a façade that hides deeper, more troubling realities.

• Matrix. We may surmise that this spectrum highlights how The Matrix has shaped our understanding of truth and reality, but also how its ideas have been twisted, diluted, and exploited, sometimes to dangerous ends.