music21 is a Python-based toolkit for computer-aided musicology.

via: https://www.madmusicalscience.com/arcaexplanation.html via: https://dmitri.mycpanel.princeton.edu/index.html via: https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2025/11/beyond_the_geometry_of_music.html

Most rejected, and all institutions let the clock run out on the deal. Guess Kornbluth set a trend. Trump has expanded the compact to all colleges: we’ll see if anyone bites.

the urge to try to attain a true “infinite rabbithole” of interpretation - a game whose secrets may never be fully plumbed - is a damn tempting one. and depth may be plumbed from even fixed sources!

Useful tools for navigating Moira lists at MIT

We introduce a versatile method for finding prime numbers that display surprisingly intricate visual patterns— hypothetically, any desired pattern is possible, with only mild distortion. We use this method to locate several examples of large prime numbers that are, in and of themselves, self-referential works of art.

Good presentation on ologs.

More than 20 percent of undergraduates have indicated sexual interest in another undergrad on a web app designed to decrease the effort required to begin a sexual relationship.

I’m Alice, a technical AI safety writer. I write the ML Safety Newsletter and my personal writing is on LessWrong. I have a background in technical ML, but pivoted to communications because I think this is where I can do the most good.

Features an MIT student from my class.

This is a description of the Scmutils system, an integrated library of procedures, embedded in the programming language Scheme, and intended to support teaching and research in mathematical physics and electrical engineering. Scmutils and Scheme are particularly effective in work where the almost-functional nature of Scheme is advantageous, such as classical mechanics, where many of the procedures are most easily formulated as quite abstract manipulations of functions.