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Harlan Brothers in Cantor’s Paradise
John Coltrane’s album Giant Steps, first recorded in 1959, stands out as one of the seminal recordings in jazz history. While it is best known for its title track “Giant Steps”, the third track, “Countdown,” is a similarly virtuosic performance over a challenging chord progression at a blistering pace...
Harlan Brothers in Cantor’s Paradise
More than two centuries separate The Art of Fugue, written by Johann Sebastian Bach, and the primitive computer printout of the first graphical representation of what is arguably the most famous fractal...
Harlan Brothers in Cantor’s Paradise
Alice: “Give me as many digits of π as you want. I will demonstrate how you can turn them into digits of e.” …
Harlan Brothers in Towards Data Science
Music is a rich source of multi-dimensional data. This data can take the symbolic form of a score, usually represented by MIDI values, or the form of an audio signal. For many years...