jsaramak.bsky.social
Professor @Aalto University, Finland. I am a network scientist, bass guitar player, a fan of coherent writing, and a general enthusiast.
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Sort of global (through an app), but quite unreliable and bound to change without warning
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Compared to this trip, that sonification is far too orderly and organized. The beginning was more Zappa than Kraftwerk
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It did, but the shortest path required 4 trains instead of 2: trains just dropped passengers at random Dutch stations on the way and told us to wait for the next one
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Solution: my cognitive limits prevent me from taking a route involving 4 German regional trains and computing alternatives should any or those connections fail -> waiting for the shortest path to materialize.
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Sama. En tiedä olisiko liikaa toivottu, että kolmesta arvioijasta edes yhdellä olisi edes yksi julkaisu hakemuksen tieteenalalta?
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Yes, and sometimes it’s good to let your subconsciousness do the work. Maybe I’ll write more about this on some occasion. But at least to me, the best ideas (including RQs and hypotheses) come when I am not actively looking for them. Reading books is slow, and slow is good!
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That is a tragically missed opportunity indeed
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🙋♂️
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I used the MIDIFile package (midiutil.readthedocs.io/en/1.2.1/) and then wrote a layer of code on top that assigns MIDI notes to interaction events
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Thank you, it was fun writing it
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Here's a suspense movie soundtrack masterpiece: one person's phone calls on piano and text messages on upright bass, pitches = different friends (no degrees yet). Still jazzy, I'll dig out the 808s & distorted square waves next users.aalto.fi/~jsaramak/eg...
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Yep, and here we have it in time! Of course, instead of a model, I can use real temporal networks (like, calls) — have done so already and indeed there's a funky daily/weekly rhythm embedded in all the burstiness! Sick beats coming up here shortly :-)
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Thanks for the degree idea! This is an ER, but yeah, for a broader degree distribution hubs=low, loud & low-k nodes=high, soft, shimmery might sound great!!
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The jazziness comes from time-domain power laws; burstiness, no real regularity. To me, the drumming sounds very human & intentional: entirely random timings wouldn’t. There’s suspense!
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...aand the same as a jazzy drum solo (drum hits instead of pitched notes, using Logic's Drum Kit Designer): users.aalto.fi/~jsaramak/cr...
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(SIS on a network, sentinel nodes are given random pitch + make a sound when the wave hits 'em, and the sequence is fed into a synth. Ping @thilogross.bsky.social @schichmax.bsky.social )