Re:Pseudoprose
by caseyohara on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @08:58PM
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Base 12 is awesome. I've worked extensively in Base 12 on some music-related hobby projects and it makes me resent humans for having 10 fingers, which probably lead to our Base 10/decimal reality. Base 12/the dozenal system is objectively superior in so many ways.
Re:Pseudoprose
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @09:38PM
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Funny thing about the fingers. There are twelve knuckles comprising the non-thumb fingers on one hand. I think that fact has actually influenced some civilizations to a base 12 number system but I can’t remember specifically which.
Wikipedia is also very vague (and I don't have access to the references) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duodecimal#Origin
> Seriously, it's got functions and everything is represented in base twelve.
How is that weird? 12 semitones is pretty traditional and base 12 is generally convenient thanks to 12’s factors. If you want to be really self indulgent go for base 420 so you can evenly divide by 7.
i'm opposite the guy who 'critiqued' you.
I appreciate 'programmers' approaching 100year old crafts, and instead of blindingly accepting 'you MUST do it this way!', they curiously investigate and consider the 'but WHYs' of doing it a particular way.
If the old way is any good, it can stand up to this informed scrutiny..
OTOH, every toddler inventing his own broken javascript-dialect-framework with 5 broken square wheels every 6 minutes, THAT I could do without..
> informed scrutiny
If it is that, fantastic. It usually isn't.
If you haven't already, watch the newest tantacrul video, it is fantastic and very much on topic: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Eq3bUFgEcb4
I'm 100% guilty of applying to "programmer's brain" to everything. You'd cringe if you saw the alt music notation I've been working on for the past decade. It's an ascii abomination. Seriously, it's got functions and everything is represented in base twelve.
Anyway, I thought pseudoprose was worth sharing because of how LLMs might change the writing process itself. I've been experimenting with using GPT to expand ultra-condensed notes into essays. But I've found that I'm too obsessive over my writing voice to ever let it fill in gaps for me haha
But even without LLMs, I still naturally gravitate to writing with pseudoprose. It's how I've taught myself to structure thoughts. But maybe thoughts don't need structure, and that's just my programmer's brain imposing order on the orderless :)