synnick

Fun! I didn't know somebody had an OSS project that did this - 22 years ago. The abstract of their paper reminds me of the story about the early Amazon team setting up a bell to ring in their office every time they sold a book.

Two years ago, I wrote a similar tool [1] to play notes in a C-Major scale based on the moving average of network events on a network interface.

The amount of dependencies the project has makes the cost of getting the thing to run much higher than the satisfaction of it running! Not fun!

I will go out on a limb and say that a times-series of system performance somewhere on your desktop is a better solution long term than listening to sounds that you play continuously from a speaker.

[1]: https://github.com/NSkelsey/monopticon/tree/master/contrib/e...

The language on the landing page suggests that every time you click Try Now a new image is generated.

> Click the button below for an AI-generated abstract painting. Built for artists, developers, and hobbyists.

Really though there is a gallery of around 10,000 pngs on a Wordpress site.

Fake it 'til you make it!

I find this article disingenuous and misleading to readers. Yes, there are cultural and demographic differences between Italy, China and Germany, but the subtitle claims a level of certainty that the experts interviewed in the piece do not support.

> "The country's high death toll is due to an ageing population, overstretched health system and the way fatalities are reported"

This can be read with a level certainty that minimizes the seriousness of this virus for English speaking readers that may be faced with making life saving choices over the next week.

Further, the Italian expert interviewed __in the article__ underlines the importance of not searching for explanations, because right now it is hard to be certain.

> “It’s too early to make a comparison across Europe,” he says. “We do not have detailed sero-surveillance of the population and we do not know how many asymptomatic people are spreading it.”

Unfortunately the author chooses to make exactly such a comparison in the fourth paragraph!

> In very crude terms, this means that around eight per cent of confirmed coronavirus patients have died in Italy, compared to four per cent in China. By this measure Germany, which has so far identified 13,000 cases and 42 deaths, has a fatality rate of just 0.3 per cent.

This is a moment where we need very concise and accurate information. Even if this article comes from a reputable source, I find it misses that mark.

I find significantly more enlightening the ISS's (Istituto di Sanità Superiore) info-graphics which are prepared quasi-daily. [1] They are translated into english. [2]

Stay safe out there.

[1]: https://www.epicentro.iss.it/coronavirus/sars-cov-2-sorvegli... [2]: https://www.epicentro.iss.it/coronavirus/bollettino/Infograf...