[messaging] Useability of public-key fingerprints

Robert Ransom rransom.8774 at gmail.com
Thu Jan 30 10:16:20 PST 2014


On 1/30/14, Robert Ransom <rransom.8774 at gmail.com> wrote:

> One obvious approach for the severely visually impaired (but not also
> deaf) is to feed a PRNG's output to a Markov-chain music generator.
>
> ‘Music, Physics and Engineering’ (second edition) by Harry F. Olson
> (ISBN 0-486-21769-8, first published in 1967) describes an electronic
> device which used trigram frequencies of notes, and unigram
> frequencies of rhythm patterns for each measure, to generate music in
> the style of Stephen Bishop.

Aaargh.  Stephen *Foster*, not Stephen Bishop.  (I keep getting those
two names confused.)


Robert Ransom


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