And we're probably even a little bit better than that, because not every tuner is going to pay for a listing. And the ones that are listed might have several tuners in them. So we're actually pretty close in this regard.So, next, I'm going to get into -- what I hope will be -- some fun examples for you
competes in the this is a mouthful the Continental Tires sports car challenge Street tuner class IMA series um Lewis has a long history in racing but I was particularly interested to find out that he's a graduate of the Chilean Air Force Academy welcome leis
But hey, it was a CRT, and it worked, so that's all they needed. They didn't need the tuner . And then they were trying to figure out how to do memory.
Wonderful, I think. It's a good form. You touched upon the piano and piano tuner . The piano seems to manifest itself in almost every story.
And basically is, he would go up to his students and say, "You. Tell me the number of piano tuners in Chicago.” And of course, you know, I can tell by the blank stare on your face that you have no idea how to do that.
number?” Well, if you look in the Chicago Yellow Pages, there's about 40 listings for piano tuners . So we're off by less than a factor of ten. And we're probably even a little bit better than that, because not every tuner is going to pay for a listing. And the ones that are listed might have several
He was supposed to be a concert pianist and then stage fright did for him. And it's during his day as a piano tuner he meets a lot of pianos and a lot of people. So I'd written that story.
So one of the things today in modern society are singers use a lot of Auto-tuners . See, Auto-tuners , Auto-tune is just one way. You have so many ways which can completely modulate your voice and transform any of the songs.
know, one or two times a year. You go a little bit further. You say, "Maybe a piano tuner tunes two pianos a day.” And it's helpful to know the number of people in Chicago is about three million people.
There's got to be a lot of prisons in India and China, right? Don't you guys have that interview question about how many piano tuners in New York? Isn't that a thing?
When PLATO started, one idea was for the display, they would use video RAM and a CRT. And so they went off and bought a-- they found a used $10 television set that the tuner was broken. But hey, it was a CRT, and it worked, so that's all they needed.
Me, me, me. Write about me. And so for example the first story I wrote was called Barcarolle and it was about a piano tuner who has terrible-- He was supposed to be a concert pianist and then stage fright did for him.
there's about 40 listings for piano tuners . So we're off by less than a factor of ten. And we're probably even a little bit better than that, because not every tuner is going to pay for a listing. And the ones that are listed might have several tuners in them. So we're actually pretty close in this regard.
If it bonds together, it can do miraculous things. So one of the things today in modern society are singers use a lot of Auto-tuners . See, Auto-tuners , Auto-tune is just one way.
estimates. So the first step in this process is to use what you know or look up what you don't know. So I can start by saying, "Well, you know, I can't figure out offhand just how many -- I don't know offhand just how many piano tuners are in Chicago. But I know roughly five percent of my friends, you know, or like one out of 20 of my friends owns a piano.
came after the book was published and, therefore, is not in the book. But it's still a very, very poor argument because you still have left unexplained where the fine tuner came from.
But I wondered what would happen if we could actually have an ecosystem that lived within the television signals? So, I created Couch Potato Farm that is a virtual ecosystem that watches television. So, it's a software system into which I feed a television signal from a television tuner . So, this is an example image from a television program and it lives off the television signal and you can see its effects by it's, it changes the television signal. So, if we had a clean transmission we'd see the image on the left, but after
the lobby here running on a series of programs just from live television. So, I wanted to explain a little bit about how the system works. It takes in television signals from the TV tuner and then processes them through two kinds of artificial life systems. One is a cellular automaton, which is similar to Conway's Life. So, this is an earlier example
economics. This is a story taken from Kevin Kelley's "New Rules." But it was ... In 1963 the transistor had just been invented and commercialized by Fairchild, and they needed to gain market share. And at the time they were competing-they want to compete for the UHF tuner market and--which is dominated by RCA with the tube at the cost $1.05-it cost over $100 to make everyone of the Fairchild's 1211 transistors. And yet they wanted--and which is functionally identical, actually functionally slightly superior, but basically
years, days cancel with days, tunings cancel with tunings. And if you multiply all these numbers together, at the end of the day, you calculate, you'll get about 200 piano tuners in Chicago. So starting from absolutely nothing, you really can just build up and figure out a way to come up with a reasonable answer.
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