[johnjen]

And the thought plickens…

 
JJ

 

[disastermouse]

  Today, officially we have a new addition to the Schiit R&D team. Dr. Ivana (pronounced eevana) joined us full time today after her completion of a four week research and coding exercise related to the Manhattan project. Much of her doctoral research dealt with musically derived moods, and her Bachelor’s and Master’s are both in Computer Science. Her initial project is to  derive algorithms and write code for Manhattan, which means we will have a better, cheaper, and less hardware intensive Manhattan.
 
Dave and myself integrate well with her, and she is quirky enough to fit right in as a Schiitster. This bodes well for not only the Manhattan, but many other we projects that we may finally consider producing.

Okay, this straight up sounds like the internal email of a super-villain. "Okay, Destroyers, welcome Eevana to the team. She kicks puppies, drinks gasoline, and has recently completed her course in evil-genius-accomplice 101. Make her feel welcome or face the laser-sharks."

 

[wink]

.... and I thought all minions were male..........    

 

[Ableza]

Integrate the Manhattan with a Phillips Hue lighting system and generate mood colors from the music.  Would be a perfect commercial compliment to the soon-to-be legal marijuana.

 

[judmarc]

  Today, officially we have a new addition to the Schiit R&D team. Dr. Ivana (pronounced eevana) joined us full time today after her completion of a four week research and coding exercise related to the Manhattan project. Much of her doctoral research dealt with musically derived moods, and her Bachelor’s and Master’s are both in Computer Science. Her initial project is to  derive algorithms and write code for Manhattan, which means we will have a better, cheaper, and less hardware intensive Manhattan.
 
Dave and myself integrate well with her, and she is quirky enough to fit right in as a Schiitster. This bodes well for not only the Manhattan, but many other we projects that we may finally consider producing.

 
My l33t research skillz have turned up some of Dr. Ivana's work that suggests interesting possible directions for Manhattan (all of which speculations on my part are likely wrong).
 
Meanwhile, in case you are interested in the early careers of Drs. Garcia and Hunter, have a look here: http://www.npr.org/2016/11/03/500057203/first-listen-hart-valley-drifters-folk-time
 
Plus this, which while not involving the aforementioned, I found pretty cool: http://www.npr.org/2016/11/03/500057219/first-listen-bob-dylan-the-1966-live-recordings

 

[KoshNaranek]

If this is the person in question, I am both awed an and tremulously excited for the future.


https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=n2pZ2xkAAAAJ&hl=en

 

[judmarc]

If this is the person in question, I am both awed an and tremulously excited for the future.


https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=n2pZ2xkAAAAJ&hl=en

 
I am guessing it is not that person, but you should be tremulous anyway.

 

[judmarc]

 
Okay, this straight up sounds like the internal email of a super-villain. "Okay, Destroyers, welcome Eevana to the team. She kicks puppies, drinks gasoline, and has recently completed her course in evil-genius-accomplice 101. Make her feel welcome or face the laser-sharks."

Actually, she's more sort of an "angelic" type, if my l33t research skillz are correct. 

 

[bosiemoncrieff]

Can we get a Q&A with Dr Ivana? My only question is her favorite Wagner opera.

 

[KoshNaranek]

Actually, she's more sort of an "angelic" type, if my l33t research skillz are correct. 

I found this to be fascinating:
http://m.pnas.org/content/early/2016/10/28/1611211113

 

[jacal01]

  Much of her doctoral research dealt with musically derived moods...

 
Don't know if I can turn them into a thesis, but I sure have a lot of fond memories from my incorrigible youth.  Oh wait... you said 'derived'.  I was thinking 'enhanced'. 

 

[Don Hills]

  Integrate the Manhattan with a Phillips Hue lighting system and generate mood colors from the music.  Would be a perfect commercial compliment to the soon-to-be legal marijuana.

 
Hopefully she'll pay more attention to security than Philips did for the Hue. The last thing we want is a pwnable Manhattan.
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161107/09211835982/not-even-your-light-bulbs-are-safe-****ty-internet-things-security.shtml

 

[Baldr]

 
Meanwhile, in case you are interested in the early careers of Drs. Garcia and Hunter, have a look here: http://www.npr.org/2016/11/03/500057203/first-listen-hart-valley-drifters-folk-time
 
Plus this, which while not involving the aforementioned, I found pretty cool: http://www.npr.org/2016/11/03/500057219/first-listen-bob-dylan-the-1966-live-recordings

Damn............
 
I knew about the former and had one on order.  Had no idea about the latter and am now almost $6 silver poorer after ordering it as well.

  Can we get a Q&A with Dr Ivana? My only question is her favorite Wagner opera.

Tristan und Isolde.

 

[jsiegel14072]

  Today, officially we have a new addition to the Schiit R&D team. Dr. Ivana (pronounced eevana) joined us full time today after her completion of a four week research and coding exercise related to the Manhattan project. Much of her doctoral research dealt with musically derived moods, and her Bachelor’s and Master’s are both in Computer Science. Her initial project is to  derive algorithms and write code for Manhattan, which means we will have a better, cheaper, and less hardware intensive Manhattan.
 
Dave and myself integrate well with her, and she is quirky enough to fit right in as a Schiitster. This bodes well for not only the Manhattan, but many other we projects that we may finally consider producing.

So you managed to "break" her in 4 weeks?  That must be one heck of a business model!   Special Kool-aid in the water cooler?
 

 

[Blue Warper]

Hi, Mike!
 
First of all, thanks very very much for the awesome experience you gave me with the Yggdrasil. There's simply no way back, once you heard it.
 
I've got some questions for you, but don't worry, I won't ask them all at once!

So, my first two questions would be these.
1) Where is the Manhattan intended to typically go in the audio chain?  Between the signal source and the DAC?
2) I understand it was said earlier (I think by Jason in his other thread, but I'm not sure right now) that the "Manhattan project" operates in the digital domain only. So, when fed on a digital audio signal (let's say from a common CD player output or a digital audio file from whatever source), will it still retain all the original bits, so as one can say its output will still be bitperfect?  Or will it somehow alter the original signal so that it will 'add' or change something which wasn't present in it in its previous and original form?
 
Thank so much for your time and patience!
 
Of course, only if you feel you can answer these questions without disclosing anything you might judge not to be exposed at this earlier stage...