Reminder: programming languages count from zero because of yacht racing, *not* for any math or tech reasons: https://t.co/mAOzMSPy8o — Greg Wilson (@gvwilson) February 4, 2016 The excellent Greg Wilson, founder of Software Carpentry, tweeted the above link to a 2013 blog post by Mike Hoye the other day. I didn't comment on this article when… Continue reading Zero-based indexing
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Standard ML and how I’m compiling it
I mentioned in an earlier post that I was starting to use Standard ML for a (modest) real project. An early problem I encountered was how to manage builds, when using third-party library modules and multiple files of my own code. I'm not talking here about anything advanced; I don't even care yet about incremental… Continue reading Standard ML and how I’m compiling it
Another release! pYIN v1.1
This is cheating a bit, because pYIN is also part of the recent Tony v1.0 release and this is simply a case of packaging it separately, but hey. Here's the v1.1 release of pYIN, a Vamp plugin for monophonic note and pitch tracking from audio—an enhancement of the YIN algorithm for fundamental frequency estimation. Matthias… Continue reading Another release! pYIN v1.1
So much for that
A month later, and I haven't managed to release any of the software I listed in my last post. Although the forthcoming Tony release is now tantalisingly close...
Unreleased project pile-up
Several of the software projects I've been working on at the Centre for Digital Music are in need of a new release. I ran some queries on the SoundSoftware code site, where much of my code lives, to find projects I'm a member of that have seen some work (in the form of repository commits)… Continue reading Unreleased project pile-up
More on the 2015 EU VAT changes
A couple of updates since my previous post: HMRC held a Q&A session on Twitter about the 2015 VAT changes. Here's a transcript. It clarifies a lot. (I like the terse style enforced by Twitter for these answers, but some are also usefully expanded on at the end of the transcript.) The digital delivery company… Continue reading More on the 2015 EU VAT changes
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