godson_drafty

They were off by a factor of 10 with the likelihood of being struck and killed by lightning, according to the nws website.

To clarify: the likelihood of being merely struck by lightning is ~ 1/1,000,000 per year. The likelihood of being struck and killed is 1/10,000,000 , or about 1/2^23.25

Given this, you would only have to be struck and killed by lightning 6.8 years in a row to equal a sha1 hash collision probability.

I disagree with the Nobel committee here. They choose to ignore numerous deserving, hard-working writers toiling in obscurity and instead heap more praise on one of the most worshipped musicians of the era.

Another problem with $50-200 phones is horrible cameras.

Dawn

This brings up a good point.. what is a valuable mapping of the type [ stream of data ] => [stream of Sound] ?

If the input was a stream of random bytes you could immediately list an infinite number of different ways to turn that into sound of some kind. Most of those would probably be as interesting as listening to random tones.

In this case, it would be interesting if the music communicated something meaningful about the github pull requests rather than just using github as a random number generator to make pleasant bell tones.

One example might be that a pull request that solved some long-standing much discussed bug would stand out musically by being loud, introducing a new sound, or resolving a tension present in the music. To contrast, a PR that changed some documentation might generate hardly any change in the music.