I have used a laptop with a midi controller live plenty of times and you might be surprised just how many top tier musicians are using laptops/software to drive their sound live, I know Domi (of JD and Domi fame) has used keyboard plugins quite a bit in live settings.
The vast majority of these firmwares are literally just some clueless guy going "uhh Claude make me a sick-sounding groovebox synth" and posting the result to Github without even looking at it.
That's my takeaway too. It all sounds like garbage. Total amateur hour.
But I think the popularity of these little boxes are going to be a kick in the ass for larger brands. Roland has been ignoring their customers wants & needs for decades at this point. If people start hacking their firmware they might have no choice but to actually give them what they way.
That's a historical artifcat, not an innate property. (Math was first invented in the Bronze Age for accounting and architecture.)
There's a theoretical parallel universe with a mathematics where numbers aren't first on the ladder but down there around number five. (Ironically computers are an example of that. Figuring out how to do numbers when all you have is finite sequences from an alphabet is advanced CS.)
Firstly are you so very sure he claimed that is an innate property? That numbers are a gateway to quantitative reasoning seems a perfectly reasonable claim either way.
Secondly there are lots of mathematical objects that significantly predate the bronze age (eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishango_bone but there are others) and because these objects are so old we have no idea why math was first invented.
Thirdly I have no idea the relevance of the theoretical “late numbers “ parallel universe but this thread is about a book in this one.
> That Numbers are a gateway to quantitative reasoning seems a perfectly reasonable claim either way
This isn't true though. It's not supported by anything except Bronze Age tradition.
I.e., when teaching kids advanced math at an early age it's often better to skip numbers altogether and start with set theory or logic. Many kids find that a much easier gateway.
It's only RAM, mass storage and GPUs. Desktop CPUs, mainboards, PSUs, and cases have become cheaper because PC building demand has declined. Peripheral prices have remained largely unchanged.
But a large reason for the price increase has been because companies have been hoarding them in warehouses as they wait for DC buildout. If you sell then you remove that pressure and prices decrease.
It's called an iPad.
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