Rampoina

I don't understand how this is not the obvious answer. Maybe people are equating open source with an open development model?

> APLers hate the successors, because "notation is tool for thought" and ASCII is a poor representation.

I'm perplexed by this one. I'll concede that the APL symbols are prettier but why does it magically stop being a notation just because you use combinations of ASCII symbols. Especially when many APL symbols are composed of units themselves.

⍲ vs *: One is 'notation' because it has the two units stacked on top of each other and the other is not because they are stacked horizontally?

You can do that with a traditional notation music program like Musescore. You just need to learn music notation.

I would also like to know if there's examples of more real time applications in APL. Any GUI programming? Interactive simulations? etc.

I was a bit confused with it being called a consonant.

After some research, although I had a flawed understanding of vowels and consonants, I think it's classified as a semivowel.

Damn it, you're going to make me spend 240€ on this :D Is it velocity sensitive? How is the feel of the keys?

I have the opposite opinion (I also own a linnstrument).

I come from a piano background, and as someone that kind of struggles to improvise in keys with more accidentals I was attracted to the idea of an isomorphic layout.

After playing a lot with the isomorphic layout I've come to a conclusion that it comes at a cost (it has its advantages and disadvantages compared to the traditional piano layout)

To be isomorphic the layout has to have multiple representations of a single note, with this comes the fact that you don't really have to learn one shape for every chord, you have to learn multiple ones if you play complex polyphonic music and want comfortable fingerings (the linnstrument also has this problem that you can't play 4 notes in a square which comes at the most unexpected times specially between the two hands).

So the comparison would be to learn every key thoroughly vs learning every (useful) alternative for every chord.

In my opinion there's nothing intuitive about the y axis having a greater intervalic distance than the x axis, specifically I would have this problem when going down in a melody to the previous "string" the distance to that note is way different than it would be on the same string.

To be fair I think the only intuitive layout is a linear one (like a single string, or the haken continuum)

If anything, having played with an isomorphic instrument has encouraged me to learn the piano layout more deeply.

Having said that, the linnstrument itself is a decent product all and all (although I have some beefs with it but I don't want to turn this comment into a review) and it makes sense that you like the layout having more experience with stringed instrumments, but I would say that's familiarity not intuitiveness.

What is Deepmind's interest in not releasing the source code and weights for the neural networks?

I'm excited about their work but it seems that it would be much better for everyone if they just released their work openly.