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A listing of the videos that Banff Center posted on their Vimeo channel. Information about the artists is on the BISQC page here.

Monday, August 29

2:00 pm - BISQC Concert 1: 21st Century Haydn Round

Abeo Quartet (USA)

• Franz Joseph Haydn: String Quartet in D minor, Op. 76 No. 2 link
• Billy Childs: String Quartet No. 2, Awakening

Opus13 (Norway/Sweden)

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Quartet Roulette

The code behind https://quartetroulette.com. See more at https://quartetroulette.com/about/.

Built with GatsbyJS.

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How to Make a Chamber Music Log

1. Go to Google Forms https://docs.google.com/forms/u/0/

2. Create new Form

3. 
   1. Fill it out with the questions that you might like to have. Mine looks like this:
   2. 

4. Click Responses

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2022 Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition

Last night, I noticed on the Wigmore Hall YouTube channel the results of an International String Quartet Competition. This was strange, because although I was familiar with the trienniel Banff Competition I was unaware of this competition, which predates it. The Competition started in 1979 in Portsmouth (the Takács Quartet won), and moved to London in 1988. It only arrived at Wigmore Hall in 2010. So perhaps the 3 rebrands made me less aware of it.

From the Competition's wikipedia page I learned that

twelve [quartets] are selected to take part in the competition.

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from collections import Counter
from string import ascii_lowercase as ALPHABET
import json
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np

"""
For https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/.
Read more here: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/03/technology/wordle-word-game-creator.html
"""

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# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9245638/select-random-lines-from-a-file

cat /usr/share/dict/words | sort -R | head -10 $lines

# faster
 gshuf -n 10 /usr/share/dict/words

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def hex_to_latex(c, name="name"):
    """ Input: a hex color like "#B29155" ('#' is optional)
        Output: \definecolor{name}{rgb}{0.70, 0.16, 0.57}
    """
    if c.startswith("#"):
        c = c[1:7]
    r, g, b = [(int(c[ix:ix+2], base=16) / 255) for ix in range(0, 6, 2)]
    return '\definecolor{%s}{rgb}{%1.2f, %1.2f, %1.2f}' % (name, r, g, b)

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# src: https://github.com/johnnychen94/SuperPixels.jl/blob/analyze/src/analyze.jl


function SLIC(img::AbstractArray{<:Colorant, 2}; kwargs...)
    return SegmentedImage(img, _slic(Lab.(img); kwargs...))
end


SLIC(img::AbstractArray{<:Number, 2}; kwargs...) = _slic(Gray.(img); kwargs...)

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Initial impressions of Julia coming from Python (and C++, JavaScript ...)

• Call for Proposals due March 23.*

Surprises / Gotchas

• 1-based indexing?? in 2021? I thought this battle was over. Esp with C/Python FFI, it's a weird choice.
• installing packages is weird. open up the repl, type ], and then "add X", or import Pkg; Pkg.add("X")?
• Manifest.toml is cool but a bit non-obvious to figure out how to update it.
• methods on objects vs methods that take objects. I get it, but less discoverable. e.g. haskey(mydict, "a") instead of has_key?
  • methodswith(Dict) is a nice workaround (but also isn't itself discoverable!)
• methodswith doesn't return sorted results! You need sort(methodswith(Dict), by=m->m.name) or methodswith(Dict, Base) to exclude other mod. And this actually doesn't include values or keys unless you do methodswith(Dict, Base; supertypes=true) (thanks [discourse](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/can-methodswith-return-

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from datetime import datetime
from dateutil import parser
import csv
import json
import requests


def id_for_page(page):
    """Uses the wikipedia api to find the wikidata id for a page"""
    api = "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php"