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Subject: Re: just another reverse bitscan

Author: Michael Yee

Date: 19:02:25 12/22/05

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On December 22, 2005 at 20:13:56, Dann Corbit wrote:

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>I have noticed that programmers tend to be interested in music (and many have
>some musical training).  I wonder if there is some kind of connection.

I think there is. Many topics have an underlying similarity because they're
essentially systems of symbols. (Interestingly, child "geniuses" normally occur
in areas like math, music, chess, etc.) There's even a book called "Godel,
Escher, Bach" by Hofstadter that I think touches on some of this, although I
haven't read it yet.

Another connection I've noticed is between computer science types and the
martial arts. I admit I'm generalizing from a very small sample size,
though--myself, my brother-in-law, and some old college friends :)

Michael



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