About us
Interested in reading some of the classic and newly classic papers in computer science?
This is the Portland, OR chapter of Papers We Love, an organization that curates interesting papers in the computer science literature and helps organize local chapters to read and discuss them.
Prior to each event we will select a paper to read and post it so that attendees can read it in advance to promote good discussion.
At each gathering we will discuss the paper and select the next one to read.
If you know of a great paper we could read, please submit it via GitHub Issues.
You can also join our Discord channel.
Upcoming events
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The Euclidean Algorithm Generates Traditional Musical Rhythms
The Glass Lab, The Glass lab, Portland, OR, USOur next paper is "The Euclidean Algorithm Generates Traditional Musical Rhythms" by Godfried Toussaint.
The Euclidean algorithm (which comes down to us from Euclid’s Elements) computes the greatest common divisor of two given integers. It is shown here that the structure of the Euclidean algorithm may be used to generate, very efficiently, a large family of rhythms used as timelines (ostinatos), in sub-Saharan African music in particular, and world music in general. These rhythms, here dubbed Euclidean rhythms, have the property that their onset patterns are distributed as evenly as possible. Euclidean rhythms also find application in nuclear physics accelerators and in computerscience, and are closely related to several families of words and sequences of interest in the study of the combinatorics of words, such as Euclidean strings, to which the Euclidean rhythms are compared.
Link: https://www-cgrl.cs.mcgill.ca/~godfried/teaching/dm-reading-assignments/Euclidean-Rhythms.pdf
Afterwards we'll socialize with a drink and a bite somewhere nearby.
We will let you in so please arrive on time.
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