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Cats are not the most innately musical creatures. They cannot sing like the thrush or drone with the whales. But their mews and paws have been long incorporated into other kinds of improvisations. Consider the sadistic sixteenth-century cat piano or stories about Alessandro Scarlatti’s black cat, Pulcinella, who inspired her master’s Cat Fugue in G minor during a bout of zoomies across his piano: “‘Bless the cat!’, he cried. ‘She has given me the very theme I have been groping after.’” Cats play
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I had the privilege of spending the morning with two of these maestros on the job in Emilia-Romagna: Alessandro Stocchi, a dynamic 37-year-old native of Reggio Emilia who began training to become a battitore in 2014, and his mentor, Renato Giudici, who at 81 years old, embodies a lifetime of passion for Parmigiano Reggiano. Renato is a former cheesemaker who made Parmigiano Reggiano for many years, and rather than retire, he chose to become a guardian of the King of Cheeses as a battitore. Ther
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In his 1947 book The World and Africa, W.E.B. Du Bois remarked that a society built on capitalistic exploitation doesn’t see the “blood on the piano keys.” Throughout his lifetime, piano keys with their ivory veneers had been created through a noxious system of consumption that affected the lives of millions of people and elephants. Still, pianos were seen as symbols of moral value, becoming so popular that by the early 20th century, they outnumbered bathtubs in the United States. By the 1400s,
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@ Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) 2023 @inproceedings{robopianist2023, author = {Zakka, Kevin and Wu, Philipp and Smith, Laura and Gileadi, Nimrod and Howell, Taylor and Peng, Xue Bin and Singh, Sumeet and Tassa, Yuval and Florence, Pete and Zeng, Andy and Abbeel, Pieter}, title = {RoboPianist: Dexterous Piano Playing with Deep Reinforcement Learning}, booktitle = {Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL)}, year = {2023}, } TLDR We train anthropomorphic robot hands to play the piano using deep
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