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July 2012

Volume 65, Issue 7

cover: A metronome clicks off musical beats with almost perfect regularity. Humans, in contrast, do not play perfectly on the beat even when they try to, and the rhythmic imperfections lend warmth to musical performance. As discussed in the Quick Study by Holger Hennig, Ragnar Fleischmann, and Theo Geisel on page 64, those imperfections can be statistically analyzed and the statistics applied to give machine-generated rhythms a human touch.

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Timeliness of the 2011 Physics Nobel Prize

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