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Murat Yaşar Baskın (born 1998, Turkey) is a music enthusiast.
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The End Is To Come...

The Death of Music

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 Introduction Creation of music is as old as the humanity itself. In the modern musicological perspective, music is formed of four fundamental elements: rhythm, melody, harmony, and tone colour. Some include a fifth element of "form", which I shall agree. From the "rhythm" perspective, we have been making music for as long as we do not remember. From the "melody" perspective, it is for fifty millennia. From the "harmony" perspective, we have been making it for at least a millennium. If we consider "tone colour", we have been composing for at least five centuries. Whenever you take the origin, the craft of music has never faced the problems that it does in our time. Every time it got into a loop, a genius revolutionist came up with a brand new school and created new bricks for his successors to build. But now, it looks that we are out of tools to compose new & original work. I wish I found some better sounds no one's ever heard I...

Mathematics of Athletics Track Marking

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 INTRODUCTION I became familiar with this topic after joining the Middle East Technical University (METU) Athletics Team. Our campus had a 6-lane, 400-meter rubber track, but it lacked any standard markings—just lane lines and a finish line. As a result, it was unsuitable for both training with accurate time measurements and hosting official track meets. Initially, we submitted a request through the university's Sports Directorate to have the track properly marked. However, the university neither had the qualified staff for the technical work nor the budget to outsource the job. All they could offer us were basic supplies like paint, brushes, and measuring tapes. So, I took on the task of calculating and designing the necessary markings myself. Then, as the Athletics Team, we manually painted and marked the entire track at the university stadium. While there are official blueprints available for standard track markings, the METU stadium’s non-standard layout made them unusable. Thi...