Merge pull request #251 from jschrier/my-pages

fix/add some links

_posts/2023-12-05-Visiting-New-York.md

@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ Cabs are generally cheaper than Ubers.
     - East to St. Mark's Place (where the NYU students hangout)
     - Northwest towards Union Square. Go along Broadway and stop into [Strand Bookstore](https://maps.app.goo.gl/KPKByNyfL8ALz3CN7) which boasts 18 miles of used bookshelves.
     - Continue north from any of these points to the [Empire State Building](https://maps.app.goo.gl/43tNNTwyKzxPmPzz9) (and if it's business hours, stop into [Tannen's Magic Store](https://maps.app.goo.gl/vkKx4BsNWmdNPBKy8)) 
-    - Head up Irving Place, you can swing past [xxx bar](a favorite of NYC writers going back to O. Henry) for a beer and walk around the [XXXX park]() to see the Arts Club
+    - Head up Irving Place, you can swing past [Pete's Tavern](https://g.co/kgs/fWwp6cp) (a favorite of NYC writers going back to [O. Henry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete%27s_Tavern)) for a beer and walk around the [Grammercy park](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramercy_Park) to see the [Arts Club](https://g.co/kgs/5EQ6i2n)
 
 
 
@@ -112,6 +112,7 @@ Nobody goes to Times Square, because it is too crowded with tourists.  But...
 
 - [Old Tblisi](https://maps.app.goo.gl/nZoaavwPXWAJLfPL9) *west village on Bleeker Street*.  The garden is charming. Great breads and stews.
 - [Aragavi](https://maps.app.goo.gl/JrXT6VCoAj62reu6A) *Midtown, near GCT/UN* A bit expensive, but a wide range of excellent dishes and wines (and Georgian moonshine)
+- [Ubani](https://maps.app.goo.gl/NwsqBLUDHb8upoZC9), *Midtown, near UN* a new contender, went here with [Bob The Chemistry](http://bobthechemist.com) and [Jon Friedrich](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=I42Xxc4AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao) and everyone enjoyed it.
 
 ### Farther afield
 

_posts/2024-09-21-Musical-Statistical-Thermodynamics.md

@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@ date: 2024-09-21
 tags: music xenharmonic thermodynamics optimization
 ---
 
-While wasting time reading *Phys Rev E*, I came across a recent article by [Jesse Berezovsky](https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=fd7xfR4AAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate) on [Renormalization-group approach to ordered phases in music (2024)](https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.110.014145), which in turn lead me to the author's earlier work [The structure of musical harmony as an ordered phase of sound: A statistical mechanics approach to music theory (2019)](https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aav8490).  The core idea of the latter is to use a [Sethares-style dissonance function](({{ site.baseurl }}{% post_url 2024-04-19-Tuning-Timbe-Spectrum-Scale %})) as the internal energy and then minimize the [Helmholtz free energy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmholtz_free_energy).  This is plausible because it describes an optimization between pattern (low energy) and variety (entropy) in music. [Bereezovsky's website has example compositions](http://jablab2.case.edu/music.htm) generated by this approach. And poking around on his google scholar, he has a [2024 March Meeting abstract on rhythm](https://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/MAR24/Session/G31.11)...having not seen the talk, I would speculate about treating this as like an Ising model/step-sequencer with some interaction. 
+While wasting time reading *Phys Rev E*, I came across a recent article by [Jesse Berezovsky](https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=fd7xfR4AAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate) on [Renormalization-group approach to ordered phases in music (2024)](https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.110.014145), which in turn lead me to the author's earlier work [The structure of musical harmony as an ordered phase of sound: A statistical mechanics approach to music theory (2019)](https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aav8490).  The core idea of the latter is to use a [Sethares-style dissonance function]({{ site.baseurl }}{% post_url 2024-04-19-Tuning-Timbe-Spectrum-Scale %}) as the internal energy and then minimize the [Helmholtz free energy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmholtz_free_energy).  This is plausible because it describes an optimization between pattern (low energy) and variety (entropy) in music. [Bereezovsky's website has example compositions](http://jablab2.case.edu/music.htm) generated by this approach. And poking around on his google scholar, he has a [2024 March Meeting abstract on rhythm](https://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/MAR24/Session/G31.11)...having not seen the talk, I would speculate about treating this as like an Ising model/step-sequencer with some interaction.