The Well Tempered Accompanist

The Well-tempered Computer

The psychological mechanism by which even musically untutored people can comprehend novel melodies resembles that by which they comprehend sentences of their native language. The paper identifies a syntax, a semantics, and a domain or “model”. These elements are examined in application to the task of harmonic comprehension and analysis of unaccompanied melody, and a computational theory is argu...

The Well-Tempered Critic

The well-tempered social brain.

The well-tempered auxiliary-field Monte Carlo.

The auxiliary-field Monte Carlo (AFMC) is a method for computing ground-state and excited-state energies and other properties of electrons in molecules. For a given basis set, AFMC is an approximation to full-configuration interaction and the accuracy is determined predominantly by an inverse temperature "beta" parameter. A considerable amount of the dynamical correlation energy is recovered ev...

Enhanced sampling in the well-tempered ensemble.

We introduce the well-tempered ensemble (WTE) which is the biased ensemble sampled by well-tempered metadynamics when the energy is used as collective variable. WTE can be designed so as to have approximately the same average energy as the canonical ensemble but much larger fluctuations. These two properties lead to an extremely fast exploration of phase space. An even greater efficiency is obt...