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Ryan Ragona

@ragona.com

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cryptography + trusted computing @ openai. I’m into guitar, music theory, photography, and weird math. he/him. anti-fascist. child of radical queers. 🏳️‍⚧️ 🖤

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Ryan Ragona @ragona.com · 29/01/2025

protest sign reading, “respect my trans homies or I’m gonna identify as a fucking problem”

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Ryan Ragona @ragona.com · 10/01/2025

This leads to my favorite sentence, which is — “my dad was a lesbian folk singer.” I wonder if I’m the only person who can say that! I spent a lot of time at women’s music festivals as a kid. His music changed when he transitioned. It’s hard as a professional musician to navigate a brand new voice.

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Ryan Ragona @ragona.com · 10/01/2025

So fuck it. I’m gonna tell the internet about my family. My dad was trans. He transitioned when I was young, and became a sweet, calm old man. I didn’t think much of it. He told me he felt more like a man. He took up gardening. He calmed down. We learned to shave together. He loved his grandkids.

My dad with my youngest son. A man in his late 50s holding a two year old drinking a bottle of milk.

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Ryan Ragona @ragona.com · 10/01/2025

been thinking about my queer friends and fam a lot this week. the inauguration, the hard right shift in the tech bubble. I have two moms and a trans dad. I grew up in the 80s in oregon, when there were aggressive anti-gay measures on the ballots. (me at portland pride with my moms in the 80s)

Picture of a small boy on his mother’s shoulders at a pride march in oregon in the late 80s. Everyone has hilarious curly hair, and there is a partially occluded protest sign demanding something regarding ceasing funding for racism.

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Ryan Ragona @ragona.com · 04/01/2025

I am super impressed with this book. It is an opinionated take on reducing music theory to its actual foundation, rather than a mishmash of hundreds of years of overlapping theory with 6 names for the same shit. Easily the most practical book on theory I’ve ever read.

Picture of the book The Science of Music from Allen Van Wert

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Ryan Ragona @ragona.com · 31/12/2024

My favorite photos are definitely of my kiddos this year, but this crow going to visit his buddy made me smile.

A photo taken showing the view of Puget Sound from Whidbey Island. A crow is landing on a balcony, where another crow sits. The mountains and additional islands are visible over the water, and it’s a cloudy day.

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Ryan Ragona @ragona.com · 24/12/2024

I just realized I am technically allowed to fret the A string with my thumb. no one can stop me… except maybe joint pain.

A guitarist’s left hand fretting a B flat major, fingered with thumb on the A string, and ring and pinky fingers smooshed across the 4th fret.

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Ryan Ragona @ragona.com · 14/12/2024

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Ryan Ragona @ragona.com · 14/12/2024

I thought the chord notation was a little weird and asked it about that, and the summarized thought there is interesting.

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Ryan Ragona @ragona.com · 14/12/2024

just tried asking o1 pro a music theory question and I think it did well! (it’s actually also one of the longest compute times I’ve seen out of it, which is interesting.) makes me want to play with having multimodal models analyze song audio from a music theory perspective.