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Advice on Getting Better from an Accomplished Piano Player (2011)(calnewport.com)
492 points by davesque 7y ago|156 comments
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by davesque 7y ago
The first point can be rather easily circumvented by using strings as forward references and it only takes a bit of googling to figure that out. The second doesn't seem remotely like a deal breaker to me. Half the reason for having typ
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by davesque 7y ago
It just seems too fashionable to talk about flat organizations nowadays. And, as many have pointed out, it's a bit ironic since organizations that claim to be flat tend not to be in practice. It's obnoxious when people claim tha
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by davesque 7y ago
Notice the "if". My point was that his working for Google shouldn't matter if those conditions are met. Whether or not they were met is another matter.
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by davesque 7y ago
If he cites factual information and gives reasonable arguments, what's the difference?
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by davesque 7y ago
So there's a bubble because some f *boy didn't get to buy himself a jet? Bad way to start an article.
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by davesque 7y ago
Don't get why everyone's so down on these photos. I enjoyed them. I've spent time over there and they made me nostalgic for travelling there.
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by davesque 7y ago
Fuck this is scary. My understanding is that methane could be involved in some theorized runaway feedback loops.
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by davesque 7y ago
It seems odd to me that there are so many anti-5G stories. It almost comes off as deliberate and targeted. I would imagine that the science of what levels and frequencies of EM radiation are safe is settled.
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by davesque 7y ago
Ah okay I get it. For some reason, I thought it was travelling through the material mentioned in that quote during the time it disappeared in the video.
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by davesque 7y ago
I'm confused how you could film a light pulse this way. It seems that the light pulse would itself have to be emitting light somehow. I'll assume it was travelling through a gas that scattered it.
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Immortality Begins at Forty(ribbonfarm.com)
2 points by davesque 7y ago|0 comments
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by davesque 7y ago
I was about to comment to snarkily refute the claim in the title, but then the author seemed to sarcastically do that in the article.
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by davesque 7y ago
I've read Blindsight . It's a good one. Actually, the premise didn't bother me as much as the Three Body trilogy.
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by davesque 7y ago
A bit off-topic, but I've kind of struggled mentally since finishing The Dark Forest . Even though it's science fiction, it actually seems hard to argue with the theory in the book -- that civilizations must act to eliminate e
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by davesque 7y ago
Can't you just skim over that stuff?
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by davesque 7y ago
Very good advice. I think people used to get together more because it was necessary in order to communicate. Now, we can communicate pretty effectively without actually meeting anyone. But we still need to be social and interact. These
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by davesque 7y ago
Well, I've lived in Colorado my whole life and I didn't notice any change at all in the average person's behavior after pot was legalized. And I'm not really biased either. I voted against the marijuana legalization meas
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by davesque 7y ago
Is this an indirect response to something in the article? Serious question.
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by davesque 7y ago
> EDIT: given the area of the country, it is highly likely that a large number of these people had formerly been employed in the coal industry. I'm not following the logic of this.
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by davesque 7y ago
By out of date, I meant lacking any recent content.
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by davesque 7y ago
IMHO, a personal website that is super out of date looks worse than one that doesn't exist. My website is a good example of this (being out of date). So I recently removed it from my resume.
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by davesque 8y ago
ML models that generate music continue to improve. However, to me, the result still just seems like a novelty and nothing more. Perhaps it will take much more iteration and improvement in compute power before I hear a piece of music that
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by davesque 8y ago
Chimps can recognize their own image in a mirror. To me, that makes it seem at least plausible that they could understand the level of abstraction necessary to scroll through a list of pictures with a touch screen.
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by davesque 8y ago
Thanks. I skimmed it but didn't read thoroughly.
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by davesque 8y ago
Is "Perfect" really an appropriate qualifier here? Did the source article present a proof that O(n log n) is the lowest growth order for this kind of task? Or am I just out of the loop and it's already known that this is th
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by davesque 8y ago
This is just reporting on party politics and effectively contains no information.
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by davesque 8y ago
I had a Diamond Voodoo card. When I first fired it up on GLQuake, it absolutely blew my 16 year old mind.
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by davesque 8y ago
I feel as though any sort of ethics board intended to do some kind of self-policing within an industry is doomed to fail. Have we seen any evidence in the past decade that the concerns of a company's investors won't eventually su
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by davesque 8y ago
I'm pretty surprised by some of the reactions I'm seeing to this. To me, this article reads just like a logic or debate text book and there's nothing really controversial here.

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