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by shannifin 5y ago
Exciting stuff! I'm especially excited to see where this area will lead in regards to strings; I have yet to hear a sample string library produce a decent sounding classical symphony, at least without a lot of dynamics finessing (which
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by shannifin 5y ago
Hundreds of good comments on here already, but I'll add another anyway, fwiw. I'm in a similar situation. 36 years old, haven't achieved much, no family, don't even have much savings. For me, though, what keeps me feelin
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by shannifin 5y ago
I started learning BASIC at age 8 and it was a great aid in learning logic and math later on in school as it gave me a foundational context for these related subjects. That said, I was self-motivated to explore programming on my own, and ha
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by shannifin 5y ago
I must confess I actually enjoyed it as a kid, along with the show. I had low standards and a short attention span. I would fast forward through slow parts of movies all the time (like that "Cheer Up Charlie" song in Willy Wonka..
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by shannifin 5y ago
> the media and what it publishes is downstream of what individuals in society want to see and hear. I think it's more likely a feedback loop and they're both downstream from each other. And, in that sense, there's "b
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by shannifin 5y ago
While I have found some useful ideas in here, such as the character archetype quads and the idea of a "contagonist", other elements didn't make as much sense to me; felt like they were trying to force certain ideas into the q
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by shannifin 5y ago
I've worked with people who did this on purpose as a sort of passive aggressive tactic. I didn't work with them for much longer after that.
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by shannifin 5y ago
I can't imagine how I would handle such an awful ordeal as his, but I do think his ego and his finding the value of his life entirely in his own limited sense of potential worldly accomplishments only made his suffering all the worse.
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by shannifin 5y ago
We don't make media consumption decisions in a vacuum; naturally we want to talk about what we watched, read, bought, etc., and/or understand what others are talking about. So we will naturally be more inclined to choose what is a
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by shannifin 5y ago
Not enough income. Inability to focus. Inability to maintain a routine or sleep schedule.
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by shannifin 5y ago
Predicting only two hours ahead doesn't seem that impressive or helpful to me in itself; major weather-related decisions usually need more time. Still, interesting stuff! A few family members and I usually get little headaches hours
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by shannifin 5y ago
> You’ll flourish as a writer if you don’t fear writing and don’t force it I think that goes for a lot of creative endeavors, and programming too for that matter. But I'm not sure that's very helpful advice when you must writ
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by shannifin 5y ago
Anybody know how reading & desktop work on the Quest 2 compares to the original Oculus? I tried programming in the original Oculus years ago, but the low resolution was just too annoying... is it improved a good deal? (I know the resolu
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by shannifin 5y ago
True, you really only have to worry about it if you're writing or editing for a teacher or publisher who wants you to adhere to some specific style. The real annoying thing for me (as an American) was having different teachers teach di
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by shannifin 5y ago
Agree with the post; interestingly, in grade school (here in America) I was actually taught both ways depending on the teacher's preference / belief (assuming we were not writing MLA research papers)... this mostly led to perpetua
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by shannifin 5y ago
Unlike periods and commas, putting question marks and exclamation marks inside the quotation when they are not part of the quote is against AP, APA, Chicago, and MLA style specifications... Granted, I don't know if technical writing ty
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by shannifin 5y ago
> Hope it can one day remove the prerequisite of a LinkedIn account. Agreed. Not a big LinkedIn fan, but was able to sign up with my really crappy minimal-info LinkedIn account.
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by shannifin 5y ago
I could not help but be reminded of the "enhance it!" trope common in crime shows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxq9yj2pVWk
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by shannifin 5y ago
This supports the article's assessment that "it may be better thought of as a continuous spectrum." Long term memory for the key or opening note of a particular song seems to be a more widespread skill than naming the pitch c
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by shannifin 5y ago
> A large part of it rests in the knowledge (of the beneficiary) that another skilled human has dedicated time, effort, and intelligence to uniquely produce what is in front of them. True, but I think this is subjective guessing rather t
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by shannifin 5y ago
Decent review! I've been fascinated by this topic for a while. I think the real magic is of course in the specifications of the details, but I do think it's innevitable that AI-generated (or assisted) music will come to dominate t
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by shannifin 5y ago
> You'll see that this definition corresponds exactly to the usual notions of size for finite sets, and makes intuitive sense. This has always been my problem with the idea of some infinities being "bigger" than others. Th
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by shannifin 5y ago
> Mark up the book Good for a book's first reader. What I really hate is browsing a used bookstore and finding something interesting or ordering a used book online, only to find it covered in markings (especially as some readers see
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by shannifin 5y ago
> Glowacki is on the autism spectrum and has superlative memory and calendar recall skills. I've also known several autistic people who have great memories; I don't know if the right word would be "interest", "ob
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by shannifin 5y ago
Also a fan of Malinowski's animated music videos. My immediate thought was that it would be cool to see this extension sort of mimic his piano roll animations by having it appear vertically on the left. Less pixel space though, so I do
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by shannifin 5y ago
Nice to see a recommendation for Petzold's The Annotated Turing in the post, it's a great read. I'm not sure I really understand the writer's concern though. The debates he mentions (functional versus object-oriented p
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by shannifin 5y ago
I've gone through several periods of obsession with this problem. One of its addictive qualities is that, even if you're getting no closer to a solution, it's easy to find a bunch of related patterns within patterns within pa
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by shannifin 5y ago
> In this case, selling your soul is just a sin, a pretty bad one, but still a sin. In Catholicism and some Protestant traditions, you will enter into a state of Purgatory, (or purgatory-like phase) after death where you are cleansed of
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by shannifin 5y ago
> It's worth pointing out that "machine learning" is a specific term of art, not a term for AI in general. It refers very specifically to the type of "convolutional neural networks" that have made a bunch of prog
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by shannifin 5y ago
I've got a lot of book piles right now as I don't have enough shelves. I'd much rather have shelves.

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