sporkologist

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by sporkologist 6y ago
> By definition, they are not motivated to promote a system where only learning 12 is required. One might assume from this that professional musicians are not interested in the most efficient expression of their musical voice.
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by sporkologist 6y ago
Being a professional musician takes tens of thousands of hours of work. If you don't put in the work, it is obvious to the listener. You have to learn all the theory and technique regardless of instrument or key layout. You can reduce
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by sporkologist 6y ago
If you're not a lazy musician, you'll just learn all your scales. No professional player would take you seriously. Sorry.
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by sporkologist 6y ago
The author is Simon Baron-Cohen, a noted autism researcher, and cousin of actor Sacha Baron-Cohen.
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by sporkologist 6y ago
I appreciate karma points as a measure of how much my thoughts resonate with others, or don't... They are real enough for me.
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by sporkologist 6y ago
Are HN karma points fake too? I hope not
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by sporkologist 6y ago
Why work for a boss 8 hours a day, when you can work for yourself for 16 hours a day?
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by sporkologist 6y ago
3d is more complex than 2d. Flying a plane is way more complex than driving a car.
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by sporkologist 6y ago
> obscenely high power experiments Like the energy released when 2 black holes collide? We're going to need a bigger capacitor.
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by sporkologist 6y ago
It adds to cognitive load, now I have to hunt for the frickin scrollbar... mystery-meat UI if you ask me.
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by sporkologist 6y ago
I really don't dig the dark blue text. Historically that's the color of HTML links.... just make it black, everyone's used to it already.
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by sporkologist 6y ago
I think of coding as being more commonly associated with playing an instrument, but there may be something here too.
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by sporkologist 6y ago
Exploring is its own reward apparently.
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by sporkologist 6y ago
I totally agree. Three days has been the max for me, as far as mental health agendas. Far more productive with 15 - 20 hours work, at the most. My employer Walmart, for some reason, isn't as conscious as many, they're telling m
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by sporkologist 6y ago
Acrophobia, anyone?
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by sporkologist 6y ago
Great, now I can overthink about how I think about overthinking.
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by sporkologist 6y ago
> Materials typically contain lots of small imperfections, but it’s the rare, large defects that cause a material to fail. Ok so.... we need to know more about the rare large defects! Unfortunately that's the last we hear about them
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by sporkologist 6y ago
> Inside your body, you aren’t mostly empty space. You’re mostly a series of electron clouds, all bound together by the quantum rules that govern the entire Universe. So we are mostly electron clouds... and clouds by definition are mostl
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by sporkologist 7y ago
> While the world is a continuum, we slice into tiny pieces, we discretize it with words. To me the world is objects. To you maybe it's a continuum.
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by sporkologist 7y ago
Yup gotta keep those numbers down, right? But seriously, the only way to get ahead of this is to test everyone. Didn't you learn anything in epidemiology?
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by sporkologist 7y ago
I like to think of it as, the US is one big cruise ship but with coronavirus instead of norovirus.
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by sporkologist 7y ago
So what is about creation?
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by sporkologist 7y ago
It's the dawn of mycocomputing!
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by sporkologist 7y ago
They absolutely got fake news. "Aluminum tubes" anyone?
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by sporkologist 7y ago
I'd certainly hate to be convicted of deceptive walking. The punishment is probably something like 5 hours of honest walking per day.
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by sporkologist 7y ago
Yes the plumber obviously went to upside-down plumbing school where he learned the profit-maximizing techniques of installing everything upside-down.
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by sporkologist 7y ago
> clamping down on the spread of false information It seems this user is at the corner of 47th and 3rd, so we won't tell them how oil companies lied about global warming. Did I get that right?
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by sporkologist 7y ago
2 and 3 are, but that's about where it ends. Yeah you can do subdivisions of 5 and 7 but it starts to be an academic exercise at that point. So, no, prime numbers don't have any special relationship to music, sorry. Factors of 12
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by sporkologist 7y ago
Yes right after Mosaic 1.0 was released. RIP
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by sporkologist 7y ago
My use of 'optimal' is more of 'sufficient to keep reproducing given current conditions' than anything. If you're suggesting that evolution isn't the right vehicle for this process, then we'll have to disa

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