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by vfinn 8y ago
That was beautiful. One of the best blog posts I have seen in a while. Keep it up.
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by vfinn 8y ago
Sounds like the complete opposite of what Jiddu Krishnamurti would say. Krishnamurti would ask whether you can live without conflict, agony, turbulence, and yet, live more fully. To me, Krishnamurti is speaking from the position of sanity,
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by vfinn 8y ago
I know Gould (of course) and the piece, he's awesome. Still, I found Osetinskaya's play very precise, delightful, and full of emotion. I did not have any trouble with the speed. One day I prefer Gould, the other this one. It'
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by vfinn 8y ago
Maybe he means the fact that some people seem only to believe in the rationality that is splitting things up, decomposing everything in to units or facts instead of relying on intuition / the gut feeling / the indescribable knowle
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by vfinn 8y ago
Hello. That's an impossible task for me, so I've given up on trying to do that. I can however give you 3 of my latest favorites: 1) Bach - Passacaglia & Fugue In C Minor - BWV 582 by Karl Richter https://www.youtube
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by vfinn 8y ago
Hmm, it did occur to me that that phrasing could sound harsh to someone, but I didn't mean to belittle his/her opinion. Sorry about that. I tend to talk quite bluntly (as a Finn).
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by vfinn 8y ago
I don't know. As a hobby composer this sounds so wrong. All compositions are restricted more or less. What's missing from Beethoven's 5th? Corny? outdated? What's missing from Vivaldi's pure childlike harmony? Chopi
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by vfinn 8y ago
Glad to be of help :). The list is by no means perfect, but has worked for me so far pretty well. I forgot to mention, that I have also folders with identical names for ideas that need extensive wording.
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by vfinn 8y ago
Thanks :). I'm a huge fan of simplicity / the simplest possible solution.
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by vfinn 8y ago
Hmm, since I don't have that many devices, and since I mostly write down my thoughts & ideas at home, I never had that problem. Maybe you could synchronize your devices & files with Dropbox for example.
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by vfinn 8y ago
Yes, perhaps. I'd think moving my stuff to Git/Github would also be beneficial, but there hasn't been a real need yet.
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by vfinn 8y ago
I have simply a folder that contains 10+ text files, mostly containing numbered lists: 01_calendar; 02_TODO (just a stack of things I want to do); 03_questions (e.g.: "What substances emit sound when heated?"); 04_ideas (entrepren
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by vfinn 8y ago
Why does it have to be the most extraordinary thing? The article was really surprising to me, and it made me feel less bad about my own gaps.
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by vfinn 8y ago
If you're having nihilistic thoughts, Notes from the Underground is a must. Idiot is good if you have a Jesus complex. :)
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by vfinn 8y ago
I maybe ignorant, but couldn't you just heat up the water to have a leftover lump (or something) of microplastics. At least if energy consumption wasn't an issue.
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by vfinn 8y ago
He's saying that it's not MY kids are more important than YOUR kids and that MY work is more important than YOUR work. If you strip your actions from your ego, they become more sound as they are not biased or bloated by your greed
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by vfinn 8y ago
Peter Norvig did one for Python, and it's pretty cool: https://github.com/norvig/pytudes/blob/master/ipynb/BASIC.ip...
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by vfinn 8y ago
Well, Shkreli bought Wu Tang Clan album for 2 million. These things happen.
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by vfinn 8y ago
Sorry, meant to say "instead of" not "in favor of". I'll edit. What I meant to say that if you haven't learned the proper classification system that we now have in general music theory (dominant & tonic cho
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by vfinn 8y ago
That all my conventional-sounding musical ideas are easily captured by basic music theory. Even though banging your head against the wall has been useful in developing the ear, avoiding music theory doesn't make any sense since you kee
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by vfinn 8y ago
ZenRobotics has some big scale solutions for recycling that uses machine learning and image recognition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1gO6Qsb6tQ
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by vfinn 8y ago
Sorry to jump in, but my brother, who is also a late starter, is enjoying Yousician. Gamifying the learning process seems fun and powerful.
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by vfinn 8y ago
DDG is the default search engine in Tor browser, which explains at least my personal DDG usage. Google is also becoming less likeable as a whole, and people in general are more concerned about their privacy than before.
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by vfinn 8y ago
Yes, the same exists in Finland (social entrepreneurship), but since we can all agree on that there are huge differences between companies, how they operate, and how moral they are, we can agree on that there's a lot of playground for
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by vfinn 8y ago
Mission statement doesn't have to be contradictory to making profit. Making profit isn't evil in itself, but making profit based on an immoral mission statement is. There are two kinds of people: those who save the company by foll
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by vfinn 8y ago
There's a nice introductory lecture series on CPython internals on Youtube that tries to cover how the interpreter works and how the python code maps to bytecode by going trough the cpython source: https://www.youtube.com&#x
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by vfinn 8y ago
If you browse for a while and come up with an interdisciplinary fresh idea, I don't think he would mind at all, as long as you stick with it as your main focus :).
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by vfinn 8y ago
What I remember from the talk: 1) Don't be a drunken sailor that aimlessly wanders from one topic to another; 2) There are millions of competitions out there, pick one, and become the best. It's an excellent talk.
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by vfinn 8y ago
I read Thus Spoke Zarathustra when I was pretty depressed. It gave me some hope and induced changes in me. It helped me to shake up my thoughts and look at myself in a new angle, if nothing more.
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by vfinn 8y ago
Two problems that come to mind when writing a good music generator: 1) What's the metric? Can we have a metric that's not based on human judgment? Imho the best idea is to have a parametrized generator that creates music within ma

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