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mtizim··on Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom
Somebody ate Adam Neely's video hook line and sinker.

I do agree, but I don't know how many generations will die before we can overturn the ridiculousness of the current approach. Even the book linked has some nice flowcharts of harmonic function, given as a useful tool for analysis and composing. Sadly, the theory fails almost instantly, defeated by the highly experimental niche piece of music called "Hotel California".

However, bringing race and class into it, while true, does not help the argument, as most people you're trying to convince are already fully convinced of the supremacy of the German masters.

mtizim··on Fecal transplants for autism deliver success in clinical trials (2019)
Why? I have mild tism, I found it quite funny and quite real, it even felt good to be seen.
mtizim··on Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated
If you're after that, try performing for (campfire guitar? Christmas carols?) or with (entry level jams, especially electronic ones) other people. Much easier to start out that one would think, but it requires a lot of self-confidence. With performing, you can scratch that creative itch by adapting/embellishing source material. A small lick here and there or a handful of alternative voicings are enough!
mtizim··on Show HN: Pegma, an open-source version of the classic Peg solitaire
For me it's also that it works as a joke setup, just like "ligma" or "updog".
mtizim··on Dubious Math in Infinite Jest (2009)
Why not? Exactly because there is nothing tethering our axioms on paper to what is necessarily true. You could formulate something wildly different from ZF±C/Peano/whatever normal axiom system, but we wouldn't call it "math", and what we currently call "math" will work under any conditions
mtizim··on Kalman Filter Tutorial
With no mathematical rigor there is no mathematical understanding. You are robbing yourself, as the concepts are meaningless without the context.

Truly appreciate the power of linear approximations by going through algebra, appreciate the tricks of calculus, marvel at the inherent tradeoffs of knowledge with estimator theory, and see the joy of the central limit theorem being true. All of this knowledge is free, and much more interesting than a formal restatement of "it was not supposed to rain, but I see clouds outside, I guess I'll expect light rain instead of a big thunderstorm".

mtizim··on Learning Synths
I don't agree at all, vcv rack helped me understand synthesis in a much deeper way than I would have otherwise. What's a retrigger? Oscillator drift? Why do you modulate with a lfo? These are much simpler to understand when you're patching modules by hand in vcv, especially when you start with a blank slate.

On the other hand, before vcv, seeing a vst synth just had me overwhelmed instead.

I'd recommend everyone reading this to get free vcv + the surge vcv library, and just play around with it.

mtizim··on A visual proof that a^2 – b^2 = (a + b)(a – b)
You're in for a nice trip, the concept is called Geometric Algebra:

https://youtu.be/60z_hpEAtD8?si=HHs_9m0IJ43nfI3S (~50m video)

TLDW: Yes, the concept is there, makes much more sense than a cross product (which is just an oriented area) and generalizes really nicely.

Alternatively, read: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bivector

mtizim··on Buy payphones and retire
Both can be true.

- Investing provides benefits for society at large - Investors are exploiting the labour of others for their own gain

(but also your examples only work in a very weird worldview where everything is privatised, but I don't want to bother discussing that on this website)

mtizim··on Show HN: Rust GUI Library via Flutter
Not at all, pretty much all popular languages (except C/C++) are as safe as (safe) rust. The only safety rust brings to the table is memory safety, which most languages achieve with a runtime and a garbage collector, which have a performance tradeoff.
mtizim··on Mechanical computer relies on kirigami cubes, not electronics
It's not, we just use NAND everywhere because they're easier to make with transistors. You can get functional completeness with a NOR instead, or alternatively with some different combinations of other logical operators.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_completeness

We even implement AND gates with NANDs in electronics (because they're way simpler), but we might not have to limit ourselves to a single base gate with mechanical computers.

mtizim··on Berlin's techno scene added to Unesco intangible cultural heritage list
If you stop squinting, you'll see that neither the average exclusive activity enthusiast, nor a person using "normie" unironically are shallow nor superficial. Maybe your experience can be explained by how you see these people, not by how these people actually are.
mtizim··on Doorway effect
do look in the mirror, don't panic, face your fears, and look away full of love.
mtizim··on An illustrated guide to post-Orwellian censorship (2021)
I knew what you were implying of course, I just wanted to see it written explicitely.

It's funny to see a russian sockpuppet under an article about propaganda.

mtizim··on An illustrated guide to post-Orwellian censorship (2021)
> a lesson lost in time

What exactly are you implying?

mtizim··on System-wide open source ad blocker for Mac, Windows, and Linux
Not a product. It's literally free, free as in free speech, and free as in you're free not to use it.

Building the code yourself for every update is also a solved problem on every system with a feature complete package manager, including Windows. Trust is not so easily solvable, but if you trust nobody, you can choose to look at ads.

mtizim··on You do need a technical co-founder [video]
Thank you. I don't know if it's for me, but doesn't look that boring.
mtizim··on You do need a technical co-founder [video]
Could you name some (not commonly known ways to get fuck you money)? As a young tech guy doing stuff in startup spaces, I'm genuinely interested.

Of course, "no silver bullet", especially to make big money, but I'm curious, from the perspective of someone who'd place around 1.3 on the spectrum you described.

mtizim··on A failed AI girlfriend product, and my lessons
I think many of us here think the industry sells them opium, not a band-aid.
mtizim··on Smart drugs reduce quality of effort, and slow decision-making
> single dose trial

Humans make better decisions when in a state they've been pretty much their entire lives than in an altered one, more news at 11.

The study seems useless - it's like giving the participants their own, long used car, asking them to set a time, and then comparing that to the time they would set in the same car, but with a slightly different clutch. I'd very gladly read a similar comparison for long term regular users.

mtizim··on I feel like I made a mistake investing professionally into Flutter
If you really want to write it yourself, sure. This code is very easily automatically generated.

https://pub.dev/packages/json_serializable

mtizim··on I feel like I made a mistake investing professionally into Flutter
As software developers we learn software technologies for breakfast, not entire industrial processes...
mtizim··on Linux has achieved a 3% desktop market share
Your guess is very wrong. I've been using my deck as a laptop occasionally, and I've seen a lot of posts on a sub on the recently deceased site of people using it as such. And why not? It's basically a touchscreen laptop without a keyboard and with a small screen.

Also, the deck does not replicate a subset of the desktop experience, it just contains a desktop experience. Unless the KDE desktop is not a desktop now. If that's the case - it runs windows.

mtizim··on How VSCode made bracket pair colorization faster (2021)
I don't think he is intentionally dishonest. When I read "decades ago", I thought "three or more", roughly the same way "several" works.
mtizim··on Gitless: A simple VCS built on top of Git
The gitless vs git section is lacking. I can see the diffrences, but you're not making any claims that it's better. I don't really know why I should use gitless from this page.
mtizim··on What character was removed from the alphabet? (2020)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/C0_and_C1_control_codes#Fiel...

The problem is that any delimiter that has no chance of appearing in actual text will be hard to discover, and cannot appear on a standard keyboard (so it is not easily human-writable). So we are kind of stuck with the comma for human readable formats.

mtizim··on Psychedelic scientist sends brains back to childhood
I'd say just do them and come up with stuff to do. There are many of non-science forums on psychedelics, and you can quickly get the general idea how they can help you. But if you want to be sciency about it, read the aforementioned journals and do the "stuff" they describe yourself. Compared to experimental compounds, many are very easy (and often legal) to obtain. (but probably not legal to possess)
mtizim··on Psychedelic scientist sends brains back to childhood
Most of the psychedelic research I've seen boils down to "take psychedelics and do stuff to get a result, here's why you get the result". You can absolutely take psychedelics and do stuff yourself.
mtizim··on In praise of blowing up your life
What awful things to say.
mtizim··on Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing
By this definition, there's still multiple credible reddit clients - relay, baconreader, rif.
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