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For years I made the error of learning music theory without enough ear training. You have to hear and feel the theory, it's not only intellectual.

Then I found 2 exercises are all I needed for playing and composing music by ear:

- Functional intervals / scale degrees: https://tonesavvy.com/music-practice-exercise/220/functional.... If you start tone deaf like me checked "Fixed Key", learn all the intervals, then restart with basic intervals without fixed key.

- Melodic dictation: the advanced version of the exercise above once you are comfortable with each interval: https://tonesavvy.com/music-practice-exercise/222/melodic-di...

Once you can do melodic dictation you will be able to easily decode anything you hear, and map it to theory.

Edit: chord identification (https://tonesavvy.com/music-practice-exercise/216/chord-iden...) is obviously important but by then identifying basic chords should be easy, so it's for a more advanced level.

Mention of the chip industry makes it hard to take the source as unbiased from US side. Other comments were more insightful on the perspective of Taiwanese and on the cultural and historical aspects.

I can confirm that even in a small town you can go crazy consuming too much news and social media.

But then I lived most of my life in big cities, and for me moving in a rural community a few steps from the forest where I can walk between two meetings definitely solved many problems. Being free of all the stress of city life and connecting to nature really helped with emotional work and gaining perspective. I don't regret my 20's but I'm glad I found calm and happiness. Maybe in a few years I will have sufficiently recharged to be able to move back in the city.

Also I don't know about Philadelphia but in most cities I lived parks were small and sterile and real nature was not easily accessible.

Musician is not only performing an instrument. The analogy is more like telling instruments players that only care about virtuosity the larger point is making music for people to enjoy, from being “a guitarist” to making music. The musical piece is the product in the professional context, and AI in that context is maybe recording, DAWs and realistic synths and sounds banks.

Delivered value sounds like consultant talk, but it’s as simple as wanting to make a game for people to play it. Or if you’re a carpenter caring about the roof you’re building instead of just cutting wood and hammering nails. Jobs exists to serve a purpose, otherwise it’s a hobby (which is fine). Coding as an expertise will still be needed, same as having an expertise in the methods of processing wood, but we might not need coders on the assembly line anymore that we need wood cutters there.

Weird take on social policies, or maybe I misunderstand.

Giving basic food, shelter and health care is not socialism.

Thinking these basics are socialism is indeed the problem and why the US is destabilizing itself with now a good part of the population living like in a third world country.

It’s refusing to address the shortcomings of capitalism (exponential accumulation, wealth and GDP not representing good for society and happiness, externalities not priced in, irrationality of people easily exploited with money, finite resources…) that are known to destabilize society since the 19th century, with now even more data and environmental problems on a far larger scale, and an effective dictatorship in the form of oligarchy.

What was dismantled since the 70’s is seeing the corporations as a mean to serve society and not the opposite, and what prevented capitalism from self destruction. It’s not socialism either, it’s Adam Smith, notably the dangers of collusive businessmen conspiring against the public good.

Russian and Chinese influence online is only a bit of fuel to that fire.

Dumb question but is just keeping customers funds without investing them (even in bonds) and just collecting fees not a viable business model for banks? Is it a necessity or greed?

There is an intermediate solution that seems always conveniently ignored: You ask for taxpayers money to save a business and its employees? Then it’s a good old nationalization. Everyone is happy except shareholders and execs that are rightfully not made whole for their bad bets and management, no special exception to market rules.

_Syria_

2006 https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2006/2/14/syria-picks-euros-o...

No direct invasion but proxy war (lessons learned).

In that context no it’s the same thing. It’s profitability and balanced books (liabilities matching assets) that are different. A business can be profitable and insolvent if cash flow temporarily dries (e.g. you can’t hold employee salaries because customers take too long to pay invoices). A viable business needs both profitability (long term) and cash flow/solvability (short term).

Unmatched assets and liabilities (like FTX) is not insolvency, it’s fraud, and mechanically causes insolvency when the cash is gone after the run.

Currently around $0.92, now we’ll if stays there.

> My meandering point is that: everyone has different life situations

Yes, so it's not about preferences, it's not about the pros and cons, it's about not forcing people for needless suffering. Forcing people who want or need (professionally or personally) to work with other people at home is absurd, and forcing people who provide better work at home (for jobs were it makes no difference to be in office) to commute and work in an open space just to reassure bosses is as absurd.

Gmail, Fastmail... with custom domain

You still own the domain and are free to setup another hosting with the same address. With Gmail if you're banned it's over you lose access to everything and have to manually reach to all your contacts.

OT but if your French is decent and in a few years you get tired of city life maybe keep the French countryside in sight, outside of Paris it's a different country.

My pet theory is lot of people overextended themselves due to easy financing[0] and are perpetually frustrated when driving due to the insatisfaction of getting very little of what they imagined. They are just commuting like everyone else but with an additional big bad financial decision. Pedestrians, bicycles, other drivers, everything then become an instant scapegoat for their frustration.

[0]https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-02-14/new-car-p...

I didn't know about the Microdrive but Wikipedia says model larger than 1GB up to 4GB were first available in 2004, nearly 3 years after the iPod. At that time for $499 it costed you could already get a 40GB iPod.

The paper is discussed by another commenter which brings interesting points how that model is built and it may not be what you think.

I agree with what you said regarding how we choose to view things, but I think you also have a bias/belief that you want it to be something more, instead of being more neutral and scientific: we know the building blocks, we have to study the emerging behaviors, we can’t assume the conclusion. One paper is not enough, we have to stay open.

> They learned how to make a project look shiny for 6-18 months

This is the root cause of so many problems, execs, politicians and even employees now that personal branding has taken over for everyone have no interest in building things that last past their mandate. We are drowning in shiny novelty and yet organisations and infrastructure are crumbling.

Do we know why they are shot down? How do we know there is no dangerous material in them (e.g. radioactive)?

What are you trying to see? If they are not using Google you'll not see it in these data.

Why the obsession with AGI? The point is that ChatGPT is already useful.

That thread is mostly about Google completely messing up their response to what Microsoft announced yesterday.

I don’t see that unanimous acceptance, there are a lot of interesting discussions about the shortcomings. There are many comparisons between Google results for examples, with also potential solutions to problems you cite like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34709883

It’s not about replacing search overnight, but if it can take even 10% of search volume that would have serious consequences for Google.

I can totally see why ML researchers that were expecting end-user products being notebook like and targeting data engineers were took off guard by the sudden discovery of the how a chat interface is powerful and usable by anyone.

Thanks to that joke I just imagined how it could be a game changer for internal corporate documents (the kind that are 50+ pages and never read), especially if it’s native into Office.

It’s an interesting analysis but I think the cause is less conscious and more of a side-effect of overstaffed tech companies giving too much importance and reward to tooling projects (i.e. tech marketing/reputation)

The market reason is companies internally rewarding engineers for developing and marketing these tech projects, then cargo cult in the industry for less sophisticated management and investors, coupled with resume building of developers. All of that fueled by easy money. That makes powerful incentives aligned.

Someone deaf and blind still form thoughts but don’t output them in words. Words follow cognition, it’s sometimes obvious when you have a clear concept in mind but forget the word.

Edit: also when programming, I form mental structures and code them without verbalizing them, same with maths or when drawing or making music. A thought is maybe a prediction, but language seems not to be the abstraction it’s operated on.

I’m sure people were saying the same things regarding IBM in the 80’s, Microsoft or Cisco in the 90’s… Google is a big corporation with inertia and averse to risk regarding its core business, they are not immune to being disrupted.

I have not experienced it myself but I have seen a relative having an episode like that, it was quite scary for me but like you that person is functional and back now.

Personally I make quite vivid dreams that make me contemplate how fine is the line of between mind and reality when I wake up. It seems like a subtle mental process and I can totally imagine how it could fail with fragilities and pressure.