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by daviddaviddavid 3y ago
I'm a gigging jazz drummer and just cause you mentioned "with the back seats down", I gotta say: I always wish there was a car that was optimized / defaulted to having the back seats down. But in a pinch, on those rare
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by daviddaviddavid 3y ago
I think the key here is that you only deliberately practice things that you really, really want. Things that you want so bad that you obsess over them and you wake up realizing you've been dreaming about them. I quit a comfortable so
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by daviddaviddavid 3y ago
Hey thanks, it is very hands on and focused more on performance than composition. It covers comping, soloing, playing in different substyles, pretty much everything if you take both courses. Sometimes the units fly by too quickly and you
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by daviddaviddavid 3y ago
Jeremy Siskind's jazz piano courses taught out of Fullerton College. https://jeremysiskind.com/jazzclass/ This is a bit of a cheat because these courses are not free ($50USD for California residents and around $40
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by daviddaviddavid 3y ago
The title of this article is a really good Garden Path Sentence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence
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by daviddaviddavid 3y ago
Just want to share a couple great works by Sakamoto. I'm a big fan. One of my favorite bossa nova albums is A Day In New York by Morelenbaum/Sakamoto. Here's Desafinado from that album: https://www.youtube.com&#
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by daviddaviddavid 4y ago
Here is a the letter from Russel to Jean van Heijenoort in response to the latter's request to print the correspondence between Russell/Frege in "From Frege to Godel" ( https://plato.stanford.edu/entries&#
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by daviddaviddavid 4y ago
"mostly just okay, and certainly not great" The guy cowrote Principia Mathematica AND won the Nobel prize in literature. He pretty much destroyed Frege's life's work in a witty little personal letter that could've
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by daviddaviddavid 4y ago
Good lord, I play every day and didn't know this was even a thing. I usually quit as soon as I hit Genius. I clearly need to level up!
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by daviddaviddavid 4y ago
Thanks! I love it so much. The one thing that annoys me is that it rejects anything that it considers to be domain knowledge or some such criteria. For example, today you'd think you could use 'potto', which is a cool anim
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by daviddaviddavid 4y ago
For anyone that plays Wordle on NYT Games site, there is another anagramming game called Spelling Bee in which the notion of a pangram is featured prominently. Basically, you get a set of letters from which to build anagrams (one privilege
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by daviddaviddavid 4y ago
One bit of complexity that lots of tools like this seem to always punt on is the fact that most chords (at least in jazz) are typically played rootless and inverted and with lots of 'upper extensions'. It would be nice if a tool
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by daviddaviddavid 4y ago
This reminded me of my favorite Mary Oliver poem: Entering the Kingdom by Mary Oliver The crows see me. They stretch their glossy necks In the tallest branches Of green trees. I am Possibly dangerous, I
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by daviddaviddavid 4y ago
I like the action on the Privias (and the similar CDP360s, which I played recently). My only complaint about the action is that if you're playing at low/practice volumes, you tend to hear a lot of mechanical plastic sound as the
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by daviddaviddavid 4y ago
Though not a move into a completely different product area, it's been interesting to see them step up their digital piano game. For a long time it seemed like Casio had a reputation for not making serious keyboards that you could gig
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by daviddaviddavid 4y ago
Regarding Yamaha and synthesizers I just wanted to mention that I consistently hear rave reviews of the Reface CS. I am more into vintage electric piano sounds than synths and currently own a Reface CP and the sounds on that are legit.
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by daviddaviddavid 4y ago
This reminded me of a very hip recording of Anthony Braxton playing Donna Lee on contrabass clarinet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qL_hkYEf1M
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by daviddaviddavid 4y ago
I would add HP Grice to the list of startlingly clear ordinary language philosophers. His 1957 essay "Meaning" has this definition: "A means something by x" is equivalent to "A intended the utterance of x to produc
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by daviddaviddavid 4y ago
As a fan of Alice Coltrane, it's kind of frustrating that NYT would bother to put this together and interview all these people and then put these tiny 30 second, completely-out-of-context audio snippets. I encourage anyone who checks
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by daviddaviddavid 4y ago
Probably worth noting that Wittgenstein and Weil both came from relative affluence. Wittgenstein's father was one of the wealthiest men in Europe. Famous composers such as Brahms would perform at their house. While not close to Wittg
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by daviddaviddavid 4y ago
I realize it is not the same as finding a friend, but I recently found five crisp $20 bills in a used logic text book at an Amvets thrift store. I opened the book because it was written by Irving Copi, who wrote my undergrad logic text. I
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by daviddaviddavid 4y ago
I have been in love with this song for decades. There is definitely a feeling of circularity going on. Here are a couple of my favorite versions, if anyone wants to go down the rabbit hole. SF Jazz Collective (heavy modern jazz arrangemen
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by daviddaviddavid 4y ago
It's unfortunate that the entire article is focused on toxic productivity as a feature of individuals, as though their personal/psychological shortcomings are to blame. I think it is worthwhile asking what are the cultural, struct
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Dave Smith, Whose Synthesizers Shaped Electronic Music, Dies at 72(nytimes.com)
10 points by daviddaviddavid 4y ago|1 comments
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by daviddaviddavid 4y ago
I was really hoping this would be about Medical Logic Modules / Arden Syntax. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_logic_module
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by daviddaviddavid 4y ago
Group texting works fine for me. It auto converts to MMS and sending/replying works as expected. On my old Kyocera, a group text would seemingly send individual texts in a loop over the recipients, which always seemed broken. The one
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by daviddaviddavid 4y ago
When Sprint/T-Mobile forced me to get a new flip phone because my Kyocera would no longer be supported, I had to decide between the Alcatel Go Flip, the Cat S22 and a Sonim XP3 Plus. I went with the Sonim and I am very happy with it.
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by daviddaviddavid 4y ago
Watching my son grow/develop/flourish. When my cat climbs on me and purrs. The moments when you're playing music and you enter a state of flow. Pushing through difficult phases of learning new skills and coming out on the
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by daviddaviddavid 4y ago
Regarding modern AI approaches not being great at what Prolog does, I'm curious if this will ever translate into an uptick in job postings for Prolog (or, at least, rule-based/declarative) jobs. One would expect hybrid systems in
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by daviddaviddavid 4y ago
Also a big Paul Barton fan! He has a nice video playing the 18th Goldberg Variation by JS Bach (my favorite one). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zka65VYD318 And he is also a great painter and there is an awesome video of

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