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 software job to take about 9 months off to devote to piano recently. Every free moment I get, I'm throwing myself in the waters. It's really hard to push through the painful points of learning stuff if you're not obsessed.
Readit Newsdaviddaviddavid commented on The Deliberate Practice Guide (2021) fs.blog/deliberate-practi... · Posted by u/rzk
daviddaviddavid commented on Ask HN: What are some of the best university courses available online for free? · Posted by u/curious16
Hey, I appreciate this post and gave a re-upvote.
Is this course more about composition or performance? I realize jazz is about improv which is a skill I'd like to have.
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 need to note to yourself to revisit a topic and apply it in all 12 keys or apply it to a bunch of Real Book tunes.
I knew I'd pay for recommending a paid course but it's really great and the price is a steal given that Berklee Online courses are around $1500 and private lessons w someone of this teacher's calibre might be $100/hr. I'm not affiliated w the teacher/college at all other than being a student.
daviddaviddavid commented on Ask HN: What are some of the best university courses available online for free? · Posted by u/curious16
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 $400 for non-CA residents) but they are so good that I had to mention them.
I am nearing the end of the Level II course and have learned so much stuff. They force you to do so many things that you otherwise would not do. Basically, ever week you have to post a video demonstrating what you learned from the previous week. And the video is in a public discussion forum with the other students so there is this incentive to do an extra good job. And he gives great feedback on your assignments.
daviddaviddavid commented on I think faster than light travel is possible [video] backreaction.blogspot.com... · Posted by u/bilsbie
The title of this article is a really good Garden Path Sentence:
daviddaviddavid commented on Ryuichi Sakamoto has died clashmusic.com/news/ryuic... · Posted by u/mellosouls
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/watch?v=8rtdR9WkOOY
And his early synth-y stuff is just so hip. Thousand Knives of Ryuichi Sakamoto (1978) is some badass stuff.
daviddaviddavid commented on The Presocratic Philosophers [pdf] bard.edu/library/arendt/p... · Posted by u/andsoitis
> He pretty much destroyed Frege's life's work
This is a gross exaggeration, and not something that Russell himself would agree with.
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/russell-paradox/).
----
As I think about acts of integrity and grace, I realise that there is nothing in my knowledge to compare with Frege’s dedication to truth. His entire life’s work was on the verge of completion, much of his work had been ignored to the benefit of men infinitely less capable, his second volume was about to be published, and upon finding that his fundamental assumption was in error, he responded with intellectual pleasure clearly submerging any feelings of personal disappointment. It was almost superhuman and a telling indication of that of which men are capable if their dedication is to creative work and knowledge instead of cruder efforts to dominate and be known. (Quoted in van Heijenoort (1967), 127)
daviddaviddavid commented on The Presocratic Philosophers [pdf] bard.edu/library/arendt/p... · Posted by u/andsoitis
Russell's opinions of Nietzsche border on libel. I had a lot of respect for Russell until I read this book and discovered that he either misunderstood Nietzsche extremely badly for some reason (emotional response?), and/or felt no compunctions about deliberately lying about him.
That really woke me up to reading him more critically, at which point I discovered he is mostly just okay, and certainly not great. He is trapped in a peculiar anglo-pseudo-rationalist view and cannot see out of it.
"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 fit on a napkin. He's one of those rare thinkers that did so much that if he only did a tenth of what he actually did he'd still be considered great.
When you get them all, it's "Queen Bee." I've only ever gotten it once -- for whatever reason, the puzzle just clicked that day -- but it was extremely satisfying.
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!
Love that game, addicted too!
ps. there’s a fourth pangram today you missed :)
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 animal in the loris family. But nope, Spelling Bee seemingly rejects it because it considers it to be specialized zoological knowledge or something. BS.
EDIT: Removed spoiler.
Every car I get (currently have an Hyundai Elantra GT), I end up with the back seats down 75% of the time, and it just looks crappy. If the default mode was back-seats-down, with no big seams or gaps or unlevel parts, I'd be in heaven.