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nazgul17 commented on Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself   jesperordrup.github.io/vo... · Posted by u/jesperordrup
meixyz · a day ago
For all those who think they're not talented and therefore can't learn how to sing, some good news here: Learning to sing is a matter of coordinating and strengthening muscles, so it can be practiced and improved just like anything else. The predisposition is largely the same for everybody (vocal pathologies excluded).

The reason why most people can't just naturally sing well is that singing is not a primary biological function, but a bi-product of a survival mechanism (vocal folds, aka airflow control / airway protection).

The muscles interacting with the vocal folds (thyroarytenoid and cricothyroid) have antagonistic function and work on reflexes rather than control, so the hard part of learning how to sing is to train them to coordinate properly rather than work against each other.

nazgul17 · 9 hours ago
I've been taking classes for one year when I was in uni, about 15 years ago. I have always had the problem that I would run out of voice after 1-2 songs. My teacher at the time kept saying my problem was that I had to strengthen and use the diaphragm, which I did but only made little progress. Eventually, since every class felt like defeat, I gave up. Did I just not train enough? Likely. Do you have any advice to share?
nazgul17 commented on It's 2026, Just Use Postgres   tigerdata.com/blog/its-20... · Posted by u/turtles3
zemo · 3 days ago
is there anything memcache gives you that a redis instance configured with an eviction policy of allkeys-lru doesn't give you
nazgul17 · 3 days ago
I imagine the answer here is: less complexity.
nazgul17 commented on China Moon Mission: Aiming for 2030 lunar landing   spectrum.ieee.org/china-m... · Posted by u/rbanffy
glimshe · 5 days ago
The US landed on the moon in the 1960s. "Beating to the moon" isn't how I'd call this.
nazgul17 · 5 days ago
There are many firsts to be claimed.

First semipermanent settlement. First industrial capacity. First lunar launch facility.

nazgul17 commented on The Codex App   openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
tokioyoyo · 6 days ago
“They just aren’t empowered to feedback about it, or are trained to just sigh and put up with it” is a roundabout way of saying users don’t care about it enough.
nazgul17 · 5 days ago
Software decisions are often not made by who will use said software.
nazgul17 commented on LED lighting undermines visual performance unless supplemented by wider spectra   nature.com/articles/s4159... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
roughly · 13 days ago
You know, it's funny - there's a couple places where this kind of thing seems to have come up. There's research around crop nutrition levels that shows decreases in nutrient levels as yield per acre goes up, there's research on supplements and vitamins that shows synergistic effects between seemingly unrelated substances, we've seen surprising effects from adding or removing species from an ecosystem. One begins to suspect that the "reductive" method of science - the sort of physics- or mathematics-type "reduce the variables of the problem until we can isolate effects" approach - isn't particularly well-suited to dealing with biological systems. You see it in bioinformatics as well - we've sequenced the genomes for many organisms, and have learned a lot from doing so, but we're also learning the limits of that approach pretty strongly - the organism isn't defined just by its 'code', but its environment; the presence, distribution, and concentration of various chemicals; etc. I suspect as we move more towards the "biological" century here we're going to have to readjust how we approach things to start trying to find those synergistic effects earlier in the process, rather than pull everything down to its constituent parts and then experimenting pairwise with various combos. I get the difficulties in doing that, but I feel like we've repeatedly found the stuff we've discarded as irrelevant to the problem ("things that are not in the visual wavelength the eye perceives") in fact do wind up being relevant (wider full-spectrum light has effects outside the mere spatial perception of objects).
nazgul17 · 13 days ago
Could it be the pendulum swinging hard before selling in the middle?

Once we learn from our mistakes we can find the frequencies that do yield the best outcome and at the same time consume (say) ¼ the energy of an incandescent bulb.

Or the minimum set of species yielding optimal outcomes, without the answer being "all of them"

nazgul17 commented on How I estimate work   seangoedecke.com/how-i-es... · Posted by u/mattjhall
nazgul17 · 15 days ago
At my previous workplace, we were developing a greenfield project, years in the making and kinda already brownish. Our managers were using our estimates to choose the right amount of work to fit into a sprint (fortnight).

Am I misinterpreting things or there is no overlap with the circumstances argued in the OP? Also, in that case, how do we make quality tradeoffs when all features are necessary for the end product?

nazgul17 commented on GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers   gptzero.me/news/neurips/... · Posted by u/segmenta
j2kun · 17 days ago
I spot-checked one of the flagged papers (from Google, co-authored by a colleague of mine)

The paper was https://openreview.net/forum?id=0ZnXGzLcOg and the problem flagged was "Two authors are omitted and one (Kyle Richardson) is added. This paper was published at ICLR 2024." I.e., for one cited paper, the author list was off and the venue was wrong. And this citation was mentioned in the background section of the paper, and not fundamental to the validity of the paper. So the citation was not fabricated, but it was incorrectly attributed (perhaps via use of an AI autocomplete).

I think there are some egregious papers in their dataset, and this error does make me pause to wonder how much of the rest of the paper used AI assistance. That said, the "single error" papers in the dataset seem similar to the one I checked: relatively harmless and minor errors (which would be immediately caught by a DOI checker), and so I have to assume some of these were included in the dataset mainly to amplify the author's product pitch. It succeeded.

nazgul17 · 17 days ago
The thing is, when you copy paste a bibliography entry from the publisher or from Google Scholar, the authors won't be wrong. In this case, it is. If I were to write a paper with AI, I would at least manage the bibliography by hand, conscious of hallucinations. The fact that the hallucination is in the bibliography is a pretty strong indicator that the paper was written entirely with AI.
nazgul17 commented on Every country should set 16 as the minimum age for social media accounts   afterbabel.com/p/why-ever... · Posted by u/paulpauper
casey2 · 25 days ago
I personally don't believe you have ANY evidence. More plausibly you are acting as a "useful idiot" for traditional media.

Now that Australia has banned social media, are you going to admit you were wrong? Or just double down and ban phones? If something is "unbelievable" then you better have good evidence for believing it, not just narratives.

nazgul17 · 25 days ago
I'm not sure I follow; are you disputing that social media cause harm to mental health, and particularly in teenagers?
nazgul17 commented on Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids   blog.smartere.dk/2026/01/... · Posted by u/mchro
fourneau · a month ago
I -have- built something like this for the TV using NFC cards, which was a great first-electronics-project for myself. That said, the most frustrating part is not the actual hardware itself but getting whatever streamer you're using to play the content you want. For example, this project required the author to WireShark and reverse engineer how Chromecast managed things.

If you do go down this route, I found that Plex offered the best deep-linking functionality and would wrap all of your content with that... but it was still somewhat unreliable.

nazgul17 · a month ago
Is this available to replicate? I've been thinking about this for some time, for music albums, specifically.
nazgul17 commented on Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids   blog.smartere.dk/2026/01/... · Posted by u/mchro
palmotea · a month ago
There are some off-the-shelf products that work similarly in the audio space:

https://us.yotoplay.com/

https://us.tonies.com/

I had plans to build something that for the TV, but having kids means I never had the time. And honestly, that might not have been such a bad thing since it made setting limits easier. I was able to teach my kid to turn the TV off when she was fairly young (and pause more recently), which seems to be enough.

nazgul17 · a month ago
Is there anything like this but for music selection? I mean, for adults. Say I want to have a dozen "albums" on my coffee table (NFC, QR, whatever), and insert one in a box to listen to them. Like an Audio CD, but without the risk of running, leveraging Spotify, or my MP3 connection. Something like in the OP, but using something less prone to stop working than a floppy disk (I was there, I remember).

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