What makes their pain matter less?
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Has AI been used to find errors in Knuth’s books? Or Chomsky’s?
That feels different to me. Grinding scales helps with muscle memory and technique. There’s certainly aspects of that with math, especially with algebraic manipulations. Doing math problems can yield a deeper understanding of the underlying concepts and how they behave. Thinking you understand doesn’t cut it
Individual scales are concrete examples of diatonic scales, pentatonic scales etc.
Similar to grinding scales on a music instrument.
Perhaps I can finally get into go!
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I’ve always preferred holding a guitar plectrum with my middle finger and thumb instead of the usual index and thumb. I always felt guilty about it since I’ve noticed professionals seem to always use the index finger.
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Now for a solo classical guitar transcription…
On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
— Charles Babbage
As a long time emacs user, I can’t describe enough how much I love VS Code over emacs. And yes, I was a power user with all the fancy modes. And yes, I work entirely with Linux.
Emacs fancy modes?