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pdamoc commented on Managing State with Signals tonsky.me/blog/humble-sig... · Posted by u/geospeck

pdamoc · 2 years ago

Elm started as a FRP language and ended up giving up FRP[1] for ease of use.

If ease of use is targeted, signals might not be the best approach. I distinctly remember things becoming easier when they went away.

[1] https://elm-lang.org/news/farewell-to-frp

pdamoc commented on Why aren't smart people happier? experimentalhistory.subst... · Posted by u/oscarwao

dusted · 3 years ago

I'm not especially smart, or happy, but, personally, I don't know how to be it, or what it feels like. I know pleasure, but being in a constant pleasurable state is not what is meant by happiness as far as I know.

Slavoj Žižek (someone who does seem to be especially smart):

“Happiness was never important. The problem is that we don't know what we really want. What makes us happy is not to get what we want. But to dream about it. Happiness is for opportunists. So I think that the only life of deep satisfaction is a life of eternal struggle, especially struggle with oneself. If you want to remain happy, just remain stupid. Authentic masters are never happy; happiness is a category of slaves.”

pdamoc · 3 years ago

Pleasure is not the right goal. Homeostasis, balance, equanimity, peace are much better.

Learn to appreciate beauty. Learn to create beauty. Learn how to get better at both.

pdamoc commented on Blue Zones, where people reach age 100 at 10 times greater rates ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... · Posted by u/ivanvas

enviclash · 3 years ago

For an expat like myself, the community aspect is the most difficult part. How can you create a community if you are hopping countries every 4-6 years?

pdamoc · 3 years ago

Learn Argentine Tango. If you live in a big enough city, most likely there will be a tango community. Classes 2 times a week, one practica and one milonga and puff most of your week is covered.

pdamoc commented on The Miseducation of Maria Montessori newyorker.com/books/under... · Posted by u/fortran77

rudedogg · 4 years ago

I bought a Montessori book, and while I'm only a few chapters in, it has some ideas I really like.

I think it's important to remember that these techniques were defined in 1912 though. There seems to be a sort of worship of the Montessori method, and a "black and white" mentality about what is correct. Using a 100+ year old book/method without adjustments and chasing purity in following it seems misguided.

pdamoc · 4 years ago

I think that it is more important to remember that Montessori tried to bring education in the 20th century using the science that was available to her 100+ years ago.

Most schools today are still stuck into the factory model of 200 years ago. They are still trying to take uneducated peasant children and discipline them to mindlessly follow a 9-to-5 factory work schedule. Applying Montessori principles would be an improvement to most.

Regular people severely underestimate how outdated and unscientific the current model is. Everywhere.

And we know about this for more than 50 years and we've done very little to improve things.

One of my sisters made sure that my nephew was in a Montessori kindergarten. He went to a regular school afterwards but those Montessori years can still be felt. There is a kind of emotional stability that still permeates his behavior. A level of presence and calm that brings me joy and gratefulness.

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pdamoc · 4 years ago

My favorite approach remains the Dome of Visions - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Bn2o-xyS6M

pdamoc commented on Mind-expanding books github.com/hackerkid/Mind... · Posted by u/axiomdata316

thelittleone · 4 years ago

Been wondering lately about "books that everyone should read". I used to go to Amazon search a category and then get the most popular / highly rated book. But is that really what I need or want? As I start to appreciate the value of uniqueness I wonder more about obscure books, books less read and have found these often contain gems.

pdamoc · 4 years ago

You might want to read first "How to Read a Book" and then proceed to the recommended list [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Read_a_Book#Reading_lis...

pdamoc commented on Mocking Bird – Realtime Voice Clone for Chinese github.com/babysor/Mockin... · Posted by u/axiomdata316

echelon · 4 years ago

I'm the author of FakeYou.com, so I have a little experience in this area. (We used to train GlowTTS models ourselves before turning it over to our users, which has had mixed results in terms of quality.)

This appears to be a repackaging of RealTimeVoiceCloning [1], albeit with a few additions, such as GSTs.

No matter what the repo claims, your results will depend on high quality data. Lots of it, and with ample fine tuning. Demo videos are absolutely cherry picked.

If you're picking this up for a project, HiFi-Gan is pretty much the best vocoder right now. Tacotron still produces great results, though there are lots of other interesting model architectures.

[1] https://github.com/CorentinJ/Real-Time-Voice-Cloning

pdamoc · 4 years ago

Long ago I found an approach to 3D modeling [1] that used a morphable model that was then morphed into the desired shape. Would something like this be possible for voice? A voice model obtained from a gigantic set of samples, that can be manually tuned to sound more masculine/feminine, higher/lower pitched and that can be morphed into the timbre of various samples.

- [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSRA8GpWIrA

pdamoc commented on Apple didn't revolutionize power supplies; new transistors did (2012) righto.com/2012/02/apple-... · Posted by u/Rondom

FpUser · 4 years ago

Same story as with hard drive based audio players. I've been using one (if I remember correctly) from Creative long before iPod materialized. All was quiet but suddenly as iPod came it was of course called revolution.

pdamoc · 4 years ago

> "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame." - CmdrTaco

Apple is very good at maximizing "consumer satisfaction". This means giving consumer the best deal for their money considering as many of the consumer needs as feasible. Other brands ignore a lot of these needs and then they wonder why people don't buy their products when, on some details, they are much better than Apple at a lower price.

pdamoc commented on The grandfather of modern self-help 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksd... · Posted by u/flummox

dvaun · 4 years ago

For anyone interested in another famous book from this time period I recommend reading “As a Man Thinketh” by James Allen[0]. I came across this book during a depressing period 8 years ago and it helped me climb out of my hole. In addition to this, I read a portion of another book of his, “Eight Pillars of Prosperity”, from which a lot of concepts are now probably common advice and platitudes.

I’d venture to guess that a lot of these older books have some “outdated” concepts within them — though it’s easy enough to ignore. There are still good parts within old books that you can take to heart, and selectively skip past things you disagree with.

I have not read Smiles’s “Self-Help”, so I’ll give it a shot here.

[0]: https://www.thinketh.io/

pdamoc · 4 years ago

I personally think the self-help movement peaked with "Lead the Field" by Earl Nightingale.

The only things better than that program can be found in science backed endeavors from something like Psychological Self-Help[1] to the entire field of Positive Psychology.

[1] - https://www.psychologicalselfhelp.org/