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What makes their pain matter less?
Has AI been used to find errors in Knuth’s books? Or Chomsky’s?
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!
Re:Why I Hate the Index Finger (1980) on Wednesday November 20, 2024 @07:05PM (#42199539)
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.
Re:A Chopin Waltz Unearthed After Nearly 200 Years on Sunday October 27, 2024 @10:32PM (#41967309)
Now for a solo classical guitar transcription…
Re:Detecting when LLMs are uncertain on Friday October 25, 2024 @06:50PM (#41950651)
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
Re:Mastering Emacs on Thursday August 24, 2023 @12:43AM (#37245090)
Emacs fancy modes?
Re:The Graphing Calculator Story on Thursday October 20, 2022 @06:35AM (#33272765)
Thanks for sharing.
Re:The Tools I Use to Write Books (2018) on Thursday May 19, 2022 @12:28AM (#31430777)
No mention of org-mode?
“How well are you trained, in music?”
Re:Mental speed is high until age sixty on Monday April 18, 2022 @02:46PM (#31074819)
Why the delayed interest in guitar?
Re:Impacts of lack of sleep on Thursday February 03, 2022 @08:28AM (#30192098)
A vegan diet has made a huge difference in clearing my nose pathways.
Re:Rust 1.52.0 on Thursday May 06, 2021 @11:55PM (#27071953)
Kudos to Tshepang Lekhonkhobe! It’s wonderful to see an African name in the contributors list. Can anyone spot others?
Re:Developer tools can be magic but instead collect dust on Monday March 29, 2021 @01:10AM (#26617900)
Hosting, I guess.
Re:Developer tools can be magic but instead collect dust on Monday March 29, 2021 @01:07AM (#26617886)
What is repl.it’s monetization strategy?
Re:What Philip Glass and J. S. Bach have in common (2018) on Thursday March 25, 2021 @06:18AM (#26578367)
Interesting what you did there with Different Trains.
Re:Google outage – resolved on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @02:55AM (#25428038)
Except when there is cache warming when you turn it on?
Re:30 years later, QBasic is still the best on Sunday November 29, 2020 @01:58AM (#25243449)
Could Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby work as an introduction to programming for kids?
Re:I Think Bluetooth Is Finally OK on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @10:43AM (#24907895)
I'm not.
Re:Spotify, Ever the Fans of Openness on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @08:59AM (#24765145)
Perhaps the "massive amount" out there is the reason you need the likes of Spotify to consume it in a meaningful way.
Re:Spotify, Ever the Fans of Openness on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @03:26AM (#24763141)
> You don't need a "massive amount" of music and you never will.

This cracked me up!

Neat. I hope screenplays are in the pipeline! I think it's even more exhilarating to type words you've heard agreeably rendered.
Awesome! I came here to say the same thing. Great work BTW!!
I felt the same way when Chadwick Boseman died.
I was hoping this news would make Hacker News front page.
Exactly my confusion!
> A nice exhaustive list.

This made me laugh!

> I guess the pro-tip is to always have non-alcoholic beverages at a gathering.

Alas you may find that those offered contain sugar and/or gluten ...

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