rectangleboy
One of the survivors finds a glass ring (something like trinitite) among the post-nuclear-blast rubble of Saks Fifth Avenue[3] in New York and sees visions of the future (or something) through it.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swan_Song_(McCammon_novel) [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_Stoker_Award#External_lin... [3] my memories of this book may be embellishing this a bit....
Location: South Bay Area of SF, CA
Remote: Yes, prefer hybrid.
Willing to relocate: No.
Technologies: Java, C++, Python, Bash, C, Objective-C, SQL, Unix/Linux, BigQuery, Google Cloud Platform, Xcode
Résumé/CV: https://www.overleaf.com/project/56a406b7dfccdf3f2efc3a4e
Email: [email protected]Why I thought about this: I'm using a ~12 year old monitor that occasionally has a broken column of pixels about 2/3 of the whole monitor width away from the left edge and thought it was trying to align with the ever-moving map on the site. It confused me why the actual location wasn't lining up until I realized it was my monitor's fault.
"Dr. Thompson peered inside his perfect offspring to gain insight into its methods, but what he found inside was baffling.
The plucky chip was utilizing only thirty-seven of its one hundred logic gates, and most of them were arranged in a curious collection of feedback loops.
Five individual logic cells were functionally disconnected from the rest— with no pathways that would allow them to influence the output— yet when the researcher disabled any one of them the chip lost its ability to discriminate the tones.
Furthermore, the final program did not work reliably when it was loaded onto other FPGAs of the same type."
I, without a doubt, formed my opinions largely because of my family (against my moderately-strong conservative family), not that much because of my community (my high school friends had very neutral political leanings), and definitely prior to college (high school).
I feel that many opinions are formed by high school friend groups and rarely questioned beyond that and that community is only important in generally shaping that high school exposure and experience.
"People think math and coding are skills u r born with. ok there r prodigies out there. but most talented folks just work rly hard at it." -@realscientists
Replying to @realscientists "@realscientists Being good at math/coding usually coincides with it being fun." -@JesperEs
Replying to @JesperEs "@jesperes yep. Or useful... I hated coding in undergrad. Then forced to solve problems using code during my masters. Ended up loving it." -@realscientists
Finding a piece that you love or badly want to learn will allow you to put in the hard work needed to learn it and you'll progress in skill at the piano in the process.
[1] https://twitter.com/realscientists/status/369468586365968385
Music theory helps piano players understand musical pieces better, simplifying the complexity of piano pieces and reducing the time needed to learn new pieces. It turns "put finger here, then this one here" into "play this major chord progression in the left while the right hand plays a melody starting on the first note of the major scale..." and so on. Even just understanding how to make different chords (major, minor, diminished, augmented, dominant, etc.) helps tremendously. It won't be learned from either [Syn,Lin]thesia or sheet music alone.
[1] Hari Sivan Rito Village Normal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdNUX6Z8rb0 => Synthesia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qdq_NJvbUD0
[2] Kyle Landry Normal: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk0UErv9b4Hn5ucNNjqD1UQ Synthesia: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdkSsVttkG60X5nC0CJ2Xjg Sheets: https://musescore.com/brycepoindexter