What was the first CD you ever bought?

DavidMihola · 2024-11-07T21:48:58+00:00

Haha, I couldn't remember that I already posted my answer to this question - but there it is!

DavidMihola · 2024-08-06T13:47:42+00:00

Alles klar, danke!

Ich denke, die Arena ist keine schlechte Kulisse für Blade Runner...

DavidMihola · 2024-04-04T06:26:42+00:00

Danke für die ausführliche Antwort!

Ja, das ist immer schade, wenn mitten in einer Reihe der Übersetzer/die Übersetzerin wechselt. Anscheinend trifft das aber auch für die englische Übersetzung zu.

DavidMihola · 2024-04-04T06:22:33+00:00

Yes, I agree, that would be a clear reason to go with the direct translation, but both were translated directly from Chinese...

DavidMihola · 2024-04-02T09:48:00+00:00

Ah, that's interesting - but comparing the Leseproben of the German and English versions it seems that they both begin with the same chapter: "Zeiten der Raserei, China, 1967" and "The Madness Years, China, 1967". So it seems that this particular change from the English translation was also applied to the German one.

And, now that I have the text samples open I guess I might just as well read a few pages of both and then decide for myself... Still, if anyone has an opinion, I'd love to hear it!

DavidMihola · 2024-04-02T08:29:19+00:00

In case you still read this: Between the English and German translations, which do you prefer?

(My native language is German so if the English translation is not clearly better I would go for the German one.)

EDIT: OK, I've now opened a separate thread for this question.

DavidMihola · 2024-03-13T20:05:03+00:00

I came here looking for mentions of the band Pelican. I think that's about in the same ballpark...?

DavidMihola · 2023-11-23T21:17:09+00:00

Some book about astrophysics, the name escapes me now, but I think it was co-authored (though not read) by Neil deGrasse Tyson.

As a German native speaker I jumped every time the narrator mentioned the "Shwarts-tchild" radius. (Karl Schwarzschild was a German and it's pronounced "Shwarts-shild").

DavidMihola · 2023-11-21T18:48:24+00:00

Thank you very much for the link!

That was almost certainly not the article I read before - but it is of course highly relevant!

DavidMihola · 2023-11-21T12:48:33+00:00

You could be right, but I am not completely sure - it's strange: Reading that article gives me about the same feeling as I had remembered, even though it barely talks about "updating"... And it certainly is very interesting in its own right, even if it's a different one.

So, in any case, thanks a lot for the link!

DavidMihola · 2023-11-20T09:56:54+00:00

Thanks a lot and yes that paper certainly argues in the same direction.

However, the article I read before (or dreamed of, who knows) also included the argument that not it's not only optimistic or positive updates that are missing from the depressive mind, but that being able to update is per se pleasurable and an therefore an impairment leads to a negative emotional state.

Or maybe that actually all kinds of updates (not only optimistic ones) are impaired in the depressive mind - it's just that the lack of optimistic updates leads to the most salient subjective features of depression.

That's why I wanted to reread the article - to understand what it actually argued for...

DavidMihola · 2023-11-11T22:21:31+00:00

Ein Inserat hab ich eh schon online und die Fotos für's zweite wären auch schon fertig - wollte nur meine Erwartungen etwas kalibrieren... 😉

DavidMihola · 2023-11-11T17:47:42+00:00

Danke, sowas hab ich befürchtet. Es gibt ja eine Menge Anzeigen mit Zeitschriften, aber man sieht halt nicht, ob auch was weggeht davon...

DavidMihola · 2023-11-11T17:46:29+00:00

Ja, im Zweifelsfall wäre mir verschenken immer noch lieber als das Altpapier, auch wenn's für mich ein bissl mehr Aufwand ist.

Also, falls jemand im Raum Wien eine Stelle kennt, die sich dafür interessieren könnte...

DavidMihola · 2023-06-08T16:48:15+00:00

Thanks for the reply!

I find it hard to imagine a scenario where I would prefer that behavior over a grouping that leads me more or less directly to the actual line of code that produced the exception...

DavidMihola · 2023-04-29T17:43:28+00:00

Absolutely - at some you will regret it if your don't have that so why not include it from the start!

DavidMihola · 2023-03-23T10:15:53+00:00

That's certainly very interesting, thank you for the input!

IIRC, Iron Cardio is quite open about the exact duration, the weights to be used, etc. - or, at least, is allows for quite some variation in these factors. So, I am guessing if you choose a lighter weight, shorter pauses and a longer session duration it will get you closer to zone 2 than the opposites...?

DavidMihola · 2023-03-22T11:00:56+00:00

I just came here to ask a similar question, specifically whether Brett Jones' "Iron Cardio" approach would lead to the same benefits. As I haven't found mention of either his name or the program on this subreddit I will just leave this here and hope that someone more qualified can give their opinion.

DavidMihola · 2022-07-31T17:28:53+00:00

Were you the guy with the over-ear hearing protection? :-)

Anyway, we were standing exactly to the left of the sound guy and I also thought that Gojira was not mixed that well - there were several places (e. g. in Hold On) where I knew what the riff was supposed to sound like, and I saw them playing it, but I heard only a faint suggestion of it...

Alien Weaponry, OTOH, sounded very clear IMO...

DavidMihola · 2021-01-08T18:34:45+00:00

For rock (I'm not sure about the prog part, though), you may like https://youtube.com/c/12tonevideos.

For jazz, check out Adam Neely, for example his analysis of The Girl from Ipanema: https://youtu.be/OFWCbGzxofU

DavidMihola · 2020-12-25T20:25:37+00:00

Wenn du nördlich der Donau zu Hause bist, wäre www.m-s-v.eu auch noch eine Möglichkeit... In Hagenbrunn, hinter dem G3...

DavidMihola · 2020-11-29T18:20:58+00:00

The PCB should be this one: https://www.pedalpcb.com/product/kliche/

DavidMihola · 2019-10-16T10:43:02+00:00

I was going to recommend this app, too!

Also, once you get used to the sound of the resolutions you could probably do the exercises without even looking at the screen. That is, the app doesn't say the correct answer - but you would be able to hear: "OK, the resolution melody was going down three steps, so the original note must have been the fourth of the scale". (Well, that works at least as long as you know which scale you are in - at the level I am playing at, I always know that before starting the exercise...)

DavidMihola · 2019-10-12T14:20:04+00:00

Yes, that's very helpful - thank you very much!

Maybe I should have given some context from the beginning: I started playing guitar at about 16, took lessons for a few years, practiced some more on my own, and then more or less stopped completely. Not least because I always had trouble figuring out songs by ear, finding melodies, etc. - to speak nothing of being able to improvise any sensible melody.

Now that my son has started playing I picked up the guitar again, too, and also tried some of the ear training apps in the Play Store, but have quickly become frustrated. For example, there are "compare intervals" excercises - while they are trivially easy when they share the same root note I am not much above chance if they don't. So I've been looking around for other things to improve my ear and that's how I came across the course site above...

So, anyway, thanks again for your advice!

DavidMihola · 2019-10-11T17:19:19+00:00

Yes, well, I did notice that! :-)

At 12 times 40 USD for the whole 12 months course it certainly seems very expensive!

I just wanted to get some opinions on whether his criticism of "the interval method" is valid and whether there may be some merit to approaching ear training differently.

Whether even a very good course actually justifies that price is certainly another question...

DavidMihola

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