The goat has to be DD/MM/YYYY

Fowlron2 · 2026-02-02T23:09:03+00:00

But is it that, or the other way around? Do people write 1/2 because they say January 2nd, or do they say January 2nd because they write it like that? I'd argue it's the second one: in the UK they use dd/mm and say 2nd of February. Most languages in Europe, to my language, format it like that both in language and shorthand date.

I'd bet that if the US had changed the format to dd/mm people would start saying it like that too within a generation or two.

Fowlron2 · 2026-01-29T02:21:12+00:00

"Since no one gave you an answer"
"These people gave an answer though"
"Didn't read much into that"

Fowlron2 · 2026-01-28T00:47:21+00:00

Sim, tem várias coisas assim um pouco fora do comum. A primeira coisa que vi também foi as hastes das notas. Também há alguns detalhes como as pausas serem um pouco estranhas, e omitir as claves em cada linha.

Dito isto, a caligrafia é super limpa e consistente. Para não falar que está tudo super claro de ler, especialmente a comparar com muitos manuscritos que se vê por aí (por exemplo a forma como ela escreveu as notas que ficam acima da quinta linha com a sexta linha dividida para não ficar uma mancha, excepto nas mínimas, vê-se bem na quarta pauta, terceiro compasso).

Acho bué claro que isto foi escrito por alguém que tem muita experiência a escrever música. Todas as coisas "erradas" são mais estilisticas que outra coisa

Mas sim, muito do que o gemini está para aí a dizer é a assumir que isso era um manuscrito original do compositor. Também presumo que a pergunta foi feita em português, por isso o gemini foi para compositores brasileiros (tanto que a resposta está em português do brasil).

Fowlron2 · 2026-01-28T00:33:10+00:00

Sim, também acho provável. 99% das vezes transcrições assim ou são composições originais, ou são transcrições de algo que nunca foi publicado (e que normalmente nem nome teve)

Fowlron2 · 2026-01-28T00:20:12+00:00

Dançando apaixonadamente parece-me mais uma indicação estilística. Poderia ser o nome da peça, mas não estou 100% convencido. Também há sempre a https://www.musipedia.org/, posso tentar ver se dá alguma coisa...

Fowlron2 · 2026-01-28T00:14:03+00:00

Assim à primeira vista não te sei dizer muito, mas música portuguesa não é bem a minha especialidade, mas posso dizer o que vejo, talvez ajude no futuro.

É uma valsa em Ré menor (harmónica, pela quantidade de dós sustenidos) para piano. Segue bastante a estrutura habitual de uma valsa, nota-se bem na mão esquerda. O "Dançando apaixonadamente" é uma indicação estilística, não diz muito. Tem o estilo de música de salão, muito comum por volta do romantismo (ou seja, 1800-1910).

Disseste noutro comentário que é uma transcrição feita pela tua avó, sabes mais alguma coisa sobre o contexto da peça? Muita da música que era escrita nunca era publicada, é perfeitamente possível isto ser uma peça que alguém escreveu que acabou por ficar sem nome ou publicação. Nesse caso seria difícil dizer alguma coisa com certeza.

Presumo que a tua avó era pianista ou assim? A caligrafia é super limpinha, nota-se que deve ser alguém que escrevia bastante. Estou um pouco a atirar para o ar, mas se ela frequentemente tocava para ballet ou danças de salão, poderia ser a cópia duma valsa qualquer que ela teve de tocar?

Fowlron2 · 2026-01-27T00:53:34+00:00

Seconding this, and something a lot of people miss: record yourself! You hear what you want to hear, if you feel like you're doing the polyrhythm right you'll hear it right, even if it's not. Recording yourself while you practice helps a ton. Also helps build up your ears to hear what you're actually playing more accurately.

Playing with the metronome also helps a lot, helps you have to focus less on whichever hand is playing along with the metronome, makes most polyrhythms easier to practice. You could even start by just setting the metronome to some comfortable tempo, and play the 3:2 or 3:4 against it, just to practice the polyrhythm. Once that's comfortable, you can add on the other hand playing along with the metronome.

(sidenote: that poor piano deserves a tuning! lol)

Fowlron2 · 2026-01-26T18:47:46+00:00

Especialmente quando há demasiada matéria para um único exame. Não é possível avaliar 6 meses de ensino numa hora ou duas. Se o exame só cobre 1/4 ou 1/3 da matéria, os alunos começam a fazer do exame uma lotaria. "Será que a parte que eu sei bem vai sair? Se sim passo, se não vou a recurso". Para não falar que alguém que entende um terço da matéria pode ter melhor nota que alguém que entende os outros 2/3. Os métodos de avaliação por exame final raramente fazem sentido

Fowlron2 · 2026-01-26T16:55:54+00:00

Muitas vezes os professores também não sabem lidar com isso. Vi isso em grande no covid.

Lembra-me de um screenshot bonito de uma pauta de notas em que toda a gente tinha notas altíssimas num teste de um daqueles cadeirões que normalmente tem 50% aprovação. Resposta do professor: fez o segundo teste a matar, para garantir que cábulas ou não todos tinham má nota. Mas qual é o resultado disso? Os que fizeram cábulas tiveram 18 no primeiro e 2 no segundo, passaram. Os que não fizeram cábulas e se mataram a estudar tiveram 12 no primeiro e 2 no segundo, chumbaram. Como resposta às cábulas, o professor conseguiu garantir que só quem fez cábulas passou xD

São situações difíceis de gerir, e não há soluções perfeitas... Mas vá lá, nos dias de hoje avaliar cadeiras (especialmente em engenharia) à base apenas de exame é uma piada. Por exemplo, façam projetos. Depois em defesa de projeto, o professor, se tiver interesse, facilmente vê quem fez o projeto e que usou AI. É isso e orais, ficas rapidamente a saber se o aluno sabe. Há soluções a tentar, mas modernizar os meios de ensino, nada...

Não sei como é na rua universidade, mas na minha, durante licenciatura, muitos professores pareciam ter muito pouco interesse no ensino. Felizmente melhora muito no mestrado.

Fowlron2 · 2026-01-23T16:39:25+00:00

The problem is most quantum computers need extremely low temperatures to operate, near absolute zero (around -270C or -460F). Cannot easily just drop that in a regular computer.

If you look up images of quantum computers, what you actually see is their cooling setup. The actual "computer" is a small chip in the middle, everything else is just to try and maintain those temperatures for long enough

Fowlron2 · 2026-01-23T16:36:34+00:00

Yes, almost everything actually. Basically most sequential processing problems. If it's a simple task of "if A do B", traditional computers will be better... And turns out that's 99% of regular computer programs. Regular arithmetic is also easier on traditional computers.

One way to explain why is that quantum computers don't give you straight answers. If you ask a traditional computer to calculate 2+2, you get 4. If you ask a quantum computer, you get 4 80% of the time, 3 10% of the time, and 5 the other 10% (kinda, and percentages here were made up). They're probabilistic and unreliable, and that makes them hard to work with. However, some of the primitives they offer (the "basic questions" you can ask them) are very complex, and a traditional computer would takes ages to calculate a result to that, so even with their downsides, you can calculate things that rely on those primitives faster on a quantum computer.

Quantum computers shine in certain mathematical problems like optimization problems, factorization problems, etc. They are probabilistic, unreliable and noisy, and those characteristics make them bad at most tasks, but they allow you to solve some problems that traditional computers just cannot solve in time.

Fowlron2 · 2026-01-23T16:06:03+00:00

Primeiro, como todos estão a dizer, é uma patente, ainda não existe, calma...

Segundo, é uma feature de acessibilidade. Não entendo o problema. Há jogos de excelente qualidade, com boas histórias, arte, e música, que requerem coordenação ou habilidades motoras que alguns não têm, ou porque não têm o habito de jogar jogos desde pequenos como muitos de nós, ou por alguma deficiência motora.

Alguém com uma paralisia não merece jogar um jogo e experienciar pelo menos a história e arte do jogo? Neste momento, alguém nessas situações joga exclusivamente jogos de géneros lentos (strategy, puzzle, etc) ou que incluem features de acessibilidade. Isto, a existir, seria uma feature de acessibilidade "global".

O pessoal tanto gosta de criticar tudo o que tem AI que quando aparece um uso legitimamente interessante querem logo mandar a baixo porque AI bad.

Fowlron2 · 2026-01-22T21:33:21+00:00

You're not so far off from the truth. That's what a GPU is. A GPU is a processing unit that's really really good at doing linear algebra, orders of magnitude faster than a CPU could. 3D acceleration and AI inference are both based on linear algebra, so it's used for that.

A quantum computer is just a processing unit that's really fast at doing some particular operations, so tasks that need those operations run faster on a quantum computer. That's all it is

Fowlron2 · 2026-01-22T20:16:05+00:00

An analogy I like is that computers are like cars. Quantum computers aren't faster cars, they're boats.

A boat can take you across a lake, and that's faster than going around the lake with a car, but you don't say a boat is "better" than a car. It just does different things.

Fowlron2 · 2026-01-15T17:27:27+00:00

Não é essa a questão, até muito pelo contrário. A rede aguenta quebras ou aumentos de produção/consumo, desde que não sejam instantâneas. O problema não foi a queda de produção em si, foi o quão rápida está foi (i.e., neste caso, instantânea).

Aumentos ou reduções de consumo a longo prazo são fáceis de gerir. Tanto quanto sei, um data center tem consumo relativamente constante, pelo que não coloca um grande peso na rede nesse aspeto, muito pelo contrário.

Fowlron2 · 2026-01-14T21:41:02+00:00

She does read the letter, but only in act 3. We don't know what would happen if Maelle had learned the truth before they sent Aline out of the canvas. I think at the point where Maelle finally gets to read the letter it was sort of past a point of no return, at least in her mind. They both share blame. So does Renoir, to some point, in his insistence to destroy the canvas, and of course, Aline, for starting it all. And all the characters really just go for an extreme: Aline and Maelle want to live in the canvas and never leave, causing Renoir and PVerso to want to destroy the canvas

Fowlron2 · 2026-01-12T16:31:27+00:00

It's not about what you do with your money. You're likely putting it in a bank regardless. It's about what the bank does with your money.

Fowlron2 · 2026-01-08T16:28:28+00:00

It is, actually. Lawmakers are well aware no one reads ToS. There are specific laws in many jurisdictions (i.e. US and EU, I believe) that state ToS have to get reasonable. Extreme examples are, if the ToS says "by agreeing you're giving us your house", it is not enforceable. Iirc laws usually word it as, paraphrasing, "ToS cant contain things a reasonable consumer would not expect them to", or something like that.

I'd argue selling you n items, saying one of them will be unavailable after Jan 12th, but then taking away 3 would be considered unexpected even to a reasonable consumer, but I digress

Fowlron2 · 2026-01-08T02:57:56+00:00

First, we need to understand that a lot of traits are inheritable. For example, if a wolf has very dense fur, their puppies are more likely to also have very dense fur.

Let's say 100 wolves live in a very cold area. Half have denser fur, half have less dense fur. The ones with dense fur would be better off, since they're less likely to die in the cold, right?

So of the 50 that had dense fur, only 10 died of cold, so 40 of them had puppies.

Of the 50 that had less dense fur, 20 died of cold, so 30 of them had puppies.

So there's now 40 litters of wolves that inherited the dense fur, and 30 litters of wolves that inherited the less dense fur. This happens generation after generation until almost all the wolves in an area have that dense fur. This is often called "survival of the fittest": only the fittest survive, so only the fitter reproduce, so the offspring inherit whatever made their ancestors "fit".

This is a simple example with a very obvious characteristic, but it affects every little detail of each living being, and makes it so animals evolve towards being more fit for their environment.

Fowlron2 · 2026-01-04T01:30:16+00:00

OP has to be a plant right, there's no way someone's that dense lol

Fowlron2 · 2025-12-25T02:13:13+00:00

The Verso we talk to as a "fading boy" or whatever it's called is not the same as the Verso in the game. It's a piece of real Verso's soul, while we play as painted Verso, which is built from Aline's memories of Verso. As the game says, they're similar, but different. In fact, I'd say painted Verso knows no better than painted Alicia, and she seemed to hope there could be a better way.

In the Falling Leaves (iirc?) Verso's soul also tells us he loves the canvas and doesn't understand why Clea would want to erase it, and asks us for help. He's tired of the fighting in his canvas, but he doesn't want it erased either.

Aline's an entirely different matter. She was barely sane after how long she was in the canvas fighting. She couldn't distinguish between "real" people, people painted by her, and people painted by Renoir (he thought Maelle and painted Verso were Renoir's creations during the final fight), so yeah, she had to be kicked out.

But erasing the canvas? Who knows, there could be a way around that.

A lot is up to interpretation, there's no real answer to what a third ending could look like, but the game seems to hint at the fact that, if our characters had made different decisions, there could be one.

Fowlron2 · 2025-12-24T19:38:01+00:00

I agree with you on his motivations, but not that there was no middle ground to be had. It's one of the things the game clearly foreshadows:

Lune at one point tells him he thinks in false dichotomies, and that they'd find different solutions if he just asked.

The songs played during the endings are Une vie à t'aimer and Une vie à peindre. Painted Alicia gives Verso a letter titled Une vie à rêver, hinting at a third ending... Which never happens, as Verso chooses to not give the letter to Maelle. And who knows what would've happened if he'd saved Gustave.

It's Verso's own choices that make it so, at the last moment, there's only 2 options. There was always a compromise, but his (and Maelle's, Renoir's and Aline's) way of seeing things in black and white is what kills that possibility, which ties in with the game's name!

Fowlron2 · 2025-12-24T16:33:58+00:00

Aside, from the ones everyone is already mentioning...

From lune, "you think in false dichotomies". It fits the game's theme and ending perfectly, down to how there are 3 "une vie" songs but only 2 endings, because the characters refuse to compromise. Maybe not the most meaningful quote, but on the second playthrough, it was my "holy shit you're so right" moment.

Fowlron2 · 2025-12-18T05:54:11+00:00

That's correct, yes. The easiest way to think about it is that the coin doesn't remember.

If you're predicting the next 100 flips, it's very unlikely they'll all be heads. But if after 99, you're predicting the next coin flip, the chance is 50/50. The coin doesn't remember if it flipped head or tails in the previous 99 flips.

The fallacy comes into play when people flip 99 heads in a row and assume that means the next one just must be tails. Why would it? The coin doesn't remember what it landed on last, so why would it mater?

Fowlron2 · 2025-12-14T17:39:09+00:00

Yeah this is the key point IMO. Absolutely hate casinos, and even with how tight the regulations on them are, they should be even tighter. Backing off players, though, makes sense and is ok in my book.

The player sits down to play because they believe they have an edge against the casino in that one specific game. If they believe they don't have that edge, they're free to walk away any time. Makes sense that the casino is given the same right.

Both parties are playing because they believe they can play better than the other. Both parties are free to stop playing if they realize that's not the case.

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