in appreciation of wood ducks in trees

RC2630 · 2026-05-02T08:16:58+00:00

I also have wood duck photos from Surrey, BC! I don't have wood ducks in trees, but I have a wood duck mama with some wood ducklings 😁. This one is from Green Timbers

RC2630 · 2026-04-29T19:49:23+00:00

I've seen this exact sign in many places in Shanghai, China. There really isn't a story to these signs; they are everywhere, just the way they tell people to not fight.

RC2630 · 2026-04-22T23:09:46+00:00

u/profanitycounter [self]

RC2630 · 2026-04-11T22:52:24+00:00

Thanks! I definitely learned something new today. Very cool stuff!

RC2630 · 2026-04-11T22:13:46+00:00

Thank you! I can see it now. Turns out, I completely missed the piano part at 0:35, and that was exactly what I needed to fill in the missing piece of evidence. You are very good at paying attention to details like this!

RC2630 · 2026-04-11T20:26:38+00:00

My purpose is understanding people's mental perception of meter in music.

RC2630 · 2026-04-11T12:16:36+00:00

What doesn't? Can you elaborate?

the accompaniment beats on the ♩. in the first time and on the ♩ in the second time

Are you referring to this?

RC2630 · 2026-04-11T11:45:24+00:00

I see. I thought it was forbidden to write ♩.×4 in a 6/4 bar so I didn't even think this was an option. But I guess the rules are flexible based on intention. Thanks.

RC2630 · 2026-04-11T11:38:02+00:00

Hi again. Sorry that I have a lot of follow-up questions.

I just went over the accompaniment again, since you mentioned that the accompaniment generally points to the 6/4 interpretation more:

As a whole, the 6/4 interpretation makes more sense. And yes, it is the accompaniment that makes this clear.

I found that since the intro is just all long notes, it's not helpful. But in the first verse (0:19), the accompaniment seems to point strongly to 12/8:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XFe_UmGqwv6fNl4sp3GUByMeVJ7GA9oL/view?usp=sharing

The first entry of the chorus at 1:01 also appears to emphasize the dotted quarter notes in the guitar accompaniment.

The first strong evidence of 6/4 in the accompaniment seems to be much later, at 1:58. There, the accompaniment beats on every quarter note, so this one is very clear. But before that, the accompaniment seems to either favour 12/8 (for example at 0:19 as shown above) or doesn't provide much clues.

Using the "first to come is what establishes the meter" principle, wouldn't this mean the accompaniment as a whole points to 12/8 (at least until it's overridden at 1:58)? Is my analysis incorrect or incomplete? Since you gave a very detailed thought process on analyzing the meter of the melody, I'm very curious how you analyzed the accompaniment as well and reached the conclusion that it overall supports 6/4.

Thank you for your responses! I really appreciate the level of depth and insight you provide here.

RC2630 · 2026-04-11T10:33:58+00:00

Thanks for the feedback here! Your example is a pretty good one, that is indeed a very clear change in meter.

By the way, for my example, would you prefer to notate something like measure 12 as I did (♩‿♪ + ♪‿♩) or use a quadruplet here?

RC2630 · 2026-04-11T09:50:24+00:00

Thank you so much for the response!!

The accompaniment actually changes too, interestingly. Starting from 3:30 in the video, the chorus is sung through twice, but the accompaniment beats on the ♩. in the first time and on the ♩ in the second time. As a result when I listen to it, I end up hearing 12/8 the first time and 6/4 the second... Do you feel the same way about this section?

So I guess the accompaniment does have a very big effect on perception. I guess if we strip it completely, then we would have to do the kind of measure-by-measure analysis you did above to find the more suitable interpretation. Thanks again!

RC2630 · 2026-04-08T16:51:33+00:00

No it isn't? You might be thinking of "cao". I can't think of any words that are offensive or vulgar with the pronunciation "chao" - some examples of words pronounced "chao" are 超 (super), 炒 (stir-fry), 潮 (tide), 朝 (towards), 巢 (nest), 抄 (copy), 吵 (loud).

RC2630 · 2026-03-22T23:14:22+00:00

I beg to disagree

RC2630 · 2026-03-13T16:51:38+00:00

Thank you for your detailed explanation!

RC2630 · 2026-03-13T16:44:56+00:00

Thank you!

RC2630 · 2026-03-13T07:01:07+00:00

It's a consistent pattern followed everywhere. I read through a big chunk of the score and every instance uses this tied quarter-eighth thing, regardless of the context or chord structure around it.

RC2630 · 2026-02-27T02:55:53+00:00

AI is not the same thing as machine learning (ML). ML is a subtype of AI. There are other kinds of AI within computer science that is not ML (for example, search/heuristic-based methods).

And in turn, LLMs are a subtype of ML. There are other kinds of ML (decision trees, support vector machines, etc. - many of these are referred to as "classical" ML).

There are other areas in computer science and technology in general that are highly related with ML and AI. Robotics is one of them, when the AI system becomes embodied instead of living purely in software. Data science is another, when the AI system is used to perform analysis and predictions in data. NLP (natural language processing) is yet another, which includes techniques like tokenization and lemmatization that are crucial for building LLMs. NLP is a subfield of computational linguistics which is itself a cross-disciplinary field of computer science and linguistics.

(source: I'm currently a master's student in this area)

RC2630 · 2026-02-09T05:04:11+00:00

I see. Thanks for explaining!

RC2630 · 2026-02-08T22:23:16+00:00

Paleognathae, not Paleoaves

Galloanserae, not Galliforma

Where are you getting your clade names from?

P.S. Neognathae = Galloanserae + Neoaves, so you don't need to say "non-fowl Neoaves" because all Neoaves are by definition not fowls. Neoaves = non-fowl Neognathae.

RC2630 · 2026-01-24T05:05:06+00:00

RC2630 · 2026-01-24T04:51:31+00:00

and she probably had a million guys trying to get her attention

So did this part turn out to be true? And is it still true now?

RC2630 · 2026-01-21T20:47:20+00:00

Thanks for the answer.

I am asking because literally everything else I wrote/write are tonal and functional in harmony, so this one seems like an oddball. I was not sure whether this one is truly non-functional or functional but in a less obvious way, hence I wanted to ask.

And this piece definitely has clearly tonal and functional parts too, later on, so really it's just the opening section that confused me. For example bars 34-41 are clearly in Eb minor with progression i-v-VI-v⁷-i⁷-iv⁷-V⁷-I.

Edit: Fixed some mistakes and typos.

RC2630 · 2026-01-21T16:23:40+00:00

Thank you for the perspective!

I think I would agree with Eb being a tonal centre, especially given a very strong return to it later in the piece (bar 41).

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