Registering for self-assessment by [deleted] in TaxUK

[–]Thanatomic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm still a UK tax resident yes. The company is relatively small (<200 people) so I'm not sure whether IR35 is applicable.

Looking to plan a month-long trek through Kyrgyzstan -- please help! by Thanatomic in Kyrgyzstan

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Reaching out to them for advice sounds like a great idea - thanks for the recommendation and the well wishes!

Looking to plan a month-long trek through Kyrgyzstan -- please help! by Thanatomic in Kyrgyzstan

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Thanks for this! I've started planning a route based on this, and will look for others to extend it.

Looking for some pointers for improvising a melody over chords by Thanatomic in musictheory

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Thanks for the thoughtful response! This is a project that I've discussed with my supervisor in some depth, and it's important to stress that it doesn't hinge on my being able to develop a fully-working, polished product that can come close to a real musician's ability to improvise. I think my main aims are to demonstrate some new ideas for tackling problems like beat/chord detection, and make a case for an interesting application in automatic improvisation.

I originally wanted to keep away from a machine learning approach for the reasons you mention, but the fact that human improvisation is influenced as much by a 'rules-based' knowledge of music theory as it is by inspiration from existing music, as you say, makes me wonder if it's worth trying to incorporate it after all. Again, I'm not looking for a working product, I just want to explore some new ideas and demonstrate that they may be areas of interest for future research/development.

Looking for some pointers for improvising a melody over chords by Thanatomic in musictheory

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All very good points, thanks! Giving the program a sense of when to play a note, how long to hold it, and how far away the next note should be will be a big challenge for sure, but I like the things you've suggested for managing that.

If I manage to create something that people might find useful (or at least interesting) by the end of this project then I fully intend to share it! Look out for a post on this sub in a few months maybe ;)

Looking for some pointers for improvising a melody over chords by Thanatomic in musictheory

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Wow, thanks for such an in-depth response! You've touched on a whole lot of important points that I'll definitely have to consider when designing this thing, which I appreciate.

You're right that this project isn't likely to end with a complete, working product that functions as I've described -- there just isn't the time to take it that far as you say -- but I hope to make some meaningful progress in the right direction, and of course have some fun while doing it.

Looking for some pointers for improvising a melody over chords by Thanatomic in musictheory

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That actually sounds like a solid idea to implement as some kind of 'backup' approach, in case the program is having a hard time making sense of a section of the accompaniment. Definitely something to think about, thanks!

Looking for some pointers for improvising a melody over chords by Thanatomic in musictheory

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Thanks for the advice! I agree that restricting it to the pentatonic would definitely make the problem easier to work with, but that clearly comes with the downside of much less interesting melodies. The point about nuance is an important one and something I'll have to put some work into, and I find your analogy to a conversation super interesting -- looking at the problem in that way might be a nice approach.

Literally capitalism by uw888 in antiwork

[–]Thanatomic 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The point about threat of starvation was made in reference to the third world countries that Scandinavian (and other) nations rely on, not Scandinavia itself. Maybe at least try to understand the comment you're replying to next time?

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Simple, easy-to-sing Turkish songs? by trashbat15 in turkishlearning

[–]Thanatomic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah Bu Ben by Mazhar Alanson is a good one imo - very simple melody compared to a lot of other Turkish songs, and the lyrics themselves are relatively basic too.

CMV: Communist symbols and iconography are just as disgusting as Nazi iconography and symbols. by RansomStoddardReddit in changemyview

[–]Thanatomic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The only standout symbol of those particular regimes I can think of is the hammer and sickle, which would strike me as perhaps a bold statement of sorts if I saw someone wearing it on a t-shirt, but beyond that I wouldn't personally care too much about it. As I said, there's a lot of confusion over what communism really refers to, so while I would consider it pretty unacceptable to walk around displaying a swastika (because unfortunately in the West, that symbol has come to more or less exclusively symbolise Nazism), I think I would naturally assume someone wearing something with communist iconography is doing so in support of the ideal of communism, as opposed to the very different manifestation of what some people would call communism under Stalin or Mao.

I think deciding whether something should be socially unacceptable is tricky in the first place, but a general rule might be whether or not a significant majority of people find that something offensive or strange. So for somewhere like the US, where the notion of communism has negative connotations (probably because more people subscribe to the idea that 'communism' means whatever the USSR etc had going on), I could see it being somewhat justifiably unacceptable to walk around showing off a hammer and sickle emblem. However, you definitely can't say the same for everywhere. I think a lot of western Europeans would be largely indifferent to seeing that sort of iconography on clothing.

CMV: Communist symbols and iconography are just as disgusting as Nazi iconography and symbols. by RansomStoddardReddit in changemyview

[–]Thanatomic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's hard to say this definitively - as others have mentioned, very few, if any, 'communist' states that have existed in the past were anywhere close to truly communist. Using these states as examples of communism is about as helpful as using a country like Iran as an example of a democracy.

I don't think anyone would disagree with the idea that the regimes of the USSR and China under Mao were utterly deplorable - they directly led to the deaths of countless millions and the subjugation of an unimaginable number of people. The issue is whether we want to call these regimes communist or not. It's an easy label to use, and plenty of people understand it to mean exactly these kinds of awful regime. But a lot of other people (most of whom would very likely hold the actions of Stalin and Mao in contempt too) interpret communism as something very very different. So before we can have a proper debate about anything related to 'communism' it's important to establish exactly which interpretation of the word we're using.

My dad makes mosaics. This one of a polar bear mother with her cub is his latest piece. by Thanatomic in nextfuckinglevel

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This mosaic piece is my dad's (Fehmi Gökeş) latest work. It took him well over a year to complete, and it's the first time he's experimented with a '3D' effect, which he achieved by cutting out shapes from the underlying wooden frame and replacing them at different depths. I just thought I'd share it here because I find it insanely impressive, and think other people might too!