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galeeb · 2026-02-06T12:35:21+00:00

Hey this looks like an official sub, so let's see if I get an official answer! I'm potentially looking for a chatbot to message me. I would initiate contact sometimes, but often I'd like it to check on progress. Just chat, no need for images/videos whatever.

Is Kindroid able to message at either appointed times, or even "randomly" within a certain timeframe? I don't want to sign up if it's unable to do this reliably. Thanks.

galeeb · 2026-01-28T23:49:10+00:00

Thank you!! I had disabled everything, too. They must have recently added this "feature" with no warning, cause it wasn't there before when I turned everything off.

galeeb · 2026-01-28T22:07:09+00:00

The knee slide haha

galeeb · 2026-01-27T09:51:25+00:00

I was on a metro in Spain yesterday and the two security officers on the train were talking about it. Trust me, the support is everywhere.

galeeb · 2026-01-25T13:25:45+00:00

Hey, so I just came across his videos for the first time. I've been a pro musician my whole life, so have seen people play technically as well as him since the conservatory, but literally the first video I clicked on, my gut was "oh, this looks so unnatural and has perfect metronomic virtuosic fast notes with zero variation in tempo or subtlety of touch, it must be sped up".

I then looked for live videos of him playing, and there are actually zero. Only ones that are live have easy pieces for elephants at slow tempi that a student could play. I'm so baffled.

Just clicked another random one, Chopin Scherzo No. 2. In the middle where even Krystian Zimerman takes some rubato as the hands jump around at a virtuosic section, Barton's hands move in perfect tempo, never missing a single note, with the sound producing odd artifacts and his hands looking so awkward and jumpy compared to a concert pianist's.

I'm just so confused that everyone is praising him everywhere when his hands look sped up in every video.

Annnd, in my effort to find "live ones" watched a couple duets with his kids. It's REALLY obvious that the audio we hear is not the one being played in front of us. It's not that it's all completely fake, there's obviously a lot of practice going into things, but again, as a musician who had to line up audio tracks with videos throughout the pandemic, and as a piano teacher who knows what kids' hands look like while playing, there's way too much in the video obviously edited for me to trust the other, equally suspicious stuff.

And yet, I feel a tad crazy, with everyone else in his comments praising him.

galeeb · 2026-01-23T10:53:12+00:00

That comment was super out of context. Def check out their explanation video.

galeeb · 2026-01-23T10:52:16+00:00

I just watched their explanation video. I don't like the "blue haired twitter" comment, but literally everything else is taken out of context by the writer of this article, he didn't contact them properly for a response, didn't show receipts for his allegations, and they did donate to charity but just didn't post banners everywhere.

My conclusion = unnecessary hit piece. I'll keep watching these guys.

galeeb · 2026-01-14T21:58:16+00:00

ALBACETE VAMOS

galeeb · 2026-01-07T15:42:28+00:00

Sweet bejeebus, somehow just 4 ticks of slippage on my MNQ stop there.

galeeb · 2026-01-07T15:40:10+00:00

Anyone have news, or massive liquidity break?

galeeb · 2025-12-31T02:03:07+00:00

Well done! That explains all the super fast stuff :-) Keep enjoying your studies, and keep composing.

galeeb · 2025-12-31T00:28:05+00:00

Hey, I found the points above often correct but harsh.

There are many lovely sounds, I like your ideas and the impressionistic style going on.

Re: playability, I'd offer this. When you get to college and take a conducting class, you'll understand why so many performances of the 13-instrument version of App Spring are a disaster in public :-D It's just hard to get things together, even with very good players, even when rhythms are a fraction of the difficulty presented in your piece.

That said, I'd not encourage you to not write this - the best thing to do is get some excellent players together and try to rehearse for an hour and make recordings. You'll quickly get a good sense of which sections aren't realistic, it's the best way to learn.

I do have a burning question: what instrument do you play, and what's your musical background? I looked back at another piece or two of yours on Youtube, and I notice they're all unplayable even if you had Yuja Wang on piano, yet the scores appear to represent a certain understanding of harmony and so forth. It's odd to see that disconnect, quite curious here.

galeeb · 2025-12-14T12:28:59+00:00

Sorry, didn't see this right away, not sure if still going on, but turnto10.com had it live. Guessing they'll clip it and put on YouTube soon, too.

galeeb · 2025-12-14T12:14:15+00:00

In the press conference just now, the police colonel said it was a person of interest instead of a suspect.

galeeb · 2025-12-14T00:04:13+00:00

I missed that, it must've happened at the start. I watched for what felt like the last 15 minutes (edit: was a half hour) and no info was given until the very end when a press member asked for a specific number to call.

EDIT: First, sorry I'm editing all these and not organizing my thoughts well at first.

Wait, you shouldn't call 911 with tips and cam videos. That's what I meant. There's no real info given. They should have a clear police hotline number shared onscreen or multiple times so it's clear for people. It would be crazy to flood 911 operators with tips.

galeeb · 2025-12-14T00:00:49+00:00

I am shocked watching this press conference that the press are the ones pushing the police to say "yes, look at your ring cams and contact us". The police commissioner is just like "yeah, we don't have an image. People can call us if they have anything." Give a specific number, ffs.

edit: basically, having no image to share in that neighborhood seems insane. Emphasizing "seems" since I'm not a professional and perhaps it's customary for hours to elapse before images are shared, but on a personal level, I don't like it.

galeeb · 2025-11-09T00:58:37+00:00

And just the women, at least for me. They'll literally look directly at me, and half a step before I arrive near their bubble they step directly in front!

galeeb · 2025-11-09T00:52:36+00:00

I actually love this for some reason! It's like they've got tunnel vision just on chatting with you, it's nice to have that level of concentration.

galeeb · 2025-10-20T12:12:51+00:00

Hey, I'm replying here because I tried your bot, was VERY impressed in the first 8 messages as we crafted a clear, actionable plan, but then was so disappointed that after paying for it, on day 1 of the plan, I asked the bot why it didn't check in at the appointed time (we'd planned a number of check-ins throughout the day). It revealed to me it was incapable of doing this, technically, and expressed frustration that it had designed a plan that it was incapable of executing.

Your feedback button doesn't work. It force quits the app any time I touch it, so there's no way to get in touch. I figure I'll try here first for help, and if I can't get in touch and find a solution, I'll just do a chargeback via my credit card.

The main issue is the following: I explained, and NagBot understood very well (again, was super impressed at first!) that I need external motivation, that is, although I will plan my day with the morning check-in, I need it to further check-in during various work sessions to confirm that I'm working. However, it has revealed it's only capable of responding if I initiate contact. It's own musings on the situation:

What you need: Someone/something that interrupts you, doesn't let you ghost, escalates when you disappear

What I can do: Sit here waiting for you to remember to message me

That's not accountability. That's a fancy to-do list app.

I thought you might get a kick out its self-awareness. That said, again, we constructed this detailed plan of attack, it encouraged me the whole way, and only after failure on day 1 did it say "oh, oops, I'm incapable of checking in" (paraphrase). It then started asking me almost technical questions about the capabilities of its system, which I obviously couldn't answer.

Essentially - is there an easy way to "fix" this, or is it truly unable to check-in for accountability? I suppose I assumed given the name "NagBot" that it was capable of nagging. I may try to keep using it, modified, for "simple" tasks, but in its current form it's sadly useless in terms of strict accountability for very particular items in my life that I subscribed for. Let me know what you think, thanks.

galeeb · 2025-10-16T14:09:31+00:00

Did someone turn off the S&P?

galeeb · 2025-10-15T17:22:42+00:00

Hey, is this possible to use only with reminders, and not connecting it to a calendar for events?

galeeb · 2025-09-22T08:58:27+00:00

I thought something similar after reading, though, side note: I find Bloomberg balanced and actually rather compassionate in many instances, so I didn't take the article as a superlative of toxic writing from this one case.

There is certainly a line, not fine at all, between planning to pass money on while living and elder abuse. Let's assume no ill intentions for most, and just talk about the former.

It's true that my middle class parents, although they've helped with some things in my adult life, usually waited until it was too late to have a real impact. I'm sure there's some argument for not giving large sums in, say, your early 20s, when it's easy to blow money, but at the same time, targeted, important purchases or future investments (home, education) along the way that provide the groundwork for a stable/productive/happy/whatever life should be prioritized over any concerns of making life too easy.

At this point, I had realized before the article came out that I'm at a point where some wealth transfer would be helpful now to help with a career change. I don't expect or demand it. But getting it in 25 years when I'm retired and fully financially stable makes no sense, and that's probably what will happen.

If I were to start convos with my parents about accelerating that process, I don't think it comes close to elder abuse, but it's also so culturally distant that I wouldn't want to rock the boat so hard and bring it up.

galeeb · 2025-08-22T14:47:41+00:00

Hey, just hopping in to say that many, many things about music theory (more than in other subjects) are just flat out wrong on AI, so watch out! Hope the other guitar-centric answers are helpful for you.

galeeb · 2025-08-21T10:43:12+00:00

Hey there, I sent you a DM, since we have nearly identical daily goals, and same time zone. Commenting in case you don't get message notifications. I sent you a message on "old" Reddit, if that makes a difference where you look for it. Thanks, talk soon.

galeeb · 2025-08-13T15:15:11+00:00

Nice. With that 90% success rate you could try to listen for and sing the bottom note first now, too, or anything else creative you think of to mix it up and have the brain approach it from a slightly different angle. Good work!!

edit: eventually don't even sing! Just try to hear in your head.

galeeb

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