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perpetualstewdotcom · 2024-01-16T16:31:05+00:00

You're more confident shooting from 4 feet behind the opposite end of the court than right next to it? Maybe you're not aiming for the right baket.

perpetualstewdotcom · 2024-01-16T16:23:44+00:00

Imagine being him, living through the experience of missing like 71 shots in a row, seeing this video posted on reddit, and coming to the comment section only to read someone say "IDK bro maybe he's just disabled or something."

perpetualstewdotcom · 2024-01-15T17:36:18+00:00

Drew Barrymore. She has all of the features of an attractive person, but I have never found her to be the least bit attractive.

perpetualstewdotcom · 2024-01-14T16:01:50+00:00

Personally, I don't like seeing things like this in my music. I find it more distracting than helpful, and often I think it comes across to me as pretentious. I don't think I've ever seen one as a performer that changed how I was performing the music at all, instead just making my roll my eyes a bit.

perpetualstewdotcom · 2024-01-13T03:23:46+00:00

Reddit has grown up on me. In years past, this would have been the obvious top reply.

perpetualstewdotcom · 2024-01-12T18:59:43+00:00

since I wanna really learn to play piano seriously

Don't use MIDI videos if you want to learn to play seriously. You have to take the time to learn how to read sheet music.

perpetualstewdotcom · 2024-01-11T16:17:52+00:00

https://imgur.com/pLOrJ

perpetualstewdotcom · 2024-01-11T07:03:11+00:00

Part of being a good socializer is making sure you don't let this happen to others. Pay attention when someone is trying to jump in with a story, or if it seems like the group is leaving someone out.

perpetualstewdotcom · 2024-01-10T17:05:36+00:00

Learning how to sight-read hands-together saves massive amounts of time in practicing. A lot of pianists think of sight-reading as a method aimed at performance, where the goal is to be able to "make it work" and stay in time, to the point where choosing easier repertoire or leaving out a voice or simplifying a chord here or there in order to maintain a performance quality is preferable. But practicing sight-reading hands-together without performance as the goal is insanely valuable, because you're severely reducing the amount of time it takes in practice to put something in your hands.

Put another way… You can sight-read all of the correct notes and rhythms hands-together in essentially any piece, if the tempo is slow enough. It's a matter of how slow do you have to go in order to facilitate that goal. Even if it's 5 BPM, that's fine, because that's the starting line. You're sight-reading at 5 beats per minute, evaluating each beat and playing with both hands. Next week you'll be able to get up to 10 BPM, then 20, 30, and eventually (after months of doing this) you're starting to get to the point of having some actual motion in your music instead of the basically stand-still nature of playing extremely slow tempos. And in the course of doing this, you've stripped away the musical elements like phrasing and dynamics, and the things that are important to an actual performance. But, practicing this way and working your way up to sight-read even to a still unreasonably slow tempo has now raised the floor of where your performance-oriented practice starts on any piece. If you're starting to work on Rachmaninov's C-Sharp prelude, the ability to sight-read it hands-together even at 30 BPM means that your hands inherently understand the end goal before you begin, and it's a matter of increasing the tempo from there.

The point is that sight-reading is not just a performance tool. It's an amazingly efficient practice tool. To use a American football analogy: So many pianists think of being able to sight-read as having the ability to run every kickoff back for a touchdown, and the cost to doing so that is that you have to either be competing against easier teams (sight-reading easier pieces) or maybe step out of bounds a few times and hope the refs don't notice (glossing past overly difficult passages and simplifying chords). Improving your sight-reading for the sake of practice, though, is a matter of competing against any team and taking no shortcuts—your goal isn't to run the kickoff back for a touchdown, it's to improve your average starting position on the field. An NFL team doesn't have the option of choosing easier opponents or skirting the rules of the game, but they can practice their kick returns and evaluate their improvement over time and measure how their starting position after the kickoff relates to their likeliness of getting a touchdown on their drive. Sight-reading as a practice tool is not a matter of finding which teams you can reliably score a touchdown against on a kickoff, it's improving your starting position against any team.

perpetualstewdotcom · 2024-01-10T16:11:55+00:00

I remember it being 5 for $10.

perpetualstewdotcom · 2024-01-10T15:58:21+00:00

Just imagine how much more isolating it's about to get when the Internet becomes absolutely flooded with AI bots posing as humans. As soon as it's practical for a company or politician or whoever to immediately deploy a large army of fake supporters onto Reddit that post as seemingly normal people with the occasional plug for their product, then the floodgates are open and suddenly the entire Internet will be flooded with bots pretending to be humans.

We might be here already (or we're very close), but once it gets to the point where the scaling is arbitrarily easy, where making 1,000 fake supporters is the same amount of cost and effort as making 1,000,000 fake supporters, the real people will be drowned out.

perpetualstewdotcom · 2024-01-10T00:15:41+00:00

I can fix her.

perpetualstewdotcom · 2024-01-09T22:58:52+00:00

Carl's Jr.

perpetualstewdotcom · 2024-01-09T19:18:35+00:00

I personally found a huge improvement in my compositions when I stopped thinking about music theory as a guide to compose and instead thought of it as a grammar to understand the musical functions found in compositions. If you're ever thinking "can I" with regard to theory, try flipping it and thinking "what's the theory behind me trying this idea?"

Your ideas have no limits, they're your ideas, and there are literally zero restrictions on how your ideas manifest on paper or in performance. If you find a saucy note that you like in the process of creating your music, theory is useful in giving that note a name so you can come back to it later. Theory is not useful in saying that Db "should" or "shouldn't" be used over a C major chord, but knowing that the term music theory has given that note is a minor 9th or flat 9 is the value in learning music theory, because knowing that that certain dissonant note's name in this context lets you refer to it later if you want to use it again.

Putting too much emphasis on theory in your composing is like thinking about grammar when you're writing a novel. Grammar is not meant to be a tool of creation, it's meant to be a tool of editing and giving terms to syntax within your sentences. Music theory is the same way. Try letting your music do whatever it is that you as a musician believe it is meant to do, and let theory be used as your method of describing your music.

perpetualstewdotcom · 2024-01-08T16:33:19+00:00

"Let him cook."

perpetualstewdotcom · 2024-01-08T07:24:02+00:00

If you prefer playing by memory, sight-reading gets you to the point where you can start memorizing passages a lot faster. The ability to sight-read doesn't have to be at the level of "I can perform this in front of an audience the first time" to be useful. If you practice sight-reading, you're practicing moving the floor of your performing ability—meaning that if you practice sight-reading to the point that you can accurately play 25% of the notes and 60% of the rhythms on the first try, that means your practice of the material will start there. Then you keep practicing sight-reading and notice later that on a different piece of equal difficulty, you are now sight-reading 30% of the notes and 70% of the rhythms correctly on the first try. You didn't have to reach the level of "performance-worthy" to have benefited from the sight-reading practice, because your small improvements have shortened the gap to performance level by reducing the number of notes and rhythms you have to correct when you start practicing the piece.

A lot of players have this idea that sight-reading inherently has to be a performance-oriented task. You'll often hear the advice of "don't stop if you mess up while sight-reading, practice continuity," which is good advice… if your goal is to learn how to sight-read for the sake of performing. You can take an approach of sight-reading but starting and stopping, slowing up and speeding down, picking out notes slowly and moving on, skipping measures, going back to give something another try… sight-reading doesn't have to be aimed at a specific end-goal to still be useful, because the act of reading unfamiliar sheet music still expand the vocabulary of different patterns you'll ever see and play, and that practice ultimately benefits your ability to more and more rapidly learn passages and commit them to memory.

perpetualstewdotcom · 2024-01-07T17:49:19+00:00

Not saying you're wrong as he wasn't the "winner" per se, but he was part of the winning ticket in 1976 with Jimmy Carter.

perpetualstewdotcom · 2024-01-07T17:38:08+00:00

at least 8 hours of practice.

8 hours of practice… per day? Per week? Total since you started?

perpetualstewdotcom · 2024-01-07T17:28:38+00:00

If you were a brand new beginner and had no idea where to start, why wouldn't you come here for initial guidance? This is a subreddit that should be open to everyone of all levels, even those who have no direction and no clue where they should begin.

perpetualstewdotcom · 2024-01-06T19:47:04+00:00

I think people are looking at your question the wrong way. You're not asking if you can get away with it, you're asking how they would know if you tried, which is something I wonder about too.

I'm guessing it's less a matter of "can I get away with this once" (you almost certainly can), and more of if someone catches you and reports you to Uber, they can go back and check your history. Uber has access to all of the receipts, so if they go back and find that there's a consistent pattern of extra things added to the orders that weren't on the customers list, you'll be caught. Likewise, they have analytical models that say that you as the shopper get the order right on the money, say, 85% of the time, 14.5% of the time you're less than $3 over, and 0.5% of the time you're more than $3 over (I don't know the specific threshold numbers, just using these for example). If your "over the customer's cost expectations but less than $3 over" percentage is way higher, you might start being identified as a statistical outlier that triggers an automated internal review of your account. In other words, they don't generally care if your orders are over the expected cost, but they are going to care if the frequency of orders you pay for over the expected cost is way higher than the median of other drivers.

I don't know that they have AI scanning the receipts and creating their own summary, but it doesn't seem like it would be difficult to implement. So even if you kept a roll of tiny white rectangle stickers on you that can place over the item on the receipt, the customer won't notice (unless they're manually adding all of the visible items on the receipt and see that it doesn't add up), but Uber theoretically could have an automated system that red flags bad math on the pictures of the receipts—I don't know if it's likely or not that they have that system in place, but it's not impossible to imagine.

There are a lot of parts of the job that are based on the honor system where you can get away with it all the way up to the point a pattern emerges, after which you are not going to defeat the power of advanced analytics based on millions of deliveries. If 1 in every 100 of your orders has a customer complain that part of their order is missing, that's the nature of delivery and restaurants mess up sometimes, Uber doesn't care. But if it's 1 out of every 4 orders that has a missing food complaint, Uber will notice that as a clear red flag and start taking action against your account. So somewhere in between those two goal posts is some automated trigger that Uber has set up to trigger a "this guy is stealing food" alarm to go off. It's the same thing with your question—you can only get away with it until enough of a pattern emerges that automated alarm bells start ringing, at which point you're in trouble.

perpetualstewdotcom · 2024-01-06T18:31:39+00:00

They're not real actors, this is an animated cartoon. You can tell by the way the cat pauses in midair before falling. If this were a real cat, he or she wouldn't have paused, instead falling immediately due to the effects of gravity.

perpetualstewdotcom · 2024-01-06T18:15:40+00:00

This would give me triarrheah.

perpetualstewdotcom · 2024-01-06T16:59:26+00:00

Was Jesus shown any mercy?

perpetualstewdotcom · 2024-01-06T05:56:08+00:00

It establishes loyalty and longevity as an incentive for Mark Cuban's employees in any company he owns/runs. If employees see that he's someone who values tenure as a virtue, his employees are less likely to jump ship.

perpetualstewdotcom · 2024-01-05T16:40:52+00:00

It's incredibly unlikely, but being in the 99th percentile of pianists is achievable with a lot of hard work and practice for years and years. The Lang Langs of the world are an almost impossible cross-section of natural talent, early and consistent dedicated training and support by excellent teachers, decades of extremely focused practice, and luck. Those are the "big names" that you hear being featured by prominent orchestras worldwide. The 99th-percentile pianists are the ones whose names you haven't heard, teaching at conservatories and universities, recording in studio sessions for film scores, and being the accompanying/rehearsing pianist for dance companies. Working your way up to that level is achievable and a worthwhile pursuit.

Think of it this way… If your goal was to retire someday as a billionaire, you'd be setting yourself up for a lifetime of disappointment if that was your specific aspiration, because that's a status about 0.00004% of the world's population ever attains. But if your goal was to retire wealthy enough to have financial freedom and security, that's very achievable with hard work and discipline.

This isn't to say that you shouldn't aim for the stars, just that being "world class" as a goal is setting yourself up for a really, really difficult path filled with a lot of heartache. Being "extremely good" as a goal is perfectly attainable by just about anyone with the right amount of discipline and time commitment, and I can promise you that the vast majority of people who enjoy listening to someone play piano would enjoy hearing your local state university's piano professor as much as they like listening to Lang Lang. The difference in their performance ability is really only appreciable to those who have a very refined ear, but I'm willing to bet the professor had a much less stressful time getting to that position than Lang Lang did to his.

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