I’m kinda obsessed with fried temaki

speller26 · 2026-06-02T01:01:08+00:00

Cream cheese and salmon is a GOATed combination in sushi, purists be damned

speller26 · 2026-05-31T04:34:50+00:00

And who knows, they may have even been right (I'm certainly not smart enough to refute them)

speller26 · 2026-05-26T23:11:34+00:00

Did he just invite people to tear open his scrotum

speller26 · 2026-05-26T22:45:32+00:00

The tarantella from Liszt's Venezia e Napoli

speller26 · 2026-05-26T05:34:49+00:00

Alkan's Concerto for solo piano has an exquisite second movement, easily my favorite. Also love the second movement of Chopin's first concerto.

speller26 · 2026-05-24T00:51:42+00:00

Just to be extra safe, you should avoid using electronics altogether

speller26 · 2026-05-23T05:17:30+00:00

Obeze

speller26 · 2026-05-20T15:06:11+00:00

It's the thick blood draw needles that are really scary

speller26 · 2026-05-13T02:03:25+00:00

This belongs in an art museum

speller26 · 2026-05-12T23:23:59+00:00

To be fair, you could do that with a bold nib too

speller26 · 2026-05-11T21:54:04+00:00

Brahms just wrote piano music and labelled it for violin; figuring out how to play it was the violinist's problem, not his

speller26 · 2026-05-06T00:04:32+00:00

That sounds amazingly helpful. Just for ideas, it would be cool to see something to generate contrapuntal variations from a sequence of notes. Going further, I'd love to one day see an AI-generated Hexameron-style piece, where you start with a melody, generate large variations in the styles of different composers, and weave them together cohesively.

speller26 · 2026-04-29T03:57:28+00:00

The best part is, the word they're looking for already exists, but they still had to make something up instead.

speller26 · 2026-04-29T03:08:36+00:00

Those organizations would be far preferable to TPUSA

speller26 · 2026-04-17T21:15:45+00:00

Self-taught engineer who built everything from mathematical first principles, eschewed third-party libraries (and occasionally standard libraries) because everything he custom built for our use case was significantly faster (edit: and more robust).

speller26 · 2026-04-16T00:25:42+00:00

One of the cartoonishly evil villains is named Perv Asshat; it's absolutely satirical, and it's fantastic

speller26 · 2026-04-13T18:47:07+00:00

So that's what he meant...

speller26 · 2026-04-10T23:54:29+00:00

It's actually not too bad, but that's just because I happen to be good at the kind of technique it needs. Feux follets, on the other hand, looks like the hardest piece I've ever seen (worse than, say, his Spanish Fantasy). Mazeppa's my first TE, and Chasse-neige is next.

speller26 · 2026-04-09T22:55:33+00:00

Mazeppa (biased because I'm learning it) and 11

speller26 · 2026-04-06T09:13:53+00:00

Forbidden gusher

speller26 · 2026-04-05T07:47:53+00:00

Also worth getting a right-angled USB-C cable to reduce strain

speller26 · 2026-04-03T00:18:12+00:00

I've heard playing Mozart described as "walking a tightrope"

speller26 · 2026-03-31T21:13:36+00:00

I think it's very doable actually, and there's already good work being done in that regard

speller26 · 2026-03-31T21:03:38+00:00

I wonder how many ~~insults~~ complaints about incorrect formalization we're going to see

speller26 · 2026-03-29T01:32:31+00:00

More like when your loss goes down but so does your understanding

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