sporkologist

> By definition, they are not motivated to promote a system where only learning 12 is required.

One might assume from this that professional musicians are not interested in the most efficient expression of their musical voice.

Being a professional musician takes tens of thousands of hours of work. If you don't put in the work, it is obvious to the listener. You have to learn all the theory and technique regardless of instrument or key layout. You can reduce the load when you're a beginner by using a ABCDEF keyboard instead of a QWERTY keyboard, but there is no way around learning the basics.

If you're not a lazy musician, you'll just learn all your scales. No professional player would take you seriously. Sorry.

The author is Simon Baron-Cohen, a noted autism researcher, and cousin of actor Sacha Baron-Cohen.

I appreciate karma points as a measure of how much my thoughts resonate with others, or don't... They are real enough for me.

Are HN karma points fake too? I hope not

Why work for a boss 8 hours a day, when you can work for yourself for 16 hours a day?

3d is more complex than 2d. Flying a plane is way more complex than driving a car.

> obscenely high power experiments

Like the energy released when 2 black holes collide? We're going to need a bigger capacitor.

It adds to cognitive load, now I have to hunt for the frickin scrollbar... mystery-meat UI if you ask me.

I really don't dig the dark blue text. Historically that's the color of HTML links.... just make it black, everyone's used to it already.

I think of coding as being more commonly associated with playing an instrument, but there may be something here too.

Exploring is its own reward apparently.

I totally agree. Three days has been the max for me, as far as mental health agendas. Far more productive with 15 - 20 hours work, at the most. My employer Walmart, for some reason, isn't as conscious as many, they're telling me that my cart-collecting days are over.

> Blow off weekends often.

Yes definitely agree, best for health outcomes.

Acrophobia, anyone?

Great, now I can overthink about how I think about overthinking.

> Materials typically contain lots of small imperfections, but it’s the rare, large defects that cause a material to fail.

Ok so.... we need to know more about the rare large defects! Unfortunately that's the last we hear about them in this paper.

> Inside your body, you aren’t mostly empty space. You’re mostly a series of electron clouds, all bound together by the quantum rules that govern the entire Universe.

So we are mostly electron clouds... and clouds by definition are mostly empty space.

> While the world is a continuum, we slice into tiny pieces, we discretize it with words.

To me the world is objects. To you maybe it's a continuum.

Yup gotta keep those numbers down, right?

But seriously, the only way to get ahead of this is to test everyone. Didn't you learn anything in epidemiology?

I like to think of it as, the US is one big cruise ship but with coronavirus instead of norovirus.

So what is about creation?

It's the dawn of mycocomputing!

They absolutely got fake news. "Aluminum tubes" anyone?

I'd certainly hate to be convicted of deceptive walking. The punishment is probably something like 5 hours of honest walking per day.

Yes the plumber obviously went to upside-down plumbing school where he learned the profit-maximizing techniques of installing everything upside-down.

> clamping down on the spread of false information

It seems this user is at the corner of 47th and 3rd, so we won't tell them how oil companies lied about global warming. Did I get that right?

2 and 3 are, but that's about where it ends. Yeah you can do subdivisions of 5 and 7 but it starts to be an academic exercise at that point. So, no, prime numbers don't have any special relationship to music, sorry. Factors of 12 and 16 are actually the most common and useful groupings in most music that people can dance to.

Yes right after Mosaic 1.0 was released. RIP

My use of 'optimal' is more of 'sufficient to keep reproducing given current conditions' than anything.

If you're suggesting that evolution isn't the right vehicle for this process, then we'll have to disagree.