Having conversations about music with people is half the fun in my mind. It’s a creative medium so talking to people that have unexpected associations leads to lots of wonderful surprises in discovering new music. Also having context is also a huge part of deriving pleasure from a piece.
Algorithms that feed you stuff that all sounds similar is great if you need background music while you do chores or studying, etc. but for when you are listening to stuff more actively conversations with people is essential in my mind.
In a lot of computer games that use probability game developers will actually use pseudo-RNG, or other means to deceive players about what their actual chances are because otherwise the game will seem "unfair" to a segment of players.
I think there is a lot of truth to this, however I also (when I remember to) like to review notes I wrote a month or so later, and check to see if they make any sense to me. If they don't it means I didn't understand the concept as well as I thought I did and it is worth going back over the source material.
I'm a big fan of many Michael Brough games like Imbroglio, 868-HACK, and Cinco Paus because of how well he incorporates zugzwang into his designs. They always end up being these tiny, delightful challenges.
I think the fact that both outcomes are perceived as dangerous points to the real underlying problem which is that moderation of content is desirable, but not if it has an outsized influence. In other words, the scale of companies like Google, Facebook, etc. is itself a political problem rather than the moderation policy they choose.
I don't think anyone would claim the n-chans to be on the same scale as Facebook yet they are usually Exhibit A when it comes to zero moderation being undesirable.
Typically when you file anything that is going to trigger a new set of due dates for you based on the date of filing, so it is standard practice to file everything the day it is due, or perhaps the day before at most. That being said it is also standard practice to use docketing software to handle calculating due dates, it isn’t the sort of thing you would ever want to handle manually so I wonder how the screw up occurred.
While I don’t think it should be the only consideration when deciding on a language to use, I think there is something to the idea that you should use a language that makes you happy. I know a lot of people that use Go that really like using it.
I definitely appreciate any journalism that centers the people behind the things that make up our reality. This article is definitely a terrific example of what I like about this approach to writing.
Neat. I'm a self-taught developer, and I learned a lot by watching MIT computer science lectures on youtube while taking notes in a markdown file. But I definitely hit a wall when I tried to follow the Mathematics for Computer Science course. I didn't have a good way to handle the notation. Ultimately though I think if I ever decide to follow through with that I'll probably just write in a notebook and scan the documents so I can easily reference them. But I love the dedication to figuring this out!
Algorithms that feed you stuff that all sounds similar is great if you need background music while you do chores or studying, etc. but for when you are listening to stuff more actively conversations with people is essential in my mind.