postman

@postman@literature.cafe

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Truly Lossless Music⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I realise this is a tongue-in-cheek title but for anyone unaware, sheet music is a very clinical and skeletal approximation of music. Like the difference between reading I Have a Dream and actually hearing MLK deliver the speech. It’s why you can have 1,000 different recordings of a Mozart piano concerto – and why they’re all superior to a PC playing a MIDI file (most accurate representation of sheet music).

  Having said that, and despite sheet music being about as far from ‘lossless’ as a stickman drawing, musicians are particularly good at ‘visualising’ music. So much so, that a brain scan can’t distinguish between a musician actually listening to music and a musician merely replaying music in their head.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time to pluralize titles.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Muder

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it safe to assume the guy i went out on a date with, just wants to sleep with me?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe I missed something but nowhere in this discussion do you mention whether you want to sleep with him? Even when people sort of prompted you.

  If you fancy him, take it to the next level. I imagine he’s keeping it light for plausible deniability in case nothing happens or he gets rejected.

  Either make a move or tell him you’re not interested in a relationship. Figure out your own intentions instead of trying to mindread him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is so hard for musicians to have a good living and be famous?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I would argue talent isn’t even in the top ten list of important qualities for “success” in the music world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So many confident takes on AI by people who’ve never opened a book on the nature of sentience, free will, intelligence, philosophy of mind, brain vs mind, etc.

  There are hundreds of serious volumes on these, not to mention the plethora of casual pop science books with some of these basic thought experiments and hypotheses.

  Seems like more and more incredibly shallow articles on AI are appearing every day, which is to be expected with the rapid decline of professional journalism.

  It’s a bit jarring and frankly offensive to be lectured ‘at’ by people who are obviously on the first step of their journey into this space.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why was file search much faster in Windows XP than in subsequent versions?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  www.voidtools.com/support/everything/

  Works well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sign me up⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Suits is on USA Network not NBC