rhamdu.bsky.social
Now pursuing whatever interests me after a career in journalism and international development. Formerly @rhamdu on Twitter.
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Clearly not the spine.
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I would redirect the trolley but the lever seems to be stuck.
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The Guardian prints lots of good US-sourced articles like this one. Ever thought of bringing out a UK edition of the paper?
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If chroma IS learned, we must ask whether it is acquired from natural sounds or from music (making it a cultural phenomenon). If from natural harmonic sounds, then we need to explain why pitches are categorised by 2f equivalence, and how strongly 3f, 4f, 5f... equivalence are experienced 🤔
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So... neurophysiological evidence for the concept of chroma 🌈👂
My reading on pitch perception is far from complete (e.g. the Révész ref is new to me, tnx) but I lean to the view that chroma (octave equivalence) is learned until I see good evidence of an innate component.
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It's deeper than party. Americans voted for this. If Trump had blatantly stolen the election, one could imagine a way back.
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😉
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At last a sporting event I can really get into.
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Yep this one has that scary '1984' quality. Two fingers plus two fingers equals five - or in this case, one circle plus one equals three or... well, definitely not two.
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I see this as an educational parable. Nobody ever learned logical reasoning or critical thinking by being fed a 'training set' of millions of examples. Learners must be allowed and encouraged to ask questions and seek answers.
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Did ChatGPT make up this example or is it regurgitating bad examples that are out there on the internet? Never have I felt more like writing 'show your working'.
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Thomas Mann (The Magic Mountain, 1924) writes about second breakfast, though he doesn't make it sound very appealing. More like a desperate attempt to feed up sanatorium patients. Had Tolkien read Mann?
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This is a really nice analysis. There's a lot here about how we make decisions. Also probably quite a lot about how we rationalise them.
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Everyone beats up Cognitive Science over representation, a very slippery concept which IMHO was not central to the movement. I always felt the core belief was functionalism. Cog Sci died because people got tired of endlessly trying to refute Searle. Still, functionalism lives quietly on.
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A very unexpected choice of music for a soft-porn, PVC-shoe fetish movie.
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OK, but should we be surprised? Next question: why hearing specific events or qualities in music seems to evoke specific qualities of movement. It's like the association between sounds (bouba/kiki) and shapes. Surely every dancer or choreographer wonders about this?
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That isn't a semicircle. It is a half-disc.
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Nice podcast! The eco approach is readily applicable to the learning of skills; not so clearly to the learning of facts. Perhaps learning facts is unnecessary, or even deplored. Nevertheless, people do learn & are taught facts. Is there an ecological account of how factual knowledge is acquired?
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Narrow escape from epicureanism.
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I used to have a university astronomical society poster which announced: Patrick Moore Will Speak On The Surface Of Mars
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That's exactly the kind of explanation I would make up If I was pranking someone. Not saying it isn't true, though!
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Xysticus cristatus, eh? All these years I've been mishearing Ian Dury's lyrics.
youtu.be/6isXNVdguI8
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Also 4/4 should not be called Common Time just cos it's widely used, and it should not be abbreviated to C.
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Books are sentient? Enough panpsychism already!