Tamar Haspel, Oyster farmer, James Beard award-winning Washington Post columnist and general nuisance feels - I think - treated unfairly by a colleague.
I needed to stop reading his piece after a few sentences. I didn't even make it to "I could go on. (And I do, ad nauseam, in the notes below.)"... which is way to far down for my taste. Yes, he went ad nauseam.
Also, "Medium member since August 2019". Yeah, no. Thanks.
My experience is that meds take the symptoms away. You no longer feel sad, but you are still "depressed". Kind of like pain medication takes the pain away, but your leg is still broken.
I experienced depression as symptom of a deeper "illness" of the brain that needs to be cured with psychotherapy. If it wasn't for that I'd still make the same mistakes again and again that made me depressed in the first place.
Stimulus generalization comes to mind. IIRC Pavlows dogs at some point reacted not just to the food, but even earlier on him entering the room.
I doubt that they train dogs like "Steve's having a seizure. Good! Get that dog here."
I imagine that you do a preliminary training with faked seizures to get responses right and then hope (meaning: Train under real conditions) that the dog will react on a real seizure as well.
Sick Societies by Robert Edgerton changed my view on pretty much all aspects of mankind.
By giving vivid examples of failing or badly functioning and "maladaptive" (processes in) various (indigenous) societies he made made me value our current state of existence very much: Government, rights, laws, police, infrastructure, jobs, and all that really are a great achievement of mankind.
70$ for glasses in Germany? I have to pay about 200€ per glas. Maybe weaker glasses are cheap. After all you can buy glasses in the supermarket for a few bucks.
Those modern glasses get scratches after just a few years of careful handling and cleaning only with „Mikrofaser“ in my experience. No fun having weak eyes in Germany.
I paddled alot of these: The old wodden "Deltas" width the ridiculous beam width of 75cm as well as a monstrous version made out of composite that was near impossible to trim in windy conditions. I hated those.
I made a few strokes in the famous 2001 model Olimpia that was extremely difficult to trim. Like dancing on a toothpick. I liked the characteristics of that boat though: Very stiff and always straightening itself up. Due to it's shape it had bad directional stability. In situations with wind or a competitor next to you, you had the disadvantage of having to steer alot. Steering slows you down and costs stamina as hell.
Then the Dominator that had a much better directional stability, but would always tilt unless you kept in in balance. I never really liked that.
Now Plastex uses a trapezoid geometry in it's Fighter-line. For me that's the best of both worlds. It combines the characteristics I like from the Olympia and the directional stability of the Dominator. It's a pleasure to drive that boat! Still, it's even less stable in waves than the other ones and I regularly get frightened in churned up water. The Dominator was much more smooth here.
Well, transfers are "reversible". There's nothing technical stopping a bank to wire money back.
But, banks are not allowed to mess with your funds. If it's in you account, then it's yours. It would be illegal for a bank to simply reverse a transfer. Crooks are protected by the laws as well.
Even if some obvious mistake was made at a e.g. payment provider and funds were wired to the wrong bank account, your bank has to send you a letter asking for your permission to reverse the mistake. Reading a batch file twice is a nice example: You get two credit entries, but the bank is not allowed to reverse one.
What happens with smaller scams is that crooks withdraw funds as soon as they've been booked. So most of the time the money already is physically lost before a (legal) claim arrives. So there's that.
I usually just grab another paper towel or toilet paper to open the door. I also carry a small bottle of hand disinfection with me especially in the winter. I use it after e.g. grabbing handle bars or seats on the train. Comes in handy as I not always remember to not touch my face (eyes especially when I'm tired).
> It doesn't sound wrong to hear tritones, or minor seconds, or diminished and altered triads, or stacked fourths.
That depends on the composer. I'm doing Hollander currently. I got to sing a hell lot of tritoni and chromatic progressions. That's pretty difficult.
But it doesn't sound that way at all. If you hear it "from the outside" you just think "yeah, that's how it's supposed to be.
I also did a contemporary Serbian opera a couple of years back than. Serbian folk music as I experienced it always sounds a litte "wrong but cool". Was near impossible to sing, but to the listener: Yeah, sounds good.
And as my top poster dharma noted: Jazz and "classical music" share many similarities. Definitely true. Think of Scriabin piano somata No 5 written in 1907. Or even go back to Beethoven No 32, 2nd movement.
Many classically trained pianists are excellent at improvisation. Wagner, Beethoven, Mozart were respected pianists. Wagner wrote the Hollander by improvising on the piano reciting the lyrics. Beethoven was feared by other pianists for his level of skill at improvisation. Mozart improvised most of his piano sonatas as far as I remember.
Gould made a recording of Strauss songs I think. The singer said in an interview, that Gould just started to improvise in Strauss' style and harmonics (Strauss is pretty damn difficult).
Contemporary pianists often know both. Anecdotal evidence: A colleague of mine from music university studied classical piano and was a regular at jazz clubs in Dusseldorf.
It is very interesting to see differences in brain structure from classical to jazz pianists. Maybe a hint at how (muscle-)memory and motion planning is stored? A hint at how volatile brain structure is? It would be interesting to see, if e.g. a classically trained pianist switching to jazz exclusively also has a significant restructuring of his brain.
Edit: Now that I've read the article and the abstract of the paper (the paper is behind Elsevier's paywall), I understand that jazz pianists are quicker at planning new movements (a.k.a. Chord progressions) with the downside of making making more mistakes, while classically trained pianists are slower here, but faster at recognizing and repeating unlearned ("unusual") finger movements.
Would be interesting to see a comparison to pianists doing both jazz and classical music.
I needed to stop reading his piece after a few sentences. I didn't even make it to "I could go on. (And I do, ad nauseam, in the notes below.)"... which is way to far down for my taste. Yes, he went ad nauseam.
Also, "Medium member since August 2019". Yeah, no. Thanks.