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I guess spending lots of time playing counts as training. ..
Yes, there's even a word for "lots of time playing." The word is:
"Practice."
You might have heard an aphorism using that word.
I'll bet he wasn't very good at the subjects he ignored at Columbia. There just might be a relationship.
KFG
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I tell all my students that there is a difference between talent and skill. Talent is what is innate, skill is what you learn. You can't do anything about talent, but skill is entirely learned behavior, so as long as there is nothing wrong with you you can develop just as much skill as anyone else.
If you're 5'4" you're probably not going to have a career in the NBA, but you can develop just as much skill at basketball as people who do. Maybe you're not "smart" enough to be a chess Grand Master, but a Master is just a matter of doing the work. Busting your ass, or head I guess, although for some there seems to be little difference between the two, which doesn't appear to relate to talent. A lot of "smart" people are dumbasses.
I already posted once about a journalist who went to the Olympic training center at Colorado Springs soon after it opened to do a story on the high tech methods being used to train the national cycling team. The sports scientist was explaining how they could now measure oxygen uptake, which was genetic, and predict the performance of the cyclists. The journalist looking at some charts pointed out one cyclist and asked, "What about him? His oxygen uptake is only average."
The scientist looked at the chart and responded, "Oh, yeah, well, that's Paul Deem. He just wants it more than anyone else."
Think about that one the next time you make yourself excuses for something.
The difference between the very goods and the really greats is generally only a matter of a percent of ability or so, not some huge, honking divide. Whatever "brilliant" performance you see you can, fairly easily get to about 90% of that and with hard work get to within a few percent, which will likely see you in the top percentile of the art/craft.
Graham Hill, two time world driving champion was not considered a great driver by his contemporaries, people like Jim Clark and John Surtees, but he worked at his craft and when the great "talents" failed he was there, in workman like manner, to pick up the victor's laurels.
Coordination in particular is learned behavior. It's simple repetitive patterning. A dog can learn coordination. I suppose a dog has it easy because he doesn't make it impossible for himself by telling himself he can't do it.
I've got a cousin, went to Julliard, piano. They were thrilled to take him in because he knew how to play properly. He had been well trained. They're actually not used to that at Julliard. My cousin was an exception. Typically they have to spend the first year or so in remedial training.
Bear in mind that people who go to Julliard have been, for most part, aimed at that since they were between 5 and 8 years old. Their parents raised them to go to Julliard and did the best they could to get the best training they could find to give their little prince/princess a shot.
And almost all of them need remedial training when they get there.
And there's nothing wrong with the little prince/princess. S/he is the best of the best, that top percentile, or they wouldn't even be auditioning. What has happened is that have been taught badly by the teachers mentioned at the start of the article, who were also the best teachers available.
The average teacher is unspeakably incompetent (especially in piano for some reason), and there's no reason for it really, except, of course, that they themselves were badly trained and pass that on.
If you want to be good at something, I mean really good, do your homework, do the work; and odds are you will be.
In Walden Thoreau notes that it was perfectly well understood at the time that the reason most businessmen fail is not because they have no talent for business, but simply because they fail to do what they themselves know they need to do to succeed. A failure of will, not talent.
No, it's cultural. The slang use is the better part of a century old, refering to anyone who deals with radio/electronics (Sparks is a variant). That would, for the most part, be us.
It's always been a bit of an odd moniker, a term of "endearment" when things are going well, and a sarcastic put down when things aren't. I'm sure anyone who's worked as a tech or in the NOC can relate, but I remember the phrase, "Way ta go, Sparky" from before the ARPANET went live.
You might, just hypothetically speaking of course, hear that phrase just after you blow the mains because you plugged a toaster oven into the circuit as the mini.
A couple of modern fictional charecters have probably helped spread it's use, Clark Griswold from National Lampoon's Vacation and the uber sarcastic . ..penguin. ..from Tom Tomorrow.
When fights break out among our kids, we punish both parties equally.
Good day, Sir,
You have a very nice car. Well, that is to say, you used to have a very nice car. I liked it so much I'm afraid I stole it. Your radio presets are awesome too! We obviously have a lot in common.
If we're lucky maybe we can share a cell, but I expect you'll get caught for having your car stolen long before I get caught for stealing it, so fix the place up nice for me, 'k? Oh yeah, and wear something sexy.
I believe he's going to seek an injunction against them to try to prevent them from releasing the game at all.
There's a legal term for that: "Prior Restraint".
Times have changed I guess. Back in my day lawyers in independent practice fought against it, but what the hell did we know? We were all fired up about about such quaint notions as "Civil Rights" and shit.
The point is that nobody should be let off the hook for doing things that the SEC specifically prohibits.
She settled with the SEC. Her jail time has nothing to do with whatever stock shenannigans she was involved in.
She violated a rather iffy criminal law designed to make it possible to prosecute and convict mob bosses/illegal drug distributors who were otherwise unprosectuable, not even under RICO, because of a technicallity; there wasn't any evidence that they'd commited a crime.
So a new crime was created.
I'm certainly no fan of Martha Stewart, but I'm no particular fan of this sort of law either. She got reamed by the SEC. It should have been left at that.
In fact, I find they have gone way overboard in their overzealous prosecution (persecution?) of anyone they even think has been illegally downloading music from the Internet.
Bear in mind that this was only made possible by buying new law that allows it. It's uploaders that they're after, because that's where the law is strong, but P2P makes downloaders into uploaders, so everyone's a target, rather than just the maintainer of a central server.
I was a "go after the perps" guy too, but that was under the old system which required something approaching real due process against a few "perps" who understood the system in advance, not Jane Doe rubber stamped process going after old ladies who have never even owned a computer.
I trust, therefore, that your disdain for such a system also means you're not a part of activity that would leave you on the receiving end of a legal suit from the RIAA.
I do not buy RIAA music. I do not download it either (not even legally). I write and play my own. This puts me at high risk of suit due to "unintentional theft."
It ain't all about illegal downloading.
Be a part of the solution to create and encourage the new artists, the new distribution channels, the new promotional channels, and the new studios and "labels" (yes, anything that gets sufficiently large and successful will have multiple layers of hierarchy, organization, and even bureaucracy), all of which will be required to support this new model to varying degrees.
I am. Therefore I am a threat. Therefore I am at risk of suit. It ain't all about illegal downloading. It's about control of creation and distribution. Sooner or later they'll be trying to come for all of us.
Yes, we need to think hard about where the place to draw the line is, but once it's drawn we'd damned well better be prepared to hold it, or they'll bulldoze right over us. Some of our brothers and sister have already been crushed under the treads.
on finding the safe, demand that I open it so that they might search inside it. I refuse to do so.Certainly I would expect to get into a good deal of legal trouble as a result.
Why?
There's plenty else in the RIP Act to despise, and the implementation is bad throughout, but the principle isn't quite as appalling as it seems.
Why not?
The questions are serious, methinks you have been trained to accept a certain amount of testifying against yourself as reasonable. I think you should question that acceptence, perhaps before you live to regret it.
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I guess spending lots of time playing counts as training. . .
Yes, there's even a word for "lots of time playing." The word is:
"Practice."
You might have heard an aphorism using that word.
I'll bet he wasn't very good at the subjects he ignored at Columbia. There just might be a relationship.
KFG
I tell all my students that there is a difference between talent and skill. Talent is what is innate, skill is what you learn. You can't do anything about talent, but skill is entirely learned behavior, so as long as there is nothing wrong with you you can develop just as much skill as anyone else.
:)
If you're 5'4" you're probably not going to have a career in the NBA, but you can develop just as much skill at basketball as people who do. Maybe you're not "smart" enough to be a chess Grand Master, but a Master is just a matter of doing the work. Busting your ass, or head I guess, although for some there seems to be little difference between the two, which doesn't appear to relate to talent. A lot of "smart" people are dumbasses.
I already posted once about a journalist who went to the Olympic training center at Colorado Springs soon after it opened to do a story on the high tech methods being used to train the national cycling team. The sports scientist was explaining how they could now measure oxygen uptake, which was genetic, and predict the performance of the cyclists. The journalist looking at some charts pointed out one cyclist and asked, "What about him? His oxygen uptake is only average."
The scientist looked at the chart and responded, "Oh, yeah, well, that's Paul Deem. He just wants it more than anyone else."
Think about that one the next time you make yourself excuses for something.
The difference between the very goods and the really greats is generally only a matter of a percent of ability or so, not some huge, honking divide. Whatever "brilliant" performance you see you can, fairly easily get to about 90% of that and with hard work get to within a few percent, which will likely see you in the top percentile of the art/craft.
Graham Hill, two time world driving champion was not considered a great driver by his contemporaries, people like Jim Clark and John Surtees, but he worked at his craft and when the great "talents" failed he was there, in workman like manner, to pick up the victor's laurels.
Coordination in particular is learned behavior. It's simple repetitive patterning. A dog can learn coordination. I suppose a dog has it easy because he doesn't make it impossible for himself by telling himself he can't do it.
I've got a cousin, went to Julliard, piano. They were thrilled to take him in because he knew how to play properly. He had been well trained. They're actually not used to that at Julliard. My cousin was an exception. Typically they have to spend the first year or so in remedial training.
Bear in mind that people who go to Julliard have been, for most part, aimed at that since they were between 5 and 8 years old. Their parents raised them to go to Julliard and did the best they could to get the best training they could find to give their little prince/princess a shot.
And almost all of them need remedial training when they get there.
And there's nothing wrong with the little prince/princess. S/he is the best of the best, that top percentile, or they wouldn't even be auditioning. What has happened is that have been taught badly by the teachers mentioned at the start of the article, who were also the best teachers available.
The average teacher is unspeakably incompetent (especially in piano for some reason), and there's no reason for it really, except, of course, that they themselves were badly trained and pass that on.
If you want to be good at something, I mean really good, do your homework, do the work; and odds are you will be.
In Walden Thoreau notes that it was perfectly well understood at the time that the reason most businessmen fail is not because they have no talent for business, but simply because they fail to do what they themselves know they need to do to succeed. A failure of will, not talent.
They goof off. It's their, ummmmmmmmm, talent.
KFG
No, it's cultural. The slang use is the better part of a century old, refering to anyone who deals with radio/electronics (Sparks is a variant). That would, for the most part, be us.
.penguin. . .from Tom Tomorrow.
It's always been a bit of an odd moniker, a term of "endearment" when things are going well, and a sarcastic put down when things aren't. I'm sure anyone who's worked as a tech or in the NOC can relate, but I remember the phrase, "Way ta go, Sparky" from before the ARPANET went live.
You might, just hypothetically speaking of course, hear that phrase just after you blow the mains because you plugged a toaster oven into the circuit as the mini.
A couple of modern fictional charecters have probably helped spread it's use, Clark Griswold from National Lampoon's Vacation and the uber sarcastic . .
KFG
When fights break out among our kids, we punish both parties equally.
Good day, Sir,
You have a very nice car. Well, that is to say, you used to have a very nice car. I liked it so much I'm afraid I stole it. Your radio presets are awesome too! We obviously have a lot in common.
If we're lucky maybe we can share a cell, but I expect you'll get caught for having your car stolen long before I get caught for stealing it, so fix the place up nice for me, 'k? Oh yeah, and wear something sexy.
Your partner in crime,
Bubba
KFG
And that's why Java made the list, but APL didn't; compare and contrast:
'Hello World!'
Where's the fun in that?
KFG
Where's "Hello World"?
The 80s are under represented on the list. That would be the 1880s.
KFG
Pull his string and hear him misspeak Chinese misstranslated into English.
KFG
Nooooooo, not every man's, but I think the Chinese have Mr.1055962 covered anyway:
Wanted; RealChimp
Bottom of the page.
KFG
My bad.
S'ok. My favorite tool of humor is ambiguity and my second favorite is sarcasm delivered stright.
In this case I realized I was perhaps being obscure by not filling in all the blanks, but didn't realize I could be missinterpreted in quite that way.
KFG
Because it's not a duck.
KFG
I believe he's going to seek an injunction against them to try to prevent them from releasing the game at all.
There's a legal term for that: "Prior Restraint".
Times have changed I guess. Back in my day lawyers in independent practice fought against it, but what the hell did we know? We were all fired up about about such quaint notions as "Civil Rights" and shit.
KFG
Bah, where did I ever claim that I wasn't preaching?
The irony I was refering to is Jack getting up on his soapbox as a bully, bullying a game about fighting bullies.
And of course he uses the argument that standing up to bullies is the cause of violence. How convenient for him:
I'm sure it'll come out something like; "You can't countersue me; there are already too many silly lawsuits!"
KFG
I think I'd get along with your cat, but we'd have M. Night "issues." :)
KFG
. . .which gives him a chance to get up on his soapbox and preach
Ohhhhhhh, the irony!
KFG
From the Snopes article:
.the Russians, they used pencils. . ."
". .
Of course that is a bit of creative editing, but nonetheless an exact quote of the actual fact.
Also, how did you manage to insert a link without Slashcode diplaying the destination domain?
Ummmmmmmmmmmm, I didn't?
KFG
Seriously, how much would it cost just to get the Russians to fork over some of their old-school-but-reliable technology.
Russian Space Technology on sale
Looks pretty reasonably priced to me.
KFG
This guy is an executive?!
Yes, but he's not an MBA, he's an EE.
KFG
The point is that nobody should be let off the hook for doing things that the SEC specifically prohibits.
She settled with the SEC. Her jail time has nothing to do with whatever stock shenannigans she was involved in.
She violated a rather iffy criminal law designed to make it possible to prosecute and convict mob bosses/illegal drug distributors who were otherwise unprosectuable, not even under RICO, because of a technicallity; there wasn't any evidence that they'd commited a crime.
So a new crime was created.
I'm certainly no fan of Martha Stewart, but I'm no particular fan of this sort of law either. She got reamed by the SEC. It should have been left at that.
KFG
I imagine a lack of sensitivity from the RIAA resembling a prison in Uzbekistan.
I see you're a "glass half full" sort of guy.
I'm afraid you'll never truely understand the depths to which a "Hey, who drank my damned water" guy will descend.
KFG
In fact, I find they have gone way overboard in their overzealous prosecution (persecution?) of anyone they even think has been illegally downloading music from the Internet.
Bear in mind that this was only made possible by buying new law that allows it. It's uploaders that they're after, because that's where the law is strong, but P2P makes downloaders into uploaders, so everyone's a target, rather than just the maintainer of a central server.
I was a "go after the perps" guy too, but that was under the old system which required something approaching real due process against a few "perps" who understood the system in advance, not Jane Doe rubber stamped process going after old ladies who have never even owned a computer.
KFG
My Sweet Lord
I trust, therefore, that your disdain for such a system also means you're not a part of activity that would leave you on the receiving end of a legal suit from the RIAA.
I do not buy RIAA music. I do not download it either (not even legally). I write and play my own. This puts me at high risk of suit due to "unintentional theft."
It ain't all about illegal downloading.
Be a part of the solution to create and encourage the new artists, the new distribution channels, the new promotional channels, and the new studios and "labels" (yes, anything that gets sufficiently large and successful will have multiple layers of hierarchy, organization, and even bureaucracy), all of which will be required to support this new model to varying degrees.
I am. Therefore I am a threat. Therefore I am at risk of suit. It ain't all about illegal downloading. It's about control of creation and distribution. Sooner or later they'll be trying to come for all of us.
Yes, we need to think hard about where the place to draw the line is, but once it's drawn we'd damned well better be prepared to hold it, or they'll bulldoze right over us. Some of our brothers and sister have already been crushed under the treads.
KFG
Great pics, especialy the good looking lil geek babe in pic #77. Bonus!
At the moment; viewed 98 times
Close up of tape measure; 73 times
Out of focus closeup of oats; 68 times
Geek guy; 47 times
Well, there you have it guys, you're less interesting than an out of focus picture of oats.
KFG
I have a hard time thinking humans came from apes.
Humans did not "come from" apes. Humans are apes.
We only came from apes in the same sense that German Shepards came from dogs, something I'll hazard you don't even question.
KFG
on finding the safe, demand that I open it so that they might search inside it. I refuse to do so.Certainly I would expect to get into a good deal of legal trouble as a result.
Why?
There's plenty else in the RIP Act to despise, and the implementation is bad throughout, but the principle isn't quite as appalling as it seems.
Why not?
The questions are serious, methinks you have been trained to accept a certain amount of testifying against yourself as reasonable. I think you should question that acceptence, perhaps before you live to regret it.
KFG
Whats wrong with "the consumer rights' party?
When I was a kid we had these things called "people." I miss them. Nice folk; and a good many of them were producers.
KFG