Ordinary music can be described in six dimension, each correspinding to a string, which we will denote by E, A, G, D B and E'. By "bending" and "plucking" the space so constructed, one can obtain different notes, each defined by a string and a function called a "bend". A discrete version can be achieved by restricting these functions to a discreet subset of the strings, elements of which are called "frets". Thus, for one instance, an "A minor" chord is the defined by x in M^6, x = (0, 1, 3, 3, 2, 1), x -> f(x), where f is a "bending" map from the six-dimensional "string-space", to the physical space of sound.
It's the same thing as ballets, operas, a movei soundtrack or any kind of music designed along with some visual medium. Sometimes the music really flies if it actually has something to say, and that is easier if you have story in the form of a video game or something else.
So now we have to listen to those suckers in video games too, as if it weren't enough to hear anytime someone forgot to turn of the radio?
What happened to those highly-skilled Japanese composers that used to make music for the nintendo games? Those are the guys I want to listen too, it's simply much better music. The Mega Man soundtrack still rings nicely in my ears while Avril Lavigne can basically go shove that skateboard.
I have a somewhat different viewpoint. I like all music, or at least like to listen to it and check it out to study it, try to understand it, etc, especially since I'm studying composition. Given that viewpoint, you can't but actually be surprised in some cases how GOOD video game music actually is. I was playing some of the old NES games the other day, and I have to admit that I just love the music in some of them, despite the midi-quality of the instrument (and maybe even because of them).
As a few really good games, musically, you could mention Life Force, the mega man series and, of course, Zelda.:) Newer games that have awesome music in them are for example Starcraft and Icewind Dale, as well as the rest of the black isle games. Final Fantasy VII has some very memorable tracks. And if you can remember "Sam'n'max hit the road", you won't be disappointed.
In short, video game music is often very good music. It's much better, for one instance, than modern pop music. Then again, that isn't saying much.
Or maybe they are misjudging those so-called great scientists. There is no doubt in my mind that Perelman would have turned down any sum of money they would have handed him. People like that simply aren't (and this might sound hard to grasp) interested in money. I think that kind of people wants just enough money to be able to work on his or her project without having to worry about those pesky little things like food, apartments, the gear needed for the research, etc. A better incentive would be to offer people engough money so that they would never have to think about money again WHILE doing the research - not afterwards.
Of course if you're a Russian mathematician living with your mom, all of this becomes moot.
Very good point! It does maybe not have that super-realistic "I shot the guy in the head and he's actually BLEEDING from the head", but it just looks... nice! The same with the old black isle games, such as Baldur's gate (especially II), fallout, planespace torment, etc... Clean, simple and nice.
And, by the way, I thought I'd laugh my ass off first time I went on a camping trip and saw the Starcraft conversion van.:)
Oooh, yeah and HOW ABPOUT that comment system? Someone replies to my comment and I get an e-mail about it. The link provided in the e-mail does not take me TO the comment so I can see it, and it takes me up to ten minutes to actually find it in the innavigate-able mess that the current replies are in. That sucks. How about a direct link to the comment?
And another thing: Why doesn't youtube show parents/replies correcty? I usually see the newest comment, which is a reply to something, but it makes no sense since youtube doesn't show which comments it is a reply to. I hope to god they'll find time to fix THAT. Along with some - apparent - laziness-bugs, like the fact that maximizing the window deletes my carefully downloaded buffer. I mean, i didn't spend half an hour (on my admittedly EXTREMELY slow internet-connection) downloading that "mad-improv video with Frank Zappa", only to have to download it AGAIN beacuse I suddenly wanted it fullscreen (and who wouldn't:P)!
So, UNG stands for "UNG's not GNU" and GNU stands for "GNU's not unix".
Unwinding the definitions, one gets "UNG is not GNU is not Unix".
I just thank god that GNU is not UNG.
Well, I certainly didn't mod you flamebait (goes without saying)... and I did not know this. Thanks for the info! Although it does sound odd to call it manic-depressive (or bi-polar) if it only has one out of two in it.
I think the chemical imbalances people are talking about are chemical imbalances not in sync with your actions / diet / sleep, etc. When there is a malfunction in the brain that doesn't pick up on the signals it is recieving and keeps the depression going IN SPITE of these things. Like, you feel bad when hungry. You feel better when eating. What if the brain just forgets to send the necessary signals for this to happen? You stop eating, or you start eating and never stop. There have been cases where the brain just didn't pick up, cuasing depression, one was even presented on slashdot some while ago. I don't really know how frequnt THOSE cases are - but isn't that what manic-depression is all about, for instance?
That's the case where I would also argue FOR medicine (and usually do to people are against them - since I have the annoying habit of disagreeing with everyone who talks to me). In fact, it was probably in cases like that that the medicine was originally developed.
I would also guess that "the fucked up brain chemistry" in not a growing trend in society, meaning that we ARE overdiagnosing a lot of people. Which is bad in itself and has the additional effect on really, clinically depressed people, that their disease gets trivialized and looked down upon.
Yeah. I think it is a vicious circle kind of a thing. It becomes harder and harder to pull yourself up again. Having other people around might help in that case. Nobody really makes it alone.
I actually think this is a wonderful advice. Doing these things makes you forget how shitty your life is and when you actually get at them, your life isn't shitty anymore. The worst thing to do is to just lie around and sulk. You become focused on your own depression and that just makes it spiral out of control. Well, sometimes that actually IS the only thing I want to do when feeling down - and in that way it is maybe not so hard to understand how depression happens to people.
Sometimes just cleaning my room, or doing the laundry helps me get up again. And having a fairly regular life, eating good food, and getting outside, if not only to walk around a bit. Heck, even writing comments on slashdots can help.
The basic tenet of this philosophy is to "keep yourself busy". Don't ever just sit down and let the feelings overwhelm you. By and by, they diminish and life won't suck anymore. I know this isn't enough for many people and I suspect a lot of "you have no idea what _I_ have been through". But I think people should TRY. We are often too quick to judge something as clinical depression and sometimes forget that depression is also a normal state of things that CAN be overcome by effort. Even when it gets so bad that you don't leave your bed for a week - it CAN be normal - or at least inside some manageable neighboorhood of normal.
As for the last thing: Stop feeling sorry for yourselves! This might sound harsh, but feeling sorry for yourself is the worst thing you can do to yourself.
The last equality symbol doesn't fit, though. Severe clinical depression is not bi-polar disorder... it might be a subset though. If you're severly clinically manic sometimes and severly clinically depressed other times, then you have manic-depression - which is the same as bipolar disorder as you pointed out.
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I'm saving the pie for "pi approximation day" which is the 22. of july (22/7 = 3.1428571428).
Like this guy:
http://www.qwantz.com/archive/000955.html
Well, then you should definitely read this paper! It is actually quite awesome.
Ordinary music can be described in six dimension, each correspinding to a string, which we will denote by E, A, G, D B and E'. By "bending" and "plucking" the space so constructed, one can obtain different notes, each defined by a string and a function called a "bend". A discrete version can be achieved by restricting these functions to a discreet subset of the strings, elements of which are called "frets". Thus, for one instance, an "A minor" chord is the defined by x in M^6, x = (0, 1, 3, 3, 2, 1), x -> f(x), where f is a "bending" map from the six-dimensional "string-space", to the physical space of sound.
Hope Taco had the decency to remove him from his suit first.
It's the same thing as ballets, operas, a movei soundtrack or any kind of music designed along with some visual medium. Sometimes the music really flies if it actually has something to say, and that is easier if you have story in the form of a video game or something else.
So now we have to listen to those suckers in video games too, as if it weren't enough to hear anytime someone forgot to turn of the radio?
What happened to those highly-skilled Japanese composers that used to make music for the nintendo games? Those are the guys I want to listen too, it's simply much better music. The Mega Man soundtrack still rings nicely in my ears while Avril Lavigne can basically go shove that skateboard.
I have a somewhat different viewpoint. I like all music, or at least like to listen to it and check it out to study it, try to understand it, etc, especially since I'm studying composition. Given that viewpoint, you can't but actually be surprised in some cases how GOOD video game music actually is. I was playing some of the old NES games the other day, and I have to admit that I just love the music in some of them, despite the midi-quality of the instrument (and maybe even because of them).
:) Newer games that have awesome music in them are for example Starcraft and Icewind Dale, as well as the rest of the black isle games. Final Fantasy VII has some very memorable tracks. And if you can remember "Sam'n'max hit the road", you won't be disappointed.
As a few really good games, musically, you could mention Life Force, the mega man series and, of course, Zelda.
In short, video game music is often very good music. It's much better, for one instance, than modern pop music. Then again, that isn't saying much.
Or maybe they are misjudging those so-called great scientists. There is no doubt in my mind that Perelman would have turned down any sum of money they would have handed him. People like that simply aren't (and this might sound hard to grasp) interested in money. I think that kind of people wants just enough money to be able to work on his or her project without having to worry about those pesky little things like food, apartments, the gear needed for the research, etc. A better incentive would be to offer people engough money so that they would never have to think about money again WHILE doing the research - not afterwards.
Of course if you're a Russian mathematician living with your mom, all of this becomes moot.
Very good point! It does maybe not have that super-realistic "I shot the guy in the head and he's actually BLEEDING from the head", but it just looks... nice! The same with the old black isle games, such as Baldur's gate (especially II), fallout, planespace torment, etc... Clean, simple and nice.
:)
And, by the way, I thought I'd laugh my ass off first time I went on a camping trip and saw the Starcraft conversion van.
Why do I get the feeling that you look and sound like Dr. Strangelove?
So, send another one. With a woman.
"So, hey babe, you said MAYBE... IF i was the only guy on the planet... eh, eh!"
Oooh, yeah and HOW ABPOUT that comment system? Someone replies to my comment and I get an e-mail about it. The link provided in the e-mail does not take me TO the comment so I can see it, and it takes me up to ten minutes to actually find it in the innavigate-able mess that the current replies are in. That sucks. How about a direct link to the comment?
/replies correcty? I usually see the newest comment, which is a reply to something, but it makes no sense since youtube doesn't show which comments it is a reply to. I hope to god they'll find time to fix THAT. Along with some - apparent - laziness-bugs, like the fact that maximizing the window deletes my carefully downloaded buffer. I mean, i didn't spend half an hour (on my admittedly EXTREMELY slow internet-connection) downloading that "mad-improv video with Frank Zappa", only to have to download it AGAIN beacuse I suddenly wanted it fullscreen (and who wouldn't :P)!
And another thing: Why doesn't youtube show parents
Please make it so that maximizing the videos doesn't delete the buffer I spent all evening loading.
But if you DO have new characters with their own chemistry it might works. I happen to actually like Frasier.
But you'll have to say it at least get people to buy you stuff.
It does make more sense.
Already we are seeing some signs of difficulties with the UNG calendar programs.
Either that or they are actually offering an extra day of the year with this thing.
So, UNG stands for "UNG's not GNU" and GNU stands for "GNU's not unix".
Unwinding the definitions, one gets "UNG is not GNU is not Unix".
I just thank god that GNU is not UNG.
Well, I certainly didn't mod you flamebait (goes without saying)... and I did not know this. Thanks for the info! Although it does sound odd to call it manic-depressive (or bi-polar) if it only has one out of two in it.
I think the chemical imbalances people are talking about are chemical imbalances not in sync with your actions / diet / sleep, etc. When there is a malfunction in the brain that doesn't pick up on the signals it is recieving and keeps the depression going IN SPITE of these things. Like, you feel bad when hungry. You feel better when eating. What if the brain just forgets to send the necessary signals for this to happen? You stop eating, or you start eating and never stop. There have been cases where the brain just didn't pick up, cuasing depression, one was even presented on slashdot some while ago. I don't really know how frequnt THOSE cases are - but isn't that what manic-depression is all about, for instance?
Granted.
That's the case where I would also argue FOR medicine (and usually do to people are against them - since I have the annoying habit of disagreeing with everyone who talks to me). In fact, it was probably in cases like that that the medicine was originally developed.
I would also guess that "the fucked up brain chemistry" in not a growing trend in society, meaning that we ARE overdiagnosing a lot of people. Which is bad in itself and has the additional effect on really, clinically depressed people, that their disease gets trivialized and looked down upon.
Yeah. I think it is a vicious circle kind of a thing. It becomes harder and harder to pull yourself up again. Having other people around might help in that case. Nobody really makes it alone.
I actually think this is a wonderful advice. Doing these things makes you forget how shitty your life is and when you actually get at them, your life isn't shitty anymore. The worst thing to do is to just lie around and sulk. You become focused on your own depression and that just makes it spiral out of control. Well, sometimes that actually IS the only thing I want to do when feeling down - and in that way it is maybe not so hard to understand how depression happens to people.
Sometimes just cleaning my room, or doing the laundry helps me get up again. And having a fairly regular life, eating good food, and getting outside, if not only to walk around a bit. Heck, even writing comments on slashdots can help.
The basic tenet of this philosophy is to "keep yourself busy". Don't ever just sit down and let the feelings overwhelm you. By and by, they diminish and life won't suck anymore. I know this isn't enough for many people and I suspect a lot of "you have no idea what _I_ have been through". But I think people should TRY. We are often too quick to judge something as clinical depression and sometimes forget that depression is also a normal state of things that CAN be overcome by effort. Even when it gets so bad that you don't leave your bed for a week - it CAN be normal - or at least inside some manageable neighboorhood of normal.
As for the last thing: Stop feeling sorry for yourselves! This might sound harsh, but feeling sorry for yourself is the worst thing you can do to yourself.
To the rest of the replies to this post:
Come on, guys, it's just a joke!
The last equality symbol doesn't fit, though. Severe clinical depression is not bi-polar disorder... it might be a subset though. If you're severly clinically manic sometimes and severly clinically depressed other times, then you have manic-depression - which is the same as bipolar disorder as you pointed out.