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@MoreAnonymous hi MA big news thx for sharing one of my fave topics! :)

Symbolic Mathematics Finally Yields to Neural Networks / Quanta

@vzn Welcome :)

@MoreAnonymous hows life?

@vzn Going on got a 15% pay reduction :/

@vzn you?

@MoreAnonymous :( oh geez, sorry! that idea has been on my mind recently because heard about it in 2008, the last crash, and this one looks far worse, it looks depression level scale not merely in US. worldwide! stunning! guessing is the pay cut coronavirus related? myself, job holding, but has been very wobbly/ precarious more than ½ yr now o_O

@vzn Oh dear ... yes it is corona virus related :/

Btw what kind of music do you listen to?

are you at work now? what time is it there? listen to diverse stuff, long list, EDM, flamenco, jazz, rock, latin, etc... how about you

@vzn nah ... not working at the moment ... Its like 9;20 IN THE NIGHT

(sorry for caps)

so exactly 12hr difference in our time zones.

@vzn I happen to compose my own music

oh strange it is 950 here. so 12:30 difference. ½ hr time zone differences seem rare...

what kind of music do you compose?

Wanna have a listen?

@vzn Kinda fusion ... i think its my own style

sure will listen but firewall may stop me doing it immediately

Havent come across similar stuff

Here's the album

soundcloud.com/an_ant_sax/reawaken-1

thx for link, sorry blocked (not surprising) will hit it later & reply

do you compose on software? what kind?

have played with ableton and others yrs ago, fun stuff :)

@vzn Ableton

Im more of a composer less of a producer :/

hmm, what do you see as the difference? that reminds me was delighted to see some of deadmau5 on a site called "masterclasses," tipped off recently... fun stuff

@vzn Oh I have access to masterclass .. I'm good at knowing which notes to hit but not which instruments to user and how to get the right mixing

I liked herbie hancock

's masterclass

you might enjoy the deadmau5 lectures hes brilliant. oh yeah recall herbies big hit in the 80s, miami vice era. :)

@vzn I watched some of them ...

cool whaja think

Wasn't paticularly impressed with his composition technique

But he seems to know his genre

lol hes quite rich. was just gonna look him up. proves you dont have to have deep music knowledge to succeed in some a major ways.

Yea ... I'm kinda self taught ... While I was at durham a music teacher gave me free lessons since she saw potential in me

When I played the piano

(oh geez everything even ~½ fun is blocked right now sigh)

have played harmonica for 2 decades now, also self taught. have had many fun/ adventuresome moments. also got deep into the music rhythm games. have you heard of beat saber? :) :o

Cool ...

@vzn Beat saber ? no I've played legend of zelda which incoprates a very small portion of music

beat saber is an incredible VR rhythm game now selling ~2M copies, it was the 1st VR game of any genre to sell ~1M copies. highly recommend you try it out asap! looks like VR rhythm games could hit it really big, maybe on the scale of the rhythm games ~2010 wave on consoles.

Ah ... cool I'll have a look

its on a lot of platforms, play it myself on playstation 4 VR. their VR bundle was only $350 over the console price. amazing! high quality for the price.

I see ... havent gamed for a loooong time

what games did you play, what platform etc?

Nintendo: the platform for the non-gamer

N64 , wii

those 2 only were the consoles

A lot of zelda sefries and mario games

cool, grew up on original mario in the arcades myself, deep memories

Anyways Im going .. catch up another time :)

yeah should do something myself, take it easy nice chatting wanna hear your reaction to those physics leads sometime too :) also quanta is one of my top fave magazines these days :)

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