Dr. norm+3SD

life is short. make art. Inquisitorious RBG. Dr. Representative. Polyphony Supremacist. Proselytize those with “reach”

[Dr. norm+3SD @roderickgorby]

There’s music that makes you feel smart for playing it right, and there’s music that makes you feel dumb for playing it wrong.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

AI will achieve Stockfish-level coding and generalized computer use

[Dr. norm+3SD @roderickgorby]

https://t.co/PJWvK61KEd

[Abhishek B R @abhitwt]

Every company’s AI workflow rn be like 😭💀

[Dr. norm+3SD @roderickgorby]

A lot of chess study is the musical equivalent of "In this 3-bar passage of this sonata by Mozart, guess which note the soprano sings next". So, many chess players walk around armed to the teeth with those far-off solutions.

[Dr. norm+3SD @roderickgorby]

Ok I’m a solid Hans fan now.

[Dr. norm+3SD @roderickgorby]

@TheOmniLiberal Miracles. Easy.

[Dr. norm+3SD @roderickgorby]

@TakeTakeTakeApp The report bug/feedback quote icon on the tip left of the app keeps giving me this error:

[Dr. norm+3SD @roderickgorby]

@TakeTakeTakeApp Feature request: iPad full-screen

[Dr. norm+3SD @roderickgorby]

@TakeTakeTakeApp @lichess I find this playing experience addictive. A few bugs:
Sometimes the coach doesn’t say anything. Idk, unremarkable game? Also, I was trying to see one of GM Howell’s games, at first I could see the moves, but after navigating away, the moves did not display, only arrows.

[Dr. norm+3SD @roderickgorby]

@TakeTakeTakeApp @lichess It would be cool if after a session you could retrieve a summary, like “today, you were sharp tactically, but ignored your opponents chances in the endgame while you were low on time. This happened in 3 of your games {game list for review}.”

[Dr. norm+3SD @roderickgorby]

@TakeTakeTakeApp @Assios One other suggestion: an ability to adjust the reading level. The vocab is fine for me, but might be a minor obstacle for my son.

[Dr. norm+3SD @roderickgorby]

@TakeTakeTakeApp @Assios Sorry, I meant “Qg4 is the right idea but it could lead to trouble unless you start with h4”. Oops!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

✝️ Happy Easter! ✝️

[Dr. norm+3SD @roderickgorby]

@chessable Is there a video illustrating how to use it?

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

🚨RUPERT LOWE WANTS TO PROSECUTE ANYONE WHO KNEW ABOUT RAPE GANGS AND COVERED IT UP

Labour are terrified

Many in their ranks

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Mel Gibson drops a raw, existential gut-punch in this 44-second clip:

“Why are the big realms of good and evil slugging it out for the souls, the hearts and souls of mankind? Why are we the meat in that sandwich? Little old us. Flawed us. Imperfect us. Why is that about us?”

He’s wrestling with the deepest question of all: why do the cosmic forces of good and evil seem locked in battle over ordinary, broken human beings like you and me?

No easy answers. Just honest searching — with faith, imagery, sound, and music as his tools to chase the truth.

In a world drowning in noise, this hits like a thunderclap.

What do you think — are we really the prize in some eternal war of good vs. evil, or is that too big a story for little old us?

[Dr. norm+3SD @roderickgorby]

I might just be helping prove the point though!

[Dr. norm+3SD @roderickgorby]

These comparisons are a little too binary for me, but I may be a real outlier with a converted 165 verbal and 157 quant humanities DM. Interestingly, on the SAT way back in 1993 I was 95-98 percentile with elite math "potential" and 75th percentile verbal. I'm just weird though

[Hunter Ash @ArtemisConsort]

Physics students score higher on the verbal GRE portion than humanities students, because intelligence is mostly one-dimensional and physics attracts more intelligent people on average.