Nov 18 2024 70 mins 35
Lords:
- Tim
- Chris
Topics:
- Noodles?
- Everything and More (by DFW), the "impoverishment of the question",and free will
- Choosing an integrator
- Lucky Jim (old song)
- Collaborative music as a game design problem (see: skill gap, handicaps, engagement, peripheral participation)
Microtopics:
- Celtic Music and Corgis.
- Tim, a figure shrouded in mystery.
- Topic Monologues.
- Gluten-free noodle straws.
- Bucatini: imagine a Red Vine but made of pasta.
- Replacing food service workers with clockwork automata made of noodles that have been hardened into gears and springs.
- Giant fusilli as playground equipment.
- Noodleness and pastitude.
- Whether gnocchi is a pasta. What about cauliflower gnocchi?
- Unleavened Carrot Cake.
- Indomie: the number one selling noodle on Earth.
- Good spices: they can work in a broth.
- Soupertaster: Jim eats soup alone while talking to a volleyball with a bloody handprint on it.
- Learning math by starting with incredibly abstract unmotivated ideas.
- Some Bottomless Pits are Deeper than Others.
- Approaching a question by interpreting it as a question that if answerable.
- The significant of the perception of free will.
- How a closed system can produce multiple different outcomes.
- What happens when we decide we don't have free will.
- A completely deterministic system that has a sensation of free will.
- Taking as much time as it takes to read a book.
- Shooting the Moon (in real life)
- Taking all the bad cards and winning.
- Becoming disciplined about time
- What a modern feature phone can do.
- Dividing your day into blocks and spending them.
- The period in your life when you lived in Burlingame.
- Getting an incredibe amount of work done during your hour and a half commute.
- Topic Lords or Plug Lords?
- Something you'll be glad you did tomorrow.
- Integration Basics.
- Explicit Euler vs. Semi-Implicit Euler.
- The pros and cons of RK4.
- The physics system behind Drawn to Life.
- What it takes to be an old song.
- Hadestown and The Instigator.
- The Hadestown Tiny Desk Concert.
- How to play music with other people in a way that accounts for skill gaps.
- Going to the Starry Plough to play the penny whistle.
- Musicians sitting in a circle and talking until someone starts playing something and everyone else joins in.
- Joining in on a song you've never heard before.
- Playing Mary Had a Little Lamb at 40 BPM.
- Making a slow song more interesting by adding ornamentation.
- Star of the County Down.
- Different ideas that come out when you play music at half speed.
- Lark Camp.
- The person who hands out the cheat sheet with all the popular tunes and their chord progressions.
- Sorting tunes by frequnecy.
- The bad things about Irish sessions, from a game design perspective.
- Learning a song by reading the notation vs. learning it by playing it for 30 years.
- Star Above the Garter.
