Why “thirds” is being discussed
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>As a US citizen, I just want to add that I hope some day we can reestablish a healthy relationship with our neighbors. These articles are saddening. Canadian here. It'll be at…
by stackghost · Oct 1, 2026
The Coltrane Changes pattern of descending through major keys via major thirds is actually used at moderate tempo in the bridge of the Rogers/Hart tune Have You Met Miss Jo…
by rectang · Oct 1, 2026
Jev and Laya answer typed questions about text in one forward pass. Their confidence scores aren't error rates: a model can say "critical, 78%" and be wrong, and nothing says wh…
by Zeruxe · Sep 30, 2026
About two thirds through the article, I'm getting an utter sense of dread: I seriously hope they didn't dump all available information into an LLM and are now hoping/assumi…
by eqvinox · Sep 30, 2026
About two thirds of the way through "Flaw of Averages". Thankfully the chapters are short but it's written for business students and is aggressively anti-jargon, which can be an…
by jldugger · Sep 29, 2026
I wonder if the cultural existence of the 'introvert vs extrovert' idea has reinforced this to a degree. I'm too young to know, but I doubt this was a discussion in the 80s. I'm…
by ddek · Sep 29, 2026
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