In music, a "beat" is a relative measurement. Four quarter notes played at 100 bpm sounds identical to four eighth notes at 50 bpm or four half notes at 200 bpm. You can make any piece of recorded music fit the law by declaring a beat within the limits. (Written sheet music still has a problem though.)

Never heard that before. Source?

Answer: Are you there? Hello? Hello? Can you hear me? Hello?
Question: What words do you never hear on a landline?*

(* Unless the landline has received a call from a cell phone.)

I was having dental surgery when a hygienist accidentally stepped on a foot switch that controlled the dental chair. I was instantly raised from a lying position to sitting up. The surgeon had a scalpel in my mouth at the time. Fortunately I was not harmed.

I'll bet the company is using supervised machine learning in producing its analyses. Supervised ML doesn't classify what something is. It classifies what something is closest to from a range of possibilities. This misunderstanding is rampant in scientific research.

Read "The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" (Abelson & Sussman) and tell me again that coding is a shop class.

But... what if your personal essay is about your formative experiences in a tapestry shop?

I still manage my finances with Quicken 2006, now with 18 years of data. It is at least 3x as fast as the latest Quicken. Click from a checking account to a savings account, and Quicken 2006 switches instantaneously, while the latest Quicken takes 3 excruciating seconds.

Q2006 has a few bugs, but I know what they are and can work around them. For the latest market data, I hit the API from https://site.financialmodeling... and import the data as CSV files.

I'll probably never upgrade. (Anyway, the new Quicken can't import the old data reliably, according to the company.)

<cough> AirTags <cough cough>

People don't "maintain their personality." (See the classic work of Hazel Markus on multiple selves.)

Most people I know aren't the same person with their kids, their lover, their boss, and the IRS.

I've been organizing my life with MediaWiki installed on a local Linux PC for the past decade. It's free, it's powerful, and it's robust enough to run Wikipedia.

Studying damaged brains (a.k.a. lesion research) has also led to huge mistakes about how brains work. Scientists assume that if damage to region A causes the loss of function B, then function B must be localized in region A. That's an unjustified conclusion. Region A might simply connect 5 other regions that work together to generate function B, but the connectivity is damaged so function B can't be implemented.

"Where in the brain is the mind?" is a poor scientific question that assumes functions are localized, just like phrenology. Better to ask "How does the brain create the mind?"

Are flatpaks any more efficient than snaps? Snaps are slow, slow, and slow (and did I mention slow?). For instance, the Authy snap for Ubuntu takes 30 seconds to launch on my 24-core AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X.

Listening to the MusicLM output and speaking as a composer, this only demonstrates that 99% of the music created by humans is no better than what a computer can generate.

Generating code that's functionally correct is one thing, but is the code maintainable? Well-factored? Efficient? Does it use coding best practices so others on the team can work with it?