Drive reduction theory (learning theory) Puns

Just what the title says. I want to learn to drive but before booking lessons I want to have as much knowledge as possible

My head has gone in a state were if i do anything relating to the exam it locks up. i get anxious and panicked thinking about it. I need to learn it myself because my driving school doesn't do classes because of Corona. Help. Im going to fail.

My head has completely locked myself from learning. I have a person who help me with adhd and mental health but she is on vacation. I have some else but i only talked ones with him. Im home alone the comming 2 days which i don't know if its positive or negative.

Please give me advice or something.

An interesting paper by Laura Spinney in the Guardian about the advent of post-theory or theory-free science, based only on empirical data and machine learning, particularly deep learning. She revisits the famous Chris Anderson's paper of 2008: "The end of theory" published in Wired.

Music is first and foremost and art form, and therefore it’s first goal is to convey emotion, express ideas, or simply be pleasing to yourself or others. Don’t confuse music theory with a list of rules that must be followed in order to be “correct”. It is a valuable tool when making music, and I think it’s extremely important for all musicians to understand, but at the end of the day the ultimate goal is not whether or not you resolved with the right cadence or avoided parallel fifths. It’s about you creating something that sounds the way you want it to.

Hi there,

So, I'm a casual player. I don't know what standing the chess.com-rating system has in here but I'm currently at just below 1300.

I consider myself to have an analytical personality, but I've never been interested in learning chess theory, as I mostly have fun regardless of outcome. However, I can't shake the idea that maybe I can make a potentially gigantic leap in how good my game is by learning some basic chess theory, and that opportunity would be stupid to pass up. Main thing keeping me back is how busy my life is, working, full time student, dad, trying to learn instruments, languages, cooking etc etc., I can't really dwelve into anything more than on a casual level.

So anyway, I'm basically just seeking some motivational/inspirational stories about how the game changed for you when you got into theory. I'm assuming openings are a big thing.

Thanks for any and all replies.

Hoping it's not too off topic, after severall years of music production without any advanced knowledge of music theory, I decided to start studying it. I think learning to play the piano could help a lot, but I don't know the right number of keys the controller should have. I'm not trying to be the "best piano player in the world", so I think 88 keys are too much for my purpose. So, how many keys should the keyboard have? Of course, less keys means cheaper, and I don’t have a large budget.

Feel free to give me any suggestion or correction, I'm still trying to enter this beautiful world, so please be kind :(

I used to be secure. I didn't know it at the time, or atleast I didn't know the term, I knew nothing about attachment theory. But looking back now I can tell that I was pretty secure, only slightly anxious leaning due to the my parents emotionally and financially abusive relationship with each other and us.

And I had dated before, it wasn't a big deal, I never got carried away. But the last guy. Wow. He was different. He seemed so cool and confident, now I can see all the glaring DA flags but back then, I didn't know any better. We dated for two years. A year and a half in, he cheated on me, both emotional and physical. We parted ways and I felt like I had died. Then he came back, convinced me that he had changed, convinced me that he was here to do the work, that it would be different. 8 months later he told me that his feelings had changed and walked away. He was dating someone new three months later.

I felt like I had died again. Every day my heart died a little more. And it's taken me 8 months to pick myself up again. The cheating made me so fucking anxious but I worked so hard to get back to being secure. Understanding attachment theory has helped so much, in understanding myself, in understanding him, in understanding all the generational trauma that I've been unknowingly carrying. It's been good overall

Except when it comes to dating. I feel like a mask has been removed from my eyes, I can see so clearly now. But when I go on dates my mask less eyes can read every red flag like a book. I don't want to make snap judgements, I'll date the person for a couple weeks at least. But it keeps ending the same way. I can tell that they don't have a good understanding of themselves, what they want from the relationship, or how to communicate. It's just a sea of DAs that seem unaware/unwilling to grow. And I just got out of the mind fuck of dating someone like that, I can't do it again. So how do you find the will to date again when you have a pretty good feeling of where this will end.

There’s often a lot of talk (and criticism) about music theory being western-centric. I think there’s some very obvious reasons for focusing on western music theory, but it makes me wonder, what do other cultures and genres have to offer?

Are there any good resources for English speakers to learn the musical traditions and theory from other cultures? Native American, Indian, African, and eastern Asian music come to mind, but I’m open to anything.

This is part II ofhttps://www.reddit.com/r/MotoUK/comments/s1aewn/failed_the_bloody_theory_test/

Last week I failed the hazard perception theory by 1 mark, mainly because I clicked too much in one scene and got zero, then that completely threw me off and I was really hesitant to click much at all thereafter, either being too early or deliberately leaving it later to ensure scoring.

I was told online it would be 6 weeks before I could try again, which really pissed me off as I knew I should have the thing passed.

Every morning I obsessively checked the website through every calendar day for available slots that may pop up, I rescheduled it at least 4 times to bring it up to today. Today I passed with a mark of 60, which I am generally happy about, although I thought it should be higher. They say you will have one scene with two developing hazards. I can tell you on mine I had at least 3 double hazard scenes!

For those about to take it my advice is

• Click no more than 3 times on a developing hazard - once when you see it (although you may be too early for the stupid system to score), once when its obvious, and once when it's near braking time.

That way you can be sure of getting something and it not going against you for clicking too much.

Now I can concentrate on booking my MOD1 and getting on with it!!

So I had a 3am idea that's completely untested and if somebody tests it and gets famous please include me in the awesomeness. But... When I was in school they said everyone's learning styles can be broken down into 3 categories like visual learning (you see someone else do it then you can), verbal learning (someone tells you how then you can), and physical learning (where you have to do it to understand it). Well I had this idea that if you just asked a classroom of kids if they prefer movies, video games, or books then you could easier assess what learning style they have. If they prefer movies they're a visual, books are verbal, and video games are physical learners. Idk... 3am thoughts... what do yall think?

Hello haskellers,

I know this question has been asked in the past, but I'm hoping to get a more modern answer :')

Are there any recommended resources for learning category theory and haskell?

Some background info, I have a math undergrad degree, and I had fun with the pure math, proofs, theorems, etc. so I'd love to dive deeper into the formal math behind category theory.

After graduating, I've had a few different roles before landing a software engineer position about 6 months ago... mainly working with JavaScript/TypeScript/node.js.

I've also worked through the JavaScript Mostly Adequate Guide to FP, which further piqued my interest in FP, also learned some basic Clojure and used it for Advent of Code this year.

Has anyone worked through the MIT course, Programming with Categories? Does this seem like a good place to start? Leafing through the textbook, it seems to strike a good balance between the formal math and introducing haskell basics. I was thinking of working through it, then work through a more in-depth haskell resource after (i.e. learn you a haskell or something).

What did you use to learn category theory and/or haskell?

Thanks in advance for your input!

I've been playing for about a year now. I first learned the great but basic stuff about keys and the numbers for the notes in keys and all that stuff.

Then the songwriting bug got me and Ive spent the last six months writing songs just using what I'd learned up to that point. But it turns out for my voice I needed to tune a half or whole step down to feel comfortable.

So now I am wanting to pick back up and be learning theory and extensions for my chords and the fretboard etc. But of course the way I am tuned does not match the things I'm learning. When I play a g shape I call it a G but ofc it's an F actually. I can capo up to standard but then the places on the fretboard don't match up which makes it hard. I played with others yesterday and it was very confusing playing along capod up. I could tune up whenever I want to learn theory but then I can't apply it directly back to my songwriting because I will have to tune down to write and sing. And "translate" constantly what I've learned. Idk I just am confused rn.

Someone who is experienced lmk what you think please.

In the My Arm quest series, we learn that mountain trolls are named after the first thing they try to eat. My Arm tried to eat his mother's arm, Burnt Meat had bad taste in food, etc.

Flippa and Tilt are named after parts of a pinball machine. The pinball random they run is... well, not pinball. I think they ate a pinball machine, had no idea how it works, but wanted to let random adventures play it anyway.

Hi all! I am a music major and have done a lot of thinking about how my ADHD has affected my experience/development of musical understanding. I absolutely love music theory and always did well in theory classes, but certain aspects of how material was presented caused me some issues. For example, something small that always caused issues for me was when I had to analyze a piece using sheet music with small-printed staves/a lot of staves on one page. The amount of visual clutter always distracted me and made completing an analysis difficult regardless of the musical content at hand (investing in an iPad with a pdf reader that allows me to zoom in and out has been a huge game-changer in this regard).

I can think of a lot more observations I’ve made in my own experience, but I am curious to hear about what other ADHD musicians have to say. What aspects of learning music theory (teaching style, presentation of content, etc.) have you found to be more difficult? What types of things work particularly well?

This isn’t for a project or anything, I’m just super interested to hear what other ADHD musicians have to say! :)

I just watched that Stitch Method Guitar guys lesson on the song Peggy-O. It was awesome how much he broke it down and I decided this guy would be great to start from scratch with and learn everything from the ground up. Trouble was....he's got sooooo many beginner videos and it's hard to know where to start.

Any suggestions for a great YouTube channel to learn from?

Looking for something that errs more on the side of academic than practical. I want to understand how jazz works from a theory perspective, and the role that bass has in it. I might then try to apply it to my own playing in a more top-down way, but that's a secondary goal.

Title. I’m a lifelong musician (guitar, piano, drums, starting violin), and I’ve always learned things by ear, but I want to learn sheet music, music theory, etc. What’s the best (ideally YouTube) series to go from a state of 0 knowledge on music theory to advanced?

My reasoning is that 9x9 game theory should be able to be applied to localized 19x19 regions of the board. Thoughts?

I would like to start designing a typed programming language, and would appreciate some pointers to good materials on the topic. My background is applied mathematics (which I concluded 12 years ago :p).

What books and/or courses should I consider for this endeavor? Thanks

So I recently reached 2000 blitz on Lichess and I don't really know much theory. I know up until like move 6 in the absolute mainline for the openings I play but just kind of wing everything else. Obviously many games at my level come down to some blunder in the middlegame/endgame, but I'm finding myself in worse positions out of the opening in many games (or sometimes completely lost due to some trap) and would like this to cease. How much theory is worth learning? To clarify, I don't play stuff like the Najdorf or the Grunfeld.

I'm new to fan boards and Reddit in general so forgive me if this has already been suggested / discussed in another thread - in fwwm when she's drugged she is falling unconscious with a How to Learn German book on her chest. Sheryl Lee was born in Germany. Could this be a metaphor (or is the word I need allegory / analogy? I always get these mixed up) for Sarah wanting to get to know the 'real' Laura? Perhaps she wants to help but doesn't know how to talk to her?

I am not sure exactly how to get this question out. But I heard somewhere that writing music in a new style comes more from exposure to that particular style, and being able to develop a feel for the music. As opposed to reading a book telling which scales, chord progressions, song contours, or rhythms. We have ideas about how to write in different styles, such as 50s music often using the C-Am-F-G progression that gives music from that era the distinct sound. Or using a pentatonic major for Chinese music, or a Prygian dominant for Middle Eastern music.(Though it seems more of a western interpretation of the music).

But I have heard in many arts, it takes experience, such as painters of a certain style spending years to get it right, or cooks who cook in a certain style spend a lot of time learning from cookbooks.

I have been studying graphics theory and learning graphic programming on my own since a month on my free time. I want to see if there are any group of people already learning or building together?

If not let's group up, who ever interested just drop in a message in the thread. I am doing this because in my opinion when we learn share and collaboratively build something we learn more experience and multiple perspectives on the topic.

I can’t help but find myself compelled to know the finer details of jaw surgery. By reading some of the more technical of you comment on people’s post, it’s become apparent to me that there is far more variation in surgical approach between surgeons and patients than I’d expected.

While I’m in braces waiting for surgery, instead of worrying preemptively about whether my surgeon will make the best movements possible, I figure I may as well spend my time doing some study.

The closest thing I have to any medical training is high school biology lol, but I am scientifically literate and frequently read papers about random stuff.

While I understand that some bed side table reading does not constitute decades of surgical experience, I’d like to be able to converse with my surgeon a level or so deeper than what most people likely do.

Are there any resources/textbooks/literature reviews that you could recommend? Thanks!

Hi! I’m a biomedical engineer student currently y 8th semester. Last semester I got a class called selected topics of control theory which was basically an introduction to control theory and absolutely loved it! I would like to continue to study more on this subject but I’ve found hard to find books or courses on it that are beginner friendly and there are no more classes of control theory in my career. What are some tips, books, YouTube channels or anything to help me learn more? For class I used modern control theory by K. Ogata and have recently found the YouTube channel of Brian Douglass