I’m learning the piano. I think the development is aimed at those a little above my skill level, but it’s interesting about what it implies about how we learn physical skills.

  • @[email protected]
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    4812 days ago

    But expert musicians often experience a “ceiling effect,” in which their skill level plateaus after extensive training.

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      Shoot, I recognize this but can’t place it. Is it Bubblegum Crisis? Or Ghost in the Shell? Or… Hm.

      Haha, I figured out how to search properly. It is Ghost in the Shell. Production value is way too high for BC anyway.

    • @werefreeatlast
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      That’s how they call it in Europe… A handy!

      • @hakunawazo
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        Continental Europe perhaps - but if you ask British people if they could give you a handy thats… thats… not about mobile phones.
        🍆👊

        • @werefreeatlast
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          I was thinking of giving my self a handy when I wrote that. Sorry. Not sorry though.

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    912 days ago

    While it has the potential to be a great therapy tool, it doesn’t seem like something that will have much use beyond that. It is a cool idea though.

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      OK so I can definitely see why it would seem pointless or really narrow, but I think this would have actually been very helpful for me and people like me. I have dyspraxia, a coordination disability. Mine is specifically graphomotor, meaning the exact types of movements involved in writing. My handwriting was absolutely terrible, causing pain in my hands (I also had incomplete hand dominance, so yay, both hands sucked equally), inability to express in a written form, and difficulty with tasks like painting, drawing, sewing, and cooking. Over the years the most helpful things were gaining strength and switching to printing only, no running writing at all.

      If this tool could help with increasing the feedback from my hands to my brain and also push my fingers through the shapes of letters I think I would have had some benefit. I think people who have had a stroke may also potentially benefit, though obviously it would need thorough testing.

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        112 days ago

        Why are you arguing that it would be a good therapy tool with me when I stated that already?

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          812 days ago

          I think that you mentioned that the application might be narrow, and they wanted to chime in on how it might personally have helped them. They aren’t arguing, just adding.

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            111 days ago

            I think that you mentioned that the application might be narrow, and they wanted to chime in on how it might personally have helped them.

            That is how they took it regardless of how explicit I was with my language.

            OK so I can definitely see why it would seem pointless or really narrow, but I think this would have actually been very helpful for me and people like me.

            They responded to “… it doesn’t seem like something that will have much use…”, ignoring the rest of the sentence “While it has the potential to be a great therapy tool, it doesn’t seem like something that will have much use beyond that.”, in order to tell me I am wrong about it not having therapeutic uses by using their issues as supporting evidence.

            Which is an argument, not an addition. There is also nothing wrong with arguing either, I was simply asking why they posed that argument to me.

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    512 days ago

    Ever since I was a teenager, I dreamed of a device like this that would “teach” you to play guitar.

  • @pdxfed
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    Can it run Crisis?

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    I could use that to help get past the “ceiling effect” in my own hobbie…masturbation

    • 🐍🩶🐢
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      212 days ago

      E! I love watching videos on it. Mark Rober’s player piano was pretty cool.