Ethan Hein

One of Gorillaz’ major legacies is getting white guys in the suburbs to listen to the Native Tongues rappers and I think that’s beautiful

My so-called "career" is in chaos but I feel like I have the dad thing pretty well nailed down

13yo has been homebrewing kombucha, the last batch was grapefruit and rosemary, it was tremendous, I don't know how I got so lucky

This is why we need trains everywhere

You know the bit in Veep when Kent Davison tells (I think) Dan Egan that he doesn't have the "facial gravitas" to pull off a beard?

I definitely believe that study of one can enrich study of the other

I'm writing an academic article about AI in music education and I specifically want people's reaction to the illustration, it's hard to get that without showing the illustration

Jason Moran plays Duke Ellington, by Jason Moran 12 track album

Jason Moran made a solo piano Duke Ellington album! He even references Duke's playing style. "Black and Tan Fantasy" is wild. jasonmoran.bandcamp.com/album/jason-...

If an official commits an impeachable offense and nobody acts to impeach, it is no longer an impeachable offense.

People who oppose impeachment as “pointless” because it seems unlikely to result in removal do not understand this very simple point and seem unwilling to even try to understand it.

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

Where a legal scholar works matters more than what they write. In the law review submission system---the primary publication market for legal scholarship in the United States---student editors face thousands of submissions for a handful of slots and rely heavily on institutional prestige as a proxy for article quality. We show that this credential dependence produces inequity that persists even after controlling for article quality: among articles of comparable merit, authors from prestigious institutions receive substantially better placements. We build a calibrated simulation of the law review market and benchmark it against deferred acceptance, a centralized matching algorithm used in markets like medical residencies. The current system produces severe misallocation: more than 60\% of top-tier placements differ from what quality-based matching would produce, and the rank correlation between article quality and journal prestige is 0.45 versus 0.79 under centralized matching. Which system achieves higher overall welfare depends on market tightness; as competition for slots intensifies---a trend already underway---the current system's disadvantage grows, losing up to 13.5\% of overall match quality. Partial reforms like extending deadlines have negligible effects; the primary source of both inefficiency and inequity is the decentralized structure of the market itself. Notably, centralized matching fixes the sorting problem but not the equity problem: prestige bias is embedded in editorial signals and would require changes to how articles are evaluated, not just how they are assigned.

I've been busy all weekend rage-coding and rage-writing this, which goes out to #LawSky. Behold a mathematicians' wrath at the mindboggling law review publishing system. Basically, I build a gigantic simulation model to show how much the system sucks. Hoping to get this up on SSRN before long.

And while institutional support might be completely inadequate for classical music, at least it exists. If you want to make beats, either you win the music industry lottery or you are completely on your own. Same goes for teaching beatmaking.

Anyway, as far punching up/punching down goes, there has never been a time in my life when musicians were suffering/struggling harder than they are now. The world is saturated with pop music but that has only benefited giant corporations, the beatmakers are barely hanging on.

It's frustrating because European institutions seem to be managing to add pop classes without laying off all the classical people just fine.

It was never my wish for pop to replace classical in institutions, I just wanted more items on the menu. Of course now everybody is getting their sections cut regardless of specialty. Like, I am actively looking for an offramp.

I felt very oppressed by classical music pedagogy and fandom while growing up but now find myself in the unexpected position of Canon Defender with students a lot of the time. Depends where they're coming from though.

I'm glad the youth are finding out about Del the Funky Homosapien

Accurate

Better Call Saul is an improvement for several reasons, the main one being that it stays on planet earth for a lot longer

Later seasons are exciting and all but it gets too cartoony and implausible. I like the smaller-scale, the RV has a dead battery level of drama better than the elaborate bomb detonation level of drama.

Doing a Breaking Bad rewatch and I have some thoughts. One is that in spite of the racism and misogyny and occasional plot dead ends, it still slaps. My main complaint is that the stakes ramp up too fast and it gets too big. I want more season two, cooking in the RV, more logistical problems.

i also hate how arts orgs are becoming reliant on huge gifts from billionaires and spend so much of their effort chasing these down, usually with little to no success because the richest people simply aren't philanthropists now. Elon Musk doesn't donate to stuff!!

It's something they share with the music theory guys

It's such an opportunity for tech guys to "well actually" each other

If only I could turn this into profit somehow

Hacker News loves just intonation news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4725...

I like how this describes both Daylight Savings Time and also everything about America.

It's honestly crazy seeing pro-AI people keep talking about artist like elite gatekeepers when virtually every artist I'm aware of is, at base, struggling to get by.

It's not like it's just people starting out either, the amount of veteran talents who've had to set up GoFundMes is staggering.

IIIIIIII Fffffeeeeellll Ffffffiiiiinnnnnneeee, by Ethan Hein from the album Beatles remixes

The track in question is the first and last five seconds of "I Feel Fine" by the Beatles at 1/20th speed ethanhein.bandcamp.com/track/iiiiii...

A vibe and a half