Mar

22

The moment specs apply their approach (test ideas, challenge group beliefs, count, be curious etc etc) to other disciplines - eg medicine, botanics, anything really.

One can easily see that one has learned "cliche-thinking" in university/school. And that most normies never leave that cliche thinking. That is fine with me. Gell-Mann effect is real as well. Good to keep it tight and focus on markets though.

Oliver Joseph writes:

To challenge established thinking in any human endeavor whether hard or soft sciences will in my mind invariably produce push back, most of the time. While perhaps a bit hyped right now the K-means algorithm offers in my mind an interesting way to conceptualize group think. In a simplified market context x1= Bull x2= Bear K=2 Bull vs Bear When a local minimum is reached for a cluster often time depending on the data set it makes sense and is workable however there are times where you must reinitialize based on your understanding of the dataset and the results your getting. If we are driving towards a conclusion in a field of endeavor we will reach a local minimum for a variety of reasons. Sometimes what works just works of course conversely sometimes we will converge to a local minimum that does not match our understanding of the dataset. Until we converge we don’t know. Darwin's theory of natural selection represents one such conceptual reinitialization in my mind (with the unfortunate delay in the theories convergence due to many years spent looking at barnacles). There is profound wisdom in the comment by George Soros “buy the lie”. An understanding that the prevailing conclusion is wrong but due to various frictions that exist in the conclusion generator the music will keep playing. Of course until the risks involved in staying with the group's conclusion exceed those of breaking off from convention. The higher the stakes the more pushback from the conventional crowd. Or perhaps Gustave Le Bon:

For it must not be supposed that merely because the justness of an idea has been proved it can be productive of effective action even on cultivated minds. This fact may be quickly appreciated by noting how slight is the influence of the clearest demonstration on the majority of men.

I often ask myself, what barnacles am I staring at?

Mar

15

Keith Jarrett – The Köln Concert [Full Album 1975]

Keith Jarrett - quite an unusual artist, music almost from another planet. He believed ppl who like music often listen to it in the car But ppl who understand - don't!

Big Al adds:

Famous story:

The Köln Concert

TLDR: They got the wrong piano and it had many flaws. Jarrett was exhausted when he arrived and at first refused to play that piano, but the 18-year-old girl who was the organizer convinced him to go ahead. He was forced to improvise within the constraints of the crappy instrument. The recording of the concert went on to become one of the best selling jazz albums of all time and consistently makes "best albums ever" lists.

Adam Grimes writes:

Keith Jarrett is on my top 3 list of living pianists. (Which might be surprising when you find who the others are.)

I've always respected his technique, melodic sense, but more than anything his sense of time is literally impeccable. Also worth noting that he suffered a stroke and the world has lost this voice. A few links off the beaten path. (I'd encourage you to listen to the Blue Note recordings and also of course the famous Köln concert.) But here are two you might not encounter.

I think this will go on record as one of the greatest artistic utterances mankid ever produced. (If posterity cares, that is):

Keith Jarrett Solo Concert

and, melodic sense, and time… wow:

Keith Jarrett - Old Man River (Live from Antibes) - Transcription

Nils Poertner responds:

Terrific, Adam. Whether Musician or Speculator: We got an "Intuitive Mind" which has something vital to say. But it can't come to our "Thinking Mind" as the latter is constantly chatting…this music reminds me / relaxes me.

Oliver Joseph comments:

Keith Jarrett is a great artist and a huge inspiration. A wonderful counterpoint to the above story of the busted baby Bösendorfer at the Köln concert is the album Staircase. Jarrett had gone to record a track at Davout Studio in Paris and really liked the Piano and stuck around and recorded the album with the extra studio time they had. In particular the track Staircase part 3 is just amazing to me. It is a very beautiful and simple piece.

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