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micchr30

"Zvarein ZpTbantnyy: Vg'f bayl n genafsvthengvba; na navznthf genafsbezngvba, gb or rknpg—"

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micchr10

I was surprised, that my brainstorming could have actually been tried before, so I looked into the paper, but I could only find that they used different instruments and added noise. Clearly, 1000ms of noise is not much. I think I could remember a note after hearing 1000ms of noise. Nonetheless, if volunteers with a limited amount of time and motivation can show an improvement, somebody with dedication and lots of time, can learn it too. I heard an anecdote of an old punk band lead singer who claimed, that after 30 years of playing, he finally learned absolute pitch. But that wasn't the question. The question is, how to make learning more efficient.

Answer by micchr10

Assuming that, in order to learn perfect pitch, one must train differently than to learn relative pitch:

  • Minimize the benefit of a reference tone by keeping the musical interval (distance between notes) big enough.
  • Add pauses and noise between notes, to remove the reference note from memory. Spread the training over the whole day.
  • To allow for immediate feedback, change other characteristics of the sound (e.g. harmonics) to make relative pitch less effective.
  • Add wrong tones to the exercise. Learn to find the correct note out of a sample with wrong tones. Start with learning a single note.

     
2Wbrom
It’s been done. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31550277/
micchr10

First time reader, but I listened to the whole audio version before. "Ur pnfg gur Xvyyvat Phefr ng lbh, naq gung jnf jurer vg raqrq. Gur Xvyyvat Phefr vf sbezrq bs cher ungr, naq fgevxrf qverpgyl ng gur fbhy, frirevat vg sebz gur obql." Pbhyq guvf unir pnhfrq gur pbashfvba? Gurer vf ab rkcynangvba jung unccraf gb gur fbhy nsgre vg jnf frirerq? Naq jul vf gurer fgvyy gung frafngvba jura gur anzr bs gur qnex ybeq vf fcbxra bhg ybhq?

micchr30

I wonder if there is room for Bitcoin in this early retirement strategy. Or any high risk investment, like self picked stocks. What percentage could be safe to invest recklessly?

4gilch
Bitcoin is just a bit over 5% of my portfolio at the moment. I'm using the same dynamic volatility targeting I use for the stock and bond ETFs, but because of its sky-high volatility, that means I have to leverage down. BTC has historically been (mostly) uncorrelated with the stock market, which makes it a powerful portfolio diversifier. This means that your portfolio's overall volatility can actually be made lower by adding the extremely volatile Bitcoins to the mix, counterintuitive as that may seem, but only by adding them in sufficiently small amounts. Bitcoin is (by design) very deflationary, which can make it a good investment in the short term, but I fear the risk of total collapse in the long term can't be ignored. But at only about 5% of my portfolio, Bitcoin could drop to zero tomorrow, and I'd still be OK. In the meantime, I'll be pulling out money as the bubble inflates by keeping my volatility exposure to it balanced in my portfolio.
2sapphire
Crypto started off like 5% of my portfolio. Now it is like 70%. I have actually been selling crypto lol. 
1tryactions
This is mentioned in the "don't screw up" section.  By market cap, crypto was 1.7% as big as the world stock market, and Bitcoin 1% as big, so those seem like good starting points -- adjust from there for your desired level of risk vs reward. IMO, self picked stocks are dumb.  You give up diversification benefit for no reason, unless you think you know better than the market (which you don't).