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The average drum student quickly encounters various patterns or figures, the so-called rudiments. Initially, there are single strokes played alternatingly with the left and right hand. Later, one encounters more complex rudiments, often derived from marching snare drumming, which are used on the drum kit, particularly in fills. The original text of this post was created by my human intelligence in German. The translation was a collaboration between man and machine. The man was I and the machine was Google Translate. ...

My latest hobby is playing the hi-hat with my foot on the offbeats, i.e., the & in 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &. Due to limited independence of my limbs, I had to restrict myself to the following version*The ride cymbal can also be replaced by one or more toms.: The original text of this post was created by my human intelligence in German. The translation was a collaboration between man and machine. The man was I and the machine was Google Translate. ...

In this somewhat personal article, I describe my thoughts and experiences as someone who started playing drums at the age of 39 and otherwise has very little musical experience. The original text of this post was created by my human intelligence in German. The translation was a collaboration between man and machine. The man was me and the machine was Google Translate. What has happened so far Before his 7th birthday, I asked my then-noisy child if he would like to learn drums and would forgo other birthday presents in return. Surprisingly, the child was very happy to oblige. ...

I’ve been playing drums for about three years. I recently came across the following simplest of all non-degenerated polyrhythms. The original text of this post was created by my human intelligence in German. The translation was a collaboration between man and machine. The man was I and the machine was Google Translate. The first three quarter notes follow a completely normal eighth-note rhythm. Then comes a kind of crazy triplet fill on the snare, while the hi-hat continues. I encountered this in Solo 17 from Tom Hapke’s book, 66 Drum Solos. When I saw it, I thought, “What the hell is that? How am I ever going to be able to play something so crazy?” That same day, I had my drum lesson. Desperately, I asked my teacher. He told me he would play it but with tom*not Hapke but the drum. This joke works better in German, because there both are capitalized. and snare instead of hi-hat and snare and I should just repeat by ear. It sounded something like this: ...

Monads, as they occur in functional programming, seem crazy and difficult to understand to me. Above all explanations and references to the mathematical subfield of category theory are confusing to me. In this post, I’m trying to explain a concept that I haven’t penetrated very deeply myself, in an introductory, application-oriented and superficial way, so that you can become the head nerd at the next party of imperative nerds. This is a translation of the original German article in a collaboration between man and machine. ...

After a period of deprivation and frugality, Luise has entered a phase of greater financial freedom. All her funds are in an ETF portfolio that averages a 7% return in the long term. Unfortunately, the 7% return is not constant and fluctuates significantly. Luise plans to withdraw a certain amount every month, either through dividends or by selling shares. Before I continue with a financial-themed story, I want to clarify that I’m not a financial expert. I’m just an individual who is interested in personal retirement planning and other financial topics, accumulating some solid half-knowledge along the way, and occasionally relying on my more or less sound common sense. From time to time I create or extend a calculator. ...

When calculating financial goals, it’s often assumed, like on the informative website Finanzfluss, that there’s a fixed annual return. In the suggested return range of around 5% to 7% per year, I dare to challenge the expectation of consistent returns without the fluctuations of stock investments. Therefore, I’ve briefly explored simulating stock prices and implemented a savings plan calculator based on this concept. The focus of this article is on the simulation aspect. However, please note that I haven’t consulted any books or experts – I’m just here for fun. ...

Various channels claim that rebalancing your stock portfolio increases your return on investment. In this article, I will present the analysis of historical data on geographic allocations of the popular indices MSCI World and MSCI Emerging Markets. 2 remarks before we start: This article was translated from German to English in collaboration between man and machine *To be honest, I was a little disappointed by the translation performance of translate.google.com. Even though I am talking finance in this article, I’m not a finance expert at all. I’m just a private individual who is interested in their own pension scheme and other financial topics. So I accumulate solid half-knowledge and rely on my more or less common sense and program a calculator1,2 every now and then. Let a world portfolio be given Suppose a person, let’s call her Elisa, wants to benefit from the global capital market for her retirement. Her effort should be as limited as possible. Now Elisa hears that ETFs can be used to easily benefit from profits of public companies all around the world. An index called MSCI ACWI and ETFs that try to replicate this seem suitable to Elisa at first glance. However, Elisa notes that the MSCI ACWI includes more than 50% shares in US companies. Represent the US really half the global economy? Following the criterion of market capitalization used here, definitively. There are other criteria for tracking the global economy, see, e.g., Justetf. A popular alternative to 100% ACWI includes the MSCI World Index at 70% and the MSCI Emerging Markets Index at 30%. ...

My old wordpress blog has quit the service. Without consultation. Suddenly I could no longer log into the administration area under ninety.de. The first best debugging tips from the net turned out to be a waste of time. I denounced this while kicking Wordpress into the garbage can instead of asking ChatGpt*the cocky chat bot of the not-so-new startup OpenAI, which is a topic for another time for help. The greed for more simplicity and security was awakened. Thankfully, ChatGpt*Transparency regarding the use of ChatGpts and other AI text generators may be expected from this blog. pointed me to the popularity of static page generators for blogging. The question remained, which is the best static page generator? MkDocs? Hugo? Gatsby? ChatGpt was not particularly opinionated on this. My list of requirements read as follows: ...

The Advent of Code is just around the corner. This is an advent calendar of programming tasks, the solution of which can serve as a pastime for the fun of joy. After successfully processing a task, you receive a virtual golden star. My first participation was in 2020. At the time, I thought I’d try to do this directly in the Rust programming language, which I hadn’t used before. By the way, this article is not only intended to shed light on an interesting Advent of Code task, but also to highlight the flexibility of my Rust library Exmex, which is discussed below as part of the solution. ...