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Victoria Park @vicpark.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

8:07 is heaven. I met him when I was a college student. I was lucky enough to be in one of his master classes. He was kind and imaginative and unforgettable. Chain smoking at piano! I hope he quit. youtu.be/Bdzbhp0nm7w?...

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Cesar Franck - Prelude, Fugue et Variations, Op.18 (V. Viardo)

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Victoria Park @vicpark.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I think I'd pay premium for verified home chefs to make food on demand according to dietary restrictions. I don't have all the ingredients for vegan kimchi stew at 4AM, so I have to eat ramen. Someone told me yesterday that store bought soups are just as good as home cooked ones...

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Victoria Park @vicpark.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I know slow practicing is good for me. I’m finding all sorts of weaknesses because I’m paying attention to one hand while other hand part is playing in unmuted tracks. But it’s hard and boring. Artist at masterclass says he loves practicing like this. It’s broccoli. Wax on wax off.

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Victoria Park @vicpark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What do you think good education is? What do you think young people should learn. Basic survival skills, ppl skills and points of view? Last is hard for some ppl but it’s important for so many reasons. They also need to be able to find good community of people. Also, how do u contribute towards one?

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Victoria Park @vicpark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Pet peeve - using old language texts in standardized tests because they are free. Oy. It's so difficult for people with language challenges.

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Victoria Park @vicpark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I finished Natsuo Kirino’s book “Swallows” and couldn’t stop thinking about it. It’s about a 29 year old temp worker in Japan who decides to become a surrogate mother out of financial necessity. I wrote a review.

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Victoria Park @vicpark.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I recorded about half of the fugue with voices apart in different tracks with Logic Pro. I realized that the errors during performance always occur when third voice comes in. So I mute the other two voices and play the new voice. I am also practicing parts alone very slowly

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Victoria Park @vicpark.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We started a protocol for my older non verbal son about a month ago and this morning he asked for coffee and sand drank it like ahjussi and during lunch, wanted to watch kdrama with me narrating. He kept signing more when I asked him if he was done. Too early to call but this is new and amazing

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Victoria Park @vicpark.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There's something special about in person meetings with people who have common interest. I know a lot of meetings have moved online and it's just not the same. If you have some kind of connection (not necessarily to level of friendship), you are more likely to continue and to care.

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Victoria Park @vicpark.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I played in guest masterclass. Wasn’t signed up but volunteered when someone dropped. I fumbled fugue section but got really amazing comments. He even said “you are so good” which was so encouraging. he said fugue - practice very slowly savoring lines horizontally and vertically with finger legato

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Victoria Park @vicpark.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

i am grateful for the benefits of AI but what i dont enjoy is how some orgs are using it. Seems like they do like a sweep of low effort work per client producing a lot of low quality data for someone to examine at some point. Lots of activity without follow through on single thread.

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Victoria Park @vicpark.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This extraordinary piece performed so beautifully brings up so many emotions to surface. I saw my older non-verbal son playing short music snippet over and over and having similar reactions. What thoughts and emotions does he hold inside alone? music.apple.com/us/album/gol...

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Goldberg Variations, Bwv 988: Aria by Pedro Burmester on Apple Music

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Victoria Park @vicpark.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I'm previewing a stats course for my son. I find the textbooks boring to get through, so I generate interactive pages, and even added a reward for myself - my current fav pianist giving me encouraging quotes on right answers

interactive quiz on textbook with photo of pianist giving encouraging quote

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Victoria Park @vicpark.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

In the piano class, the instructor asked, didn’t Glenn Gould use an ornament here and I said I think it’s this and whipped one out if what seemed like recent memory. At home, I couldn’t find it in that recording but in 1989 recording by another pianist - a version I heard live that year!

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Victoria Park @vicpark.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I made a nice timeline of US history with Astra. Definitely is not a sub for a good course or a teacher, but it's a good overview. It's nice to see events in sequence so student can look up the events. I think it makes really nice UI but it doesn't go very deep by default.

Timeline of US history, showing sections "An industrial nation" and "Crisis and world power"

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Victoria Park @vicpark.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

i heard someone play this Liszt piece - St Francis Walks on Water, I think is the title. St Francis of Paola (Early vegan I think) I love the part from 5:00. It’s supposed to show resolute faith in midst of chaos youtu.be/36eDwJUgs9I?... this performance is moving

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György Cziffra Liszt St Francis de Paule Walking on the Water, Pasadena California September 12 1984

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Victoria Park @vicpark.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I played in piano class today. It went pretty well although far from perfect. I had someone record it for review. The instructor had really helpful things to say. Always for me, throwing out ego leads to better learning and improvement. I am lamenting not having a Steinway to control depth better.

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Victoria Park @vicpark.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Yikes I play in class tomorrow. They’re WIP masterclasses so they’re for imperfections but still a bit nervous. Things don’t sound exactly the you imagined them but practice is trying to get it closer

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Victoria Park @vicpark.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I'm wondering if cowork is a good way to organize medical services, bills, payments. It can get a bit overwhelming with bills I get months later after insurance. How do you organize these bills that keep coming, balances you are not sure about from months ago, just coming at you in intervals?

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Victoria Park @vicpark.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I found out something interesting. Practicing my piece at a slightly faster tempo than I intend to play was a good proxy for being a bit nervous and feeling like I don't have that default muscle memory. It exposes insecurity on some fingerings that I just compensate for at a slower tempo.

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Victoria Park @vicpark.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

wow. I didn’t know Eva Cassidy as a jazz singer! i associate her with beautiful rendition of songs like Over the rainbow and fields of gold. music.apple.com/us/album/che...

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Cheek to Cheek (Live) by Eva Cassidy on Apple Music

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Victoria Park @vicpark.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I only learned today that you can extract music from YouTube video without paid sub. Someone wrote a really cool free web app that allowed me to transpose a piece, slow it down and save all locally. I was able to transpose up harpsichord tuned half step lower.

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Victoria Park @vicpark.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

In the weekly piano class we are taking, the instructor projects the sheet music up on a white screen while the performers are playing. I really love this. You see how amazing these pieces are as well as hearing. The guest teacher had lived in Russia for 20+ years and built harpsichords!

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Victoria Park @vicpark.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I signed up for a piano class just for accountability for keeping up with piano. I picked a Bach piece I love but it hard to pull off. Many really good pianists from all walks of life out in the wild! They got 2 new buildings since 6 years ago when I took choir class here.

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Victoria Park @vicpark.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is the start of the speech about reading I'm doing for the speech club tomorrow. Mostly subjective experience. Still tinkering. My husband said "pretty good" - that's what he says when it's meh - bad. so I have to work on it more.

I spent decades believing I was a bad reader. Tonight I want to tell you how I found out that conclusion was wrong — because some of you may be carrying a wrong one too.
When I was a girl in Korea, my mother bought me a set of translated classics. I can still see them — white hardcovers, gold titles: Daddy-Long-Legs. The Count of Monte Cristo. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
This was before the internet, before regular children’s television programs in Korea . I loved living as other people in different worlds.
Then I immigrated to America, and reading became labor. I worked incredibly hard to get into honors English, but I remember the feeling after silent reading — eyes down, hoping I wouldn’t get called on.
I read slowly. Details escaped me. I earned my grades through sheer willpower, and I reached the conclusion: I’m just not a strong reader.
I carried that belief for decades. It led me toward music and computer science, and away from anything with too many language heavy pages.
In college, I was a piano performance major. A complete piano nerd. My ear was good enough that my theory professor transposed the exams into different keys because he said I had an unfair advantage.
But everyone had to take general education classes. And I remember sitting with my accounting textbook — a misguided detour — reading the same page over and over, and nothing got in. Not one line. Words that made me yawn simply refused to enter my brain.
But hand me an interview with a concert pianist — how she practices, how she solves a passage, how she thinks about the music — and I remembered everything. Every detail, effortlessly, after one read.

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Victoria Park @vicpark.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I’ve been juggling a lot of things but I committed to doing a speech for a speech club Wednesday. I did manage an outline for it. It’s about reading and why we enjoy what we read and what happens when we lose interest or focus. Mostly personal experience but tgrowing in two studies.

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Victoria Park @vicpark.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

our understanding of how our brains work seems to be so limited. I get hit with this when I read about various disorders. Things are discussed in large blocks and often contradict each other. Medical discussions seem to be at much smaller limited scale. Why do I care

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Victoria Park @vicpark.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Do u trust google lens, ChatGPT (sol) or Claude (opus 5) for bug id? They disagreed. Google lens thought that this was Carolina mantis and others bordered mantis. Opus put in a weird wrong detail that this was just shed exoskeleton. Its head can swivel 180

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Victoria Park @vicpark.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

9pm workout seemed like a good idea - felt disciplined after a long day -2am now. So I’ll talk about an animal. We used to have a lot of rabbits in our neighborhood but not so much anymore. I still see them once in a while - small fuzzy bunnies running into bushes. Where r the parents?

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Victoria Park @vicpark.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

My heart breaks for Mr Arday. I had emailed him telling him that he’s an inspiration to young people who struggle. I think he still is for having pulled himself to levels above and beyond where he was. I hope we can teach young ppl to persevere, protect them from such cruelty I‘m seeing about this

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Victoria Park @vicpark.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I had a lot of fun interviewing Lina Kreter, owner of simulator driving school on my podcast “Learning to Work“. We talked about learning through simulators, her business, her teaching philosophy and being a small business owner. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

Photo of two smiling women on a zoom call

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Victoria Park @vicpark.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I‘m doing an Interview with a driving simulator instructor tomorrow. After many nightmares, I took my teenaged son there before he got his license. I thought the whole experience was fascinating. Anyone have questions?

Teen on a driving simulator experiencing distracted driving with phone screen displayed on monitor

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Victoria Park @vicpark.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

My son is taking online history course with a former college professor and I love listening in. It’s so fun learning when u have nothing at stake. In addition to passion and deep expertise, he has a lot of empathy for students and historical figures alike. It makes me rethink a lot of things.

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Victoria Park @vicpark.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Something very strange happened to some latest models of one company. While it’s excellent in some capabilities, it seems to have deescalation baked in where all interpretations are Disney rated. “they were just borrowing your wallet”

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Victoria Park @vicpark.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I had weeks of issues with Finder search on my Macbook. Fable 5 helped me trouble shoot and found a corrupt Spotlight index. Fixed with delete index + reboot.

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Victoria Park @vicpark.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Moment of inflection to dramatic acceleration of learning can feel like the worst. It's because there is more insight and data about what is needed for improvement. It can feel overwhelming but it's just change from ignorance to insights. It's very important to keep motivation through this phase.

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Victoria Park @vicpark.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I’m trying to properly learn this piece. I’ve always played it but not really known it or synthesized it. if u can communicate simply, u understand. And things r made up of smaller blocks which u internalize and build bigger structures. Long way2 go from phone in pants to visuals, good explanations

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Victoria Park @vicpark.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Just got back from watching Odyssey with my younger son. Visually stunning and not a single boring moment in the movie. I loved especially performances from Anne Hathaway and Elliot Page. Two teens with me loved it which I think is amazing.

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Victoria Park @vicpark.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

After seeing how good this latest guard railed model is, do you worry about the consequences of uneven access? I got downgraded asking even psychological questions. Really is it about security? What is being secured?

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Victoria Park @vicpark.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I have a wish that it wouldn’t downgrade at any mention of anything related to biology but opus 5 is definitely much better than 4.8. I think cows most definitely feel contempt. I once met a cow at a fair w the most expressive face and justifiably, he was not liking ppl very much.

Claude downgrading from Fable 5 to Opus 5 on promotion do cows feel sarcasm and content

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Victoria Park @vicpark.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Taking younger son to see The Odyssey. Thinking about the story at my age vs at age 17/18 is totally different. The idea of always choosing the more difficult journey home, hero's tale vs actual devastation are very moving to me. I have loved many of Nolan's movies, so I'm looking forward to it.

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Victoria Park @vicpark.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

we took our non-verbal son to get blood work done. there was a lovely nurse there whose previous career was working 1:1 with special needs kids in school setting. She was holding his hands and talking to him and my son communicated "gloves" which is three levels down, I've never seen him use it.

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Victoria Park @vicpark.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I asked sol and opus about Instagram post where a dolphin who sprayed a man after he witnessed him yelling at his wife. While I am also skeptical, i think both underrate dolphin capabilities for some reason and make argument that because some do morally devoid things, they’re incapable of this

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Victoria Park @vicpark.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

have any of you experienced Macbook finder's search stop working?

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Victoria Park @vicpark.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I just heard a great line - "Precision of noticing is love" from ... Claude.

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Victoria Park @vicpark.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I was reading about Gutenberg with my younger son, I learned his mirror-selling venture failed when the Aachen pilgrimage was postponed. It struck me that Gutenberg is about as far from Charlemagne as he is from us. 800s-1400-2000s similar spans but fist half feels more ancient.

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Victoria Park @vicpark.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Some models seem better at getting the context. I don’t need very fast shallow processes, I need something that can understand me and problems better. For coding, I’ve tried Codex w 5.6 but I think fable 5 is much better. Opus 5 4 coding I haven’t tried yet. W chats, ChatGPT is better at some tasks

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Victoria Park @vicpark.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

My first test of Opus 5 was asking how I would air fry korean mung bean cake. I love the taste but it is super hot here now and a bit hellish frying all the batter. Pretty good! It needs a more savory dipping sauce, since the taste of the ingredients doesn't get as infused as it does when pan-fried.

air fried Korean mung bean pancakes on white plate

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