I've been taking classes for one year when I was in uni, about 15 years ago. I have always had the problem that I would run out of voice after 1-2 songs. My teacher at the time kept saying my problem was that I had to strengthen and use the diaphragm, which I did but only made little progress. Eventually, since every class felt like defeat, I gave up. Did I just not train enough? Likely. Do you have any advice to share?

I just would get a different teacher. Not every teacher is a good fit for every student.

To me it sounds like you were not using the proper technique or didn't warm up enough and your teacher wasn't able to guide into the right direction.

Just like any physical activity it's a balance of technical efficiency and strength/endurance.

I'd argue efficiency is far more important for singing because the vocal system is very delicate and injury prone

I imagine the answer here is: less complexity.

There are many firsts to be claimed.

First semipermanent settlement. First industrial capacity. First lunar launch facility.

Software decisions are often not made by who will use said software.

Could it be the pendulum swinging hard before selling in the middle?

Once we learn from our mistakes we can find the frequencies that do yield the best outcome and at the same time consume (say) ¼ the energy of an incandescent bulb.

Or the minimum set of species yielding optimal outcomes, without the answer being "all of them"

At my previous workplace, we were developing a greenfield project, years in the making and kinda already brownish. Our managers were using our estimates to choose the right amount of work to fit into a sprint (fortnight).

Am I misinterpreting things or there is no overlap with the circumstances argued in the OP? Also, in that case, how do we make quality tradeoffs when all features are necessary for the end product?

The thing is, when you copy paste a bibliography entry from the publisher or from Google Scholar, the authors won't be wrong. In this case, it is. If I were to write a paper with AI, I would at least manage the bibliography by hand, conscious of hallucinations. The fact that the hallucination is in the bibliography is a pretty strong indicator that the paper was written entirely with AI.

Google Scholar provides imperfect citations - very often wrong article type (eg article versus conference paper), but up to and including missing authors, in my experience.

I've had the same experience. Also papers will often have multiple entries in Google Scholar, with small differences between them (enough that Scholar didn't merge them into one entry).

I'm not sure I agree... while I don't ever see myself writing papers with AI, I hate wrangling a bibtex bibliography.

I wouldn't trust today's GPT-5-with-web-search to do turn a bullet point list of papers into proper citations without checking myself, but maybe I will trust GPT-X-plus-agent to do this.

Reference managers have existed for decades now and they work deterministically. I paid for one when writing my doctoral thesis because it would have been horrific to do by hand. Any of the major tools like Zotero or Mendeley (I used Papers) will export a bibtex file for you, and they will accept a RIS or similar format that most journals export.

This seems solvable today if you treat it as an architecture problem rather than relying on the model's weights. I'm using LangGraph to force function calls to Crossref or OpenAlex for a similar workflow. As long as you keep the flow rigid and only use the LLM for orchestration and formatting, the hallucinations pretty much disappear.

I'm not sure I follow; are you disputing that social media cause harm to mental health, and particularly in teenagers?

Is this available to replicate? I've been thinking about this for some time, for music albums, specifically.

Is there anything like this but for music selection? I mean, for adults. Say I want to have a dozen "albums" on my coffee table (NFC, QR, whatever), and insert one in a box to listen to them. Like an Audio CD, but without the risk of running, leveraging Spotify, or my MP3 connection. Something like in the OP, but using something less prone to stop working than a floppy disk (I was there, I remember).

yes! PhonieBox - But you built it yourself [0]. You make your own cards with nfc/rfid stickers in them, put a nfc/rfid reader somewhere nice, and hooked up to phoniebox rpi with spotify to a nice sound system.

https://github.com/MiczFlor/RPi-Jukebox-RFID

You can also buy ready-made PhonieBoxes on some marketplace sites.