What have you been up to recently? Do you still lurk? Etc

Sup voat! I've spent the better part of 6-7 years in Japan learning the language and attending college. I'm in my fourth year and next year I finally graduate! Pretty exciting.

I know a lot of people on voat are interested in Japanese culture, customs, and the overall treatment of people in this country, so I figured I'd do an AMA while I rode the shinkansen back home to Osaka.

Anyway, AMA!

We're not talking about the tourist version of a so called Mayan Peyote festival, but an actual Mayan Peyote Ceremony with a real Mayan Shaman. We spent the night in the Yucatan jungle, consumed Peyote, and saw through Grandfather Fire. As an outsider, and a "Gringo" this was an experience not seen by many outside the Mayan community, and even many within the community. So, for what it's worth, doing an AMA for the next few hours. Thought it would be a respite from the shill(s) and anti-shills. Without further ado... Buenos

I have 5 years of experience as a "Competitive Intelligence" analyst, which is just a fancy name for an information broker. I collect, sell, and barter in information, mostly about people. Some of it might even be yours. Ask me anything.

lets here some questions to keep me entertained while on this awful shift

Seriously. Anything.

I was an assistant designer for fashion, my dream job. Now I'm a stay at home mother!

I am Brendon, a self-employed (digital nomad) programmer. I ran an experiment which attempted to automatically write a melody, based on the votes of anonymous internet visitors.

Now, another experiment has begun to write lyrics for the same song, one word at a time:

https://crowdsound.net/lyrics

Starting from 2 given notes, the voter was asked which sequence sounded best, when an extra pitch was added to the end of the sequence: [Note 1] [Note 2] [A/B/C/D/E/F/G] <- Which sequence sounds best?

The winning vote generated a new note and the crowd then voted on a longer sequence: [Note 1] [Note 2] [Note 3] [A/B/C/D/E/F/G] <- Which sequence sounds best?

This process continued until the sequence became the length of an entire melody. My theory was that if this system was extracting and expressing knowledge about what the majority enjoy listening to (at the most granular level)...the crowd should be able to generate their own song (which they also enjoy listening to). So the experiment began.

Anyway, the melody is now complete:

https://crowdsound.net

You can also hear some of the remixes here:

https://crowdsound.net/lounge

and vote for the next word of the lyrics:

https://crowdsound.net/lyrics

Here for the next few hours, to answer any questions you have about the project. You can follow the project on twitter @crowd_sound

I use specific terms to describe these topics out of convenience, but what I work with is beyond culture. What I teach (the information I'm a custodian of), is the same technology maintained by the traditions of inner alchemy, taoism, tantric buddhism, Yoga, the great work, etc..

My whole life has been dedicated to self-knowledge, and understanding the nature of the reality we experience. I was eventually able to directly experience pure undifferentiated consciousness, after a while I stabilized this awareness. Now my only purpose is to share what I've been given. Ask me anything!

I am a slot machine technician at a native owned casino. I handle all sorts of repairs and setup the machines. Ask me anything.

I can sadly tell you that Right now Im doing nothing right now, Ask me anything!

Edit: I should of put this edit days ago, but thank you guys for asking questions!!