Yeah its like 50k. It certainly is a great education, and the local public schools are so terrible that most people who can afford private choose private, and they all cost around the same.

I definitely feel like I’m missing out; most kids at the school don’t hang out that often, and are always studying. My friends from before were much better. Here it’s always academics first, which I get, but not to such an extreme degree. Also not very many people are athletic so the school kinda sucks at sports so we don’t unite around that. All that being said, academically it is the best in the SF bay area and the teachers are amazing.

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Not trying to come off rudely. But I assume it's expensive, do you really think it's worth it?

Related follow up, do you think you're missing out by not going to something a little more relaxed during your teen years?

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How awesome is our Lord Jesus Christ, amirite?!!

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I don’t think he’d answer that even if he wanted to

They’re totally different skillsets; sure, some elite soloists could do a good job leading an orchestra and some concertmasters could do a great job performing concertos, but still, there’s quite a bit of specialization that muddies any possible comparison.

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Hi David! I’ve played violin for about 18 and I really want to form a small string ensemble but not sure where I could look for more advanced players in the area. Would you happen to know any ways/ methods to look for intermediate~ advanced string players? I live in a pretty large city.

I'm a young pianist in my DMA, been gigging for a few years and starting to concertize with my solo programs.

What were the first career moves you made out of conservatory, and how did you balance bill-paying gigs with career-advancing gigs?

I’m a violinist too and I’d pick the same if I had to start over!

Remember, music happens between the notes. My mentor (who also taught at Jilliard) would take a lot of time communicating the ‘how’ of musicianship.

People in the opera community have been talking about the James Levine scandal as if it was a completely well-known entity for at least 20 years. From your perspective, how much did the met, The company, the administration, and the organization at whole know about his indiscretions for the last 20 years?

Do you believe the difference between Hillary Hahn and concertmasters from top tier orchestras is 0.01%?

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All wind players, I presume.

Sapience would be more along those lines yeah lol

I might be wrong but I think you misphrased your question as you probably wanted to ask whether or not another species would gain sapience, the thing we use to distinguish ourselves from other sentient beings. This article explains the difference nicely: https://www.differencebetween.com/what-is-the-difference-between-sentient-and-sapient/

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I'm an advocate for better ventilation in schools and workplaces. I think it could make a significant difference both in terms of reducing the spread of covid, but also other airborne diseases.

There is an argument which says some of the reduction in R is due to immunity build up through prior infections and as such we may not be able to sustain R<1 indefinitely. Personally though I would prefer to gain immunity through a regular safe and effective vaccine rather than through infection. It is certainly the case that reductions in transmission provided by ventilation would reduce the effective reproduction number relative to what it would be otherwise, taking the edge of the peaks of waves that we might otherwise experience.

I don't believe though that ventilation/filtration is a silver bullet which will end the pandemic on its own. I think it is a tool in a multi-layered protection strategy that we should be implementing which includes vaccination, improved sick pay, mask wearing in some settings, messaging and testing.

We wrote an opinion piece about this in the BMJ earlier this year: https://www.bmj.com/content/376/bmj.o1

Covid R in the UK rarely exceeded 1.4 in 2022.* So halving transmission would reliably suppress it outside of the most socially active circles, as the vanishing Influenza has shown. Likely with little chance to ever overcome this by mutation, as effective R even decreased over the least two years. Some experiments** hint that this could be done with air filtration in meeting spaces alone. This would also create a good firewall against respiratory pandemics, and avoid the really nasty long-term outcomes of viral infections found in the last few years, like damaged immune systems or vital organs.

So what prevents ventilation subsidies and mandates from being a major goal of politics these days?

* https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-r-value-and-growth-rate ** https://www.fondazionehume.it/data-analysis/controlled-mechanical-ventilation-cmv-works/?print=print

Wow it's a fascinating question and one which goes beyond my expertise as I don't work in evolution.
As far as I understand though we already have several species of non-human animals which would be considered sentient, but to some degree it depends on your definition.

I'm certainly not at the forefront of these efforts, but we have scientists looking at all sorts of emerging threats. Bird flu, for example has been a popular potential candidate to make the jump from animals to humans and thence to have human to human transmission.

In the UK we have NERVTAG - The New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group for example.

Do you think animals raised in human habitats would be the next species to gain sentience or do you think the wild would be a better ecosystem for that?