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Alex Iceman

@thealexiceman

Technologist/Entrepreneur/Composer 🎹 CEO at @polarocom and Genium, Hockey referee @theahl

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This afternoon in PMQs, John Slinger MP stressed the importance of music education and asked the Prime Minister to invest in music and creatives subjects so that they are accessible for all children. Hear the question and the PM's response👇

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Just watched Top Gun Maverick at SF Symphony with orchestra. Such an inspiration. Music is powerful in combination with the visuals. Stay inspired.

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🎶 As a music teacher, you already know the magic of music—but did you know it can also give your students a significant educational edge? The latest research reveals how music learning enhances academic performance and more! Read more here: 👉 biggerbetterbrains.com.au/research-updat…

🎶 As a music teacher, you already know the magic of music—but did you know it can also give your students a significant educational edge? The latest research reveals how music learning enhances academic performance and more!

Read more here:
👉 biggerbetterbrains.com.au/research-updat…
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We’ll try to put Polaro into as many schools as we possibly can. Learning music is a brain’s superpower. Endless benefits.

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Traditional music education is dead. Painful and not excited for majority of students. It’s the biggest gatekeeper that is destroying joy and reducing number of people who enjoy music in the long term.

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We did it! We tested 300 Bay Area foods for plastic chemicals. We found some interesting surprises. Top 5 findings in our test results: 1. Our tests found plastic chemicals in 86% of all foods, with phthalates in 73% of the tested products and bisphenols in 22%. It's

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How often do you come across horribly written and tangled code? Years ago I was the lead mobile engineer rebuilding the app for the biggest music streaming service at the time. The codebase was a mess with over 250 singletons and impossible to debug. After rewriting more than 300

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Spending May between London and Paris. Meeting brilliant minds in AI, education, and music, from collaborators at Polaro to government teams exploring Genium AI for public services. Every year, I like to step out of the Silicon Valley bubble. A shift in place is a shift

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This is the most important training you need to teach kids for them to do well in life: Music education and Self-defense. Students who take music lessons score 38 points higher on the verbal SAT and 21 points higher on the math SAT compared to their non-musical peers? A

This is the most important training you need to teach kids for them to do well in life: Music education and Self-defense.

Students who take music lessons score 38 points higher on the verbal SAT and 21 points higher on the math SAT compared to their non-musical peers? 

A
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Skype is shutting down today. For many, it’s just another app fading away. For those of us who studied its internals, it’s the end of an era. Before Microsoft’s acquisition, Skype was one of the most elegant implementations of P2P communication at scale. It leveraged