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  • Malleability our computers no longer have

    I get that this guy is coming to this video with a vast amount of knowledge. But step back and watch HOW he’s using the hardware and the software to express his ideas… we no longer have that power. src: https://hackaday.com/2024/10/16/linus-live-codes-music-on-the-commodore-64/

  • You Can’t Make Friends With The Rockstars

    I wish I could write like Edward Zitron… he fucking nails it. https://www.wheresyoured.at/rockstars/

  • Creativity always finds a way: Nine Predictions for the Future of the Music Business

    We can always bank on creativity to get us out of the shit… here are some exciting calls about the future of music. Life/Creativity always finds a way, https://www.honest-broker.com/p/nine-predictions-for-the-future-of

  • ‘Woo’-lang

    I’m a software engineer. I’m used to languages being used for a purpose – some languages are better at certain things. I also spend a lot of time as an advisor to other business people. Yesterday I had a call with a friend and I was struck by how we used ‘woo’ terms to navigate…

  • Nature Study Reveals the Deadly Danger of Anti-Trans Laws

    Whenever I am asked about my position on trans issues I reply: My start position is that accepting trans people means less people kill themselves. Turns out that the data supports this.

  • In which Navies (in their current config) shuffle towards anachronism

    Why has this failure attracted so little attention? Why, for example, has it not even been mentioned by either side in the course of the Presidential election campaign? The answer, quite simply, is that the strategic rationale for the mission turned out to be spurious. “Vital shipping lanes” are not actually vital at all. The…

  • This AI Pioneer Thinks AI Is Dumber Than a Cat

    At the same time, he is convinced that today’s AIs aren’t, in any meaningful sense, intelligent—and that many others in the field, especially at AI startups, are ready to extrapolate its recent development in ways that he finds ridiculous. If LeCun’s views are right, it spells trouble for some of today’s hottest startups, not to…

  • The Rick Rubin Interview

    Take 2 hours out of your life and treat yourself… it’s a magic conversation. Towards the end Beato quizzes Rubin about the difficulties of making music when “everything has already been done”. The vibe you get from Rubin is that “everything is still to be done”.

  • LLMs don’t do formal reasoning – and that is a HUGE problem

    Take a moment and bang this concept into your heads… “we found no evidence of formal reasoning in language models …. Their behavior is better explained by sophisticated pattern matching—so fragile, in fact, that changing names can alter results by ~10%!” https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/llms-dont-do-formal-reasoning-and STOP WITH THE WISHFUL THINKING.

  • An insightful example of how our use of language traps us…

    Charlie Stross tackles the idea of how our mental models limit our thinking. Anyway, a point I’ve already chewed over on this blog is that a spaceship is not like a sea-going vessel, can’t be operated like a sea-going vessel, and the word “ship” in its name feeds into various cognitive biases that may be actively…