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That is a great book. I like how the book describes the Wizards tackling world famine through GMO's.

AI accelerates our rate of energy consumption as we vie for efficiencies and alternative sources of energy. That is concerning.

Maybe the next book will be:

The AI and The Prophet.


Same here. Non native English speaker. The first rule is that inner squares are of size 1. Always.

Yet, in each example the inner squares shrink. Uh?

It know it was a convention to better show the arrangement, normalizing, yadda yadda.

Yet, Uh?


The total image size is scaled each time such that each solution takes up the same amount of space. It is easier to browse that way.

Would you also argue it's odd graphs don't all use the same scale as each other?

Do you want the graphs with 300 squares to be bigger than your screen, or do you want the graph with 1 square to be 30x30 px for no reason? They're just zoomed.

That's what I mean, I can't imagine why anyone would argue the same thing of graphs in general so I'm curious what the difference makes it so they find it so odd in this specific case.

Musk was not going to win due to the statue of limitations. Altman was wrong to turn a non-profit to a for-profit because they need it more money (really?). Was not the whole point of Open AI to shield artificial intelligence from the amoral practices of capitalistic controls? This is yet another example of our legal system falling short due to the fast an unforeseen changes of society and technology.


The article is apropos of the NPR show This American Life "Give a Little Whistle"

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/give-a-little-whistle

People being asked for blind loyalty or to step aside.

It is ironic hear people whose whole life was dedicated to chase immigrants being surprise when it evolved to chase each other: police state.


From the article:

“Anything that came out after I was born isn’t that great.”

I could not agree more.


Star Wars is for kids. Everybody loves whichever version they grew up with.

I never understood people who liked the prequel trilogy until I realized I was too old for them any more.

Nobody can admit that they actually aren’t good movies. None of them were.


"cognitive offloading" yeah, right. that is what I am doing with article.


I thought guitar refinement had its limits then I saw these guys...

Angine de Poitrine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfDtfz7vXkY

I will be a beginner forever. That's okay.


I was one of the bozos believing that the dimensions of the CD had to do with Beethoven 9th symphony. :(

Yes I did went and paired up a CD with a cassette this morning OMG!!! Is true.

I could not afford the $300.00 USD Sony Portable CD but I friend of mine did.

First CD he let me listen to: Genesis "Genesis"

First DDD CD: Peter Gabriel "Security"

That last one probably the most influential music in my upbringing.

Funny though, I have hundred of CDs but I don't have those two.

I guess I have to go back to my friends house to listen to them.


I heard Bob Weir on a Desert Island Discs broadcast with the Dead. He said the song Shock the Monkey was the song that got him willing to start using MIDI and digital tech, which the rest of the group had already embraced. Hearing how one artist I loved pulled another artist into a new direction really clicked for me as a music lover. I can't figure how to search their archive or whether it was an American copy with a slightly different title like desert island albums or songs. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qnmr/episodes/player


PG always loved playing with tech. He dropped a decent chunk in the late 90s, early 2000s to build one of the first real music streaming platforms. I worked for him for a while. I put forth the idea of releasing his Up album online in 5.1 surround, and he was happy to do it, and it was the first. (I only did this because I'd just installed a 5.1 system in my car and wanted more content for it)


> First DDD CD:

I remember listening to Donald Fagan’s Nightfly. Still sounds fantastic, though to nitpick perhaps a tad harsh. Amazing thought to have recorded that at approximately the same time as the debut of the primitive original IBM PC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nightfly


The record sounds GREAT. I've never heard the CD.

I wonder if The Nightfly has now been ruined with dynamic compression (AKA "remastered") like everything else over the last couple decades.

My CD player came with Brothers in Arms by Dire Straits, as a demo of dynamic range. That album (a digital recording) has, shamefully, been "remastered" and dynamically compressed.


My uncle had the vinyl, and I got the CD a couple of years later. I see it has "manufactured by Columbia House" on the back. ;-) No loudness war back then, but the treble is brighter than most recordings of the time, leading to a potential tweaking of the knob for the album.


Some early CDs were mastered with pre-emphasis. On players that don't recognise and correct (de-emphasize) this, the sound can sound full of treble. Every hardware CD player should be able to play such discs as intended. iTunes knows about such discs and will rip them correctly, maybe Foobar2000 and CUERipper, but most other software has no clue. I know The Blue Nile "Hats" it's one such disc in my collection. I believe some pressings of The Nightfly were mastered with pre-emphasis. https://www.tnt-audio.com/vintage/procrustes2_pt1_e.html


Thanks!


Similar story! The first disc (and song) I heard was "Let's Dance," David Bowie.

I have hundreds of discs, but only have Let's Dance on vinyl.

I also have the second pop digital recording ever, The Nightly by Donald Fagen, only on vinyl. I use it to show people how good records can sound.

I'm glad I bought and kept so much music when I did, because now the labels have destroyed everything with dynamic (not data) compression. It's disgusting. Now that everyone has dirt-cheap access to pristine recording & playback technology, music sounds like absolute shit because some suits thought it needed to sound "louder."

It's possibly one of the biggest but least-understood crimes against art in all of history.


TwIT

Freakonomics Radio

This American Life

Radiolab

Hidden Brain

99% Invisible


Use the the fork, Luke. Time for matplotlibai. Not need to burden people with LLM diatribes.


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