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One half of Counterpoint. Interests: software, music, mind.
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a panel of experts has rated the united states the world's best country. congratulations to the united states

“I will wear a costume after this war is finished…maybe something like yours.” I don’t know what kind of fortitude you must have to deliver a burn like that under those circumstances, but damnmmmnnnn

I am pro-democracy. I am against authoritarianism. I am against corruption. I am for for good governance. I believe in the rule of law & the consent of the governed. I believe in freedom of information, freedom of expression, freedom of assembly, and freedom to petition our government. 🇺🇦🏛️🇺🇸

Striking thing about Trump and Vance with Zelensky is how weak they look. On top of the awfulness of rewarding aggression, screwing allies, undermining US interests, and blatantly lying about recent events, these men that obsess over the performance of toughness look like whiny scared weaklings.

Zelenskyy showed more courage and intestinal fortitude today than the entire Republican Party since 2016. It's shocking to see someone refuse to bend the knee and become a supplicant.

A guy who used to be a comedian & is good at improv and dealing with hecklers and who has also spent the last 3 years in a war zone turns out to be a guy you can’t out-alpha, imagine that

Watching Putin’s little stooges try to bully Zelenskyy in our goddamned White House is pretty repulsive.

The surprising link between white noise and tomatoes www.foodunfolded.com/article/how-...

"The great process squeeze: How efficiency bias is choking the music industry" paracosm.substack.com/p/the-great-...

What do you call fully AI-generated music? Made by one-click generative models? For Duchamp were "readymades". The CTO of Kits.AI calls them "slops". Their genre being "slopcore", made by "slop jockeys". kd-blog.notion.site/the-future-o...

apparently this is what happens to your web audio & wasm based audio streaming app on chrome android when the device is not plugged in. audio is fine, but network is turned off.

cool playlist github.com/anars/blank-...

very realistic deep research

sigh

Having your own website is not going to fix democracy, or capitalism, but it makes a political statement. It says "I want to carve my own space on the web" and I think this is a radical act. It was when I originally said this in 2022, and I mean it even more today. localghost.dev/blog/this-pa...

Introduction to Stochastic Calculus jiha-kim.github.io/posts/introd... #math

¿Conoces #MusicMouse? Es un software algorítmico de composición musical (música generativa), desarrollado por @LaurieSpiegel.bsky.social... ¡En 1986! Actualmente, está disponible una emulación desarrollada por TeroParviainen @TeroPa.bsky.social 👇 aquí 👇 teropa.info/musicmouse/

some good news for america

This made us laugh more than it should have.

Metaphors we live by: "deciding is grabbing" vs. "deciding is creating" 🤔

til suno run their models on modal modal.com/blog/suno-ca...

cloudflare agents: repo: github.com/cloudflare/a... platform docs: developers.cloudflare.com/agents/ starter kit: github.com/cloudflare/a... so much more to come, shipped incrementally directly to you. lfg.

To our friends across Europe - we're excited to announce a new run of tour dates this September 2025! Sign up for our mailing list at www.mogwai.scot before midnight tonight for exclusive access to pre-sale tickets starting tomorrow. 🎟 General ticket sales go live on this Friday at 10am CET.

OS level launching of "Chill", "Productivity", "Sleep", and "Wellbeing" music. Which are all mapped to Apple Music playlists.

Introduced Audio-FLAN, a large-scale instruction-tuning dataset for unified audio-language models; dataset covers 80 tasks and over 100 million instances, available on HuggingFace and GitHub.

the llm equivalent of "sleep on it"

AI provides a universal framework that leverages data and compute at scale to uncover higher-order patterns Today, @arcinstitute.org in collaboration with Nvidia releases Evo 2—a fully open source biological foundation model trained on genomes spanning the entire tree of life.

claude code nailing the core loop of javascript development

💥 I did a drawing of web rendering! I might have to do more than one, because there is so much detail and optimizations that I couldn’t fit inside it. Enjoy!

my enjoyment of this content was 4.87

what do y'all do with your unclosed tabs? I've been running pong inside all 240 of mine blog with a bunch of details over here: eieio.games/blog/running...

EMO-Disentanger: "Emotion-driven piano music generation" with a two-phase Transformer model: 1. Lead sheets with valence conditioning (happy/sad) 2. Performance with arousal conditioning (high/low activation) emo-disentanger.github.io

happy sunday danks.bandcamp.com/track/wiki

"Can LLMs 'Reason' in Music?" This paper finds their capabilities somewhat limited both in understanding and generation tasks. Doesn't cover any of the more recent reasoning models though. zenodo.org/records/1487...

ISMIR 2024 Conference Proceedings are now online! ismir.net/conferences/... Thank you to all of the authors, reviewers, meta-reviewers, and conference organizers for their contributions to a vibrant and innovative research community! #ISMIR2024 #MIR #Music #Research

NEW § Gen AI systems are gullible, easily tricked into responding in ways contrary to policies or leak private information. Bharani Subramaniam and I describe how we can counter this by adding guardrails at the boundaries of the request/response flow. martinfowler.com/articles/gen...

"The tools of Western music theory are much better suited to scores and their MIDI equivalents than they are to recorded sound. Does that mean that we should consider notes on the page to be more structurally significant than a guitarist’s tone or a rapper’s voice?"

Fantastic article by Will Tavin at @nplusonemag.com. Excellently reported, and it solidified something I've felt about Hollywood for almost a decade now: We've been chasing that wasn't real. I just deeply underestimated how false the high really was. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/ess...

happy friday mjblood.bandcamp.com/track/xpnder

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

might be the first time i've come across an ad in my build logs

how dare you

The HuggingFace/Nanotron team just shipped an entire pretraining textbook in interactive format. huggingface.co/spaces/nanot... It’s not just a great pedagogic support, but many unprecedented data and experiments presented for the first time in a systematic way.

Gonna surprise my wife by installing one of these in our small apartment while she’s at work ❤️