Besides being a bassist who turns up on every second record, Matt Brewer writes some really lovely music of his own. (Also don't miss the personnel on this album 🤯)
Unspoken, by Matt Brewer
9 track album
crisscrossjazz.bandcamp.com
Aaron D'Souza
@aarondsouza.bsky.social
Pathological learner. Lapsed Ph.D. math | code | jazz | drums | photos aarondsouza.net
Was rummaging through old folders last weekend and found a cute little math thing I wrote for my students two *dozen* years ago: aarondsouza.net/log/posts/20...
Aaron A. D'Souza - Why Does Expectation-Maximization Work?
About three lifetimes ago, I would teach early sessions of a graduate-level class on machine learning. My Ph.D. advisor had figured out that anyone who survived the onslaught of “introductory” math I would throw at them would do just fine when he taught during the remainder of the semester.
aarondsouza.net
This is an hour full of joy, and boy did I need that today.
On A Random Tuesday (Live at The Blue Note) featuring Joshua Redman, by Cory Wong and Joshua Redman
8 track album
corywong.bandcamp.com
How did I not know of this album's release for over a month?? Dayhuff is so badass. And to have Cornish, Collier & Pinson in tow? 🤯
Mountains, by Emma Dayhuff
11 track album
division81records.bandcamp.com
Whoo, this is giving me flashbacks to my webspam-fighting days.
Two characters open up a world of typosquatting opportunities in Chromium browsers
Attackers abusing rare Cyrillic and Latin letters to impersonate popular websites
theregister.com
Julieta Eugenio's latest album is simply lovely.
Mi Boathouse, by Julieta Eugenio
10 track album
julietaeugenio.bandcamp.com
It is so ridiculously hard to find any reliable election-related information that isn't behind a paywall.
"I asked everyone I know at the BIG TECH HUMAN CENTIPEDE ROUNDTABLE, and we all agreed that UNCONTROLLABLE SHIT-RAIN IS USEFUL AND GREAT, and that EVERYONE WANTS IT. Also, that it was IN RETROSPECT A GREAT IDEA TO PUT EVERYTHING ON COMPUTERS."
We Must Create the Shit Machine - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
“For as long as humans have created SHIT with our BODIES AND BUTTS, we have been asking this FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION: What if there were a COMPUTER that could A...
mcsweeneys.net
SPECIAL REPORT Last month, Alpha School invited people to follow student social media accounts "if curious about life in our high schools." I accepted their offer. What I've found shocks me. Forget the AI and ask instead: Is Alpha Schools a cult? Follow along for a summary of my findings.
SPECIAL REPORT: My So-Called Alpha School
What is it like to be a student in Alpha School’s high school boot camp?
buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com
Had the most fun a couple of evenings ago deconstructing a groove by the inimitable Master Calvaire aarondsouza.net/log/posts/20...
The US was the only country to vote against it. All we are is a blister on the arse of the world.
The U.N. backs a new world map showing Africa in its true relative size
The U.N. has backed a new map showing Africa in its true relative size, with the U.S. standing alone in opposition.
npr.org
In 1966, Mark Kac famously asked "Can you hear the shape of a drum?" In most cases you *can* hear the differences between two drum shapes. But in 1992, Gordon, Webb, and Wolpert constructed isospectral sets of drums: different shapes that nevertheless sound identical. 🧪 ⚛️
Eigendrum - draw a shape and hear it as a real drum
Draw any shape and hear it as a drum. Every frequency is solved from your outline with finite elements, never sampled. Includes the two drums that sound identical but are not the same shape.
eigendrum.com
Cassandra Wilson was one of our most gifted vocalists, just an unreal talent. Here is my obituary for NPR Music. (I believe I’ll also be on the broadcast later this evening.)
Cassandra Wilson, Grammy-winning jazz vocalist, dies at 70
Wilson, who's deep, dark contralto was one of the most distinctive voices in jazz, died on Wednesday in her hometown of Jackson, Miss.
npr.org
An absolutely fascinating report from a pro-AI professor about how his students think about AI. THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT
John Herrman@jwherrman.bsky.social · 2mo agoi found this post really interesting, for reasons both intended and not www.lesswrong.com/posts/ySXuvJ...
I guess I missed that this was Bow to Facists week. The Roberts court (his dissent notwithstanding) will be remembered as utterly feckless. Not one tiny fecking feck.
Supreme Court Allows Trump’s White House Ballroom Construction (Gift Article)
Lower-court rulings would have blocked construction of the 90,000-square-foot ballroom after finding that the Trump administration should have first sought approval from Congress.
nytimes.com
After Hitler took power in 1933, the Nazi regime began Gleichschaltung: bringing German institutions into alignment with the new political order...
404 Media@404media.co · 2mo agoGoogle Maps announced on Saturday it would start reflecting the change for U.S.-based users.
She was such a great human. Rest in power Dolly. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
The Transcendence of Dolly Parton
The late singer was perhaps the only person in the United States who commanded nearly universal affection.
theatlantic.com
What's unstated in this article is that we've taken a transformative technology and built utterly stupid products with it. There is no way we should be using chatbots and fancy autocompletes as knowledge repositories.
China Wants Its Data to Power the World’s A.I. (Gift Article)
China is exporting more than A.I. models. It wants its data to influence the world’s chatbots, raising fears that Beijing’s narratives will spread with the technology.
nytimes.com
Real Michael-Scott-declaring-bankruptcy energy here.
Trump says he will soon declare Strait of Hormuz US territory
US President Donald Trump says he will soon declare the Strait of Hormuz a US territory, escalating his rhetoric over the vital waterway that carries a significant share of global oil supplies.
abc.net.au