i wish there was an easier way to tell online whether a take is coming from a "hobbyist" or a "professional". i can't think of a better word for it but just like, does this person regularly deal with deadlines and hard constraints on their work
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my pet theory is that it takes about 10 years for people to figure out how to make good art with a technology after it's gone mainstream. unfortunately this means that there is a chance people will start making interesting things with generative ai in the mid 2030s
basically wrote this entire backing track yesterday lol. hopefully i can find a good time to record the vocals soon
just got my phone back from the repair shop after 3 days of not having a smartphone and i'm reflecting on my time being semi-offline
Seeing shitty art way more inspiring than seeing good art. Why be demoralized by the prodigious talent of another when you can be buoyed by the feeling that you can outcompete abject mediocrity?
Your 20s are for believing everything is structural and your 30s are for learning that actually it's often just some guy or small group of guys (gender neutral)
girl ran up to me on the street and gave me a piece of paper with some sort of christian thing on it and asked me if i wanted a free "gas per chap" and i was like huh??? i had to ask her to repeat it 3 times before i realized she was saying "gospel track"
sometimes i read about ancient writing systems and wonder why so many of them left out basic things like "all the sounds in the word" but then i look at what i write down in my song sketchbook and I'm like ohhhhh
I don’t ever presume that Valve is benevolent or a friend, they’re a private company and they’re here to make money and their curation policy is fraught, but to to their credit they make products people actually wanna use when basically every other American company has forgotten that.
Very forceful statement by Terry Tao about AI and math. terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/11/a... Note, he is not claiming the models aren't real and powerful. He's talking about how that power should be used. This, I believe, is what all AI discussions should center.
A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics
I am proud to be among the list of 25 initial signatories — all Fields Medallists — to the declaration below, which grew out of discussions between ourselves over the last week. We have…
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im sure it was actually really annoying to deal with and caused all sorts of health and environment problems but i kinda wish they still ran freight trains through the streets here because it's just an incredibly cool visual
as someone who spends a lot of effort trying to keep my anger directed and limited to the actual problem it is really frustrating to see people get mad at the enemy and then start punching random bystanders and friends
man they're just fully playing ai-generated music on mainstream commercial radio now
imagine what the world would be like if microsoft had released windows 7 and then only released performance security and driver updates after that forever
Seeing a lot of dev-on-dev harassment has got me thinking about what open software development feels like nowadays.
Making software hurts now
and hurt people hurt people
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displaying HDR images and videos as brighter than the surrounding UI is such a nonsensical thing to do. it would be like playing 32-bit audio 6dB louder than 16-bit audio
the kanye concert is fucking up traffic in my neighborhood but maybe it's actually good for pedestrian safety to have gridlock traffic
Car brain is just an epidemic in the US. No demographic is safe. Some of the smartest people you know are among the most chronic sufferers.
just heard someone playing fenix flexin rubberz in the wild
i would like that new polyphia song a lot more if it was just a recording of them performing it live with no laptop or prerecorded backing tracks or supporting members but everything else is otherwise unchanged
i hate how many things in music theory inexplicably number the voices from top to bottom when most everything else does it bottom to top
I'm perfectly happy to be automated out of a job. Jobs suck shit. It's the part where I also lose my living that's worrisome.
finally played journey 14 years after it came out lol. great art style and i got through the entire game with the same partner i met at the beginning which was cute. for some reason the game didn't show me their steam username at the end though so i guess i'll never know who they were
when I visited Helsinki--which has gone years at a stretch with zero (0) traffic deaths--I was fully convinced that a very low speed limit was the secret sauce
David Roberts@volts.wtf · 4w agoBirmingham (the English one) is about to impose a speed limit of 20mph on *all* its roads. I literally can not imagine the shitstorm this would cause among car-brained residents of any US city.
it's so exhausting how we're stuck between "LLMs are useful in specific situations but tech companies want us to use them for everything" and "outrage at datacenters is correct in specific cases but people are getting mad at everything"
a small post of something thats been on my mind as of late
i really really really hate AI images & music
the death of mediocre
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