Tech company shareholder value--work long & hard for it. ‘It is that strange disquietude of the Gothic spirit that is its greatness’ ~John Ruskin
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This dog was rescued from abuse and taken to an animal shelter. He refused to eat, so the vet decided to try an unconventional method to help him recover
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The above photo shows 'La Sala del Mappamondo' in the Baroque Biblioteca Civica di Fermo (founded in 1688), Italia.
*A couple of years ago I wrote the above poetic meditation (now with some rewriting) from a series I've titled: "Reflections on the Undiscovered"
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The World as a Book
The English poet John Donne once declared that "the world is a great volume, and man the Index of that Book," not solely to study our past triumphs and follies but also be a repository of all memories that endure despite the finitude of mortal things.
Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 1 Cadenza: Pletnev Plays the Op. 1 Virtu... youtu.be/ZlFs0F1xBXg?si=OTjl… via @YouTube
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"Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule."
—Friedrich Nietzsche
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i promise you that if you want to expand your conceptual toolkit, enrich your vocabulary stack, and fortify your mind, then old books will serve you MUCH better than some synthetic prose thrown at you by the most "advanced" AI model
Great treatise on the ‘scourge of melody’ among classical intellectualists. Rachmaninov suffered from it in opposite direction to Beethoven. Critics sneered that he was ‘just’ a great melodist, or catchy tune writer, not a serious composer
youtu.be/-HNNxc1pLSM?si=MjtX… via @YouTube
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.@musicandroots should have tagged u on this, or u prob won’t see it. 😁
Wanted to give u kudos on a very enjoyable and edifying video on Beethoven and the confounding unwillingness/inability of the musical intelligentsia to admit that Ludwig could write a damn good tune!
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Talked to a startup’s founders.
In 6 months, 1 engineer built their web, desktop, iOS, and Android apps with AI. Just 1 engineer.
And they’re not shitty prototypes. They’re polished, well-designed, and reliable apps.
AI is turning 10x engineers into 100x engineers.
This wasn’t possible last year.
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"Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously."
—G.K. Chesterton
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Amazing how inexpensive haiku is. The intelligence per dollar keeps dropping.
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What if AI models have just reached commodity status? In early 2025, we debated whether labs would become the airlines of the AI industry : high cost, low margin businesses with undifferentiated products.
What’s the strategy in this environment?
The way to try to understand a complex system of any kind – stock prices, weather, ocean tides, networks, galaxies, even music – is to understand its constituent components.
The smallest, simplest ones you can find.
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There are tools to add probabilistic parameters to make logic-based predictions.
One commonly used in finance historically for structuring options and more complex derivative products is the binomial tree.
Simple and crude, but very powerful.
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