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Just reviewed the "strong evidence" in Jacobi and Anderson's Merry Wives of Windsor piece in @guardian:
youtu.be/3V-uZHnqD24?feature…
"For example, if you dropped feet first through the event horizon, as you approached the black hole's center you would find yourself getting increasingly uncomfortable."
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Chinese quant fund leveraging its data to take on OpenAI.
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Looking forward to this volume. I have an essay in it on the criminalization of early modern migrants.
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On John Cage, 4'33", and the supposed disruptions of the campus protests.
It's not a piece to chill out with happy thoughts and comfortable sounds. It's a call to attention! To stop and listen. Really listen. Listen to what the students have to say!
tinyurl.com/2ymgefem
Interesting how AI is steadily taking over cognitive labor and human expertise while waiting for robotics to catch up for certain menial tasks. I for one had thought burger flipping robots would get here earlier than dumpling inspecting ones.
bbc.com/news/business-682251…
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Yuja Wang wears a heart rate monitor through a complete Rach cycle. A data story.
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Verso is hosting an interesting series of blogposts for each of Fredric Jameson's major books. Here's the second installment.
versobooks.com/blogs/news/on…
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Great review of the Lamy 2000 - one of my top 3 pens ever. But mixed in with some mildly infuriating blabber about mortality and mindfulness. Use it if it's your thing, but a $200 pen won't make you any more or less mindful. It doesn't need accessorizing.
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"His image is so commonplace that you could believe it must always have existed — yet for six centuries after his death, he was never once depicted in human form."
nytimes.com/2020/05/11/t-mag…
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Ok - apart from the fun of using #MachineLearning to analyze beer, I love the way this paper maps a large featureset of the chemical properties of beer to the subjective categories of "taste, smell, mouthfeel and appreciation."
nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
The definitive recording of "Pictures."
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This is probably the diametric opposite of Janis. But oh my -- what a thoughtful, majestic rendition this is.
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"We present an alternative explanation that emergent abilities appear due to the researcher's choice of metric rather than due to fundamental changes in model behavior with scale."
arxiv.org/abs/2304.15004
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Liverpool FC and @GoogleDeepMind collaborate on TacticAI, designed to coach corner kicks. This is going to be exciting - sport is a great setting for multi-agent models. But expect some laments for jogo bonito etc.
deepmind.google/discover/blo…
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NLP disadvantages less-privileged socioeconomic groups. We annotate a corpus of 95K utterances from movies with social class and measure the performance of NLP systems. We find significant performance disparities.
arxiv.org/abs/2403.04445
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Ivor Gurney, poet and composer who survived WW1 but struggled with PTSD. In 1922 - the year he wrote this essay - he was committed to an asylum. He speaks of the moments of clarity in the trenches: "the brighter visions brought music; the fainter verse."
jstor.org/stable/738157
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Great explanation of why RSA encryption is vulnerable to Quantum computers.
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Harmony is not just about the math; it's perceptual as well.
"A lot of experimental music in the last 100 years of Western classical music has been quite hard for listeners because it involves highly abstract structures that are hard to enjoy."
tinyurl.com/2be64y2a
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