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guitar trio is my life!
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the greyboy all stars - play it back (live in denver 1995)
Log: Wednesday April 15th
Someone had a good idea.
Log: Sunday April 12th
Today I'm going to try to fix the amplifer module in the contraption.
There are two stereo amplifier boards stacked on standoffs behind the module
panel. They are each connected to a gain pot, an audio breakout and the lead
to the power supply.
The bottom board produces...
we're drunk on language
we're drunk on language
perfect sound forever
Log: Wednesday April 1st
I just started reading W. Ross Ashby's An Introduction to Cybernetics last
month. I'm amazed to find that the operand, operator, transform and
transformation concepts introduced right away in the book seem to encompass
functional programming, relational database design and other fundamental
concepts embedded deep into programming languages and systems, including machine
learning.
I guess it makes sense! My understanding is that information theory and cybernetics drove a lot of early applied theory in computing, but I'm curious to learn more...
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I keep starting new books. Did I ever finish them?
I keep starting new books. Did I ever finish them?
I am no longer taking any new predictions, thank you.
I am no longer taking any new predictions, thank you.
Log: Saturday March 28th
I think this is my first blog post about blog posting?
Blog posts (well, going forward, I'll probably merge all the old stuff like please download me etc, together here later too) have their very own page now too! I'll keep this log page, but posts now also have permalinks, like this:
..is the link to today's post. I've already built a one-post-per-day throttle into this blog with the day-resolution permalinks, which ends up meaning I tend to edit and continuously publish the post (if I'm posting at all) throughout the day to the web, and then publish the RSS the next day, or when I don't care to edit anymore!
The weather is nice enough today to work outside. <3 I'm ready for windows to fling open!
The weather is nice enough today to work outside. <3 I'm ready for windows to fling open!
typst + pdfjam is a pretty nice print preprocessing combo
typst + pdfjam is a pretty nice print preprocessing combo
Log: Friday March 20th
Animism came to mind this morning, and I started thinking about something I wrote a while ago about locating agency in process based music. The question where do you place agency in process based music? ended up being mostly rhetorical. Diffusing the question by articulating real systems and situations placed in a perceptual context felt like a more naturally interesting project to me than trying to locate agency in any sense, really.
This morning I'm reframing that insinct to try to dismantle the question as a aspiration to the universality of agency, and asking myself: do I extend this instinct to software, too?
My language is harsher with software -- any anthropomorphising is disclaimered with a "so-called" or a follow-up explicit thinging of some sort.
I pick up a rock and I say "look at this little guy" not "look at this little so-called guy".
F / E / E / Dm / E
F / E / E / Dm / E
One: You make specialty chairs, but in your office you might not design a line of specialty chairs just for office use. Instead you might go to the office store and get something cheap off the shelf that you know will be fine. You make chairs so you often know which ones to avoid, and the types of problems you might have with them. These chairs don't need to be customized, something off the shelf built to certain typical standards is completely fine. Two: You run a newspaper and your office needs chairs. You go to the office supply store and you get some chairs. After a while, they have some problems and you try a different kind of chair which ends up being just fine. Three: You work in a special cleanroom environment doing sensitive work on irreplaceable artifacts. You go to the office store and buy some chairs for your cleanroom. The chairs have a defect that causes an accident that ruins a collection of irreplaceable literature. Four: You are a surgeon, you get some office chairs at the store for your surgery room. During surgery one collapses sending someone nearby lurching and causes the surgeon to slip, killing the patient. Contrived! This is how we should be thinking about LLMs though.
One: You make specialty chairs, but in your office you might not design a line of specialty chairs just for office use. Instead you might go to the office store and get something cheap off the shelf that you know will be fine. You make chairs so you often know which ones to a...
Log: Saturday March 14th
Seems like there's something wrong with one of the amplifier modules in the
contraption! This explains a lot, two channels are really quiet for some reason.
I think maybe a bad solder job by yours truly on the gain pot? I'll have to take
it apart to see, and I'm considering ...
digital aliasing sounds nice through pine
digital aliasing sounds nice through pine
Humanity Won't Be Happy Till The Last Bureaucrat Is Hung With The Guts Of The Last Capitalist
mountains mountains mountains
mountains mountains mountains
Rest in peace Dean Roberts
Rest in peace Dean Roberts
programming is a doing art
a sunny, open window day -- maybe spring is really here
a sunny, open window day -- maybe spring is really here
a. campbell payne - flow control
collections of colonies of bees - collections of colonies of bees
collections of colonies of bees - collections of colonies of bees
Log: Sunday March 8th
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fangs and arrows - board music ii
fangs and arrows - board music ii
andrew weathers - i am happy when i am moving
andrew weathers - i am happy when i am moving