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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
Off
Off
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
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aliya rahman: every time you try to break my body, you fuel my spirit
Andrej Henny Penny Karpathy
Andrej Henny Penny Karpathy
Log: Friday February 27th
I haven't picked up any brass in a while. Nate did some nice synth overdubs for a Geodes thing we're working on and I thought maybe some brass harmony would be nice.
When I was recording I could hear my heart beat through the long tones. It was a steady disturbance in the tone.
My breath control is terrible, maybe that was it? It really sounded like I was listening to my heart beat though.
I'm not sure what to make of that.
richard barrett - close-up
richard barrett - close-up
wkhtmltopdf was taking a while to build so I went to the hardware store, did a grocery shop, came home... and it's still building...
wkhtmltopdf was taking a while to build so I went to the hardware store, did a grocery shop, came home... and it's still building...
Rest in peace Éliane Radigue
Rest in peace Éliane Radigue
Log: Wednesday February 25th
Rain, snow, rain
Rain, snow, rain
alan partridge's mid morning matters
alan partridge's mid morning matters
If I make another about page, I think I want to make the photo be a re-creation of this Anne Laplantine photo
If I make another about page, I think I want to make the photo be a re-creation of this Anne Laplantine photo