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Good to see & hear Chowning talk about the origins!

The DX-7's lack of patch-cord 'programming' ...replaced by 32 instantly-selectable, well-conceived preset patches in RAM ... was essential in 'democratizing' synthesis. Because it wasn't easy to make new patches, it also jump-started the patch-creation business.

The 16-note polyphony also didn't hurt.

" in 1986, it was used in 40% of the number-one singles on the US Billboard Hot 100." -- Wikipedia

I enjoyed this lovely rant by Timnit Gebru today. It's titled something like "AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms,"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCB-NQtsKrs

At one point in my graduate college studies, I tutored qualified (DEI) undergrads 'for free' (for them) as part of a work-study program which paid me a bit for that work.

OTOH, an AI could not have qualified as such a student. But even if it did, before we began I would certainly bargain for considerably more than work-study tutoring paid.

The question's not new. In the early 1900s, women could not become PhD astronomers. Yet two women (Payne with stellar composition and Leavitt with cosmic distances) made fundamental, essential contributions to the science. Credit mostly went to male astronomers. The same might be said of Franklin and DNA.

It was nearly a century before the stories of all of them were revealed to public history. That the discoverers were not all equally rewarded is unjustifiable.

>using LLMs without disclosure is A-OK?

'Without disclosure' is about taking credit for work that isn't yours.

WP defines 'ghostwriter' as: "a person hired to write literary or journalistic works, speeches, or other texts that are credited to another person as the author."

Anyone could choose to go through life relying on a reputation manufactured from many lies. They might want to think about how hard that reputation will hit the ground, if it does.

When I zoom in, the right half of the page becomes invisible.

"Safe, clean, too cheap to meter"

More?

> We Almost Lost Detroit"- Wikipedia

> a 1975 Reader's Digest book by John G. Fuller,[1] presents a history of Fermi 1, America's first commercial breeder reactor, with emphasis on the 1966 partial nuclear meltdown. ISBN 0883490706

Bril riposte

A thoughtful and detailed history of the early decades of machine 'intelligence' and contemporary reactions - by American historian Jill Lepore

KQED interview with Alexis Madrigal:

https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101915026/historian-jill-lepo...

It's indeed very annoying.

I've only seen 1 or 2 that know what they're doing. One's at lemmy.world ... just hovering over it is verified ...

A book of that stature being published cutailed in any way should be carefully avoided by all readers.

The 'Canadian Gutenburg' PD version [0] mentioned in another comment here contains all 16 chapters. ('Star Maker' is also there, as is 'Last Men in London', 'Odd John', and more.

[0] https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20200531

"the 7'8" tall automaton would start his performance by touching a mace to his head before he proceeded to write out Chinese characters...

"touring Germany when he was somehow lost...

"In 2008, the Osaka Science Museum produced a new Gakutensoku. At 10'6", the new golden-skinned automata...

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/gakutensoku

--- More on Nishimura & motives: https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-short-strange-life-of-the-firs...

This article is the most concise presentation of GP ... and of the conclusion it leads to ... I've seen.

"Opposite statements, G and ~G, can’t both be true in a consistent axiomatic system."

I've stuck with only asking questions that prompt on-topic factual output, I haven't seen much 'humanisation'.

LLMs can be pretty good about logical.technical,discursive output ... apart from the back-patting.

Maybe that prompts less chit-chat crap. I don't expect their non-human perspectives to be interesting. I also ignore embedded queries about why I'm asking, how I might use the information.

The publicly elected can demand respect ... but that generally backfires.

As I recall, 'A Boy and His Dog' was set in Kansas. "Lack Of Respect, Wrong Attitude, Failure To Obey Authority. The farm, immediately."

> That people say that the fear of war (nuclear or not) is "quaint" means that the wealthy and privileged first world has forgotten about war...

Apart from perceptions, however real they were ... the hundreds of silos and missiles and thosaunds of bombs, whoever built them (names??) made a shit-ton of money (on both sides). 'Defense' spending relies on the manufacture of fears.

There are several legal digital formats (e.g. PSK31, FT8, RTTY) that, while not encrypted, will render 'reading the mail' hard for anyone not aware of those formats and/or the right equipment and where to get it.

Most hams can enjoy the hobby without encryption. The limits discourage uses that endanger the hobby.

> The map couldn't load. This usually means an ad blocker or privacy extension is blocking Google Maps... > Try disabling blockers for cheapfoodmap.com,

Try disabling your goofy expections that I'll spend a minute to learn if your page is worth it.

Gotta spend all those revenues while they're still worth something!

Who's this'Al' I keep seeing in the headlines?

Perhaps ... but the lesson in trusting AI math was worth it.

A few months ago I asked a model how many primes are divisible by 35 with a remainder of 6. It confidently replied 'none'.

Counterexample: 35 + 6.

Interested. I got far emough on the site to have a couple of questions. (Maybe the answers are on the site?)

1) Does device record ALL MIDI sent to it? (Including e.g. SYSEX and non-registered parameters?

2) I edit MIDI on a Desktop (NOT a phone). a) Are sessions recorded into separate files? Named and/or dated? b) Can I inspect & load sessions from the card?

Thanks for that ... impressive!

One more step on the way to the day when you can get help identifying that old tune that's been running thru your head for days.

Very well done, & interesting, thanks!

Revealing that, after 30 years of Internet, someone's actually confronting this situation for the first time. So's the word 'gaps' ... as if the English Channel is a 'gap' for swimmers.

Equally revealing is the audio quality of most CPU screen-readers (regardless of platform). Usually, not far from the crappy first attempts of 30 years ago.

But then, hey, it's a small market, right?

Yep. Momentum seems to be the source of our intuition. Something going 'twice as fast' has twice the momentum. OTOH, KE, being momentum * velocity, is more abstract.

Hmmm, fancy indeed. With 150kW feeding a dipole at 700 feet, I imagine that a cat's-whisker [0] would have done well-enough in London...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_detector

This bacterial faculty for trans-generational memory reminds me of human epigenetics.

"Epigenetics refers to how your behaviors and environment can cause changes that affect the way your genes work. Unlike genetic changes (mutations), epigenetic changes are reversible"

https://www.cdc.gov/genomics-and-health/epigenetics/index.ht...