If I recall correctly from the original Blue Zones book, the main difference in diet they noted in Loma Linda was the high amounts of nuts in their diet
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The way to go back then was the SGI Indigo w/96MB.
It worked best for me in the late '90's on a 9500, and even then needed an entire GB of RAM.
In the Deep South, at least, go to Sonic drive-in any night of the week and there'd be low-rider pick-up trucks whose beds were filled with 20 inch subs.
Also, any number of cars with the back seats taken out to make room for stupid loud window-shaking bass.
As an aside - going back to the '60's and the evolution of bass - one of the reasons The Beatles stood out when they started was that their lows popped on transistor radios because Paul recorded his amp using a loudspeaker instead of a normal mic.
If that was the intention of the artist, my opinion would be more towards they break the molds and delete the scans, instead of allowing infinite copies.
I'd think I'd burnout quicker with the longer hours
In art school they (responsibly, I thought) told us "it's very difficult to survive as an artist", so:
a.) Go to grad school and become a teacher b.) and/or, Become good at writing grants c.) and/or Don't quit you day job
Seeing all the hoo-ha about (visual) artists getting all up in arms about AI, my opinion is: if are you actually creative, not just concatenating things from "inspiration" web sites, then don't worry too hard. You'll find new questions to answer and new media to answer them in.
wrt musicians, I'll give any music try, ai or not. I'd be less interested in buying swag or seeing live performances of ai, and know a LOT of musicians who do it for love, so don't see them drying up altogether.
Always thought it was interesting, if anything.
"Zones of Thought" was a really smart idea once you got it. I put him as 2nd generation genius like "Hendrix -> Van Halen": "Asimov -> Vinge". Also (only real nitpick ever), like Asimov, was a little weak in dialogue and the poetry of words (comparing to Tolkein and Heinlein), but they were literally both STEM "Dr.s/PhD's".
Rainbow's End seemed to be the FAANG playbook for many years: drones, AR (google glass on), haptics, autonomous automobiles, and on and on. Was thinking literally yesterday about how the biotech and architecture/earthquake ideas hadn't made it to today (which is around when the story takes place), but the latency issues seem to have been licked well before now.
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But even more mind-blowing was the SGI booth where they had an Onyx running a VR demo where the user was building downtown New Orleans in legos. Based on that, our shop actually found quite a few customers willing to pay for VRML development, of all things.
Much more interested in AR, though. If you haven't heard of Steve Mann, he's been a huge inspiration:
https://blog.codinghorror.com/content/images/uploads/2007/07...
> To me, a piece that requires context and explanation is just another genre of work, and it’s a genre I appreciate. It can reveal that the creation journey often looks nothing like the finished product, and for many artists, the value of the work comes primarily from the process of expression.
I can get behind this. The issue for me is that artists who rely too heavily on their statements to impart meaning might be limiting themselves in their visual vocabulary and the conversation. Having known people who get upset when they are trying to convey very specific concepts outlined in their statement, but audience members choose to interpret it differently, the failure, to me, is within them, not the piece.
Part of my problem might be that when I was starting out, the only places in a gallery available for words was the name of the show and the title.
I tend to go around the galleries without reading titles or statements. I get more out of it making my own meaning from your work, while being able to pay closer attention to formal qualities.
One interesting book is "The Emperor Wears No Clothes", where they have a well-researched bibliography showing that the invention of the "Hemp Jennie" was the root cause, as it would have dramatically cut into cotton profits. It was the Cotton Lobby that fought hardest for criminalization.
I've known a couple of alcoholics who mainly kept drinking to keep away nightmares.
It's a totally new medium. Think Differently.
"Bad Animals" is my favorite.
For funk and hiphop, look at https://www.wefunkradio.com/ for the guest DJ every Friday night.
And Soma FM has lots of amazing curated streams. Hands-down, THE best holiday mixes, with several hours of all the versions of aulde lange syne on new years eve! https://somafm.com/
Had to take Color Theory to get my BFA. We learned things like the "speed" of colors: yellow is the "fastest" and purple is the "slowest". Only a little yellow is needed to balance out a lot of purple. Same for balancing the other colors. You use these balances for guiding the eye (lots of yellow on a purple field).
When you keep this in mind, diagrams or not, then the output will be "pretty" (not jarring) and "informative" (guiding the eye to the most relevant info).
Not sure why ppl think this is some new insight: Slashdot was "web 2.0" well before "web 1.0" was a thing. We had a reading group that went deeply into this after the publication of Kurzweil's "Age of Spritual Machines" (1999). AI is the baby of humanity, it will be trained on the web, blah-bitty blah blah.
Crypto and AI having nothing to do with the platforms or the delivery style/agents. IMO, "web 3.0" == "mixed reality 1.0", so I am biased