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Nick Cave Kicks Out The Jams While All the World’s AI Moshes in the Pit
In this great post over at Brain Pickings – Maria Popova shines a light on Nick Cave’s answer to a fan question about future artificial intelligence creating ‘perfect songs’ with no humans needed. The short answer is, yes they will, but the long answer is they still won’t be the same. Nick fucking lays it…
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Future Goggles
“The next medium, whatever it is—it may be the extension of consciousness—will include television as its content, not as its environment, and will transform television into an art form. A computer as a research and communication instrument could enhance retrieval, obsolesce mass library organization, retrieve the individual’s encyclopedic function and flip into a private line…
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Why What You Think You Know is Wrong – And Right – at the Same Time
Posted in: PsychologyWhy we can’t have nice things. Or agree. Great episode here of the You Are Not So Smart Podcast. Discussion centering around tribalism and polarization and the misconceptions we have about how we view what are ‘facts’ and what aren’t. Why what can be ‘true’ for one person is not necessarily so for another. In…
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Went for a Bike Ride
Visited the UNB Woodlot for a nice 15km spin before the pending storm. -16°C but sunny. Trails were spectacular. Well beaten double track thanks to snowmobiles and fantastic single track thanks to snowshoers and other riders. Harmonic convergence.
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Candle Wrangler
Posted in: MusicWas just listening to this album and remembered this iconic video from the heydays of MTV. What must it have been like to be the ‘candle wrangler’ on this set? What was the budget for bic lighters? “Damn, Sting just blew one out waving that hankie around. CUT! Everyone back to one…sigh“