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The foundation upon which HipHop was built: Turntable & Sampler
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The combination of opensource with remote teams is incredibly powerful. It is a glimpse of the future of work in a world beyond artificial borders.
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Linus Torvalds has transformed the world more profoundly than any politician, manager, intellectual, banker or priest has in the past 100 years.
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Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter Reveals Himself: As a Composer
“My priorities in the world in 2023 are on the side of the humans, not the machines,” he said. “I have absolutely no desire or intentions to be a robot in 2023. There is absolutely not one reason I would want to be one.” - Thomas Bangalter
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CompMusic Hindustani and Carnatic rāga recognition datasets
About 120h of audio and pitch contours for 480 renditions across 40 rāgas from Carnatic music and 300 renditions chosen from 30 rāgas of Hindustani music.
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"Kindness remains, to me, the most wonderful miracle in this incomprehensible universe."
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As powerful language is, it is a limited & limiting form of communication. Case in point: After a heated fight, try giving someone a hug & simply being silent - VS keep talking. The difference is dramatic. It's no accident that most life on earth prefers embodied communication.
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Generative Music Tech Bro Communities
One of the prominent generative AI music communities distinctly feels like a ultra geeky tech bro festival, akin to hardcore gaming communities. Would Charlie Parker and Miles Davis (or any of the leading musicians of the past 100y) have intermingled with it?
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France’s baby bust - France was once Europe’s superpower, thanks above all to its enormous population. Its decline coincided with a collapse in its birth rate – now we know why.
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The notion that "intelligence" and "life" is a "distinct thing" that is contained "in a box" is likely one of the most short-sighted dogmatisms in current AI & Neuroscience culture.
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Is the time people spend talking with chatbots inversely correlated with the time people spend talking with people?
