tag > Technology
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The foundation upon which HipHop was built: Turntable & Sampler
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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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“If I Could Turn Back Time”: Occupational Dynamics, Technology Trajectories, and the Reemergence of the Analog Music Synthesizer* - Good read on how musicians responded to new digital tools over a span of 40+ years — a an industry shift from analog to digital, and then back to analog.
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"Live musicians were so terrified of recording their music FDR had to step in"
#Comment: 100y ago, the emergence of recorded music & radio sparked intense debates among musicians, who viewed the new technologies as threats. In hindsight, it's clear that the transformation was swift, all-encompassing & largely positive. We can draw analogies from this experience today
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“What we really need is a new breed of artist-computer scientist” - Michael Noll (1970)
Image: Graphics Generated by A. Michael Noll at Bell Labs in 1962 on a IBM 7094 with IBM 7151 Console.
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Typical sounds of different animals:
- Cow: Moooo
- Dog: Wow
- Cat: Miau
- Bird: Tschirp
- Human: The noise of billions of cars, airplanes, chainsaws & leaf-blowers
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The Remarkable Ivan Sutherland
‘Engineering design has a strong aesthetic dimension. Beauty and simplicity gave the practice of engineering an aesthetics, an affective pull. I think that engineering and art are very closely related.”’
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Why *nix won
"Unix philosophy emphasizes building simple, compact, clear, modular & extensible code that can be easily maintained & repurposed by developers other than its creators. The Unix philosophy favors composability as opposed to monolithic design"
#Comment: There is a bad tendency in machine learning to build tools that are exactly the opposite of the Unix philosophy.
There are many species specific proprietary tools in nature, such as the human hand. But all essential innovations of nature, such as DNA, are wildly used across species in an open source fashion. This dynamic emerges at all scales of organization, from cells to software & beyond
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Participating in open source culture is a heart warming act of neighbourly love 🥰
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Mysteriously disappearing scientists
For decades, leading & especially upcoming scientists from all domains have been disappearing & were never found again. This subtle process leaves almost no traces in the history books, yet changes the course of history dramatically. What is behind this mysterious phenomena?
