Posts by yaxu@post.lurk.org
(DIR) Post #AhoeNu2VEaUgfhMmK8 by yaxu@post.lurk.org
2024-05-06T08:09:03Z
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Incredible work by @froos getting @tidalcycles parsed into @strudel (sound on): https://felixroos.github.io/haskell-tree-sitter-playground/#c2FtcGxlcyAiZ2l0aHViOnlheHUvY2xlYW4tYnJlYWtzIgoKZDEgJCBvZmYgMC4yNSAoIyB2b3dlbCAiPGEgbyBpPiIpCiAgJCBqdXhCeSAwLjQgcmV2ICQgZXZlcnkgMiAocm90ICI8MSAzIDI+IikgJCBuICIwIDwwIDQ+IFsyIDBdIFsyIDNdIiAjIHNvdW5kICJmZWVsIiAjIHNwZWVkICIxLjc1IDIiCgoKZDIgJCBqdXhCeSAwLjUgcmV2ICQgbGFzdE9mIDggKCgrIHNwZWVkICgxICsgc2luZSkpIC4gcGx5IDgpICQgbm90ZSAiMygzLDgpIiAjIHNvdW5kICJiYXNzIgogICMgc3BlZWQgIjwyIDQ+IgogICMgbGVnYXRvIDEKCmQzICQgY2hvcCAzMiAkIGZpdCAkIHMgInJpZmZpbi8yIiAjIGRlYyAwLjE0ICMgcm9vbSAwLjI=This is in pure javascript..
(DIR) Post #AhsQvbPsMKDi27JVcu by yaxu@post.lurk.org
2024-05-06T08:58:09Z
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@jarkman that's all fine, thinking about the future is a good thing to do, but they very often uncritically reference Italian fascists
(DIR) Post #AnKeWgUNXerUuTG36m by yaxu@post.lurk.org
2024-10-16T10:13:12Z
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I've been thinking a lot about what a friend pointed out - that mixed gendered spaces often quickly become male-exclusive because men tend to have much higher tolerance for arsehole behaviour than women, so it only takes one dodgy person to destroy a community as all the women basically leave. Once such a community has heavy male bias it can hardly recover, and its lack of representation means it can hardly succeed in any social, cultural or technical aims. Rings true for the extraordinarily bad gender balance in free/open source software in the context of the Stallman report.
(DIR) Post #Ao432yrjNSWnDyocIy by yaxu@post.lurk.org
2024-11-15T07:55:29Z
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I travelled down to Cambridge University to give a free talk a few weeks ago. Their procedure to reclaim travel expenses is an absolute joke, involving reading and processing three different documents with overlapping info, then sending information they already have to another email address manne which turned out to be manned by the same person who asked me to send it, to register with their system. Two weeks later nothing has happened so I can't even start the actual claim process which looks awful. I feel completely ripped off and disrespected by one of the poshest institutions in the world.
(DIR) Post #AqFlZZigOJvABEsYJE by yaxu@post.lurk.org
2025-01-19T16:00:31Z
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Turing: 'The ... question "Can machines think?" I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.'Every computer scientist ever since: "Turing said we can prove that machines think by making them trick people."
(DIR) Post #At3h9bWbn3VHSw4VaC by yaxu@post.lurk.org
2025-04-13T19:42:53Z
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In the early days of proto-algorave music, live coding wasn't really a thing yet and so everything was very carefully scored. Here's an early score by @adeward and I.The nice thing about it is that anyone would be able to repeat the performance exactly as intended
(DIR) Post #At4xXdwiEWdyLhj5FY by yaxu@post.lurk.org
2025-04-14T10:06:34Z
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"Today is a beautiful day to embrace being cringe."https://letter.visualgrowth.com/p/cringe
(DIR) Post #AwGc1AJcjjRrpJTkNE by yaxu@post.lurk.org
2025-07-13T08:50:33Z
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An incomplete list of people excluded from 'international' conferences that are in-person only and aren't streamed or recorded- People with caring responsibilities- People with disabilities- People with health vulnerabilities- People who don't fly in recognition of climate emergencies- People who work for orgs with ethical no-fly policies- People who have their travel disrupted due to climate chaos- People who only engage with fully open access scholarship (if you have to travel+pay to watch a talk, it's not at all open access, even if a related publication is)- People who can't leave their country for fear of not being let back in- People who can't get visas- Unfunded/underfunded people- People with unfavourable exchange rates- People who have limited holidays off work- People who can't afford it- etc..I guess you end up with rooms mostly of academics with travel budgets who are too senior to really do research any more, and research students with stipends. That's fine but the perspectives can feel limited, ungrounded and underinformed.. with a huge environmental cost.
(DIR) Post #AwHMkHTpXcGeyChgQa by yaxu@post.lurk.org
2025-07-13T09:00:52Z
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Is it better to let people know when you see them doing something when others have done something similar previously?I've found myself doing this a lot around live coding, on one level it seems helpful to know about prior art, and fun to talk about weird old projects/events. On the other it could be stifling to obsess over identifying the 'first' person to try something, and might feel like old people are trying to pitch their tents all over your garden.
(DIR) Post #AxDuOzhnI7YJN5kbVg by yaxu@post.lurk.org
2025-03-10T08:20:31Z
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It's really tricky to spread the word about events these days! I don't support corporate social media and you don't get read attention there anyway, mailing lists aren't what they once were, and this event wants to reach people across many patterny disciplines..Any help spreading the word across all the strange pattern-obsessed communities much appreciated!--Algorithmic Pattern is a new festival and conference for people curious about the practice and culture of algorithmic pattern-making, across algorithmic music, arts and craft. The first edition will take place both in Sheffield UK and online, during September 2025.The call for talks/papers is now open, deadline 2nd June - please see our website for details: https://2025.algorithmicpattern.org/call/#textiles #weaving #algorave #livecoding #algorithmicart #cfp #conference #patterns #pattern #craft #juggling #siteswap #origami #geometry #ethnomathmatics #choreography
(DIR) Post #AxDuP9jE1edgSQUt84 by yaxu@post.lurk.org
2025-03-10T11:58:16Z
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Really happy with the reposts this has got, thanks! Any feedback on the call - e.g. anything unclear or that doesn't quite speak your language, much appreciated!
(DIR) Post #AxDumuqF1gTxEk6n4K by yaxu@post.lurk.org
2022-04-27T10:04:05Z
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I'm a live coder, musician, organiser and researcher based in Sheffield UK. Currently I work full time as a research fellow with independent, open access and non-profit lab Then Try This (https://thentrythis.org/), exploring 'algorithmic patterns' https://algorithmicpattern.org/. I co-founded the tidalcycles (https://tidalcycles.org) and strudel (https://strudel.tidalcycles.org) projects, the TOPLAP (https://toplap.org/) and algorave (https://algorave.com/) live coding/algorithmic dance music movements, and the algomech festival (https://algomech.com).If you're interested in live coding specific things, please follow my other account @yaxu@toplap.org
(DIR) Post #AxDwoKCOQwyE4xGlXM by yaxu@post.lurk.org
2025-08-15T11:50:20Z
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I think the term "post-AI" has so much power, are people using it much yet?Just like postmodernism didn't reject everything about modernism, post-AI needn't throw out all AI.. But look beyond its dodgy ideals and hype to focus on other stuff.We don't need AI institutes, AI art funding calls, AI panels etc, when AI is an over-hyped, all-encompassing, meaningless marketing term. We don't need to give airtime to nihilistic accelerationist weirdos behind AI corporations. We've had enough discussions about the questions of authorship in generative art. We might want to use some statistical inference model in something we're doing but it isn't the thing.Lets have 'post-AI' events grounded in our desires, experiences, interests and challenges as humans living on earth, without isolating ourselves from people who sometimes find LLMs useful..Actually @anu1905 and I talked a bit about this in the context of algorithmic art here: https://youtu.be/V4AxoPjZNTY?feature=shared&t=9(h/t to @synte + @laura_porta)
(DIR) Post #AyVEYR69720N9SEfpI by yaxu@post.lurk.org
2025-09-23T16:02:24Z
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and one by one, the humane computing orgs pivoted to AI
(DIR) Post #AyWDVqe9lGpuixJ1Wa by yaxu@post.lurk.org
2025-09-23T13:34:51Z
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Any reading recommendations for a small collective looking to move from google dependency to self-hosting?We're collecting some resources here:https://doc.patternclub.org/s/QCwRlvO1A#
(DIR) Post #AyWVEWe4ffIIwX9nXs by yaxu@post.lurk.org
2025-09-24T06:48:58Z
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@lightweight @bigblen Thanks but yep that's our hedgedoc!
(DIR) Post #AyWWUDdbD05iZyyw4W by yaxu@post.lurk.org
2025-09-24T07:03:30Z
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@lightweight @bigblen thanks for all the OERu resources, added to our list :)
(DIR) Post #AzCXRYw7p9dyMRGGS8 by yaxu@post.lurk.org
2025-10-14T10:33:30Z
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Again I'm confused at the human urge to pretend something is way more automated than it really is. Examples:- Robot 'chef' that only automates the very least time-consuming part of cooking, serving no purpose but to slow things down: https://post.lurk.org/@jonty@chaos.social/115369437713532848- Automated sock making that requires extreme levels of human intervention https://slab.org/2022/02/13/how-generative-art-works/- David Cope's self-hyped computer-generated music that in practice is basically composed and edited by hand https://slab.org/tmp/wiggins-cope.pdf- Plus all the AI strudel code generators that have totally rigged demos featuring code ripped off from switch angel's handmade compositions..These are often really obviously not what they claim to be so who are they trying to fool? There seems to be some innate urge at work here.. Maybe trying to create a "zone of proximal development" for our mechanical/computational offspring?
(DIR) Post #B0yr2jj66tQCwSxyYi by yaxu@post.lurk.org
2025-12-06T11:21:00Z
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I really want to be interested in this "dark forest theory of the internet" but just listened to their podcast about the economics of it and they just went on and on about using substack and discord as if that was somehow revelatory? I couldn't get the point of what they were saying at all. Then they talked about how charging for membership of their closed group didn't really make money but helped weed people out, with no consideration that some people don't have spare cash? Then went into crypto and I tuned out but there was something about tax..https://post.lurk.org/@yaxu/115662439422697358
(DIR) Post #B0yyL2vSAKxtNZQJf6 by yaxu@post.lurk.org
2025-12-06T20:11:09Z
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@neauoire Ah they are NFT people? This all starts to make sense now ..