Posts by dj2mn@mastodon.sdf.org
(DIR) Post #B4Om944KexHqQKNHSi by dj2mn@mastodon.sdf.org
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@lardmotel hahahahaha serves them right
(DIR) Post #B4bD0Vqx1CbWeDmV2u by dj2mn@mastodon.sdf.org
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@lardmotel oh I'm not obsessed I'm just . troubled by the term "1900s" and how it sounds so last century, but last century is the one with Queen Vicky and cholera and steam trains isn't it?.. isn't it?
(DIR) Post #B4bRO2LbllyFRjESmm by dj2mn@mastodon.sdf.org
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@lardmotel well I do like* that comparison with the 1920s I've seen kicking around. You know, the one where the financial markets are getting a bit out of control and autocratic dictators are on the rise while the rich take drugs and party, like it's 1929.. or something like that..
(DIR) Post #B52UQdGyzxsRg5urPE by dj2mn@mastodon.sdf.org
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@lardmotel My favourite thing at the Hobart show when I was a 5yo was the pigs. Probably because that's about all they had at the Hobart Show in 1972.
(DIR) Post #B53wi3hsxkUYSVYcZE by dj2mn@mastodon.sdf.org
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About that Hachette novel that was pulled. https://www.reddit.com/r/horrorlit/comments/1q8so32/shy_girl_by_mia_ballard_does_anyone_else_think
(DIR) Post #B5GdbjzLzP5FUZTsI4 by dj2mn@mastodon.sdf.org
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Just heard that the producers of Disney's The Lion King musical in Sydney have reduced the size of the band from 17 to 11 musicians by using .. whatever the heck this is https://keycomp.com ..not that I was ever going to go and see that show, but still.
(DIR) Post #B5Im9NFGF8dIkYODwW by dj2mn@mastodon.sdf.org
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@lardmotel My take is - Back last century when computing was being invented, it was an engineering task and tended to be done with engineering mindset and values, whatever they are. Ever since around dot-com-boom times though it seems carefully thought out solutions implemented as best-practice have mattered less, and compute power has increased to be able to cover the holes. In other words this claude code is an insult to the practice of engineering and they should be fired into the sun.
(DIR) Post #B5ImVOhTVvGDdL5Wvg by dj2mn@mastodon.sdf.org
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@lardmotel @jonny recently saw someone say there's more compute in your car's key fob than what they had on the Voyager missions. Now imagine the code for the Voyager missions required enormous server farms and a bazillion electricity to function - and didn't even work 100% of the time. That's what we're looking at here.
(DIR) Post #B5JQWQjvPekWPnHVs8 by dj2mn@mastodon.sdf.org
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@lardmotel wanna go to this for a laugh? "OMNI is the world's leading AI film festival." lol it's 45 minutes long.https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/omni-sydney-genai-film-festival-tickets-1986955086150
(DIR) Post #B5ognVl1dEbk4Dijp2 by dj2mn@mastodon.sdf.org
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"The transformer had assembled a patchwork of heuristics, accurate for every solar system in the training set, but it hadn’t discovered the universal gravitational principle."This resonates strongly with my experience of 'vibe coding' actually - the AI produces code that works just fine on a surface level, but the codebase itself as it develops over time has no 'understanding' of what it's for or how it got where it is. That becomes a huge burden. https://www.thetransmitter.org/machine-learning/can-ai-do-neuroscience-without-understanding/
(DIR) Post #B6H07DdG4MM9CQ4nSq by dj2mn@mastodon.sdf.org
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Fskcing Gartner. I got an email at my work address. No interest. Clicked on unsubscribe and was taken to a google form that requires you to log in with a google account and SEND YOUR GOOGLE EMAIL ALONG WITH YOUR WORK ADDRESS how is that even legal.
(DIR) Post #B6PZUTYi4VSWupSBAO by dj2mn@mastodon.sdf.org
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Not sure which rabbit hole I went down to end up at this post.. but it describes almost exactly my own experience and thoughts while using the AI to get a website API up and running faster than I could have on my own. https://lalitm.com/post/building-syntaqlite-ai/
(DIR) Post #B6Rkmc1unpkUDEsufY by dj2mn@mastodon.sdf.org
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@lardmotel cheeky
(DIR) Post #B6m0Nk85VyVPstst1c by dj2mn@mastodon.sdf.org
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@lardmotel @jakobw I think you need as few or as many instruments as you need to make you happy and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
(DIR) Post #B7dkkYCfDeLhVilGTI by dj2mn@mastodon.sdf.org
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Someone has paid someone to write “jesus is coming” in the sky over Sydney this morning. How much would it cost to get the retort “oh no he’s not!” from Life of Brian up there tomorrow that would be fun(maybe not the first thing i thought of though which probably wouldn’t work because too many letters but “someone get him a tissue” would be hilaaaarious)
(DIR) Post #B7g1BJQKGTHT4dr1vc by dj2mn@mastodon.sdf.org
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@lardmotel J has the DP/4 and was phasing something with it on the weekend and that phaser I don't know it's just unique and makes me drool a bit.
(DIR) Post #B7g1NqnvyuqS4rsM6K by dj2mn@mastodon.sdf.org
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@lardmotel yes that's what I'm saying, it does sound like how i remember the hardware did. Mind you, the VST isn't much use in my studio because of how the computer's inherent latency throws everything out of time.
(DIR) Post #B7m9vmvqqlbIUm23Jg by dj2mn@mastodon.sdf.org
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OOF I'm a bit crusty this morning but staying up past midnight was worth it to see so many happy people at BIG BEATS in a SMALL BAR. I keep getting people saying to me how brilliant this thing is that _I_ started and I'm like .. I don't know.. did I?I feel a bit like the chaos butterfly. All I did was flap my wings that one time and now look. A whole community of musicians and artists finding common cause. Warms me cockles it does.
(DIR) Post #B7sML0W6UKzC49sOiO by dj2mn@mastodon.sdf.org
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@SDF @lardmotel ahaha I admire the optimism.(btw thanks for all your work on the instance upgrade.. looking good and seems to be mostly back to working again now :)