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Airplane was an awesome product, but I think that was basically just an aquihire. I don't think Airplane had built a sustainable business.

Wow, well, that's one of the more f'd up things I've ever read about. Not sure what else there is to say.

I don't think a redundant recognizer algorithm is required to explain minor. Centuries before we had major and minor tonality, we had the diatonic scale. Through the Renaissance, t…

I would actually invert that and say that melody and rhythm are the most fundamental aspects of music. A harmonic progression with no sense of melody or rhythm is quite boring. Har…

The primacy of the major scale happened many centuries after the diatonic scale came to be predominant in Western music. The primary development that led to major tonality was the …

Yes, not having had the time to read TFA or the paper you shared yet, it immediately stands out to me that the bibliography of the latter paper is far more comprehensive.

If you want to go way deep, check out Tymoczko's first book: https://dmitri.mycpanel.princeton.edu/geometry-of-music.html It's a challenging read, but extremely thorough and enligh…

I also jumped straight to the bibliography to look for those two. Not seeing any reference to their work is disappointing and makes me a little pessimistic that digesting the entir…

Apparently, they do

Found the robot, y'all

Yep. The Crisis of the Third Century, especially. But also, pre-imperial Rome, a number of times. The Conflicts of the Orders, the entire late-Republican period from the Gracchi to…

> These findings differ from earlier studies that associated rudeness with poorer outcomes, suggesting that newer LLMs may respond differently to tonal variation. Unless the mechan…

It would be interesting to understand the data on this. But I suspect that the results would vary by model. But I avoid unnecessary emotion in my prompts because I don't want poten…

Every now and then, a random math or science concept hits front page. Usually, people chime in with interesting perspectives on it. Guess we'll see.

I do think there is going to be an entire risk market for insuring against AI mistakes.

I've used Vim plenty for the past 30 years. I don't prefer it to GUI text editors.

I've always been a bit mystified by the popularity of TUIs. To me, the power of the terminal is the streaming model. Composible utilities is something that is much less common in G…

I use VSCode and Conductor right now.

They recently got bought by Cursor.

I think there's a pretty good chance Adam Back is Satoshi, but I don't think this is a great article. Perhaps he's rendering a careful scientific process in a way that makes for a …

When I read the article, I was taken aback by the clear references to fraud in the before and after photos. We're in an absolutely golden age of grift.

Depends on what you mean by "win". It would be possible to go in, topple the regime and secure the nuclear material. But only at astronomical cost and years of blowback

All those ships stuck on either side of the Strait of Hormuz and their insurers would beg to differ.

A pipeline will circumvent Iranian tolls, but would be vulnerable to Iranian strikes in a war.