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Oh! Thanks for sharing. #4 is a winner!

I'm still wondering why the emphasis on the blues scale. Wouldn't knowing the mixolydian (good for building dominant chord) and aeolian (good for natural minor) be more complementa…

John Cage 4'33"

Alice in Wonderland - I read it once a year, just to remind me of how interesting imagination and paying attention in little things can be. I'm also thinking of going back to The P…

It's a pretty long read though. I wouldn't want to put myself through it again...

I'm keeping my ChatGPT Plus and Coursera Plus subscription for next year. Will likely cancel most of the other subscription to art and video generative AI.

It's starting to get more attention in the healthcare sector.

The good thing is, you will probably remember that one good one and forget about unsuccessful generations; just like how a gambler will only remember that one time he won something…

My 3 go-to app this year, after I give up a phone for a tablet, are MoonReader, Paperpile and Google Colab. MoonReader for book reading (lots of great textbooks this year on data s…

Because of reinforcement learning. The reward model add more value for output that sounded formal and professional, and penalise those that are more casual or incomplete. You can f…

Seconded. There are a lot of great communities on Stack Exchange, beyond Stack Overflow. I pretty much ask a lot of "stupid" question on Cross-Validated all the time.

Meteor strike and end of the world. LOL. Kidding. - 2024 will likely see a economic rebounding and more positive growth across most sectors. - Social media will be even more toxic …

Insightful. Too bad the author apparently stopped writing for 10 years now.

I would love to see a list of all the websites you hate.

Sounds similar to the popular question: why learn arithmetic when calculator exists?

So what does the code do?

Interesting idea. However, wedding is a difficult business to get into, as you are not likely to get repeated customers for your system. The lack of customer retention means that t…

As a SO user/contributor, the reduction of traffic is actually great news. The adoption of tools like ChatGPT and Github Co-Pilot did do is filter out repetitive questions and elim…

Interesting. How are you planning to cover the cost of running GPT and MJ on your site?

Sounds like this is the end of DeepMind as we know it. The move will only push the last remnants of DeepMind out of Google, as there are no leverage or incentive to stay.

I prefer A5 notebooks that are bound. Precisely because they are so portable, I don't ever want a binder that give additional and unnecessary girth. Binder for A5 is also not very …

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My daily driver is my Platinum Century (3776). The lavender colour just makes me feel like using it more.

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson for Environmental Science.

Typo: "payong"