today's the prep day for a minor medical procedure, but I'm on a clear liquid diet... good news is that I get to drink apple juice for a day & eat real jello. Bad news: it's only ~9:25am.

London & Paris... People don't realize how big those cities are both in terms of physical size, or in terms of the percentage of the country's population that live there.

I have $20/month Claude Pro, & I just started using ClaudeCode for a project I've been working on for a while... With Opus 4.5, I've gotten more working & tested code written & am further along after eight 40 min sessions, over 2 days, than after 6 weeks with Summit 4.5 & the web chatbot.

My recollection of 90's Boston/Cambridge is that Mr Bartley's just off Harvard Sq was decent.

Not entirely surprising considering the competition.

These people work for the entity that runs this account.

Texans might have these around their yards..

those here who disable replies & quote reposts are explicitly telling you that they're not interested in anything anyone outside their core group of cronies have to say. so, I'm blocking those arrogant fuckers too.

Humans are arrogant assuming only they are the smart ones on this planet, anyone else with a dog that cocks it's head and looks at us like we're morons understand how smart they really are. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Why late 70s guitar players in the know worshipped Allan Holdsworth, pt 40.

In 60s/70s North London reggae was impossible to ignore, & there undoutedly exist many songs I don't know I know, just because they were part of the background soundtrack while growing up. Sly & Robbie provided much of the beat to that soundtrack.

George Carlin was right. We were just in denial.

#MusicChallenge #Top30FirstAlbumFirstTrack Unranked Day 23 The Specials Debut Album- The Specials Opening Track - A Message To You Rudy youtu.be/cntvEDbagAw?...

Merely the beginning: bet your ass that Chinese AI companies will commoditze this technology on a worldwide basis. Anyone, no matter where in the world they are, can get a world class, China sympathetic undergraduate-level education for free. This is how you build an empire with willing subjects.

"Pete Townshend of The Who was a real hero of mine, and I think still the best rock writer who wrote about The Who for Rolling Stone." -- Cameron Crowe

"One day, I realized all the dumb, selfish things people do... it's not our fault. No one designed us. We're just an accident, Harold. We're just bad code." -- Root

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

In January 1976 I started work on a Masters thesis in Machine Learning in the math dept at Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia (that dept's most famous graduate, Terence Tao, was only six months old). I have officially been full time in AI for fifty years now.

China has overtaken the rest of the world in key technological areas. AI will only allow them to press that advantage further.

Star Trek 90210

A humble (unlike Lesh & Garcia) & nice guy who played in a band whose music both sucked & blowed at the same time: not one recording of theirs is listenable sober (not even Winterland live). Back in 1970, they did pioneer what has become the standard business model for streaming-age musical acts.

It's vintage if it's worth more today than either the original list price or what you paid for it back then.

I love Tina Turner, but if we're talking original songs written for movies that are not specifically title songs, I'm not sure those two are even in the top 200. Hell, her turn in Tommy was better.

The basic design configuration for the Abasi signature guitar has been around for a long while. For example, Rondo has been building fanned-fret, angled pickup, staggered bridge guitars for well over a decade. Strandberg for even longer.

☄️☄️☄️ music.youtube.com/watch?v=90M6...

@wychstreet.bsky.social "Snapshots. David Bowie lives his life as a series of perfectly staged snapshots." -- Cameron Crowe

Maybe I'm in an argumentative mood, but I'm blocking people & their uninformed, contrarian horseshit take on various subjects, particularly music. Clearly dishonest, it's done entirely for posing & self-aggrandizement, & does nothing but add more excrement to the Internet's common discourse.

The UK isn't trusted anymore, either

Working on running MLCommons benchmarks... I really don't understand why something that's supposed to be simple is so complex & such a pain in the ass to deal with. Also don't understand why MLCommons didn't fully insist on making the models they use free from *any* license reqs (f**k Meta)

not sure how I feel about this. Bear in mind that it was the overzealous, condescending do-gooder types as well as the Farage types that drove me away from the UK. On the other hand, we've allowed corporations almost full, unfettered free rein when it comes to advertising to our children.

not even wrong.

Problem is that we've been collectively brainwashed to not give a shit about academic standards... otoh, bad high school football/basketball teams are a source of deep shame.

Don’t understand the irrational love Wall St has for Tesla… when my company barely missed its numbers (much less severely than today’s Tesla numbers) it dropped 30% in the morning session.

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it's ~9:40 on New Year's Eve & I'm doing laundry.

Allan Holdsworth was light years ahead of any other guitar player back in 1975, and the gap only got wider over the years.

My bet is on a TWh facility being built within the next five years, which will be unbelievably transformative. China is bringing down the cost of electrical energy at an astonishing rate, which is going to transform the world as much as AI. There's nothing big fossil can possibly do about it.

Because they pushed musical boundaries further than any of their contemporaries or successors, King Crimson remain the greatest rock band of the post-Beatles era.

fwiw, Ann Peebles' version of "I Can't Stand The Rain" was John Lennon's favorite record.

Happy 76th birthday, multi instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, and record producer Adrian Belew.🎂