Just checking out Bandcamp - https://daily.bandcamp.com/best-of-2024/the-best-electronic-music-of-2024. Looks nice and I'm reading comments that it's good for artists.
[#]music #bandcamp #EDM
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Nice start to 2025 - finally bullied a toy reinforcement learning model I've been using to try stuff out into different behaviours for different parameters.
It only appears in the speed to converge, in the early learning stage. I was expecting to get a more qualitative difference where the model can just fail within certain parameter ranges but no luck there yet.
[#]actorcritic #AI
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Finished the very addictive but mercifully finite Spiritfarer, and tried out this UFO 50 thing, with 50 old-fashioned - very old-fashioned - games. It's extremely well-reviewed and I don't really get it yet. It's clever but they're really old-fashioned and clunky. Maybe the trick is to get past that and see the genius below? Overcome modern instant gratification?
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Listening to him on Spotify, all covers, lovely so far.
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Huh, music, oh yeah, it's not all sex parties, narcissm and murder. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R19egkC5QsM
[#]MikeDawes
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Discovered street art in a random local alley :O I dub it "Barksy".
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Was chatting about AI today and couldn't refind a post I'd made a while ago with some "proper" positive applications that don't seem to be in the public consciousness so much - put together a page to collate sources here: https://www.tegladwin.com/files/misc/AI_applications.php.
[#]AI #uses
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Good general point - when normal people fight back and fight for their own interests in some collective fashion, how does that get negatively framed?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/sep/23/nanny-state-health-junk-food-smoking-government
[#]nanny_state #legislation #health
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More on the Letby case - innocent or not I don't know, but the apparent attitude to evidence and "there could be no other possible explanation" were so concerning that I'm really glad they're looking deeper into the situation.
"Our investigation reveals a hospital unit operating beyond its skills and capacity – one that was understaffed and suffering from low morale, lacking the expertise to deal with babies with serious needs, [...]"
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/sep/08/a-superbug-doctor-shortages-and-a-neonatal-unit-out-of-its-depth-failures-at-lucy-letby-hospital-revealed
[#]Letby
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Like, maybe take someone originally created as an anti-hero and see if you can make them great, heroic, symbols of integrity, love and strength. Take a real challenge.
And if that's so much harder to do, is there a kind of entropy there, a direction of decay.
Maybe - Walter White uses his chemical genius to support his community in his last years and fight back against drug dealers. He invents non-addictive meth!
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Rings of Power critique: I've the same sense of something of value being lost and replaced by something actually less interesting at this point in time. It comes across as a distaste for anything that isn't made smaller or lower in a way, so the Elves come across as as easily corrupted as Tolkien's Men were supposed to be.
That said, I'm still watching it. It's still a form of creativity even if I'd prefer to see some reversals of the heroism-killing.
https://www.polygon.com/lotr-rings-of-power/446640/rings-power-trop-morality-lord-rings
[#]RingsOfPower
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