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Spent some time last night playing with Stable Audio 2.0 and it's pretty clear this is going to massively change electronic music. Audio2Audio is incredible, you can take a simple underdeveloped idea from your DAW or gear and just ✨Upgrade✨ it.

"It seems warranted not only to infer that GPT-4’s relative performance...was lower than that reported by OpenAI, but also that GPT-4’s reported scaled score on the essay may have deviated to some degree from GPT-4’s "true" essay" link.springer.com/article/10.100…

🎉 It’s a big day for Google Gemini. Gemini 1.5 Pro now understands audio, uses unlimited files, acts on your commands, and lets devs build incredible things with JSON mode! It’s all 🆓. Here’s why it’s a big deal 👇 🔈 Gemini can hear Gemini understands audio (up to 9.5

Shoutout to Living Carbon with their latest plantings of photosynthesis enhanced poplars and native tree seedlings in Ohio! Check them out here: livingcarbon.com

Andrew Ng on What's next for an agentic future: youtube.com/watch?v=sal78A…

Taste is the absence of compromise + knowing yourself well enough to know what you want. This came up in a discussion I had today about hiring, but you could apply it to almost any context where the necessity of "taste" comes up.

We left so inspired by the Ginkgo Bioworks team after attending #ferment this week. Incredible to see such a grownup YC Biotech! Thanks Jason Kelly Christina Agapakis for including Living Carbon and do so much to cultivate the broader bio community.

Random ways to identify whether something might grab an audience's attention: it's loud, funny, profane, novel/distinct, it's famous or well-known (like the Simpsons' themesong) or it's informative/adds value.

AI songwriting tools will force us to raise the bar for the quality of songs we expect ourselves to write. Since getting to the first draft/demo is much faster, we can spend all of our time on the hard part: editing a song into perfection. #ai #songwriting

I love any technology that helps control/isolate sound. news.mit.edu/2024/sound-sup…

It’s only been 2 days since OpenAI revealed GPT-4o. Users are uncovering incredible capabilities that completely change how we use and interact with AI. The 12 most impressive use cases so far:

I'm pumped to announce that we're a part of the South Park Commons founder fellowship. Building with Nate Tippens in the AI + biotech space is a real joy. Let's gooooo

The well is not dry for music tech startups. Over $450m raised in the last 3 months: Output (creator tools): $46m ProRata (ai attribution): $25m Turntable (social music): $8.2m Tune FM (web3 streaming): $50m Seat Unique (VIP ticketing): $19.1m TickPick (no fee ticketing): $250m

Humans are wired to avoid uncertainty, but growth comes from leaning into it. Whether in music, startups, or life, the discomfort of the unknown is where the real progress happens. Stay curious through it all.

Using Claude on my Computer I've spent the last 24 hours hacking on using the new Claude Computer API on my Mac, and I can't really believe what I've got it to do. 1) Helping me find information for my friends

I've been reading the letters of Ted Hughes and reflecting on the lost practice of letter writing. When's the last time you wrote a letter? resobscura.substack.com/p/post-postal

TIL about Demucs, an impressive stem-splitting tool for producers/mix engineers. It’s free and already delivering cleaner splits than most paid tools I’ve used. Perfect for vocal isolations, mix eng, etc. #musicproduction

True or false? In logic → OR is commutative. In programming → OR’s evaluation order matters (due to short-circuiting). Bonus points if you can represent the logical structure of the question.

The reality of building web apps in 2025 is that it's a bit like assembling IKEA furniture. There's no "full-stack" product with batteries included, you have to piece together and configure many individual services: - frontend / backend (e.g. React, Next.js, APIs) - hosting