It's clearly obvious to me how the camera doesn't make the photographer so I'm not sure why I want so many synthesizers

Another great Superbooth interview (kind of just a monologue) with/by Dave Smith on the history of his work from...two weeks ago: youtube.com/watch?v=qYGhzR…

Original print ad for Dave Smith’s Prophet-5 synth, 1977 🖤

peaceNquiet

Fields medal, here I come

Has somebody made sure DALL-E has gotten the hepatitis vaccine yet??

The John Coltrane Quartet performing “Afro Blue.”

[smiling, petting the bodega cat with my gun] only in New york

Putin's next (and final) battle. (This thread went viral in Russian so I decided to publish an English version as well) A long thread about what, in my opinion, is Putin's strategy right now, and the last gamble he is making to break Ukraine's resistance. 1/26

“I am not a donkey, I don’t have a field.” So scoffed Max Weber when a faculty non-entity criticized him for writing outside his narrow discipline.

get in loser we’re batching RPCs

hopefully julesh doesn't mind me divulgating this absolute piece of memic philosophy

Of course that's your contention. You're a first year grad student. You just got finished reading some pop science author, Michio Kaku probably, you’re gonna be convinced of that until next month when you get to Sean Carroll, then you’re gonna be talking about how anybody taking

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This is a page from a dictionary from the year 1900. That year, among the NEW words added were, "Automobile," "Electron," "Garage," "Ski," "Taxi," and "Wireless."

This is like asking: What % of ball touches in a football game result in a goal? It's a bad measure of success, not every pass is a shot on goal and it can need many passes to create a chance. Research works similarly. Most papers aren't breakthroughs and some are misses.

Why does the horn in basketball have to be so loud like that? You can get the message across without being so harsh I feel like

1/ Transformers don't count like computers. We assume they have hidden "registers" to track variables. We were wrong. New research by Anthropic reverse-engineered Claude 3.5 Haiku and found it works with 6D helical manifolds. It's geometry, not math. 🧵