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Stolen Future Hadamard Gate · Album · 2025 · 11 songs

I'm proud of this album and looking forward to more people exploring it.

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*Stolen Future is a work of fiction. Any resemblance between its dystopian themes and the times in which we find ourselves living is not coincidental.

Stolen Future is my third album release as Hadamard Gate. This project has become the one that I enjoy composing and producing the most; it best captures the transportive and moody, simultaneously alien & intimate listening experience I aspire to craft.

Working from there, I added single take performances of ambient synthesizer soundscapes, providing organic and evolving (and at times unnerving) undercurrents.

My dark ambient project Hadamard Gate started from a simple conceit: just as a hadamard gate in quantum computing takes |0⟩ or |1⟩ qubits & puts them into superposition, I started w/classical instruments & orchestration, broke them up w/granularizers, & layered them w/time effects & distortion.

Yeah... I'm not holding out hope that this batch of LLMs has any hope of eg. generating meaningful insights from lit reviews. Still, a fair critique of evaluating LLMs this way is that ChatGPT isn't a dad, so when it tries to tell these jokes, that's a faux pas.

Q: w/LLMs, how much is pattern recognition, how much is lossily compressed regurgitation? Try this experiment:

- ask ChatGPT (or another chatbot AI) for its best family-friendly dad jokes, put in a few prompts & attempts.
- search w/operator site:reddit.com for best dad jokes.
- compare the two.

current reading. also the theme of my creative and scientific computation efforts in 2025.

💯! The Clojure scientific stack has become one of my secret super powers. Meanwhile, Python is being turned into TypeScript-lite by a bunch of zealots trying to "fix" the things that made it successful.

the utility of any branded software design philosophy over its lifetime reduces down to the worst outcomes experienced when it gets cargo culted.

Watching most of tech go all-in on scammy, low effort "AI" has been one of the greatest disappointments of my life.

all lifestyle philosophies are predictions. all predictions are wrong.

(with apologies to @stewartbrand.bsky.social )

attention hacking is not ok. dark ux patterns are not ok. clickbait -> ad arbitrage is not ok. causing & concealing harm to children is not ok. manipulation is not ok. connecting scammers to victims is not ok.

we do not have to accept these things as necessary or inevitable aspects of technology.

> can you tell me a one sentence horror story?
npm install ai

of course, that's an ideal case; environmental signals are more likely to push people into local minima where they're just continuously gambling on getting working code with the next prompt.

don't mean this as personal criticism of anyone; I recognize the business realities of our industry. but is there a silver lining? given that coding vendor glue while context switching doesn't exactly push devs to improve — can LLMs drain the shallows and free up dev time for more edifying work?

100% mine as well. tbh, the main thing I've learned in comparing my LLM experience vs. what others report, is how many devs are copying and pasting then modifying whatever glue code they find for working with a random lib or vendor api while never entering a flow state.