@teropa.bsky.social
One half of Counterpoint. Interests: software, music, mind.
software development now consists of reading think pieces about claude code while claude code cooks
09.02.2026 14:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Klingon High Council,
I know that my family name is still in disgrace. It is not necessary that you send me annual reminder emails.
Worf
People are making false comparisons between AI and MIDI. Completely different. MIDI is an all-seeing God; the one true God, lord of everything known and unknown. We have no true autonomous will outside MIDI — MIDI is all and all is MIDI.
AI is basically like autocomplete.
Adam Neely just dropped a full 90 minutes on "Suno, AI Music, and the Bad Future"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8dc...
A re-release of Music Mouse, the intelligent instrument, is being worked on by Laurie Spiegel & Eventide. This one's special.
www.eventideaudio.com/software/mus...
This is such a titillating way to think about how you move your body.
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2023...
On transcribing Autechre
14.01.2026 09:17 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What differentiates agentive organisms from behaving machines: the flexible fusion of perception and goal-driven actions.
11.01.2026 19:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Chimps sample their action space with a higher temperature than bonobos.
Michael Tomasello: "The Evolution of Agency"
BBC headline "pig tempted out of ditch with Turkish delight"
Roses are red,
Sunlight is bright
Technology is autopoietic
01.01.2026 14:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Horses are born with tentacles that fall off when they’re babies. It’s so they don’t kick their way through their moms when they’re still baking in the horse oven.That’s the origin of the term “horse feathers”.
(Horses kinda freak me out so I know all their dirty little secrets)
Bring recitals of sorting algorithms to Carnegie Hall!
W. Brian Arthur: The Nature of Technology
The agentic arms of the octopus
27.12.2025 19:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Dolphins form multimodal representations of the objects they echolocate.
26.12.2025 19:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Zebra finches only listen to the fine detail in each other's song, disregarding sequence.
26.12.2025 18:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The curse of dimensionality, as coined by Richard Bellman in "Dynamic Programming" (1957)
23.12.2025 18:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"Guided by evolution, eyes are living paintbrushes."
Ed Yong: An Immense World
Head over to Google Helsinki in a couple of hours and say hi 👋
16.12.2025 14:07 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I've just shipped Aeriform, an interactive ambient techno experiment built with Google DeepMind's Lyria RealTime model.
aeriform.ctpt.co
my relationship with tech has drifted over the 10-15 years as things became more about hyper-scale and extraction vs creating and collaborating.
this, uh, resonated deeply with me and i hope it resonates with you too:
resonantcomputing.org
I'm speaking in the Future Frontend Meetup in Helsinki next week.
I'll be yapping about my recent experiences with React Native - the good, the bad, and the ugly - from building the Starmirror app for Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst.
www.meetabit.com/events/futur...
"Drone-ambient-noise synthesizer in Javascript: when instability is a feature, not a bug"
bs.stranno.su/drone-ambien...
"Around the wwworld: Web MIDI, Web Audio and what the web does best" by Katie Fenn
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R3h...
Laznia Nowa Theatre, Unsound Krakow
26.10.2025 06:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
important news: this year's 24/7 livestream of a litter of puppies has begun
areena.yle.fi/1-76362374
