Who the hell is this guy and why is my wife obsessed with him?

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Tom Clancy's The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State

Tom Clancy's Late Victorian Holocausts

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Just remember the mnemonic for the spaces on a treble clef: 1.) Everyone 2.) Enjoys 3.) E's 4.) (void).

Bard president Leon Botstein says Trump’s campaign against colleges follows ‘a classic antisemitic routine’ Botstein, born in 1946 in Europe to Holocaust survivors, has led the liberal arts college for 50 years.

For all Bard's (and Leon's) faults, this is a fantastic interview
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YouTube video by Chad Finer - Music in the Upper Valley JACK KRUSE and BRUCE BROUGH - UPSTAIRS at Dan & Whits in Norwich, Vermont on March 27, 2022

A somewhat new development, apparently Dan and Whits does a music series upstairs these days youtu.be/1u5LSp5UYNo

really don't care if you disagree with me, i think constantly filming everything everywhere is bad, i think the widespread deployment of facial recognition is bad, i think the fact there are cameras everywhere inside of arenas & that increasingly you have to use your face to buy a hot dog is bad

*in favor of...

But to the sake of society, I'm begging for us to go back to using massive parallel compute power for mostly just drawing triangles again

I worry about the expectation of it's use in programming work (that's an entire other discussion).

I've seen new generative AI tools put to impressive but discrete purposes (XBOW comes to minds).

When I know anything about the subject in question, and read a response as wrong as that, I have a vague feeling like, "Am I experiencing a 'neurological event'?"

The form of the Wikipedia article it's cribbing from is present but the note values are obvious nonsense.

Rarely is it as wrong as the above response but it is often unhelpful just adding layers of vague language around the concept in question. As the theory example shows, there's no reasoning going on in that response. Anyone with a rudimentary musical education can see the issues in the examples

I worry about the students I work with who are clearly relying on generative AI models when they've barely grasped the basics of the subjects we're working on. I also worry about the fact the university I work for has released a chatbot to respond to student questions on class message boards.

This kind of thing would be hilarious if generative AI weren't being embedded into every workflow and system, and a seemingly not insignificant number of people are willfully surrendering their basic ability to reason on favor of regurgitating the output from these models.

So, today Elon claimed that Grok can answer academic questions at a level higher than PhDs "in any subject, no exceptions." Since I'm a music prof, I asked it a PhD-level music theory question: Explain Neo-Riemannian theory.

Grok responded by getting every single part of its definition wrong.

Not much to add but want to echo what others have mentioned: the biography written by Porter is the best I've read. I wrote a comparison of a several bios of Coltrane back in undergrad and most were shockingly bad. I'll try to think if I have a rec that's more specific to your query.

*Mitch Wertlieb, Day Eight* "Folks, the pain is unfortunately just gonna continue, for both of us, until the goal is met"

Trader Joe's has switched to giving out single bags, instead of double by default. Folks, this is going to be a DEEP recession