This matches my personal anecdotal evidence. I stopped using AI except for menial tasks and verbose stuff which is conceptually easy but has syntax that is hard to remember (eg matplotlib).

Computer-vision research powers surveillance technology - Nature An analysis of research papers and citing patents indicates the extensive ties between computer-vision research and surveillance.

New paper hot off the press www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance

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**Lyrics Transcription:** Consistency loss aligns vocal and mixture encoder representations, improving transcription on music mixtures.

WHO’s emergencies director, Mike Ryan, sounds the alarm on Israel’s ongoing genocide operation in Gaza. Netanyahu has turned the strip into an open air concentration camp and is deliberately starving civilians.

Have fun, titan, I wish I was there too! ❤️

What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.

“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

I was at a punk show in 83 where a skinhead jumped up on stage and gave a Nazi salute.

The bass player hit him with his bass, knocking him into the crowd and 150 people collectively hauled his ass out of the venue and threw him in the mud.

This was the right and only appropriate response.

The people still trying to deny the bio pathology of Long Covid & ME/CFS by calling it psychosomatic or deconditioning are so embarrassing. They sound like climate deniers & flat earthers. Can’t wait for the day public consciousness catches up & good scientists don’t have to waste time refuting them

The GigaMIDI Dataset with Features for Expressive Music Performance Detection | Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval The Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval publishes novel scientific research in the field of music information retrieval (MIR), an interdisciplinary research area concerned with processing, analysing, organising and accessing music information. We welcome submissions from a wide range of disciplines, including computer science, musicology, cognitive science, library & information science and electrical engineering.TISMIR was established to complement the widely cited ISMIR conference proceedings and provide a vehicle for the dissemination of the highest quality and most substantial scientific research in MIR. TISMIR retains the Open Access model of the ISMIR Conference proceedings, providing rapid access, free of charge, to all journal content. In order to encourage reproducibility of the published research papers, we provide facilities for archiving the software and data used in the research. To avoid excessive cost to the authors or their institutions, TISMIR is published in electronic-only format.

Very excited to share our latest work, the GigaMIDI dataset with > 1.4M files, published at #TISMIR 🤘 It was a huge pleasure to collaborate with such a team of titans

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Gotta try it as well, then. I've been pretty disappointed with any AI integration in PyCharm (including Codeium, tbh)... maybe this one is the thing, though!

Wow. it must feel terrible when someone takes something you made and uses it without permission or payment

Learning to Listen | Max Alper In her new book, Liz Pelly examines how Spotify came to conquer the music industry—to our collective detriment.

“Spotify was happy to align themselves with piracy when it made them seem cool, and then they were happy to align themselves with the anti-piracy sentiment when it was good for business.”

👇🏽

Production Volumes of Johann Götz's Breweries, 1847-1876 - Daft Eejit Brewing Daft Eejit Brewing - Production Volumes of Johann Götz's Breweries, 1847-1876

In Kraków, I found some interesting production statistics from 1847 to 1876 of the two breweries owned by Johann Götz in Okocim and Kraków: dafteejit.com/2025/01/prod...

#beerhistory

Literally every company now YouTube video by Eleanor Morton

Literally every company now

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These people are your enemies

This is such an inspirational insight from Jorge Luis Borges 🙇‍♂️ super relevant today in our quest for more and more and more data

Donations to Biden's inaugural fund in 2021:

Meta = $0
Tim Cook = $0
Sam Altman = $0
Google = $200,000
Amazon = $200,000

Donations to Trump's inaugural fund in 2025:

Meta = $1,000,000
Tim Cook = $1,000,000
Sam Altman = $1,000,000
Google = $1,000,000
Amazon = $1,000,000

The oligarchy is here.

I did it again!

Jurassic Park with accurate raptors, a short part 2

#jurassicpark #blender3d

The boring and sad part is that big players hijacked and bastardized a discussion on ethics into a discussion about copyright claims, as if the morality of something that impacts human essence is a question of money flowing into the right corporate hands.

Learning to play bass and I so much wish Hysteria by Muse would be just 10 bpm slower. 🥵

The main impact of LLMs for programming will be tons of verbose and unnecessary docstrings that ever-so-slightly misdescribe what a function does.

So einfach ist das: Trump gewinnt die Präsidentschaft, Musk erhält einen Regierungsposten, und prompt machen Werbetreibende einen #Kniefall. Disney, IBM und Warner Bros. schalten wieder brav Anzeigen auf #X .

An Austrian man on stage who is about to speak about the history of Vienna lager. There is a slide being shown that says "Historic Vienna Lager and how to brew it Andreas Krennmair".

@akrennmair.bsky.social is currently speaking about Vienna lager at the Polish Craft Brewers Symposium.