Lovely paper

UNSOUND 2025 ARTIST TALK: JIM O’ROURKE YouTube video by Unsound Festival

youtu.be/ZfoJIkarV_o

I need to know what these mean!

Andy told me he recently heard someone describe something as "mid-training."

My personal definition is pre-training is “learning a representation” and post-training is “using that representation.” While that works in many contexts, it doesn’t work in anywhere close to all, e.g., generation tasks or even learning an action embedding are sometimes described as post-training.

I feel old when I hear or read other researchers use the terms “pre-training” and “post-training.”

Albini Sessions (Benefit for Letters Charity), by Fugazi 12 track album

Holy heck, Fugazi just released the 1992 Albini sessions for Bandcamp Friday! Proceeds going to Letters Charity.

@huxley.dog Hi, I read that you’re in Somerville! I’m in Somerville and have been keeping a fork of Mixxx with features you may or not be interested merging upstream (e.g., Ableton-like warping). Can I buy you coffee sometime?

One of the best!

Nice! I’m excited to check it out.

what if he linked a cumtown episode

and an additional fuck you to everyone who said we were overreacting during the patriot act and creation of DHS.

Pearl Jam’s “Vs.”

Mission of Burma’s record of the same name.

I dub Super Bowl LX "Vs. versus Vs."

2015 tweet from jon solomon: “I dub Super Bowl XLIX ‘Vs. versus Vs.’”

it is happening again

Yep (myself included)

Me, reading the timeline.

www.seangoedecke.com/addicted-to-...

the security of boys' chat is supposed to be sacred, mr. president

NVIDIA Contacted Anna’s Archive to Secure Access to Millions of Pirated Books * TorrentFreak NVIDIA executives allegedly authorized the use of millions of pirated books from Anna's Archive to fuel its AI training.

torrentfreak.com/nvidia-conta...

Jeff Buckley & Elizabeth Fraser - All Flowers In Time Bend Towards The Sun *Remastered* YouTube video by TheRightEarOfNash

youtu.be/cJLq_K45Ro8

*It's like framing Meta metaverse skeptics as "Metaverse denialists." They don't deny that Facebook's metaverse is there or that it works, they just think it was enshittified from the get-go because they distrust every executive, designer, builder and financer who was ever involved with it

this makes me think of Joes Place on Conan

youtu.be/f55hOQiSUhc?...

I know you’ll disagree since I’m sure you’d like him to focus on NYC but Zohran could provide some small but meaningful national opposition. I liked Matt Christman’s idea in the latest Chapo on NYPD refusing to help transport Maduro between Brooklyn and Manhattan.

Somerville and Cambridge too. Boston is mixed. We don’t have anyone like Zohran.

I think we need to evolve an etiquette around LLM-generated fixes. Kind of like ”don’t fart at the table”.

I don’t mind merging PRs where a human has done the due diligence to review the patch.

But it bothers me when I get blind fixes that are clearly wrong.

Björk - All Is Full of Love (Radio Strings Mix) (Original 4K Music Video) YouTube video by Björk: Music Video 4K

youtu.be/9JE6rUwfckI?...

We need a genuine opposition party.

they are recruiting for the worst, bottom-of-the-barrel chuds imaginable and those chuds are behaving exactly as you'd expect

the earliest feelies tape.

A reverse K99 would be interesting...

2 or 3 years of R01 type funding to wind down followed by 2-3 years of funding for supplies as you are hosted as an emeritus professor - and ineligible for future grants as a PI