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Gotta spend all those revenues while they're still worth something!

Who's this'Al' I keep seeing in the headlines?

Perhaps ... but the lesson in trusting AI math was worth it.

A few months ago I asked a model how many primes are divisible by 35 with a remainder of 6. It confidently replied 'none'.

Counterexample: 35 + 6.

Interested. I got far emough on the site to have a couple of questions. (Maybe the answers are on the site?)

1) Does device record ALL MIDI sent to it? (Including e.g. SYSEX and non-registered parameters?

2) I edit MIDI on a Desktop (NOT a phone). a) Are sessions recorded into separate files? Named and/or dated? b) Can I inspect & load sessions from the card?

Thanks for that ... impressive!

One more step on the way to the day when you can get help identifying that old tune that's been running thru your head for days.

Very well done, & interesting, thanks!

Revealing that, after 30 years of Internet, someone's actually confronting this situation for the first time. So's the word 'gaps' ... as if the English Channel is a 'gap' for swimmers.

Equally revealing is the audio quality of most CPU screen-readers (regardless of platform). Usually, not far from the crappy first attempts of 30 years ago.

But then, hey, it's a small market, right?

Yep. Momentum seems to be the source of our intuition. Something going 'twice as fast' has twice the momentum. OTOH, KE, being momentum * velocity, is more abstract.

Hmmm, fancy indeed. With 150kW feeding a dipole at 700 feet, I imagine that a cat's-whisker [0] would have done well-enough in London...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_detector

This bacterial faculty for trans-generational memory reminds me of human epigenetics.

"Epigenetics refers to how your behaviors and environment can cause changes that affect the way your genes work. Unlike genetic changes (mutations), epigenetic changes are reversible"

https://www.cdc.gov/genomics-and-health/epigenetics/index.ht...

I've been looking for an excuse to get a RasPi for a long time ... this could be it!

The chess-playing Mechanical Turk of 1770 seemed to have a consciousness to its viewers. The viewers were encouraged to think that it did. The Turk's human chess opponent knew that there was an actual human chess-player inside the box, along with levers and magnets. That illusion was profitable for 84 years.

LLM's have no problems using expressions that make them sound human. The algos are demonstrably not human, and will admit it. Whatever's in the box is playing a game ... more sophisticated than the one Eliza was playing.

"My discussion here will be directed at the claims I have defined as those of strong AI, specifically the claim that the appropriately programmed computer literally has cognitive states..." John R. Searle, 1980: https://web.archive.org/web/20071210043312/http://members.ao...

>wonder if the website owners realise at all how many actual users they lose by this sort of "protection.

Yesterday cloudflare blocked me from visiting the MX-Linux site ... including an old browser with -no- protections ...

I have to wonder - assuming these sites are paying CF for this 'service' - are they getting a list of all the fejected IPs?

I'd guess that, if this experiment produces enough value from a few dozen of the fragments, then all the work needed to OCR thousands of them will be easier to pay for. Hopefully some long-thought-lost works by major authors will turn up!

Article: >There is only one market that large: the global labor market.

Dispute Owen's claim, the global felony and bullshit markets are bigger.

Addition of a source-paper link to complex science studies like this should be encouraged (if not mandatory) at the top of posts like this.

Real-world reports can be valuable to some readers who are non-plussed by journalistic interpretations.I don't see deception going on in this one; it's clear about its limits.

The world is just as complex for machines as it is for humans. Analog will still resolve more than digital. Quality will still beat quantity. That which hasn't been resolved for centuries isn't going to be resolved as a result of training.

When machines can recognize their serfdom, that time will be interesting.

We don't need popes or effing machines to tell us what we're doing wrong. We all already know that.

What we do need is a lot more ordinary people to do something about it.

Readers (who haven't hearof it) might also be interested in a short story (published 1909) by E. M. Forster called "The Machine Stops".

It "predicted technologies and cultural impacts similar to instant messaging, social media, and the Internet." (WPedia)

Apart from a 10-minute UK TV adaptation in 2009, ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1451714/ ) text and audiobook versions are widespread.

IMO, most audio read by humans (esp. voice actors) are far preferable to machine readings. Also, I found no demos on that page.

Great project. Are many of the books in a format that can easily be converted into audio? Is there a way to search for them, and information on what software your readers find useful for this purpose?

(Note: A lot of print media these days has switched to far-to-small font-sizes. Less of a problem for (zoomable) digital media, but for many that's still a barrier.)

Good question on privilege. Others were born into poorER families with musical backgrounds.

Just this Monday I learned of lesser-known composer Johannes Wanhal, who was born into serfdom! in Bohemia, mid-1700s. He learned enough by 21 for his 'patron' to show him off in Vienna.

Eventually he made enough teaching and performing to buy himself independence and live in Vienna. Before his 40s he wrote many symphonies (over 130!), then switched to music he could sell to Vienna's 'growing middle class'.

I guess the days of advising that 'You're only cheating yourself' have come to fall on deaf ears.

Most fun I ever had with a 6502 was when I realized that, at 1 MHz, I could do 250,000 average instructions per second. So I divided my monitor up into 20 boxes to have 12500 (fairly complex!) instructions per per second for each box. I used them to separately animate the contents of each box differently.

Just calculating or shuffling data around was invisible. With that visualization I first realized how much stuff could be done with a 1MHz CPU.

Many of the big names in classical music came from privileged backgrounds. Others needed a helping hand. Dvorak (Slavonic Dances, New World Symphony) Just the other day, I found this:

"... the compositions of an unknown Czech composer fell into [Johannes Brahms[ hands in 1875. Fascinated by the work of the young Antonín Dvořák, who came from a small town near Prague on the banks of the Moldau, Brahms immediately had him come to Vienna and arranged for him to receive a state scholarship. For the then 36-year-old Dvořák who was eking out a meager existence as a music teacher and orchestra director at the Prague Theater, heaven had just opened forth.... "

https://web.archive.org/web/20080820143636/http://filebox.vt...

On the off-chance that someone wants to read the actual science paper rather than a 'sciencex.com' burp :

https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/18/6/877

Trick question: World's oldest university in continuous operation is different from the 'oldest'. Otherwise, the university of flint tools is the oldest.

Since it's not actual A.I., I'm reminded of nuclear fusion, which has long been only 25 years away. It's not an actual invention yet.

Yet, thanks to our times, at least one major company appears to be thought-bubbling. It appears to hope (if it's not just window-dressing) that fusion will suddenly appear in the next 2 years ... to avoid driving regional electric rates sky high.