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alberto_balsamon Brian Eno: What Art Does

That is a great quote.

Eno knew what made music powerful, and created many powerful pieces himself and with others, but the article captures well how artists can lose touch with that energy:

"When I listen to that song again, I think, ‘Jesus, I would never do that now.’ I could not leave that in that condition ... It’s so badly played but actually that is the character of the piece. I just wouldn’t make it now like that."

alberto_balsamon What Is the Fourier Transform?

Great explanation, thanks for sharing

alberto_balsamon A simple way to generate random points on a sphere

Note that the author is not referring to the accept-reject method here

alberto_balsamon Show HN: I Built a Prompt That Makes LLMs Think Like Heinlein's Fair Witness

This is quite a fascinating approach. The system prompt is quite succinct. Does the LLM always follow it in the manner shown in the examples? Do you plan to do any benchmarking?

alberto_balsamon The greatest soccer player never to play soccer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Dia

This is an infamous example of something similar in England. It is impossible to imagine anything like this happening in the modern game.

alberto_balsamon Arsenal FC AI Research Engineer job posting

Arsenal are doing very innovative things in AI and I believe have Karun Singh on their team who is extremely influential in the football analytics revolution that has occurred over the last decade. Exciting role (that due to other interests I cannot go for!)

alberto_balsamon Spotify Shuts Down ‘Unwrapped’ Artist Royalty Calculator with Legal Threats

The Spotify app started suggesting me albums it labels as "Sponsored recommendations" a few months ago and it's really put me off. Now it's hard to trust how good it is at finding new music if Spotify is admitting to deliberately excluding most of its database and prefiltering down to its sponsors.

You're right though, the rest of the things you mention do make it much tougher to decide on whether to switch and what to switch to.

alberto_balsamon Show HN: Experiments in AI-generation of crosswords

Do you know if there is a solution to this by humans? I'd be interested in seeing it.

alberto_balsamon Show HN: Get any domain's brand data via API

Nice idea. Have you tried it with sports teams?

alberto_balsamon Nearly all of the Google images results for "baby peacock" are AI generated

What makes you say this? I just tried a few Reddit searches about events from the last few days and they work as expected (tested in Kagi)

alberto_balsamon Legalizing sports gambling was a mistake

There exists big sports betting exchanges like Betfair, where there isn't a "house" and where they don't really have an incentive to limit big winners. I have friends who make consistent profit from these sites - though it must be said they do ramp up the commission

alberto_balsamon Just got doxxed to within 15 miles by a vision model, from only a single photo

It's only mentioned at the end of the video but the AI is using features of the camera like locations of smudges. However it does appear to also heavily use genuine geographic fingerprints like telegraph poles. I wonder how it would fare against a human on a test set that is completely independent of the training set in terms of camera characteristics.

alberto_balsamon Things unexpectedly named after people (2020)

But more than that, they are named after Linda Kasabian, a member of the Manson family who testified against Charles Manson in court.

alberto_balsamon The day I canceled my Spotify subscription

Spotify uses a pro-rata model, so your favourite indie band would only get $0.12 in your example.

This effect does not drown out once you scale up to a full user base either - it appears that the most popular artists benefit disproportionately. Other music streaming companies like Deezer apparently are pushing for a fairer model. See here for example: https://musically.com/2018/03/02/user-centric-licensing-real...

alberto_balsamon (Unsuccessfully) Fine-tuning GPT to play "Connections"

There is a UI for the game without the upper bound at connections.swellgarfo.com. Personally that annoys me as my friends are prone to sharing massive walls of incorrect guesses when they do badly on that site, but it sounds like it would be a good fit for you.