teropa
One half of Counterpoint. Interests: software, music, mind.
- Reposted by teropaKlingon High Council, I know that my family name is still in disgrace. It is not necessary that you send me annual reminder emails. Worf
- Reposted by teropaPeople are making false comparisons between AI and MIDI. Completely different. MIDI is an all-seeing God; the one true God, lord of everything known and unknown. We have no true autonomous will outside MIDI — MIDI is all and all is MIDI. AI is basically like autocomplete.
- Adam Neely just dropped a full 90 minutes on "Suno, AI Music, and the Bad Future" www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8dc...
- A re-release of Music Mouse, the intelligent instrument, is being worked on by Laurie Spiegel & Eventide. This one's special. www.eventideaudio.com/software/mus...
- This is such a titillating way to think about how you move your body. www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2023...
- On transcribing Autechre
- I interviewed guitarist @shaneparish.bsky.social about his incredible new album of Autechre covers for @billorcutt.bsky.social's label futurismrestated.substack.com/p/fr-150-gui...
- Chimps sample their action space with a higher temperature than bonobos. Michael Tomasello: "The Evolution of Agency"
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- Bring recitals of sorting algorithms to Carnegie Hall! W. Brian Arthur: The Nature of Technology
- "Guided by evolution, eyes are living paintbrushes." Ed Yong: An Immense World
- Zebra finches only listen to the fine detail in each other's song, disregarding sequence.
- The curse of dimensionality, as coined by Richard Bellman in "Dynamic Programming" (1957)
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- Head over to Google Helsinki in a couple of hours and say hi 👋
- I'm speaking in the Future Frontend Meetup in Helsinki next week. I'll be yapping about my recent experiences with React Native - the good, the bad, and the ugly - from building the Starmirror app for Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst. www.meetabit.com/events/futur...
- I've just shipped Aeriform, an interactive ambient techno experiment built with Google DeepMind's Lyria RealTime model. aeriform.ctpt.co
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- I'm speaking in the Future Frontend Meetup in Helsinki next week. I'll be yapping about my recent experiences with React Native - the good, the bad, and the ugly - from building the Starmirror app for Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst. www.meetabit.com/events/futur...
- "Drone-ambient-noise synthesizer in Javascript: when instability is a feature, not a bug" bs.stranno.su/drone-ambien...
- "Around the wwworld: Web MIDI, Web Audio and what the web does best" by Katie Fenn www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R3h...
- important news: this year's 24/7 livestream of a litter of puppies has begun areena.yle.fi/1-76362374
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- i feel seen
- I computed Stable Audio Open latent space embeddings for my Bandcamp music collection. A nearest-neighbour traversal reveals fun connections.
- Joan La Barbara
- Jim O’Rourke & Eiko Ishibashi
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- Visualising principal components of Stable Audio Open latents over time. 0.8s hann window, 0.03s hop (latent rate ≈21.5 Hz)
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- sonnet 4.5 seems to respond quite well to explicit "give me some chain-of-thought on this" requests. self-corrected nicely with this slightly delicate bit of logic.
- sonifying the wind on a great circle journey around the globe
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- putting sonnet 4.5 through its paces as an ambient melody composer
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- track id
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- "If mind is everywhere, where are all the panpsychiatrists?" thoughtforms.life/if-mind-is-e...
- "Big Tech treats its techies better than its artists because it has to: there are far more tech jobs than there are qualified technologists to fill them. The instant that changes, those engineers are toast." Rebecca Giblin & Cory Doctorow: Chokepoint Capitalism (2022)
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- 1KB JS Numbers Station by Terence Eden shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/07...
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- coding with ai assistance shifts ballmer's peak at least a couple of notches to the right
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- the brainrot is setting in. just noticed myself basically running the world's slowest most expensive shell.
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- "Audio Signal Processing in the Artificial Intelligence Era: Challenges and Directions" A good review paper on the status of ML for various audio tasks, and the major open problems. aes2.org/publications...
- "It’s likely that as AI advances and makes reasonable facsimiles of even more genres, there’ll be a reverse push for realness—akin to listeners obsessing over vinyl or obscure formats, the human touch could become a boutique feature, like raw milk at the farmer’s market."
- NETtalk (1986) neural network for text to speech phoneme translation. 18K weights. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gakJ...
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- The Backrooms: CSS Edition codepen.io/ivorjetski/p...
- Tonality Fluctuation & Ryuichi Sakamoto youtu.be/Gm2bgDGU4M8?...
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- safari is finally adding audio support to webcodecs webkit.org/blog/16993/n...
- "We won’t find salvation by escaping technology, but by using our awareness—our capacity for critique, ritual, invention, and refusal—to carve out room for messiness, for mourning, for risk, and for deep attention." AI, Heidegger, and Evangelion fakepixels.substack.com/p/ai-heidegg...
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- I adore E.T. Jaynes' scheme to handle evidence-updating in decibels, and I demand the entire world adopt it immediately.
