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I put out the flag and read some poetry this morning: Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Dean Young, Claudia Rankine, Terrance Hayes. As battered and damaged as we are, I have to think there’s some slight hope for democratic ideals. And I let Malcolm stay up late last night to watch the neighborhood’s homemade fireworks displays. Literal squeals of delight. Here’s some Tony Hoagland that maybe captures a bit of the feeling. …

It's not just the firmware you can mod on Korg's ultra-low-priced NTS-1 effect/oscillator. You can also mod the hardware. Here are two Eurorack conversion kits, other custom cases, plus Korg's own resources for your own DIY efforts. The post Eurorack kits, cases, and more ways to mod your Korg NTS-1 hardware appeared first on CDM Create Digital Music.

This screenshot basically sums up “the internet as we know it”. For the past decade or so the social internet has consisted of a handful of websites that the vast majority of people frequented. The list isn’t just limited to 5 websites, and the websites themselves have changed over time, but include or have included sites like: Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, YouTube, Instagram, and others. I’m deliberately excluding e-commerce sites and …

The back and sides of this guitar are of narra, which is an alternative name for a wood that's most often marketed here in Australia as New Guinea rosewood.According to Wikipedia, the tree is a species of Pterocarpus native to southeastern Asia, northern Australasia, and the western Pacific Ocean islands, Cambodia, southernmost China, East Timor, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, the Ryukyu Islands, the Solomon Islands, Thailand, and …

There’s not much in this post, but I wanted to mark a significant date. It is the first day of the rest of 2023, but in addition, it is the beginning of a new chapter for me. Yesterday was my last day as an employee of the University of Southern … Click to continue reading this post → The post And so it begins… appeared first on Asymptotia.

Whenever I’m stuck on a writing project—an all-too-frequent occurrence—I usually try to find my way forward by contemplating a single question: How can I shift what I’m trying to say without reaching for cliches? Because a lot of the time, the reason I’m banging my head against the wall is because I’m taking an approach to the material that’s too conventional or predictable. So I force myself to take a …

202311″ x 7″ x 10″Bronze This self portrait was generated by using a 3D scanner to scan my face, illustrating how the technology imperfectly sees me. The result is full of artifacts. Pieces of skin floating above my face, deranged features, soulless eyes. This is how the machines see us. The 3D scan that the scanner produced is shown below in all its disturbing glory: And here are a few …

I’m writing these notes from a train on Platform 6 in Leeds station, the second of four trains that will take me to Brighton for tomorrow’s Brighton Ruby conference. To be even more specific, as with my past two weeknotes, I’m using iA Writer and Working Copy to publish these on the move. The liquidation of my company is steadily progressing with all debts settled and a shareholders’ meeting scheduled …

Congratulations, Second Life®, for achieving two decades of continuous existence!

Rollage vol6: Traditions EP by Dusk + BlackdownI've interviewed 100s of dance music producers over decades & I've spotted a pattern. Unlike, say, songwriters there's usually more stories behind the music, titles and art work than is immediately obvious when simply listening to the track. I think producers should do more to tell those stories, so walk the walk, here's some thoughts

Last month I was at WashU campus for the Bayesian-for-nuclear-physics workshop. Today I am in WashU again: This time it is for StanCon 2023. Here is some of the random takeaway I obtain from the conference: John Kruschke discussed Barg: the Bayesian analysis reporting guidelines. It is a decision-theory-orientated framework of workflow, including guidance for data analysts, reviewers and method developers. For example, instead of looking at the confidence interval …

Hungary, 1977: CS 05 SZ 1 AVA split-level house with three bedrooms, one of which can be separated into two rooms with a sliding door.A magánlakásépítés ajánlott tervei 1. Családi házak by Építésügyi Tájékoztatási Központ, 1977. (Budapest, Hungary) —from my library

I’ve been following the press and social media coverage of Apple’s pricey new Vision Pro Augmented Reality headset, which now totals hundreds of stories and thousands of comments and I’ve noticed one idea missing from all of them: what would Steve (Jobs) say? Steve would call the Vision Pro a “hobby,” just as he did with the original Apple TV. You know I’m correct about this. And the fact that …

Singapore is the only country in the world where it’s legal to sell “cultivated” (lab-grown) meat for human consumption, and Huber’s Bistro in Singapore is the only restaurant in the world that actually sells the stuff. But you can’t just waltz in and try it: only on Thursdays are there 12 portions up for grabs at lunchtime, and to score one, you need to snap it up when bookings open …