The film is o e of the best sci-fi films ever.
That’s why I decided to read it.
It’s obvs way more in depth than the film but I can imagine an amalgamation. Screen play.
Hey ho.

I just fin Contact by Carl Sagan. The film was great, better pace, but the book is absolutely worth the effort. It’s so well considered and full of information…it’s one of the best hard sci-fi books I’ve ever read. It goes way deeper into the maths and concepts than the film. Though I enjoyed the ri...

Why? You could be at the centre and move outwards.
As for aliens…who knew, right?

Also…a bit of a tangent, but as you mention it… if you stand on any spinning celestial body it will appear that everything is spinning around you. So I forgive humans for that little hiccup of thinking they were at the centre of it all.

I guess if you sign an agreement like that you get what you bargain for.
I’d imagine that most of the people they hire are already famous and prob aren’t that short of cash.
I mean…I’d sign it if the price was right but my phone ain’t exactly ringing off the hook for animated voice acting.

Hey jappe, can you ask it to shorten or condense its replies? 😂 Man can that thing go on! It is verbose isn't it :D Here's the compressed version: "Subjectivity affects truth. A lie's absoluteness depends on the perspective taken." I prob don’t have to point this out jappe but that sentence right t...

Hey jappe, can you ask it to shorten or condense its replies?
Man can that thing go on!

Yeah I agree. Infancy etc. I’m not sure I agree w art but we don’t need to use this thread to beat that one. I was thinking more…do you remember the film arrival? They’re trying to figure out how to communicate w the aliens. And I think it was China that was trying to use game theory. And there’s a...

Can I see a quick show of hands. Who knows what dimensionality reduction is without looking it up… 😂 A bitshifter? I have done too many engineering projects lately; that's the best answer I can come up with Anything slightly more complicated with nodes involved my brain resets and that's it... http...

Yeah. That’s an interesting point. Sure there is a lot of encyclopaedic data on the internet. But my 14 year old daughter isn’t interested in looking up how things work. She’s trying to get on tic toc all the time and that worries me because I dont want her to learn what it is to be human from a min...

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Chat got is most certainly not just a fancy database search. This person clearly doesn't know what dimensionality reduction is.

Can I see a quick show of hands. Who knows what dimensionality reduction is without looking it up…

Also there’s was an Iain banjos novel that included an instrument that was so complex you needed a kind of prosthetic extra arm to play it. The hydrogen sonata.
Great book

Is a three-armed monkey playing bass guitar like an upright bass cheating? If so then, maybe. IMO if you use AI to get ideas flowing it is no different than sampling someone else's music. That can be artfully executed. It can also be theft. In the end, the most important thing is that you make musi...

No wait…it’s four there too

He’s got more than that…

Honestly…since I can’t afford apple fancy new stuff this is just a bitter speed bump we all have to cross.
Sorry to be negative but it really shits me that I can’t afford a new comp.

I think the fact that we can conceptualise the blind spots in our reasoning is all part of it. It’s not dissimilar to generative music, on whatever level. Or even Eno’s oblique strategies. You come up w some method for out manuvreing yourself. You triangúlate processes to get to a different point. O...

They fed this Ai a load of planetary data and it reproduced Einsteins time dilation and keplers 3rd law. So we’re waiting to see if or when it goes beyond that. This is huge. There are a lot of things we cannot reason about in physics because it would make our brains implode. AI-Descartes is a pers...

Computers do what they’re told thus far. …and then there’s alpha go… This is a huge misconception, mostly because it's very hard to conceptualize or verbally reason about it without it feeling like a paradox. Computers do what they are told (programmed). But they can also be programmed to do what t...

What’s ‘what’? What’s anything actually. But you can see his point. Humans are curious. Many animals are to a point. Computers do what they’re told thus far.

…and then there’s alpha go…

Like most tech, ‘Ai’ is prob a good servant and a bad master. But historically humans seem to be very bad at maintain such a differentiation.

But this is interesting. Just listen to the first few min on the first topic covered. Loads of interesting potential there. They fed this Ai a load of planetary data and it reproduced Einsteins time dilation and keplers 3rd law. So we’re waiting to see if or when it goes beyond that. https://youtu.b...

I can’t really appreciate the significance of it but thanks. You asked if it was just searching the internet, etc. I was just responding to what you asked ;). Absolutely. And I appreciate the effort. It’s just that I’m not very bright and I just don’t see the significance. It looks like fancy data ...

I can’t really appreciate the significance of it but thanks.

But you can’t send CV between those instances, which again takes away from Reason’s modularity. This(no cross instance CV) and the fact I can't house VSTs in the RRP mean I can't use most of my normal workflows. Same. I have no idea if I’d switch over to another Daw if they changed this but as it i...