teropa
@teropa.bsky.social
One half of Counterpoint. Interests: software, music, mind.
"Around the wwworld: Web MIDI, Web Audio and what the web does best" by Katie Fenn
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R3h...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R3h...
Katie Fenn – Around the wwworld: Web MIDI, Web AUDIO and what the web does best – All Day Hey! 2025
YouTube video by Hey! Presents
www.youtube.com
October 30, 2025 at 9:11 AM
"Around the wwworld: Web MIDI, Web Audio and what the web does best" by Katie Fenn
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R3h...
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
areena.yle.fi/1-76362374
Pentulive 24/7 | Pentulive
Muru synnytti 11 tervettä pentua. Miten sujuvat pentujen ensimmäiset tärkeät päivät? Kahdeksan viikkoa kestävässä suorassa lähetyksessä seurataan englanninspringerspanieli Murua ja tämän pentuetta.
areena.yle.fi
October 17, 2025 at 5:16 PM
important news: this year's 24/7 livestream of a litter of puppies has begun
areena.yle.fi/1-76362374
areena.yle.fi/1-76362374
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The KickStarter is live!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/190...
Our big fat beautiful book, Designing Imaginative Environments is a deep dive into the world of
environment design for storytelling.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/190...
Our big fat beautiful book, Designing Imaginative Environments is a deep dive into the world of
environment design for storytelling.
October 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM
The KickStarter is live!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/190...
Our big fat beautiful book, Designing Imaginative Environments is a deep dive into the world of
environment design for storytelling.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/190...
Our big fat beautiful book, Designing Imaginative Environments is a deep dive into the world of
environment design for storytelling.
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I've been re-acquainting myself with NNs, transformers and LLMs this week, so these are early thoughts. But I am starting to think about language without the capacity to imagine language, i.e., an LLM unable to imagine itself participating in language. mail.cyberneticforests.com/what-machine...
What Machines Don't Know
Imagining Language Without Imagination
It's important to acknowledge that Large Language Models are complex. There's an oversimplified binary in online chatter between the dismissive characterizatio...
mail.cyberneticforests.com
October 12, 2025 at 11:17 AM
I've been re-acquainting myself with NNs, transformers and LLMs this week, so these are early thoughts. But I am starting to think about language without the capacity to imagine language, i.e., an LLM unable to imagine itself participating in language. mail.cyberneticforests.com/what-machine...
I computed Stable Audio Open latent space embeddings for my Bandcamp music collection.
A nearest-neighbour traversal reveals fun connections.
A nearest-neighbour traversal reveals fun connections.
October 12, 2025 at 9:33 PM
I computed Stable Audio Open latent space embeddings for my Bandcamp music collection.
A nearest-neighbour traversal reveals fun connections.
A nearest-neighbour traversal reveals fun connections.
Jim O’Rourke & Eiko Ishibashi
October 11, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Jim O’Rourke & Eiko Ishibashi
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Wrote up my September 2025 "How I'm using coding agents" - blog.fsck.com/2025/10/05/h...
How I'm using coding agents in September, 2025
I used to write more
blog.fsck.com
October 5, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Wrote up my September 2025 "How I'm using coding agents" - blog.fsck.com/2025/10/05/h...
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Wrote more about Benjamin Bratton's paranoid imagination of a media studies cabal holding back AI progress in Europe. mail.cyberneticforests.com/is-the-media...
Is the Media Studies Cabal in the Room With Us Right Now?
I read The Stack in 2020 as a grad student in ANU's Applied Cybernetics program. I give it credit for directing my attention to the interaction between layers of digital and physical infrastructures. ...
mail.cyberneticforests.com
October 5, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Wrote more about Benjamin Bratton's paranoid imagination of a media studies cabal holding back AI progress in Europe. mail.cyberneticforests.com/is-the-media...
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Brian Eno and Ezra Klein discuss the impact @stevereich.bsky.social's music has had on them on the latest episode of @nytopinion.nytimes.com's 'The Ezra Klein Show.' www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/o...
October 5, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Brian Eno and Ezra Klein discuss the impact @stevereich.bsky.social's music has had on them on the latest episode of @nytopinion.nytimes.com's 'The Ezra Klein Show.' www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/o...
Visualising principal components of Stable Audio Open latents over time.
0.8s hann window, 0.03s hop (latent rate ≈21.5 Hz)
0.8s hann window, 0.03s hop (latent rate ≈21.5 Hz)
October 5, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Visualising principal components of Stable Audio Open latents over time.
0.8s hann window, 0.03s hop (latent rate ≈21.5 Hz)
0.8s hann window, 0.03s hop (latent rate ≈21.5 Hz)
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Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show.
The musician and record producer Brian Eno delves into his experiments with ambient music, his thoughts on generative A.I. and his deep gratitude for the uniqueness of human life.
open.spotify.com/episode/1Dio...
youtu.be/AfYY9v0Q0X4?...
The musician and record producer Brian Eno delves into his experiments with ambient music, his thoughts on generative A.I. and his deep gratitude for the uniqueness of human life.
open.spotify.com/episode/1Dio...
youtu.be/AfYY9v0Q0X4?...
Brian Eno on How Machines Can Make Us More Human
YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show
youtu.be
October 3, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show.
The musician and record producer Brian Eno delves into his experiments with ambient music, his thoughts on generative A.I. and his deep gratitude for the uniqueness of human life.
open.spotify.com/episode/1Dio...
youtu.be/AfYY9v0Q0X4?...
The musician and record producer Brian Eno delves into his experiments with ambient music, his thoughts on generative A.I. and his deep gratitude for the uniqueness of human life.
open.spotify.com/episode/1Dio...
youtu.be/AfYY9v0Q0X4?...
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.
October 3, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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
October 1, 2025 at 6:12 PM
sonifying the wind on a great circle journey around the globe
putting sonnet 4.5 through its paces as an ambient melody composer
September 30, 2025 at 2:43 PM
putting sonnet 4.5 through its paces as an ambient melody composer
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Generative features are utilized to enhance audio understanding; audio generation models encode both spatiotemporal perception and semantic prior; a fusion strategy is proposed; experiments demonstrate consistent performance gains in sound event classification, tagging, and audio captioning.
When Audio Generators Become Good Listeners: Generative Features for Understanding Tasks
Zeyu Xie, Chenxing Li, Xuenan Xu, Mengyue Wu, Wenfu Wang, Ruibo Fu, Meng Yu, Dong Yu, Yuexian Zou
arxiv.org
September 30, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Generative features are utilized to enhance audio understanding; audio generation models encode both spatiotemporal perception and semantic prior; a fusion strategy is proposed; experiments demonstrate consistent performance gains in sound event classification, tagging, and audio captioning.
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this is the really ineffective head-in-the-sand reaction a lot of folks on Bluesky tend to have if you talk about any harm reduction-based approach to the reality that millions of people are using AI tools today. The current approach to critiquing AI is obviously not working, but they don't care.
September 7, 2025 at 8:39 PM
this is the really ineffective head-in-the-sand reaction a lot of folks on Bluesky tend to have if you talk about any harm reduction-based approach to the reality that millions of people are using AI tools today. The current approach to critiquing AI is obviously not working, but they don't care.
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HP Spaceball 2003 (1991). While the mouse operates on X and Y axes, the HP Spaceball also used the Z axis, making it easy to rotate objects in 3D space. Plus the white plastic made it look like something out of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
August 24, 2025 at 1:07 PM
HP Spaceball 2003 (1991). While the mouse operates on X and Y axes, the HP Spaceball also used the Z axis, making it easy to rotate objects in 3D space. Plus the white plastic made it look like something out of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
"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)
Rebecca Giblin & Cory Doctorow: Chokepoint Capitalism (2022)
August 11, 2025 at 4:52 PM
"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)
Rebecca Giblin & Cory Doctorow: Chokepoint Capitalism (2022)
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Listening now, fantastic spiky sound worlds made of metal and glass and electricity.
August 8, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Listening now, fantastic spiky sound worlds made of metal and glass and electricity.