I second this, I’m more excited about dumb local models than something I could never run locally.

Huzzah, they’ve lost their stranglehold. Viva la revolution!

FYI, you've already lost with this mindset! I know you don't consider yourself a loser :P

Is anyone keeping a history of this AI "summer"? I'm sure the timeline would be very amusing.

I keep hoping for a "GenAI is going great", but I'm also too lazy to start one myself.

In my opinion, good music typically comes from the flow state. In other words, less thinking and more practice/exploration leads to the best results.

From personal experience, pattern-recognition is the most useful "applied math" skill when making music. I use it when identifying intervals between notes, and chord progressions, which you need when you're trying to get the idea out of your head and onto the instrument you're playing or song you're writing.

I will never roll over for the lizard man

Don't you use WhatsApp?

You can go to https://freenet.org/ to try Freenet out yourself!

This is really great. I read the Git config article, but I thought the image diff example was kinda lackluster. Im sure some better metrics could be extracted for a more descriptive diff.

Thanks for sharing!

Start with "My Neighbor Totoro"

Yeah, I’ve seen great results with this approach.