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The Coming Robotaxi Revolution(ft.com)
2 points by aanet 12d ago|2 comments
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by aanet 12d ago
> Despite some unfortunate and highly publicised accidents, data suggests the best AVs are already a lot safer than human drivers. Nearly 1.2mn people die globally every year in road crashes; human error is a contributing factor in the v
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Hired to Code, He Built Hudson River Trading and a $27B Fortune(bloomberg.com)
9 points by aanet 15d ago|1 comments
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by aanet 15d ago
> Losses after the Sept. 11 terror attacks put HRT’s Jason Carroll on a new path Archive: https://archive.is/20260910112856/https://www.bloomberg.com/...
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by aanet 16d ago
Fantastic project. Love the bells and whistles. I could spend all day here. Would love to read a bit on how this was implemented (your stack, techniques, etc). Thanks!
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by aanet 16d ago
> And there is essentially no discussion of music theory in other cultures (middle eastern, african, east asian, indian)... To me, that above ^ looks like the biggest gap. To be fair, the book doesn't claim to demonstrate theory of
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by aanet 16d ago
^^ THIS Hindustani (and Carnatic) music indeed do not denote pitches for a very sound (pun intended) reason: They let singers choose the root note (Sa), and thereupon the melody is built. Most (all?) of Hindustani music is melody-based, not
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by aanet 16d ago
There are several music samples in there... Example: https://musictheory.pugetsound.edu/mt21c/DiatonicChordsInMaj...
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Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom(musictheory.pugetsound.edu)
305 points by aanet 16d ago|150 comments
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by aanet 16d ago
Book: Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom by Robert Hutchinson
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by aanet 18d ago
Let’s not forget the new new wunderkind who was hailed as the new financial genius and whose AI fund got trash sold to Citadel for 20% of its value (after rising 450% of course)
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Secret screening of Nathan Fielder's new Elizabeth Holmes documentary(latimes.com)
3 points by aanet 18d ago|2 comments
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by aanet 18d ago
> The Telluride Film Festival turned its mystery Sunday slot into a phone-free event, unveiling Nathan Fielder’s surprise Elizabeth Holmes documentary “You Can See Everything.” Filmed largely in secret over three years, the nearly three-
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'Insane data': Duke professor Dan Ariely accused of additional research fraud(dukechronicle.com)
7 points by aanet 23d ago|1 comments
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by aanet 23d ago
> Dan Ariely, professor of business administration in the Fuqua School of Business, is once again under scrutiny after an article released Monday found evidence that he likely tampered with or fabricated data in an influential 2002 resea
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Climbers rescued from Mount Shasta after relying on ChatGPT for trip planning(sfchronicle.com)
7 points by aanet 24d ago|1 comments
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by aanet 24d ago
"Three California college students had to be rescued from Mount Shasta on Monday during a poorly planned summit climb in which they overshot their itinerary, meandered off-route and ran out of food and water." and "Then in Au
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It sure looks like hackers breached a major ID card verification service(techcrunch.com)
6 points by aanet 24d ago|2 comments
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by aanet 24d ago
On Krebs: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/09/fbi-probes-service-selli...
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by aanet 24d ago
I hope the German workers (can) negotiate to keep the 35 hour/week arrangement. (I'm not German, nor do I work there). and I hope somehow we are able to bring a less than 40 hour/week arrangement in the US. Workers in the US
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Explainable deep learning improves human mental models of self-driving cars(nature.com)
1 points by aanet 24d ago|1 comments
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by aanet 24d ago
From the abstract: "Here, we introduce the Concept-Wrapper Network (CW-Net), a method for faithfully explaining the behaviour of machine-learning-based planners that causally grounds their reasoning in human- interpretable concepts wit
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by aanet 25d ago
My 2c: GoPro's fall started years ago when they decided to be a media company (like Youtube) and spent a lot of time + effort both recruiting media focused talent, instead of on devices as such.
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Kedrosky: Disconnect between AI valuations and revenue-growth forecasts(marketwatch.com)
1 points by aanet 25d ago|1 comments
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by aanet 25d ago
Also podcast: AI is the First Bubble with Every Ingredient All At Once - https://www.themebfabershow.com/episodes/WrD9xoqhwiy
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by aanet 1mo ago
This is fckn brilliant!! I’m bookmarking it for sharing
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by aanet 1mo ago
Don't forget, Facebook (Meta) owns 3% of Ray-Ban's parent Luxottica group [1]. They clearly are exerting control over the future direction. Regardless of what THEY do, what WE as consumers can do is to permanently brand these awfu
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US tech stock correction likely, warn ECB economists(ft.com)
11 points by aanet 1mo ago|1 comments
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by aanet 1mo ago
Archive: https://archive.is/20260817152928/https://www.ft.com/content... Actual ECB blog post: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/blog/date/2026/html/ecb.blog... &
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Fortunes from AI revive effective altruism after Sam Bankman-Fried turmoil(ft.com)
4 points by aanet 1mo ago|1 comments

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