Yeah my current approach is to generate a plan with Gemini Pro, with plenty of back and forths, and then have it write the plan to a markdown file. Afterwards I get either it or another model to follow the plan step by step. Without doing this the results are questionable and often require going back and fixing a lot.
When I was studying music technology and using state of the art software synthesizers and sequencers, I got more and more into playing my acoustic guitar. There's a deep and direct connection and a pleasure that comes with it that computers (and now/eventually AI) will never be able to match.
(That being said, a realtime AI-based bandmate could be interesting...)
My son is an interesting example of this, I can play all the best guitar music on earth via the speakers, but when I physically get the guitar out and strum it, he sits up like he has just seen god, and is total awe of the sounds of it, the feel of the guitar and the site of it. It's like nothing else can compare. Even if he is hysterically crying, the physical isntrument and the sound of it just makes him calm right down.
I wonder if something is lost in the recording process that just cannot be replicated? A live instrument is something that you can actually feel the sound of IMO, I've never felt the same with recorded music even though I of course enjoy it.
I wonder if when we get older we just get kind of "bored" (sadly) and it doesn't mean as much to us as it probably should.
I'm speculating that one would have more mirror neuron activation watching a person perform live, compared to listening to a recording or watching a video. Thus the missing component that makes live performance special.
For me the guitar is like the keyboard I am writing on right now. It will never be replaced, because that is how I input music into the world. I could not program that, I was doing tracker music as a teenager, and all of the songs sounded weird, because the timing, and so on is not right. And now when I transcribe demos, and put them into a DAW, there seem to be the milliseconds off, that are not quite right. I still play the piano parts live, because we don't have the technology right now to make it sound better than a human, and even if we had, it would not be my music, but what an AI performed.
I really briefly looked at AI in music, lots of wild things are made. It is hard to explain, one was generating a bunch of sliders after mimicking a sample from sine waves (quite accurately)
While that possibly makes it harder to acquire a gun in the city, an individual purchaser or black market dealer could simply drive a couple of hours to get their hands on one, no?
Also while impossible to prove, I think the numbers would be even higher in the city without the control in place.
..an individual purchaser or black market dealer could simply drive a couple of hours to get their hands on one, no?
Gary, Indiana shares a fence with Chicago: The fence sits on the Indiana/Illinois state line. Indiana has fairly lax gun laws. Also of note: There are not border checks on that line, nor on the border of Chicago.
Debatable. Seeds are very high in omega6 fatty acids which should be balanced with omega3. They also can go rancid more easily which is not healthy to eat.
I noticed this article also subscribes to the “saturated fat is bad” way of thinking which is also debatable.
Btw, in the spirit of the title of this thread, in English you would say "as a French person". In the past, "Frenchman" was used but it's understandably out of favour these days.
"French" can be used as an adjective but not a noun in this context. It's a very common error, I suppose since "français" can be used as an adjective or a noun en français :)
That is wrong. The demonym for a person from France is "French". It only sounds wrong to an English ear because we're so used to calling them Frenchmen, but it's chauvinism on our part, not a linguistic mistake on theirs.
I was gonna say, this is exactly what I recently used data studio to do. Using GA as a data source I was able to create custom charts more easily in data studio.
I feel like the charts in GA are much more constrained. For example I couldn't find how to do a stacked bar chart using different dimensions mapped to colors, which is very easy in DS.
Not to be too snarky, but the location itself does a lot of the work ;)
To contribute something more positive, I've been following this photographer who does great POV videos of these very areas (and who also produces/obtains similar images)
Funny, I've found that enough time can heal the "overexposure" and I can listen again. Sometimes it takes years, as in 5 to 10. Speaking of the Beatles, I have pretty much all of their songs completely memorized so I need to take long breaks. For quite a while I would listen to them every couple of years and that was it.
I'm now conscious of when I'm overplaying something and lay off it for a while.
A similar thing happens for me when songs are used in commercials or movies and I subsequently have trouble listening to them without the visual association taking over. This has "ruined" many songs for me in the past, but after enough time away I can thankfully appreciate the song on its own.
