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"I'm perfectly willing to concede that I've been too nice in thinking that if you had a thousand parameters maybe you'll get somewhere. maybe you won't. but my concern is different. if the system doesn't distinguish what's the actual World from non-actual world it's not telling us any thing. just as in the case [that] the souped-up periodic table the [deep learning?] systems and others like them can find superficial regularities in astronomical amounts of data and produce something that looks more or less like what their data was but it can do exactly the same thing even better often with data that violates all the principles of language and cognition. so they're just telling us nothing." - Noam Chomsky, 2022 I haven't been too much about Chomsky to date. And now he is in the later innings. He had something to say about AI this month, which I thought valid to share. Important because this has so much been the year of Generative AI news. ...

The international wave – rock ‘n roll 1960-80 The List 01 Enrique Guzmán - La Plaga (with Los Teen Tops) (Mexico) 02 Mohammed Rafi - O Meri Baby Doll (India) 03 Pan Ron - Monkey Dancing Monkey (Cambodia) 04 Mehrpouya   دخترشب - Dokhtar Shab (Iran) 05 Edoardo Vianello - Tremarella (Italy) 06 Elvis Phuong - Loan Mắt Nhung (Vietnam) 07 Los LLopis - Estremécete (Mexico) 08 Sandro - En Linea (Down The Line) (Argentina) 09 Payom Moogda - Tamai Dern Sae (Why Do You Walk Like a Drunkard) (Thailand) 10 Yol Aularong - Yuvajon Kouge Jet (Broken Hearted Man) (Cambodia) 11 Los Loving Darks - Complicado (Bolivia) 12 Witch - Like a Chicken (Zambia) 13 Los Speakers - Si la guerra es buen negocio invierte a tus hijos (If war is good business, invest your sons) (Colombia) 14 Barry McGuire - Eve Of Destruction (USA) 15 Breakout (with Mira Kubasińska) - Gdybyś kochał hej (Poland) 16 Los Mirlos - Sonido Amazonico (Peru) 17 Ofo The Black Company - Allah Wäkbarr (Nigeria) 18 Os Mut...

  Nov 24 2022-Pinterest Feed --------------------------------- The Van Cleef Accelerator was strobin Running the whole AutoBahn The First Lady of the Air was posin For Che, Malcom, Jack and Dylan My girl was wearing a Sufi dress as When we lived above our station.

Bedrock City Flintstone World lasted a long time. Here's how it all started. And a lesson to be learned on Chef Boyardee. 

Just Jazz List 01 Jerry Gonzales and the Fort Apache Band – Intro  02 Will Bernard – Boomtown  03 McCoy Tyner - Blues On the Corner  04 Mal Waldron and Eric Dolphy – Thirteen  05 Art Ensemble of Chicago, with Fontella Bass - Theme de Yoyo  06 Clifford Jordan Big Band - Highest Mountain  07 Marion Brown – Spooks  08 Wynton Marsalis - Uptempo Posthude  09 Duke Ellington - Blues for New Orleans  10 World Saxophone Quartet, with Fontella Bass -  Breath of Life Jazz jumps jamming Jerry jaundiced joyous jubilant Jordan jaunty jingle journey just jerkin’ Jingoistic justice jail joint jolly Jersey juicy jive join us…that’s jazz - Jim and Jack  Note: Fontella Bass recorded "Rescue Me" which shot up the charts in the fall and winter of 1965. [I remember going crazy listening and jumping to it while probably shirking chores or actually swabbing down floor in the Wisconsin basement. - Editor] It gave Chess its first million-selling single sin...

We’re heading east this week. Not to the Far East, not the Middle East, but the Near East (no, not Boston). Plenty to dance about with accordions, balalaikas, flutes and drums. Also a lovely polyphony of voices, particularly notable the unique Georgian choruses. Islamic Sufi music is provided by the Aznash Ensemble of Chechnya, with the goal of mystic trance through the repetition of God’s name and attributes – ever faster, ever more intense. Similar to the Gnaoua music of Morocco, the Whirling Dervishes of Turkey, and the voudoun chants of Dahomey (inherited by Cuba and Haiti). God is great, or so they tell me. Oh, and Ukraine and Russia can coexist, separate but equal, as long as it’s on my program. My rules. -J.H. Put another dime in the juke box, Jimmy! - J.V. Aznash Ramblers Music of Eastern Europe  01 ხასანბეგურა (ჩონგურით) - Khasanbegura (con Chonguri) (Georgia) 02 anonymous – title unknown (Circassia) 03 Dakhabrakha y Port Mone - Dyado (Ukraine) 04 Vellezerit Aliu - Keq ...

Jr.: When are the legs coming? Pop: I cried cause I had no legs til I saw someone who had no head. Ma: Dont listen to your father, Junior.  Today a lay-off of 11,000 at Facebook which had payroll of 67,000. What does the future hold? All things in moderation, including moderation. But seriously, there have been few great self-foot shootings in tech history on par with that of Mark Zuckerberg's. About a year ago, he said hello to the Metaverse. His metaverse is one of legless people that look like bad cartoons. It's okay to fail fast, but not big and fast. And funny. As far as legs go ... they are "working on it."

  THIS IS A TEST - The ceo of twitter p*ssed me off today with stuff and I told him to stuff it [said republicans should be voted in charTe of  congress so we have checks and balances - their idea of  checks and balances is stopping all activity and being in Faux News complaining that I [a Democrat] am a Satanist. My friends know that's not true.] If he let's the Insane Clown President tweet again: Goodbye. A lot of techies that shared info on Twitter are bailing. I need a place to promote my tech writing from, and so am trying LinkedIn. Dont bother clicking on this, however, because, even tho LinkedIn let me embed a link from my site, they didnt allow clicks on this link below to go forward to LinkedIn - as far as I can tell. As always: "We're working on it."

i. Forewarned is Four Eyed This blog was posted just a few days before Jerry Lee's passing. This timing was just by chance or something more weird. I do remember thinking he was the last of a line and was still alive. I was thunderstruck by the intensity of his performance on a less than minor hit of his: Papercup. With his leaving, leaves the last king of rocknroll.  I had also posted to Facebook, and that incurred some kickback. One of my friends who worked in the music business and had to deal with the Golden Haired Louisianan's Inflated Sense of Destined Self took this as an irritant. I sure don't blame him on that. He wrote: 'I’m sorry, but I can’t even watch. Based on personal experience on two occasions, he’s the biggest jerk in the business. He doesn’t deserve attention or accolades.' ii. With Poet Friend Jeff DeMark My friend Jeff DM as I recall had written a poem about Jerry Lee’s ranch. A guy he met had been up there. Was high or drunk and described the...

On the 1st Anniversary of Al Compas Del Mundo Broadcasting -What’s there to say about my adopted country, Mexico? It’s the land of “please” and “thank you” - still. It’s a place where folks’ first impression upon meeting you is “it’s a pleasure” - really. Old traditions die hard: sitting for a (typically delicious) restaurant meal, perfect strangers leaving a nearby table will wish you “provecho”, i.e. “have a good meal” - I’m not kidding. Passers by more often than not will utter a “buenos días” or “buenas tardes” - it sounds genuine though you’ll never cross paths again. And then there’s the music. I’ll let it speak for itself in this mix, but as is evident herein, and as President AMLO (as he has come to be known) states emphatically “Mexico es un mosaico cultural. No somos una sola cultura. Somos muchas culturas.” (“Mexico is a cultural mosaic. We are not a single culture. We are many cultures.”) Listen with an open mind. The music is mostly indigenous, in a variety of tongues. ...

When he received a Musicares award in 2015, Dylan contemplated his career as a song writer. Here is a snippet....  If you;d sung all these “come all ye” songs all the time, you’d be writing, “Come gather ‘round people where ever you roam, admit that the waters around you have grown / Accept that soon you’ll be drenched to the bone / If your time to you is worth saving / And you better start swimming or you’ll sink like a stone / The times they are a-changing.” You’d have written them too. There’s nothing secret about it. You just do it subliminally and unconsciously, because that’s all enough, and that’s all I sang. That was all that was dear to me. They were the only kinds of songs that made sense. “When you go down to Deep Ellum keep your money in your socks / Women in Deep Ellum put you on the rocks.” Sing that song for a while and you just might come up with, “When you’re lost in the rain in Juarez and it’s Easter time too / And your gravity fails and negativity don’t pull you ...