Having a good time larf with my old boy-o's
Good fortune to be together with Dave Murray, Al Smiley, Jeff DeMark and Jim Haas in SF last week. Sunday morning, Some of us played some music Sunday morning. Good fortune, indeed.
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Hello, this is the White House, this call may be recorded for monitoring purposes. We’re sorry but the president is not able to take your call. But you can leave a message. This Presidental Alert is only a test. Like Conelrad. If it had been an actual emergency, you would have received important messages for your own safety. Twitter gives the president the opportunity to directly address real Americans without censorship by the fake news media. The Presidential Alert allows him to effortlessly remind you that he is president and can do whatever the hell he wants. You’re pretty tough when you on the other side of the telephone. Times up loser. Have a nice day and make America Great again. Sianora Snowflake. Rudy, ya got a make on this guy?
I’d like to talk to the president
Hello, this is the White House, this call may be recorded for monitoring purposes. Hello White House I’d like to talk to the President. We’re sorry but the president is not able to take your call. But you can leave a message. Okay, let me leave a message – ah, Please don’t send any more Presidential Alerts to my cell phone. This Presidental Alert is only a test. Like Conelrad. If it had been an actual emergency, you would have received important messages for your own safety. The Tweets are bad enough, but this is ten times worse. Twitter gives the president the opportunity to directly address real Americans without censorship by the fake news media. The Presidential Alert allows him to effortlessly remind you that he is president and can do whatever the hell he wants. Listen I was born at night but it wasn’t last night. I know why the book Woodward books is called Fear. Cause that what he thinks power is. You’re pretty tough when you on the other side of the teleph...
Otis Rush is dead, at 83
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/arts/music/otis-rush-dead-chicago-blues-singer-guitarist.html
Name that Tune: This Is Tomorrow Calling
A recent note on the Google AI blog discusses the company’s use of a deep neural network for music recognition on mobile devices. As it brings extreme-scale noodling (convolution) to bandwidth limited devices (smart phones) it could be a breakthrough on par with MPEG and JPEG, which dramatically transformed music distribution beginning in the 1990s. It’s known as Now Playing, and it can use a sequence of embeddings that run your music against its network and recognize the song, while conserving energy on the device. Each embedding has 96 to 128 dimensions. An embedding threshold is raised for obscure songs – which is the town where I live. I guess when you look at what Google has done with Search, it shouldn’t be that surprising – but the idea that so much of the work occurs on the Thing (device), is pretty astounding. I asked it ‘what’s that song’ and it got it right. Slam dunk. “Ride Your Pony” by Lee Dorsey. Now, Shoot! Shoot! Shoot! Shoot! Jack Vaughan RELATED...