Gravity's Rainbow was a favorite in my 20s. I recently turned 40 and picked it up again, but something was different: the chapter pertaining to African-Americans are incredibly dated.
Having said that, check out the illustrated "Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow."
Attn music lovers: if you're bored by Shakespeare like I am, try some opera adaptions. Often it's a richer and more rewarding experience. Verdi did some. Bellini's I Capuleti e i Montecchi is based on Will's sources and is much better than his play.
Most people agree the evidence isn't compelling at all. Birding takes some amount of discipline because you can be susceptible to wishful thinking and 'see what you want to see.' Sadly, this species vanished along with its preferred habitat.
Cool. I can get behind a data gathering tool like this project. My problem with Merlin and Merlin-style apps is they attempt to do everything related to identification which shortchanges users because they don't teach fundamental skills.
I don't think I agree, I was just on holiday in a new country and am not a birder, but with birdnet and Merlin I learned to identify birds by song quite quickly. If not for the apps how would you even find out what bird you hear if you never see it, as happens often in dense forest?
A really specific scenario that might illustrate my point! App or no app, I would accept at the outset it may not be possible, or even advisable, to attempt positive identifications (by ear) of unfamiliar species in a country I've never visited, unless I were in the company of an experienced local friend or guide. Otherwise, I would concentrate on getting good quality field recordings to share when I got home. Same thing goes for birding at home..Merlin and other apps simply cannot approximate that kind of experience building, at this time.
Feeding the composer's works prior to the Ninth would have been much more compelling. The question then becomes whether the AI's Ninth sounds anything at all like the actual Ninth.
I imagine there would be as much similarity between the AI symphony and Beethoven's one as there is between Beethoven's other symphonies, which isn't that much. The human mind just has so many more inputs besides previous work to influence its output. Beethoven's whole life experience factored into the Ninth's creation.
Exactly! AI, there's your goal, now bridge that gap.
Even non-ML software is capable of surprising its designers with so-called "emergent behavior" so creativity is possible. The Starcraft II AI AlphaStar (which as I understand it played 200 years worth of Starcraft against itself before it was able to beat the pro human players) demonstrated some "unusual strategies… occasionally wildly off meta." https://www.pcgamesn.com/starcraft-2/starcraft-2-deepmind-ai
Get permission to play clips from a generalist record label like Naxos. Typically they're more than happy to oblige, for obvious reasons. People do this...
No sarcasm. Many classical music fans shop based on recommendations. A solid recommendation along with hearing a clip increases sales, so it's in labels' best interest to give popular reviewers permission. David Hurwitz on YT is a good example.
I launch my FF profiles from the terminal using aliases. But I guess some people would find that difficult (though it's not) even if they do happen to be a Linux user.
Having said that, check out the illustrated "Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow."
Against the Day is life changing.