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David, a Bostonian in Tokyo.

djl@mastodon.mit.edu

<p>Retired translator hiding out under a rock in Tokyo, Japan. Interests includes photography, jazz guitar, juggling, Materials Science, Go, Japanese literature, Comp.Sci., and AI.<br />Programming experience in Fortran, Lisp, BCPL, C, C++, Python, and assembler on IBM, CDC, DEC, and Intel architectures.</p>

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    I&#39;d like to do some &quot;graphics&quot; programming, but a specific type. I want to display white dots on a black backround. Calculate a new set of dots, and spit them to the screen. Don&#39;t mind if I have to turn off old dots myself. SBCL would be optimal, Python OK, C/C++ no thanks city. Do any GUI toolkits support such a widget??? Any recommendations/experience doing this sort of thing??? #graphics #programming #lisp #python #gui

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    @AmenZwa@mathstodon.xyz LLM based AI is bogus. (Since it has no theory of (and thus no mechanism for) how to verify it&#39;s randomly generated text output.) And the US is self-sufficient in oil and gas, so the oil and gas companies are selling oil that costs them exactly the same as it did before the Iran war at Iran war prices, so of course their stocks are going up. So there&#39;s nothing odd happening here at all.

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    @elduvelle Back in the day (late 1960s, 1970s), I didn&#39;t like the computer-generated music/art of the day, but I thought that using computers as a tool in art/music was a valid thing to do. I think I was correct then. But that&#39;s dead wrong today. Sigh.

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    TIL: Wiki: &amp;quot;Davis earned a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from New York University in 1982. &amp;quot; Art Davis was a seriously great bebop bass player, who worked with Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, McCoy Tyner and Max Roach. Also with Art Blakey and Sonny Stitt. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3f6L0KM4hQ&amp;amp;list=PL-5ntqb8ArlfW8UbP_mXPdJauzGUUHRe- #jazz #bebop #bass

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    Japanese trainfans (train geeks/otaku) can be something else. (As in Kurosawa&amp;#39;s first color film, Dodesukaden. (If you haven&amp;#39;t, you need to see it.)) But we Americans have our entry in said competition. The Tanner YouTube channel: it&amp;#39;s great fun if you are even a minor train geek. Today&amp;#39;s vid, &amp;quot;This is Japan&amp;#39;s UNIQUE Monorail Built By a Hospital!&amp;quot; is hilarious. Especially the reason the monorail got built in the first place. https://ww...

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    @quinn Yep. I have some horror stories from back in the day. The place: An AI conference. The speaker: A woman. Ms. S. The time: The Q&amp;A session. Q: I&#39;m not really happy with this approach. Do you know the paper by Ms. B? Ms. S: Yes, but this work improves on that. Q: No it doesn&#39;t. You clearly don&#39;t understand that paper. Ms. B. really got it . Ms. S.: I assure you, I&#39;m well aware of that paper. Q: No, you clearly don&#39;t understand it. Ms. S: I understand that paper j...

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    @dlakelan My laptop is my music server, and drives a tiny Fossi Bluetooth amp that drives some decent speakers (including a subwoofer). Bebop heaven. Inversely, the cheap Sony BT headphones (WH-CH520) do the clarity thing for slightly larger groups. I wasn&#39;t expecting much from them but it&#39;s quite fun to be able to hear each voice clearly in music I normally listen to as a shmushed-up gestalt.

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    Ron Carter friggin&amp;#39; WALKS!!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UenXvLuCRjg #jazz #bebop #monk

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    It&amp;#39;s not all in-your-face bebop: Emmet also does pretty. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKcLLYYGg5s #music #bossa #jazz

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    @mattblaze@federate.social &quot;place with pretty reliable power&quot; I take it your place doesn&#39;t look like my neigbor&#39;s place... https://pbase.com/davidjl/image/176048428