RIP Steve Albini. Back in 2020, I reviewed what I consider to be Albini’s late-period production masterpiece, Sunn O)))’s “Life Metal”: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/09/13/Sunn-O-Life-Metal
The GPT-4 barrier has finally been broken, with Gemini 1.5, Mistral Large, Claude 3 Opus, and Inflection-2.5 benchmarking near or even above OpenAI's model (Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2024/Mar/8/gpt-4-barrier/
On the magic of #miyazaki in #ZetlandMag - in danish but try DeepL for translation- a beautiful and thought provoking piece...
🎁En af verdens mest elskede tegnefilm gemmer på en gåde. Jeg satte mig for at lŸse den
Dark Woods 🏞️👮♀️🫢
Dramatized mystery thriller | When the body of a young volunteer is discovered in the middle of the California redwoods, two estranged ex-spouses must put their differences aside to learn the terrifying truth about what is happening in their state park.
From Legendary Producer Dick Wolf and Wolf...
https://www.
OpenAI built the gpt2-chatbot, renamed to "im-also-a-good-gpt-chatbot", per the gpt2-chatbot's 429 rate limit error message, which appeared in the LMSYS arena (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2024/May/8/gpt…
Guayava 🤼🕵🏽🛸
Dramatized scifi horror | Join Guayava, a retired wrestler turned paranormal investigator, on his inaugural quest to capture the mysterious and elusive chupacabra.
minority/POC-centered story
1 seasons, 4 episodes as of May 20, 2023.
https://www.theend.fyi/shows/guayava
Huawei Pura 70 Pro teardown: the 7nm Kirin 9010 is only marginally better than Kirin 9000S, and the majority of the chips are designed and manufactured in China (Shahram Mokhtari/iFixit News)
https://www.ifixit.com/News/95646/huaweis-
Remote 😵💫😯🤔
Dramatized parapsychological psych-fi thriller | After experiencing a traumatic loss, Betsy gains a remote viewing ability. As she raises her consciousness further, she uses her skill to find missing people, propelling her into a mysterious underworld.
It could save the world one day.
1 seasons...
https://www.