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@Cognessence@social.linux.pizza
2025-12-15 20:09:29

I've just had the misfortune of reading yet another smug, somewhat revered book "explaining" music, this time with all the same problems as most of the others.
It tricked me with its title: 'Music, The Brain, And Ecstasy: How Music Captures Our Imagination'.
Some choice excerpts:
"Composers working with [non-Western] scales must labor harder to devise deep musical relations, their melodies will prosper more by contour than harmony, and ultimately…

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-02-04 09:20:52

Bonfire of the Murdochs book excerpt: how Rupert Murdoch bought into 20th Century Fox and learned about Hollywood, with the help of Barry Diller (Gabriel Sherman/The Hollywood Reporter)
hollywoodreporter.com/business

How Rupert Murdoch Bet Big on Fox — And Changed American Culture Forever
An exclusive excerpt from 'Bonfire of the Murdochs' tells the inside story of the Australian mogul's bumpy introduction to Hollywood, and the origins of his TV empire.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-10 07:25:54

Researchers say GPT 4.1, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and Grok 3 can reproduce long excerpts from books they were trained on when strategically prompted (Alex Reisner/The Atlantic)

AI's Memorization Crisis
Large language models don’t “learn”—they copy. And that could change everything for the tech industry.

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-01-10 07:26:09

Researchers say GPT 4.1, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and Grok 3 can reproduce long excerpts from books they were trained on when strategically prompted (Alex Reisner/The Atlantic)
theatlantic.com/technology/202

AI's Memorization Crisis
Large language models don’t “learn”—they copy. And that could change everything for the tech industry.

@relcfp@mastodon.social
2026-01-06 06:15:44

H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-NC: 28 December - 4 January
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H-Minerva News Roundup EXCERPT The Strange, Complex Story of Women and ISIS…
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H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-NC: 28 December - 4 January | H-Net
The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from 28 December to 4 January. These job postings are included here based on the categories selected by the network editors for H-Announce. See the H-Net job guide web site at https://www.h-net.org/jobs/ for more information. To contact the Job Guide, write to jobguide@mail.h-net.org or call +1-517-432-5134 between 9 AM and 5 PM US Eastern time.Oral History

@inthehands@hachyderm.io
2026-01-17 20:34:27

So today and all week, Minneapolis has been on edge because some J6 Nazi type staged a Saturday hate rally downtown. They were going to “march” into a neighborhood with a large East African population, but…well, things didn’t exactly go according to their plan.
I haven’t been posting a lot about it today, because I wanted to keep the response local. But I’ve been gathering reports from the ground and folks watching live video, and I think we’ve reached the point where I can share some choice excerpts.
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@cdarwin@c.im
2026-01-18 04:56:10

A damning new study could put AI companies on the defensive.
In it, Stanford and Yale researchers found compelling evidence that AI models are actually copying all that data,
not “learning” from it.
Specifically, four prominent LLMs
— OpenAI’s GPT-4.1, Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro, xAI’s Grok 3, and Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet
— happily reproduced lengthy excerpts from popular
— and protected
— works, with a stunning degree of accuracy.
They fou…

Researchers Just Found Something That Could Shake the AI Industry to Its Core
Researchers found compelling evidence that AI models are actually copying copyrighted data, not "learning" from it.

@raiders@darktundra.xyz
2025-12-01 10:33:45

Could Pete Carroll be one-and-done with the Raiders? Let's read between the lines nytimes.com/athletic/6851551/2

Could Pete Carroll be one-and-done with the Raiders? Let’s read between the lines
(Editor’s note: This is excerpted from Mike Sando’s Pick Six of Dec. 1, 2025.) The firing of Chip Kelly as the Raiders’ offensive coordinator precipitated eyebrow-raising reports from NFL Network insiders Tom Pelissero and Ian Rapoport. Prepare to read between the lines. Pelissero, speaking on the Rich Eisen Show, said Kelly botched play calls and even called plays not in the game plan. Rapoport, following up on NFL.com, said Carroll forced Kelly to call a version of Carroll’s Seattle …