Month: December 2023
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Reading Notes for 2023-12-08
From: The Imperfectionist: You Can’t Hoard Life – Oliver Burkeman Spending your days trying to get experiences “under your belt”, in an effort to maximise your collection of experiences, or to feel more confident about the future supply of similar experiences, means placing yourself in a position from which you can never enjoy them fully,…
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Reading Notes for 2023-12-06
From: 267 / the Most Important Metric for Creative Work: Resonance – Dense Discovery An activity worth doing: Create a list of activities and values (max 12) that make you feel content and part of a healthy humanity. Essentially, what does a good week look like to you? It might be photographing, making food, participating…
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AI Art and Traditional Illustration
Recently, I’ve come across discussions online debating the role of AI-generated visuals in the art world. Some argue that AI poses a threat to professional illustrators and advocate for its limited use in creative processes. While I understand these concerns, I’m trying to understand my perspective a bit here, and I’d like to explore this…
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Reading Notes for 2023-12-06
From: 267 / the Most Important Metric for Creative Work: Resonance – Dense Discovery The US is producing more oil than ever before. The nation’s crude oil production hit 13.2 million barrels per day, surpassing the pre-Covid peak. An activity worth doing: Create a list of activities and values (max 12) that make you feel…
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Reading Notes for 2023-12-02
From: ChatGPT Can Reveal Personal Information From Real People, Google Researchers Show – Jordan Pearson Worryingly, some of the extracted training data contained identifying information from real people, including names, email addresses, and phone numbers. “Using only $200 USD worth of queries to ChatGPT (gpt-3.5- turbo), we are able to extract over 10,000 unique verbatim…
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Hey Siri/Shortcut Automation with 2023 Outback
Updating my “Hey Siri, Warm up the Subaru” shortcut post with parameters/options.
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Apple (country) Music Genres
I’m not really sure that I use genre information too much in organizing my library, but that’s not to say that I don’t want it to be correct when it’s applied. My years working in the classical music world taught me how painfully insufficient existing music metadata tagging is for classical music — e.g. movements…