At #barcamplondon at the weekend, there was a session on AI music. I didn’t go, but a couple of friends who did mentioned it to me at lunch. It seemed from the descriptions I heard that it was about the ease with which generative AI tools can make music that sounds like other music. The…
The situation: after 4½ years of pandemic-encouraged working from home, organisations are still trying to get people back into the office and it’s still not working. You may or may not agree with that basic premise – maybe you’ve given up trying to get people back in, or maybe they’re all back in, or maybe…
a reverse-chronological list of things I’ve posted today to lloyddavis.micro.blog – replies aren’t included 10:21 – : After 20 years of being trained to use web-mail, I think I might be ready to slouch back to something desktop-based (mainly because multiple accounts with different providers). What are you using, cool kids? This is an experiment…
a reverse-chronological list of things I’ve posted today to lloyddavis.micro.blog – replies aren’t included 08:50 – : I’m waiting for a (non-urgent) telephone appointment with my GP. It was scheduled for 19 minutes ago. I’m reminding myself that this is more convenient than walking over to the surgery and sitting in the waiting room, despite…
a reverse-chronological list of things I’ve posted today to lloyddavis.micro.blog – replies aren’t included 15:49 – : There’s more than one way to skin a cat, but I’m not allowed to say that in our house any more (ditto comments about how little room there is in my office). This is an experiment in trying…
a reverse-chronological list of things I’ve posted today to lloyddavis.micro.blog – replies aren’t included 14:26 – : I’m going to barcamplondon xiii next week. I went to number 3 in 2007 and number 10 in 2014. There’s an arithmetical gag in there somewhere. This is an experiment in trying to pull together all the things…
a reverse-chronological list of things I’ve posted today to lloyddavis.micro.blog – replies aren’t included 15:52 – : Good lord! It’s Friday afternoon again. 12:58 – OK. I’m seeing many places where this needs saying.: Many things can be true at the same time. Even things that you have always thought were mutually exclusive. I think…
I’m reminded that it’s now eight years since I wrote this song: At that point, it was easy for some to say that we didn’t know what was coming. I think it’s less easy now. Even so, the temptation remains to think that these men don’t really mean to implement the things they’ve talked about…
I’ll blog about this properly when I’ve got my head around it a bit more. Basically, I took a bunch of Tuttle-related videos and documents and fed them to Google’s NotebookLM – one of the standard outputs from that is an “Audio Overview” examples of which you may have heard elsewhere – they take the…
Older viewers/readers may be familiar with this story, but I don’t think I’ve ever told it while actually doing the thing that I was talking about in the story! Others will have seen the “finished product” but not necessarily see how it emerges. This is in the “extended voicemail” format where the narrative wiggles around…