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this gives me great hope for the future :)

Elegato, thanks! Sounds like a good start for my '07 listening habits :)

Too bad there isn't though. It would really make things a lot easier...I would totally kick those guys in the nuts.

I really liked it, thought it was strong and interestingly varied throughout. I feel kind of guilty though, because I only ever heard about him when he died, then went and checked out his stuff and really liked it. So I can't speak too much about relative quality compared to his other works, but...

cuz we need more lists, here is my own :) ALBUMS: TOP TIER: Joanna Newsom - Ys: Just keeps getting better and better. Super strong from start to finish. Lovely Hot Chip - The Warning: Dancy, up beat, a bit strange, a bit heartfelt--everything you need! The Knife - Silent Shout: Both Hot Chip...

the bassline from maurizio's m7!

blast, did not mean for that to be misinterpreted in such a way. I was thinking more along the lines of <a href="http://tiny.abstractdynamics.org/archives/008662.html">this post</a>, that too often in rock women aren't allowed to show skill, show off, show ambition (these are typicall "male"...

Yeah, it's killing me inside knowing this is huge in indie-dom ;) , and some of what's been written about it is pretty terrible (the pfork interview with her goes on about how she "really does mean it"...blech!). But, reasons why this is better than 99% of current indie rock: - it's ambitious...

Now, I'm already on record as loving this album, and the more I understand what she's singing, the more my appreciation for the album grows, BUT a comparison has entered my head recently that has me a bit worried. She's playing in Vancouver at St. Andrew Wesley Cathedral, which hosts lots of...

A couple of things here, firstly, why so focused on where the instructions come from? I would definitely argue that humans function according to a basic set of rules from which their intelligence arises (in fact, what DOESN'T function according to some set of rules?), and that these rules are a...

I think your working with a bit of an outdated model of AI here. Firstly, I don't think there's a single serious AI researcher out there that considers the Turing Test to be an important goal for AI; there's already plenty of chatbots that can pass the turing test, at least for some observers...

also the religion vs. technology dichotomy is pretty BS. apples and oranges, plus there's a whole lot of other fruit involved.

In terms of timing, that's just straight up crazy. "Mature" as in stable and easily usable by the general public in four years, when there's not a single instance of an even unstable, hard to use application of nanotech on the market today? I sometimes think Kurzweil has never actually tried to...

The only use of the death penalty I support is for political leaders. I just wish it would be more widely applied :D

Couple of things... Interestingly, it's not just the game players who are into skunk. I know a lot of game programmers (and not just testers) who do most of their work stoned; one fairly large gaming house in particular here in Vancouver is stoner-friendly from the CEO down (though not EA)...

Was just rereading this and realized that, actually, the two villalobos tracks i quoted as reference points are interesting because they are some of the first minimal tracks i've heard that have overtly latin sounds in not just the rhythm programming, but also the melody/samples used. the horns...

Urge succumbed to! :) Firstly, in what way does the future exist now? infinite possibilities for the future exist now, this is true, but not the future itself, that's kind of the definition of the term "now". And though over the entire course of time, we obviously spend a lot more time dead...

Dunno about that, the latin influence in minimal techno right now is really pushing things forward (villalobos, luciano, senor coconut, dandy jack...). Especially Villalbos, check his remix of "behind the mask" or his new one, "fizheuer zieheuer"...very heavy latin influence, and both are great...

Well, what think we of Ian Penman's rather negative take on Ys, especially in regard to that observer article linked above? It's the first really negative thing i've read about the album yet. I have heard neither Astral Weeks nor Horses (gasp! horror of horrors, i know), so can't comment on...

That's pretty cool, I like how the drawings are runnable. There are a fair amount of other systems like this out there, I know some people at my school are working on somewhat similar things with 3D images, but I think automated image understanding is still the major blocking point stopping...