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• New Activity Peak at New Savanna [Aug 28, 2023]

  

  Here’s the hit count at New Savanna for the last three months: Action has been higher than usual through August. That peak is for August 28 and it may well be... Read more

  The 01 September 2023 by   Bbenzon
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• Motion Sickness on the Hudson River

  

  There I was, on Pier 13 in Hoboken walking back to shore when I noticed an unfamiliar boat moving out into the rive. I took a couple of photos of it and that wa... Read more

  The 01 September 2023 by   Bbenzon
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• New Account of AI Doom @3QD: A New Counter Culture Arises

  

  I’ve been plugging away on this AI Doom business since forever it seems. I’ve certainly run up a bunch of posts on the subject. But I’ve finally arrived at... Read more

  The 11 September 2023 by   Bbenzon
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• New Savanna Moods: I Was Down, but I’ve Started Back Up.

  

  I have, at various times, written about how my general mood is subject to long-term swings, apparently seasonal. I go down in the fall or winter and come back u... Read more

  The 16 September 2023 by   Bbenzon
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• Cities Are Not Start-ups

  

  Jersey City's Urban Design LaboratoryMolly Turner, They’re Ultrarich Techies, and They Want to Build a City From Scratch. What Could Go Wrong? NYTimes, Sept. 17... Read more

  The 17 September 2023 by   Bbenzon
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• AI Pause, Chuck Jones Style: Whoops! [aka AI Winter, We've Been There Before]

  

  Back in August of 2020 I issued a working paper, GPT-3: Waterloo or Rubicon? Here be Dragons. On the first page, after the cover, but before the abstract and... Read more

  The 18 September 2023 by   Bbenzon
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• There's a Better Way to Teach Music to Kids [who Are Born to Groove]

  

  Sammy Miller, We’re Teaching Music to Kids All Wrong, NYTimes, Sept. 23, 2023. Opening paragraph: Each fall, as school starts up again, music educators witness ... Read more

  The 23 September 2023 by   Bbenzon
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• Notes on How I Practice the Trumpet

  

  Practice tends towards two kinds of things: exercises and real music. One does them for different purposes, that is to say, I have different things in mind... Read more

  The 26 September 2023 by   Bbenzon
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