music
May 18 2023
8-bit bram, queen charolette, nyu itp, agentic process humans vs bots, voice memos to whisper
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8-bit bram
Bridgerton - Queen Charolette
I am Venus
Code
This is great, I recommend!
ArturPiszek.com
Went to NYU ITP Spring 2023, here were my favorite booths:
Videos
My internet is way better now -- thanks FioS! -- so I celebrated with a stream working on my monorepo and I had fun.
Perhaps the craziest workout I've ever seen
https://exrx.net/WeightExercises/Sternocleidomastoid/BWFrontNeckBridge
Zenitsu be doing it
When you realize that this guy and Caster got the happiest ends out of every main character in this series…
Music
Raw Thoughts
Animals unconsciously agent in their environment and change it (overeating resources -- finches for example)
Humans consciously agent their environment and change it (global warming for example)
Programs agent their environment in a feedback loop that is not conscious in the sense of serving the need to eat for survival but not unconscious due to fact that they know what’s going on with access to state of impossibly massive systems (which is why humans get caught off guard by bugs)
If coding with an LLM was painting, gpt serves as the broad strokes applied to the sketch of an artist -- it’s hallucinations serve as the rough edges of the paint stroke on the canvas. The artist meticulously changes a line or two and instead of deciding to paint a mountain in the background he decides to paint a tree and asks the LLM to draw the broad strokes of a tree and to reintegrate the surrounding landscape to make the tree seem like it was always there. But he doesn’t remember the size of a tree so he uses LLM as a reminder of how tall they are what color the bark is how many leaves a tree has, etc.
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Problem
Every time I want to get into flow mode, I feel like I need music to get going. Especially when processing Obsidian notes, which requires a clear mind to place things and occasionally jump into a deep writing exercise.
Solution
Create a Alfred workflow that does the following:
- Open Obsidian up to the BHOV Inbox note (
/Computed/To Process) - Use Alfred Spotify Mini to play a random song or a playlist
- Run
ztlto activate
Spotify
Obsidian
Instructions
Use Obsidian Advanced URI to open a note (can be downloaded from Obsidian plugin store) and uses Spotify Mini Alfred plugin (https://alfred-spotify-mini-player.com) to play a song.
Requires:
- set up Spotify Alfred
- Obsidian
- Obsidian Advanced URI plugin
GitHub: https://github.com/bramses/process-notes-alfred/tree/main
Trippie Redd saying "litty like a titty" has altered the course of culture forever. The delivery, the absurdity of the concept, the confidence -- 10/10.
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Daddy Long Neck Was The OG
If you want to vibe, play the intro drums on this song and watch this monkey do his thing. It syncs perfectly!
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red hands down makes best naruto amv music
Literally any song on this album makes a banger Naruto v Sasuke fight song:
Some (Published) Examples
Right in the 2011 feels.
Broken Inside - Broken Iris
Not Red, but my favorite Naruto AMVs ever
Shattered - Trading Yesterday
Love & Honor
13% of my waking hours were spent listening to music this year, holy shit.
metalcore (also known as metallic hardcore) is a fusion music genre that combines elements of extreme metal and hardcore punk. As with other styles blending metal and hardcore, such as crust punk and grindcore, metalcore is noted for its use of breakdowns, slow, intense passages conducive to moshing. Other defining instrumental qualities include heavy riffs and stop-start rhythm guitar playing, occasional blast beats, and double bass drumming. Vocalists in the genre typically use thrash or scream vocals. Some later metalcore bands combine this with clean singing, often during the chorus. Death growls and gang vocals are common. 1990s metalcore bands were inspired by hardcore while later metalcore bands were inspired by melodic death metal bands like At the Gates and In Flames.
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In the mid-2000s, metalcore became one of the most popular heavy metal subgenres with the success of bands like Bleeding Through, Avenged Sevenfold, Killswitch Engage, Hatebreed, Atreyu, Shadows Fall, As I Lay Dying, Unearth, Trivium, Bullet for My Valentine, and All That Remains. Metalcore's popularity continued in the 2010s with the success of bands like Asking Alexandria, August Burns Red, and the Devil Wears Prada.
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Top Artists
Sleep Token
Criminally underrated, Alkaline is a total banger and has a great music video to boot. This Place Will Become Your Tomb delivers subversions of metalcore along with an emotional longing that left me stunned.
Whitechapel
Anticure, Hickory Creek, A Bloodsoaked Symphony (all three also have amazing music videos)
Porter Robinson
Nurture is a game changer. And Everything Goes On dropping this year? SO FUCKING GOOD.
YOASOBI
夜に駆ける is an unreal narrative song. あの夢をなぞって is the most fun I've had dancing all year. There is a ballad version that somehow sounds entirely distinct from the original.
Childish Gambino
Because the Internet is still one of the GOAT albums, imo. Also really digged Atlanta this year, loved watching the final season -- excited to see what he creates next!
Top Songs
残響散歌
残響散歌 -- a picture is worth 1000 words, right?
Reptile
Just. Holy Fucking Shit. 16 minutes of chaotic bliss. I found this song through Bury the Light, and thank god I did.
Now shed that violence all over!
Let mayhem in the streets!
From mountain top to oceans!
We own your every need!
It's coming down!
Disconnected
The grooviest metal song I heard in 2022, hands down.
Why are we so far apart
Disconnected from reality
This darkness weakening our hearts
An infection with no remedy
We're losing ourselves
But what makes us worth saving
We're slipping away
I'm slipping away from mei
I'm Not A Vampire - Revamped
I'm Not a Vampiregave me vibes of listening to The Highway Man in middle school. An amazing video, and a better vibrato.
I'm insane
Well, I can feel it in my bones
Coursing through my veins
When did I become so cold?
For goodness' sakes
Where is my self control?
Messages
Heartbreaking delivery oftwo friends separated by time and space.
Brother, are you there?
Do you see my despair?
My heart won't stop searching
If you're still floating somewhere in the air
And I'll try not to admit that I'm still scared
My heart won't stop searching
If you're still floating somewhere in the air
Will you remember me?
Even if I'm gone
And this was all nothing
If I'm where I belong
Then where are you hiding
I think Im fading out
And you can see me now
it’s disgusting how much i replay a song if i love it (View Tweet)
the songs i played on repeat in 2022 (listened to multiple times per day):
Black Representation in Metal
Some great metal musicians who *happen* to be black.
Sometimes I clown on the representation argument as a black person because it feels a bit lazy or brittle to hide behind.
- It gives a pass to do work that isn't remarkable because you can hide behind an identity
- It reinforces ideas that certain careers aren't made for certain people -- or worse, certain careers are[1]
Neil deGrass Tyson puts it really well:
"If you only think of me as a black scientist, I have failed as a scientist"
Here are some dope metal musicians (who happen to be black):
ok Claudio Sanchez is Puerto Rican, but this song just slaps so hard I can't not include it
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