teropa
@teropa.bsky.social
One half of Counterpoint. Interests: software, music, mind.
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Horses are born with tentacles that fall off when they’re babies. It’s so they don’t kick their way through their moms when they’re still baking in the horse oven.That’s the origin of the term “horse feathers”.
(Horses kinda freak me out so I know all their dirty little secrets)
(Horses kinda freak me out so I know all their dirty little secrets)
Ok folks: what is your favorite fact that you share with people (maybe a bit too) eagerly?
December 31, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Horses are born with tentacles that fall off when they’re babies. It’s so they don’t kick their way through their moms when they’re still baking in the horse oven.That’s the origin of the term “horse feathers”.
(Horses kinda freak me out so I know all their dirty little secrets)
(Horses kinda freak me out so I know all their dirty little secrets)
Bring recitals of sorting algorithms to Carnegie Hall!
W. Brian Arthur: The Nature of Technology
W. Brian Arthur: The Nature of Technology
December 30, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Bring recitals of sorting algorithms to Carnegie Hall!
W. Brian Arthur: The Nature of Technology
W. Brian Arthur: The Nature of Technology
The curse of dimensionality, as coined by Richard Bellman in "Dynamic Programming" (1957)
December 23, 2025 at 6:26 PM
The curse of dimensionality, as coined by Richard Bellman in "Dynamic Programming" (1957)
"Guided by evolution, eyes are living paintbrushes."
Ed Yong: An Immense World
Ed Yong: An Immense World
December 22, 2025 at 7:26 PM
"Guided by evolution, eyes are living paintbrushes."
Ed Yong: An Immense World
Ed Yong: An Immense World
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Head over to Google Helsinki in a couple of hours and say hi 👋
I'm speaking in the Future Frontend Meetup in Helsinki next week.
I'll be yapping about my recent experiences with React Native - the good, the bad, and the ugly - from building the Starmirror app for Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst.
www.meetabit.com/events/futur...
I'll be yapping about my recent experiences with React Native - the good, the bad, and the ugly - from building the Starmirror app for Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst.
www.meetabit.com/events/futur...
Future Frontend December 2025
Helsinki, Finland. December 16, 17:30-21:00. In this meetup we'll focus on mobile development as Tero Parviainen will discuss how he built a React Native music application.
17:30-18:15 - Food and dri...
www.meetabit.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Head over to Google Helsinki in a couple of hours and say hi 👋
I've just shipped Aeriform, an interactive ambient techno experiment built with Google DeepMind's Lyria RealTime model.
aeriform.ctpt.co
aeriform.ctpt.co
December 11, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I've just shipped Aeriform, an interactive ambient techno experiment built with Google DeepMind's Lyria RealTime model.
aeriform.ctpt.co
aeriform.ctpt.co
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my relationship with tech has drifted over the 10-15 years as things became more about hyper-scale and extraction vs creating and collaborating.
this, uh, resonated deeply with me and i hope it resonates with you too:
resonantcomputing.org
this, uh, resonated deeply with me and i hope it resonates with you too:
resonantcomputing.org
The Resonant Computing Manifesto
Technology should bring out the best in humanity, not the worst—a manifesto for resonant computing built on five principles that reject hyper-scale extraction for human flourishing.
resonantcomputing.org
December 8, 2025 at 3:59 PM
my relationship with tech has drifted over the 10-15 years as things became more about hyper-scale and extraction vs creating and collaborating.
this, uh, resonated deeply with me and i hope it resonates with you too:
resonantcomputing.org
this, uh, resonated deeply with me and i hope it resonates with you too:
resonantcomputing.org
I'm speaking in the Future Frontend Meetup in Helsinki next week.
I'll be yapping about my recent experiences with React Native - the good, the bad, and the ugly - from building the Starmirror app for Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst.
www.meetabit.com/events/futur...
I'll be yapping about my recent experiences with React Native - the good, the bad, and the ugly - from building the Starmirror app for Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst.
www.meetabit.com/events/futur...
Future Frontend December 2025
Helsinki, Finland. December 16, 17:30-21:00. In this meetup we'll focus on mobile development as Tero Parviainen will discuss how he built a React Native music application.
17:30-18:15 - Food and dri...
www.meetabit.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I'm speaking in the Future Frontend Meetup in Helsinki next week.
I'll be yapping about my recent experiences with React Native - the good, the bad, and the ugly - from building the Starmirror app for Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst.
www.meetabit.com/events/futur...
I'll be yapping about my recent experiences with React Native - the good, the bad, and the ugly - from building the Starmirror app for Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst.
www.meetabit.com/events/futur...
"Drone-ambient-noise synthesizer in Javascript: when instability is a feature, not a bug"
bs.stranno.su/drone-ambien...
bs.stranno.su/drone-ambien...
December 8, 2025 at 11:00 AM
"Drone-ambient-noise synthesizer in Javascript: when instability is a feature, not a bug"
bs.stranno.su/drone-ambien...
bs.stranno.su/drone-ambien...
"Around the wwworld: Web MIDI, Web Audio and what the web does best" by Katie Fenn
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R3h...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R3h...
Katie Fenn – Around the wwworld: Web MIDI, Web AUDIO and what the web does best – All Day Hey! 2025
YouTube video by Hey! Presents
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October 30, 2025 at 9:11 AM
"Around the wwworld: Web MIDI, Web Audio and what the web does best" by Katie Fenn
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R3h...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R3h...
important news: this year's 24/7 livestream of a litter of puppies has begun
areena.yle.fi/1-76362374
areena.yle.fi/1-76362374
Pentulive 24/7 | Pentulive
Muru synnytti 11 tervettä pentua. Miten sujuvat pentujen ensimmäiset tärkeät päivät? Kahdeksan viikkoa kestävässä suorassa lähetyksessä seurataan englanninspringerspanieli Murua ja tämän pentuetta.
areena.yle.fi
October 17, 2025 at 5:16 PM
important news: this year's 24/7 livestream of a litter of puppies has begun
areena.yle.fi/1-76362374
areena.yle.fi/1-76362374
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The KickStarter is live!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/190...
Our big fat beautiful book, Designing Imaginative Environments is a deep dive into the world of
environment design for storytelling.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/190...
Our big fat beautiful book, Designing Imaginative Environments is a deep dive into the world of
environment design for storytelling.
October 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM
The KickStarter is live!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/190...
Our big fat beautiful book, Designing Imaginative Environments is a deep dive into the world of
environment design for storytelling.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/190...
Our big fat beautiful book, Designing Imaginative Environments is a deep dive into the world of
environment design for storytelling.
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I've been re-acquainting myself with NNs, transformers and LLMs this week, so these are early thoughts. But I am starting to think about language without the capacity to imagine language, i.e., an LLM unable to imagine itself participating in language. mail.cyberneticforests.com/what-machine...
What Machines Don't Know
Imagining Language Without Imagination
It's important to acknowledge that Large Language Models are complex. There's an oversimplified binary in online chatter between the dismissive characterizatio...
mail.cyberneticforests.com
October 12, 2025 at 11:17 AM
I've been re-acquainting myself with NNs, transformers and LLMs this week, so these are early thoughts. But I am starting to think about language without the capacity to imagine language, i.e., an LLM unable to imagine itself participating in language. mail.cyberneticforests.com/what-machine...
I computed Stable Audio Open latent space embeddings for my Bandcamp music collection.
A nearest-neighbour traversal reveals fun connections.
A nearest-neighbour traversal reveals fun connections.
October 12, 2025 at 9:33 PM
I computed Stable Audio Open latent space embeddings for my Bandcamp music collection.
A nearest-neighbour traversal reveals fun connections.
A nearest-neighbour traversal reveals fun connections.
Jim O’Rourke & Eiko Ishibashi
October 11, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Jim O’Rourke & Eiko Ishibashi
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Wrote up my September 2025 "How I'm using coding agents" - blog.fsck.com/2025/10/05/h...
How I'm using coding agents in September, 2025
I used to write more
blog.fsck.com
October 5, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Wrote up my September 2025 "How I'm using coding agents" - blog.fsck.com/2025/10/05/h...
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Wrote more about Benjamin Bratton's paranoid imagination of a media studies cabal holding back AI progress in Europe. mail.cyberneticforests.com/is-the-media...
Is the Media Studies Cabal in the Room With Us Right Now?
I read The Stack in 2020 as a grad student in ANU's Applied Cybernetics program. I give it credit for directing my attention to the interaction between layers of digital and physical infrastructures. ...
mail.cyberneticforests.com
October 5, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Wrote more about Benjamin Bratton's paranoid imagination of a media studies cabal holding back AI progress in Europe. mail.cyberneticforests.com/is-the-media...
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Brian Eno and Ezra Klein discuss the impact @stevereich.bsky.social's music has had on them on the latest episode of @nytopinion.nytimes.com's 'The Ezra Klein Show.' www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/o...
October 5, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Brian Eno and Ezra Klein discuss the impact @stevereich.bsky.social's music has had on them on the latest episode of @nytopinion.nytimes.com's 'The Ezra Klein Show.' www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/o...