teropa
@teropa.bsky.social
One half of Counterpoint. Interests: software, music, mind.
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
Visualising principal components of Stable Audio Open latents over time.
0.8s hann window, 0.03s hop (latent rate ≈21.5 Hz)
0.8s hann window, 0.03s hop (latent rate ≈21.5 Hz)
October 5, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Visualising principal components of Stable Audio Open latents over time.
0.8s hann window, 0.03s hop (latent rate ≈21.5 Hz)
0.8s hann window, 0.03s hop (latent rate ≈21.5 Hz)
sonnet 4.5 seems to respond quite well to explicit "give me some chain-of-thought on this" requests. self-corrected nicely with this slightly delicate bit of logic.
October 3, 2025 at 1:06 PM
sonnet 4.5 seems to respond quite well to explicit "give me some chain-of-thought on this" requests. self-corrected nicely with this slightly delicate bit of logic.
sonifying the wind on a great circle journey around the globe
October 1, 2025 at 6:12 PM
sonifying the wind on a great circle journey around the globe
putting sonnet 4.5 through its paces as an ambient melody composer
September 30, 2025 at 2:43 PM
putting sonnet 4.5 through its paces as an ambient melody composer
"Big Tech treats its techies better than its artists because it has to: there are far more tech jobs than there are qualified technologists to fill them. The instant that changes, those engineers are toast."
Rebecca Giblin & Cory Doctorow: Chokepoint Capitalism (2022)
Rebecca Giblin & Cory Doctorow: Chokepoint Capitalism (2022)
August 11, 2025 at 4:52 PM
"Big Tech treats its techies better than its artists because it has to: there are far more tech jobs than there are qualified technologists to fill them. The instant that changes, those engineers are toast."
Rebecca Giblin & Cory Doctorow: Chokepoint Capitalism (2022)
Rebecca Giblin & Cory Doctorow: Chokepoint Capitalism (2022)
July 28, 2025 at 7:36 AM
the brainrot is setting in. just noticed myself basically running the world's slowest most expensive shell.
July 24, 2025 at 8:19 AM
the brainrot is setting in. just noticed myself basically running the world's slowest most expensive shell.
July 1, 2025 at 7:27 AM
June 23, 2025 at 3:46 PM
"We won’t find salvation by escaping technology, but by using our awareness—our capacity for critique, ritual, invention, and refusal—to carve out room for messiness, for mourning, for risk, and for deep attention."
AI, Heidegger, and Evangelion
fakepixels.substack.com/p/ai-heidegg...
AI, Heidegger, and Evangelion
fakepixels.substack.com/p/ai-heidegg...
June 22, 2025 at 7:15 PM
"We won’t find salvation by escaping technology, but by using our awareness—our capacity for critique, ritual, invention, and refusal—to carve out room for messiness, for mourning, for risk, and for deep attention."
AI, Heidegger, and Evangelion
fakepixels.substack.com/p/ai-heidegg...
AI, Heidegger, and Evangelion
fakepixels.substack.com/p/ai-heidegg...
Science and art, cut from the same cloth
June 22, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Science and art, cut from the same cloth
I adore E.T. Jaynes' scheme to handle evidence-updating in decibels, and I demand the entire world adopt it immediately.
June 22, 2025 at 7:40 AM
I adore E.T. Jaynes' scheme to handle evidence-updating in decibels, and I demand the entire world adopt it immediately.
The wonder of transmitting ideas in language
Arthur Koestler: The Ghost in the Machine
Arthur Koestler: The Ghost in the Machine
June 18, 2025 at 6:35 PM
The wonder of transmitting ideas in language
Arthur Koestler: The Ghost in the Machine
Arthur Koestler: The Ghost in the Machine
evian christ brought the vletrmx
June 14, 2025 at 10:10 PM
evian christ brought the vletrmx
sound fun at the barbican
June 14, 2025 at 2:39 PM
sound fun at the barbican
