Pages in this blog

▼
Thursday, May 21, 2026

A multi-agent system for automating scientific discovery

›
Ghareeb, A.E., Chang, B., Mitchener, L. et al. A multi-agent system for automating scientific discovery. Nature (2026). https://doi.org/10...
Wednesday, May 20, 2026

Black cat rendered in charcoal

›
木炭で描いた黒猫 pic.twitter.com/iiANLwBcWA — 綾佑 ryosuke (@ryosuke_art5) May 20, 2026

The Fairy Voice Mother reacts to “Unchained Melody” [Media Notes 181]

›
Fairy Voice Mother says: In this video, I (a contemporary voice specialist) analyse “Righteous Brothers” performing “Unchained Melody...

In the shade [Shipyard Park]

›

How come no one mentions Rodney Brooks in the LLM debates?

›
Claude brought up Rodney Brooks in a recent discussion. I'd been dialoguing with Claude about Tyler Cowen's credulous treatment of...
2 comments:
Tuesday, May 19, 2026

The drummer and the bass player [Hoboken Spring Arts and Music Festival]

›

Botanical classification and the theory of evolution [MR #9]

›
When I made that first post about Tyler Cowen’s monograph on marginalism – Tyler Cowen has thrown in the towel and is waiting for the mach...

Chinese top 100 books

›
If anyone else is interested in literary polls - these are the top 100 highest-rated books on Douban Books (basically Chinese Goodreads) w/ ...

Hoboken arts fest

›

Stanford as a hatchery for future tech overlords [Book Review]

›
Anand Giridharadas, The Secret Elite One Freshman Discovered at Stanford , NYTimes , May 18, 2026. Book Review: How to Rule the World: A...
2 comments:
Monday, May 18, 2026

Eddie Kramer: Recording the Gods of Rock

›
YouTube: In this interview, I sit down with legendary audio engineer and producer Eddie Kramer. We discuss his ridiculously impressiv...

Hoboken Arts & Music Festival, Spring 2026

›

Gary Marcus declares victory: “I won; nobody uses pure LLMs anymore.”

›
The pure LLM debate - which I had for many years, here and elsewhere - is indeed no longer relevant. Why? Because I won; nobody uses pure LL...

Why doesn’t Cowen mention Thomas Kuhn on scientific revolutions? {+Cowen as a conventional thinker.} [MR #8]

›
In the course of working through the Chapter 3 material on botany and biological evolution in Cowen’s marginalism monograph I was suddenly ...
Sunday, May 17, 2026

“Speak Low” - Skylar Tang Quartet Live at Close Up NYC

›