Take a transcript of last years presentation, search and replace old numbers with new numbers, use AI to insert audio of new words into the recording. Edit presenter backdrops with footage from SF. Hit play. Great demo 🍎.
Well - hello Threads - bare with me - I’ll catch you up
🪦 May the force be with you James. A great life. Thank you.
🔗 Dana on ‘The Speed Of Publishing’ - ‘then’ and ‘now’open.substack.com/pub/danaf…)
Yes - and ..
There’s a piece missing from the then .. now comparison. During ‘Slow Publishing’ the writer, editor, producer is also honing the deliverable into something that garners attention, creates a story, a question... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2024/09/10/dana-on-the.html
My bone is being tickled by a very funny writer over on Substack by name of Daniel Piper …
One excerpt from his Substack to give you a flavor:
"Last night I went to a dinner party hosted by a friend. After dinner, one of the guests performed a magic trick involving some cutlery and a napkin, much to everyone’s delight. After that, another guest picked up an acoustic guitar and performed a song by the band Oasis. The host then excitedly asked if anybody else had a creative talent they would like to share. I immediately offered to write a short poem on the spot, featuring all of the guests. They were... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2024/09/10/my-bone-is.html
🔗 How’s that AI tsunami looking, a year on? (Charles Arthur)
🔗 Eleven Predictions: Here’s What AI Does Next (Ted Gioia) (This one is a Readwise link that includes my highlights)
Related. Very related. Yet different
https://socialwarming.substack.com/p/hows-that-ai-tsunami-looking-a-year https://readwise.io/reader/shared/01j76y2qzw8gybezstqh8txpgy
Heaven knows I don’t always agree with @gruber .. but some of the shit you see ‘no names’ write about his positions on various things are extraordinary. #DELETE. #UNSUBSCRIBE.
From Sean Illing’s Podcast Overview
Absolutely FASCINATING
How is the origin of our universe like an improvised saxophone solo? This week, Sean Illing talks to Stephon Alexander, a theoretical physicist and world-class jazz musician.
Alexander is the author of The Jazz of Physics and his most recent book... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2024/09/09/from-sean-illings.html
Auckland .. way in the distance, hazy day, iPhone 11
Rays on Rangitoto
A Case of Insanity?
Rational Pi?
British Prejudice?
Not been paying too much attention to iOS 18, so .. old news? But I like the idea …
More serendipity
No surprise that a Fowles quote surfaced this morning, he is after all one of my favorites.
The surprise lay in the relevance to a conversation with friends last night.
Topic
How society and norms morph over time, by dint of individual actions.
First learning, then adapting followed b... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2024/09/07/more-serendipity-no.html
The Crafting of Craft. https://john.philpin.com/2024/09/07/the-crafting-of.html
Read and agree with a lot of the @gruber post 🔗 The iOS Continental Drift Widens
After I read it - I jumped to my Readwise queue - and up pops this.
My reading habits are clearly being tracked.
https://micro.blog/gruber https://daringfireball.net/2024/09/the_ios_continental_drift_widens
Pageless Writing Apps https://john.philpin.com/2024/09/07/pageless-writing-apps.html
Via John Naughton
It is three times the price to rent a car in the center of Auckland for the day than on Waiheke Island - that does not compute.
Someone’s Having A Larf …
"It’s the billion-dollar baby of artificial intelligence. Safe Superintelligence Inc., the AI startup launched by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, announced Wednesday it had raised a whopping $1 billion from big-name venture capital firms, including Sequoia and Andreessen Horowitz.
That’s a huge amount of money for a three-month-old company with 10 staffers, no product and a “singular focus” on creating “safe” AI rather than a money-making product (at least in the short term)."
💬 The Information
Shout Outs To @dsearls@journa.host and @dave in the 🔗 latest entry from ‘Jobsworth’
BTW - while I am here 🔗JP published another great post the other day about Cricket - specifically Cricket stats and records.
He opened with:
"You have been warned. This one’s for hardcore cricket nuts. Red-ball nuts. Five-day nuts. The hardest of the hardcore. No coloured pajamas here."
I am definitely not a hardcore cricket nut - and still read the entire thing to the end. Fascinating.
https://micro.blog/dsearls@journa.host https://micro.blog/dave https://confusedofcalcutta.com/2024/09/03/musing-about-filters-and-brakes-a-long-post/ https://confusedofcalcutta.com/about-me/
Me:
"What about tomorrow?"
Reply:
"Would be good except that I will out of town celebrating my first wife’s, second husband’s, 70th. Should be a good bash."
.. now that’s what I call an extended family that truly embraces the concept.**