The better AI models become at certain things the more fun it is to find things they horribly fail at. My new favorite low brow “benchmark”: draw the Hebrew letter Aleph in SVG format. It should be pretty simple in practice. Three lines: one long diagonal, one shorter curved line at the bottom (with optional […]
2025 UPDATE: I changed my mind about a lot of this. I am no longer using Spotify. Here’s why. [drop_cap]N[/drop_cap]ot too long ago, before image macros and reaction videos roamed the planet, human beings created mix-tapes to express complicated feelings or share their favorite songs with family and friends. These custom compilations of songs were recorded […]
This is the last song and title-track of the new album Rituals by Other Lives, which has been one of the most satisfying new releases this year. I’ve been listening to it almost daily since it came out on May 5th, at home or on the go, and just can’t seem to get tired of it. It’s […]
Weißt du noch, wie es damals war? Als die meisten Webseiten noch öden Orten glichen, auf die man oft nur durch Zufall stieß — arglos zusammengezimmerte Codegeflechte, die irgendwo in der digitalen Wildnis darauf warteten, sich ruckartig auf flimmernden Bildschirmen zusammenzusetzen, Pixel für Pixel für Pixel. Weit vor der atemlosen Hast des Ständig Neuen, dem […]
These days my weeks are filled with manuscript writing, proof reading, editing, formatting and everything else that follows. While it’s very satisfying to immerse myself in longer projects that take many months to complete, I’ve also rediscovered the fun in blogging, the refreshment of forming an idea within one or three days and publishing it […]
Als ich das erste Mal mit jungen Jahren Bilder von Jerusalem im Fernsehen sah, war ich überrascht. Da waren Straßen zu sehen, asphaltiert wie in Deutschland, und die Menschen trugen Jeans und Tshirts. Ich hörte Sirenen, sah brennende Autos und Frauen mit schmerzverzerrten Gesichtern. Jerusalem, das war für mich ein Wort, das ich nur aus […]
Yesterday, I stumbled over an interesting recording from the re:publica Berlin 2012 about the changing face of publishing titled: “What happens when authors circumvent publishing houses“. Especially noteworthy I found Leander Wattig‘s introductory talk whose salient points I’d like to summarize here for non-German speaking readers: The Default Setting authors need money to “buy time” […]