Work: Machine Learning Engineer at Apple, previously a Research Fellow in learning theory at the Australian National University.
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Based in Canberra, Australia 🇦🇺.
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Vale.
Now I’ve got to go listen to some Rollins tunes.
It’s been about a month since I started learning the sax on an alto I borrowed from a friend and I’ve been really enjoying it.
After a rough first few days making some horrible sounds I can now play a bunch of two octave scales and a couple of jazz standard heads fairly consistently, though I’m sure my tone could use a lot of work.
I’m giving the alto back soon and found a good deal on this student tenor sax that just arrived this morning. Excited to try it out!
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan/116592315724899265
This is a really great article on art, copying, and process. Well worth a read.
“Two motives separate good copying from bad copying.
One copies to produce a finished thing. The other copies to understand a process. The first motive yields imitations; the second yields apprenticeships.”
The bass player from my jazz group suggested I listen to Wynton Marsalis’s “Live at the House of Tribes” album for its version of Just Friends and it’s an amazing listen.
I think what really sets it apart is how well it is recorded and mixed. They’ve done a great job capturing the atmosphere and excitement of the audience in a way that really adds to the energy without distracting from the music.
The 2nd Line closing track is a blast too.
Great news everyone! I'm still alive and have dropped a post on my plans to obliterate as many software recruiters as possible, and also talk about how all the managers that seemed incompetent were, in fact, totally incompetent:
“Photographer Spends Night on Freezing Mountain to Capture Rare Triple Galaxy Arch” - astonishing photo and interesting how-it-was-done narrative.
You know that stereotypical diagram of atoms as electrons orbiting a pack of protons and neutrons? That’s less than 100 years old.
Before 1932 and the discovery of the neutron by Chadwick we thought atoms were indivisible or at best a “pudding” or some system of only positive and negative pieces.
I feel like I must have learnt this at some point at school but hadn’t quite appreciated how recent the discovery was. I guess as you get older what constitutes “a long time ago” gets longer.
Ludic 🧛
Tim Bray 🇨🇦