Ciro Santilli @cirosantilli  40

This software feels amazing. You can really start composing very quickly, lots of features, good keyboard shortcuts.

GPL, and there's a backing company that makes money with an online and mobile version of it.

Can export to:

Ubuntu 20.04: sound preview worked, first hat that trailing Contra-like sound artifacts (like spd-say), but then it went away?

Feels like a lot of effort was put into usability, including keyboard shortcuts by default, seems like a powerful and easy to start using software to compose music!

Glissando: yes: musescore.org/en/handbook/arpeggios-and-glissandi

Just use MuseScore instead.

Weight: light.

Can import from: MIDI.

Can export to:

Ubuntu 20.04:tuxguitar-jsa was needed, otherwise no sound: askubuntu.com/questions/457321/tuxguitar-no-sound-in-14-04

Has OK step sequencer non-realtime up/down/left/right guitar based composition interface.

Has chord insertion.

Has bend editor.

Could be more amazing, but it is OK.

A bit limited by being very "guitar oriented". Shows you guitar strings, and you enter offset to each string. So to enter two adjacent notes you need to use two seprate strings and thing about the offsets. If only it had a more piano based interface.

Drum notation is also atrocious, you have to go to the top chord, and use high numbers starting at 36.

Ciro's large dataset survey: Section "Survey of open source interactive plotting software with a 10 million point scatter plot benchmark by Ciro Santilli".

And by artificial intelligence, read of course (non-human-identical) artificial general intelligence.

Today-2022, this is placed under the science fiction film category. But maybe this might change during Ciro Santilli's own lifetime?

The basic criteria of "is a film about artificial intelligence good or not" to Ciro Santilli is: does the AI inhabit humanoid, or fully human looking, bodies? Bodies is a bad sign due to:

Low budget.

Things that can be understood are boring.

Aaron Swartz agrees: www.aaronsw.com/weblog/looperexplained "Next week we'll explain Primer." He never did though :'-(

That makes Ciro Santilli most mad about this film is the fact that the dude was passionate about writing, and when he became a genius, rather than write the best novels ever written, he decided instead to play the stock market instead. This paints an accurate picture of 2020's society, where finance jobs make infinitely more money than other real engineering jobs, and end up attracting much of the talent.

Another enraging thing is how his girlfriend starts liking him again once he is a genius, and instead of telling her to fuck off, he stays with her.

The other really bad thing is the ending. He fixed the drug by himself? He scared off De Niro just like that?

The premise that "we can't make AGI, but we know enough about the human brain to upload on to a computer" is flawed. Edit: after reading Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom (2014), Ciro Santilli was convinced otherwise. What is flawed is of course just the "extracting connectome with macroscopic probes part". A post mortem connectome extraction with microtome is much more believable. But of course they weren't going to show fake slices of Jonny Depp's brain, are they? Famous actor bodies are sacred! What a huge lost opportunity. On the other hand however, the scale of the first connectome extraction would be arguably too huge to be undertaken by a random pair of rogue researchers. The same would also likely apply to any first time human brain connectome. It would much more likely be a huge public effort, much like the Human Genome Project.

But this film does have the merit of exploring how an AGI might act to take over the AGI might act to take over the world once created, notably by creating its own physical research laboratory. Though it doesn't feel likely that it could go under the radar for 2 years given the energetic requirements of the research. Even the terrorists find it before the FBI!

I also wish they had shown the dildo (or more likely, direct stimulation!) computerized Jonny Depp used to use with his wife before he managed to re-synthesized his body. But you know, 18+ would cut too much profits. Ah, what a shame.

They actually carry atomic clocks in them.

Appears to be the best classic open source roguelike of the 2020's.

This website is really cool! crawl.akrasiac.org:8080/#lobby You can spectate players live and chat! Also has statistics.

Devs of this game are smart, they have one good in-tree tileset, unlike some other text-based games that didn't have an in-tree option...

Build on Ubuntu 21.10:

This launches the UI version already for you.

IMDb: www.imdb.com/title/tt0066839/

Episodes of the life of Blaise Pascal.

IMDb: www.imdb.com/title/tt0161382/

This film is really good.