Now playing: Still good

1. Bobby Byrd - 'Hot Pants (I'm Coming)'
2. Young MC - 'Know How'
3. James Brown - 'Funky Drummer'

That's some catch, that Catch-22

"...Within the closed system of a large language model, novelty and effectiveness function as inversely related variables. As the system strives to be more effective by choosing probable words, it automatically becomes less novel."

From Eric W. Dolan's article on David H. Cropley's paper "The Cat Sat on the...?" Why Generative AI Has Limited Creativity".

We could even rap to you in reverse

"We present evidence that adversarial poetry functions as a universal single-turn jailbreak technique for large language models (LLMs). Across 25 frontier proprietary and open-weight models, curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90%."

-- Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models

Believe

Lee Pace on the final days of Halt And Catch Fire:

The season two people were like, "Oh, there's something here. I can see what they're trying to sniff out." And then season three was when we really hit our stride. So I would say that AMC believed in the group of people that they had assembled. The writers were trying to figure it out and focus it, as were the actors. Every episode, we met to read through the script and work on the characters and challenge each other. So we got to know each other very well as actors, as we developed that show over the years. So I think that AMC figured out a way to make the finances of it work because they really believed in the show. 

Now playing: Translate to English

1. Pizzicato Five - 'Arigato We Love You'
2. The Album Leaf - 'We Once Were Two'
3. Arisael Guzman - 'Sweet Harmony'
4. Fantastic Plastic Machine - 'First Class 77'
5. Johan Agebjorn (feat. NINA) - 'Little Fluffy Clouds' (remix)

It's the little things

John Gruber at Daring Fireball:

"For a remarkably long stretch, Apple's in-house icons represented the pinnacle of an art form worth celebrating. They were exquisitely crafted, and quite obviously the work of the most talented artists in the field. Apple's application icons in the OS 26 releases — MacOS Tahoe especially, because MacOS has the most first-party apps — look like they're the work of people who have zero artistic ability whatsoever."

With my pencil turning moments into lines

In the same way The Bear freaked me out by hijacking my playlist (Harmonia's 'Welcome' and The Cocteau Twins' 'Pearly Dewdrops' Drop' and Eno/Cale's 'Spinning Away'? Three times is enemy action), The Lowdown is my bookcase stalker: not only the same titles, but the same editions. I picked up on the show because of an NYMag.com headline that compared it to Terriers. I'll take it. Maybe things are coming round. Maybe things are in the right place.