Age-Old Shoe Etiquette Debate Is Back
2024-12-04
The New York Times published a digest of advice on going to parties from 43 people in the social class, like Ivy Getty and Rufus Wainwright. They range from this, from chef and author Alex Hitz:
Bring a sense of humor. Bring positive energy. That anecdote of yours? Cut it by 98 percent, practice it in front of the mirror, and in six months you can bring it to the party.
Agrodolce Sauce - by Rachel Lerro
2024-12-04
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Agrodolce wasn’t something I had while growing up, at least not that I remember.
A long time ago, Shaun and I put out a podcast all about aw, ah, awe or ah, and I think it’s time to revisit this, English speakers and writers. You ready? None of us are perfect with the grammar, especially not us native-English speakers. We’ve got all these words that mean totally different things but sound EXACTLY THE SAME! This is cruel. The English language is cruel.
Prove that dogs are smarter than people because they don’t have to spell.
Ahmad Jamal and the power of refusal
2024-12-04
Ahmad Jamal — piano miraculist, dynamic mastermind, supreme orchestrator — died on Sunday at 92, after a battle with prostate cancer. For many admirers, he will always be synonymous with a groove: the terse yet buoyant evocation of New Orleans second-line rhythm on “Poinciana,” in the version he recorded with Israel Crosby on bass and Vernell Fournier on drums on Jan. 16, 1958. Others will reach first for his 1970 studio album The Awakening, with bassist Jamil Nasser and drummer Frank Gant.
AI Carnival Barkers, 2023 Edition
2024-12-04
As I write this, I am currently in Dubai and about to travel back to the USA. To everyone I met in Bangalore, India, and Dubai, UAE, over the last two weeks - you’re awesome! I’m also bummed to miss dbt’s Coalesce this week, but I was scheduled to speak at Gitex Dubai almost a year in advance.
Thanks,
Joe Reis
P.S. Want me to speak at your event in the first half of 2024?
AI is a Shoggoth - by Ren Walter
2024-12-04
Let’s get this out of the way first: Lovecraft was a terrible racist and you can’t responsibly write about the guy without mentioning that.
He also was an innovator of writing about the terror of the Unknown and as such, it is interesting to look at what his writing can tell us about the nature of the digital, which, with the great weirding of the social media age and now the advent of stochastic libraries in AI and Large Language Models, becomes stranger by the day, with even AI-researchers unable to explain the details of what’s going on inside the black box.
Since ChatGPT took the world by storm, every week there has been a new announcement of the mindblowing capabilities of AI programs released by various companies, from reading and understanding handwritten maths equations, automated translation and dubbing of videos, conducting interviews of job candidates, generating high-quality videos from simple text descriptions, and much more.
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Aicha's Moroccan Pancakes & Macarons
2024-12-04
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This week, in celebration of Pancake Day, Aicha shares two of her favourite Moroccan desserts: Msemen and Macrons.
Aicha was born and raised in a small town called Ben Slimane, between Rabat and Casablanca, Morocco. She grew up with her parents and six siblings: four girls and three boys.
I’m on vacation for the next week with limited WiFi, so I thought I’d bring back one of my favorite essays from 2022. I’ve been listening to a lot of Aimee Mann lately, her 2000 album Bachelor No. 2 in particular, which never fails to wow me. After featuring her husband, Michael Penn, last week, it seemed the perfect choice.
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I first fell in love with Aimee Mann’s music while watching the 1999 Paul Thomas Anderson film, Magnolia.