Sterling Proffer
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Sterling Proffer
The Feynman Lectures on Physics Playlist
feynmanlectures.caltech.eduStreaming has changed all the rules. Musicians can upload songs on to a streaming platform without a label. If they still want to sell physical albums, Bandcamp has made it very easy—no label required. They can deal directly with fans, journalists, promoters, booking agents, etc. without a label. They can set up a publishing company with almost no... See more
Ted Gioia • Record Labels Dig Their Own Grave. And the Shovel is Called TikTok.
‘ABBA Voyage’ Is Making $2 Million a Week With an Avatar Band
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The Death Of Pitchfork
lefsetz.com
In the past thirty years what it means to be an artist has dramatically changed.
Before the internet, being an artist meant operating in a very specific area where the gatekeepers, critics, and ways of doing things were well-structured and defined. You as the artist plugged into this system if invited (most artists... See more
instagram.comAll modern machine-learning models are based on “neural networks”—programming which mimics the ways in which brain cells interact with each other. Their parameters describe the weights of the connections between these virtual neurons, weights the models develop through trial and error as they are “trained” to respond to specific inputs with the... See more