Unfortunately, politicians are too busy playing culture war to dig deep on policy for just about anything. They choose inaction, they choose ignorance.
Carbon aside, it will be interesting to see how this plays out in Texas, where the electrical grid is tenuous.
But to your point, looking at things from sustainability minded perspective (and even opting to ignore value of product as it stands right now), why yes, BTC is bad.
Maybe the biggest advancement in societal development is the idea that in some ways, many ways actually, non-development is the most advanced form of development.
Many types of music have additional requirements, at least for discovery. For example, how about cover songs? It would be nice to find every available version of All Along the Watchtower. This is not unique to classical so why not fix in the parent app?
Patching one app into another for improved UX and categorization is bonkers.
Also, my kid wanted to use Apple Music classical first thing this morning (he’s a big classical music nut), you literally have to be logged in to regular Apple Music before Classical will allow you to play anything. Weird.
One fallacy of web design, of any design, is that in order to be “good” it must be easy.
Sometimes there is a learning curve. Conceptual hurdles abound with a complex tool like GitHub. Working through hurdles help you grow as a technologist and as person —but having the right attitude going in, that’s on you.
It’s worth noting that this particular Warhol piece was done much later in his career after he had established his style. Usually he didn’t even execute the work, it was done by assistants in the studio. This painting of Prince is an example of Warhol as art business — which incidentally was one of his statements as an artist.
Opinion: bout the photo and the painting are actually not very good representation of either artists work. I imagine both the photo and the painting would be considered unimportant if it wasn’t for this legal wrangling.
There are many ways that this issue could be approached. For example, could Warhol be allowed fair use in execution but, post-mortem, his estate pay? After all, one thing that the author of the article did not go into is that this argument is really no longer about the creative act.
Publish all content to blockchain and let the users create their own interfaces as they choose. But first make all content equally and indisputably available?
Yet Facebook and Twitter literally base their business model on sorting out what you get to read. These companies manipulate access to speech when their algorithms decide what you like — and yes, this includes ads.
I get the feeling that iOS runs photos through a neural net filter by default. It would be nice to know exactly what is behind any given shot, both my personal images and those of a collection/competition like this. Thus armed with knowledge, only then can we truly judge for ourselves.
I was trained in Archaeology as an undergrad. I have considered neural nets as a possibility for classification tasks that may otherwise be time consuming. But the material still needs to be collected, cleaned and catalogued by human hands. There are steps along the way where skilled humans can classify objects. The neural net might be a way to confirm or flag human decisions but I would not rely on it as a primary means of classification. The things that are interesting are on the edges of any classification. Transitional artifacts or anomalies. For these you will need human interpretation. Also, I do begin to wonder why we would even bother if no human will be interacting with a given artifact, why not leave it in the ground undisturbed? If that’s even possible. But I start thinking, with the ease of AI, if we are painting ourselves out of the picture. Like using GPT3 to respond to emails as a solution to the problem of too many emails. And imagine the respondent doing the same.