Flip Phillips
@flipphillips
Professor of Motion Picture Science at RIT. Ex Pixar. Visual Effects Society. Sensory neuroscientist. Snare drummer. Protanomalous trichromat. Appalachian. 1st Gen. flipphillips.com
Great moments in AI transcription: they want 'answers', not 'hamsters'. #aifail
Hot take - This year's DCI books are pretty boring. Challenging. Lots of note ramming. SCV has no drum set (yay!). Interesting music here and there but very little recognizable. Not always bad, but very generic sounding. #DCI #DrumCorps #oneradioheadpiece
If you were in Columbus at the turn of the century and you watched Community Access TV, you'll remember Damon Zex. He was a fixture @ Crazy Mama's, Bernie's, Larry's and well beyond. According to Fritz the Night Owl, he passed away over the weekend. RIP, you community TV maniac.
"Elide with Tear" - Now, there's a menu option you don't see every day. #mathematica
BOTD, Flip Phillips, Sr. Shown here w/ the IV Leaguers, Donovan, Flip Phillips, Jr.
I tell you what - I'm all for it if you're restricted to an IMSAI 8080 Or alternately my PDP-8 replica.
Over on not-facebook (LinkedIn), a friend reminded me of the Mac program 'Racter'. A few mouse clicks and it's talking nonsense just like its 1986 all over again.
Want to see how stupid LLMs can be - and how amazingly confident they can be. This with more than enough context for it to know 1) I'm a vision scientist 2) I have sufficient training in the arts such that I _probably_ would have recognized a Vermeer. #slop