Showing posts with label deric. Show all posts
Showing posts with label deric. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 09, 2026

MindBlog's AI playground - a new piano piece: Nocturne in a Minor Key

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A recent NYTimes article on plagarism lawsuits brought by several singer-song writers against the Suno AI music generator  made me wonder w...
Tuesday, September 01, 2026

Gennady Lukinykh Reflection

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 This is the last of four videos on Contemporary Russian composers.    

Gennady Lukinykh Romance

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This is the third of four videos I am postings on contemporary Russian piano composers. Gennady Lukinykh (b. 1965) is a composer of romances...

Nikolai Sheiko Miniatures "Instant"

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This is the second in a series of four videos I am posting on contemporary Russian piano composers. Nikolai Sheiko (1938-2023) was a Sovi...

Nikolai Sheiko Prelude Op. 9

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  As I mentioned in my July 27 post , I've been obtaining PDFs of music scores written by contemporary Russian piano composers who fur...
Monday, August 31, 2026

Deric, MindBlog, and exiting the miasma of AI integration

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A relentless steady infusion of AI into our daily lives - sometimes optional, often not - is being carried out to 'improve' our da...
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Monday, August 10, 2026

MindBlog's Intellectual History, 2006–2026

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[Introductory note: I had MindBlog's Google Blogger account download to my M4 MacMini the entire corpus of Deric's MindBlog from 200...
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Monday, July 27, 2026

Contemporary Russian piano composers and Agentic AI

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The title of this post makes no sense until I explain that it names the two arenas I have been spending my time in over the past month, taki...
Wednesday, June 24, 2026

What six AI models do and don’t know about me

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This post (for blogging and AI nerds) is the result of choosing an article by Noah Smith  from my daily input stream to actually read throug...
Monday, March 23, 2026

One terminal chats with another to start vibe coding a new dericbownds.net

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Writing MindBlog posts is on temporary hiatus because I have recently followed Claude's instructions to set up my Mac mini M3 to use Cla...
Thursday, March 05, 2026

Empathy as a Brain Rhythm: Orexin, Theta Oscillations, and Prosocial Behavior

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(The following is the final installment of a series of three posts on using ChatGPT to assist in the generation of MindBlog posts.  I think ...

A MindBlog-ready ChatGPT synthesis

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This post continues from the previous one to show  ChatGPT's response to my prompt "Let's go with the empathy / orexin paper fo...

Will Deric’s Mind Blog be firing Deric soon? Is AI is doing his job better?

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The short answer to both questions is yes and no.   I am finding that ChatGPT 5.2 ($20/month version) will scan the TOCs (tables of contents...
Friday, February 13, 2026

MindBlog is now 20 years old.

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I just realized that MindBlog is now starting its 21st year. I asked both Chat GPT 5.2 and Google Gemini about this, and paste in Gemini...
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Wednesday, February 11, 2026

I am not my problem

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I use this MindBlog to go back and look myself up occasionally, and so pass on this re-post of my 10/26/2025 post: An explanation of the str...
Sunday, October 26, 2025

I am not my problem

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An explanation of the strange title of this post: Sometimes a new idea spontaneously appears from nowhere as I am waking in the morning. ...
Wednesday, September 10, 2025

A Materialist's Credo

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This post passes on a recent effort to put down some basic ideas in as few words as I can manage. A Materialist’s Credo In the beginning was...
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Monday, September 01, 2025

Selected MindBlog posts on defining what our human self or "I" is.

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This post collects the titles and texts of selected posts on what a human self is that I have composed since June 2022, and this link takes...
Friday, August 15, 2025

Points on having a self and free will.

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  A  podcast by Sam Harris  done several years ago summarizies his ideas on the question of whether we have free will and motivates me to do...
Monday, July 14, 2025

Tokens of Sanity

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My latest edit of the instruction set I live by:    TOKENS OF SANITY   -Being the calm space in which nothing can hurry  --A animal awarenes...
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