Interesting Links for 02-05-2023

[andrewducker]

1. Half of Vinyl Buyers in the US Don't Have a Record Player

(tags:music business )

2. Why Neil Gaiman wrote Marvel 1602

(tags:marvel comics neilgaiman terrorism )

3. Lego Googol Machine

(tags:lego mathematics time )

4. Modern graphics are really impressive: Star Trek edition

(tags:StarTrek graphics )

5. How much has AI image generation improved in the last year?

(tags:ai graphics impressive )

6. You can improve gpt4 performance an astounding 30% by asking it to reflect on "why were you wrong?", and generate a new prompt for itself taking that reason into account until it is correct.

(tags:ai )

Comments

[nancylebov]

I'd want to know whether some of those people without record players are answering the question somewhat literally and actually have those laser/computer record players that don't touch the record.

[andrewducker]

As far as I can tell, there is only one company that makes those, they make them to order, and they charge about $16,000 for them.

So maybe one or two? But definitely not a number that's going to sway the overall count in a noticeable manner!

[nancylebov]

I didn't realize. I'm a bit surprised, I'd have thought they would be cheaper by now.

Looks like I was wrong. The tech must be harder than it souonds.

[andrewducker]

I'm curious. It's possible that there's so little interest in them that it wasn't worth investing in bringing the price down.

[naath]

they want the art? and to have the object? music is more convenient on streaming...