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A photo of a starry sky above a lake.
Yesterday Linn and I decided to take a spontaneous sauna visit. It was a fairly quick visit to be able to also do all the chores necessary of a Sunday but it was totally worth it. Very relaxing and a *fabulous* night sky outside.
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Spent most of yesterday outside, working on the carport with lots of help from Sverker. It’s not done done, but it’s reach a stage where it’s done for the season. Once spring arrives I’ll do more work on the roof.
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A photo of a lecture room. There's a digital mixing console, a laptop computer and an external display in the center of the image.
Two different lectures in two different courses today. Been a long time since I’ve done that. Years ago that was what a lot of days looked like but these days I do a lot more administrative work. This photo is from lecture #2, on sound for tv studio productions.
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A photo of a white desktop with a computer screen, a wireless keyboard, a Eurorack modular synth, some studio audio monitors and a small mixing console
Today I worked from home for the entirety of the day, prepping for lectures and doing admin. Got some quality work done before lunch but then it got harder to focus as I also had electricians here, working on electrical wireing to the carport, Ebbe needed to be picked up from school and so on.
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A drum kit in a recording studio
I spent a large part of the working day today recording in the studio. The purpose was to record the same thing with different acoustic settings in the room to be able to demonstrate it’s effect to the students.
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There are plenty of things that can be improved by LLM’s and similar technology. It has been done plenty of times prior to the current A.I. bubble. But this kind of slop, posing as answers, needs to disappear. What is the point of this, other than virtue signaling that Google is an ”A.I. First Company”, aka drinkers of the Kool-Aid?

My query to Google was what word count I should equate to a page of text. The answer claims that it depends on a lot of factors and gives a rough estimate of 250-500 words. That is probably reasonable but it then goes of to claim that the bigger my line-spacing, the more words I can fit on a page. It’s just so hilariously dumb. Given how obvious it is that at least parts of this answer is wrong, I had to look further in the actual search-results. No time was saved for me, no value was created, nothing was gained.

This also ties back nicely to this.

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Om du är polis eller ordningsvakt och anmäler en person för att hen kallar dig för ”tönt”, då bekräftar du att du är en tönt.

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I took a break from King after ”The Langoliers” and instead dove into Neal Stephenson’s ”Termination Shock” and it grabbed me instantly. What a thrill ride thus far!

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I finished the audiobook of Stephen King’s ”The Langoliers” from Four Past Midnight the other day. I really liked it!

I remember watching the tv movie (tv show?) of this story in class back in high school but I remembered very few things about it. I remembered the main premise, Dinah, and how terrible the langoliers looked, but apart from that I didn’t remember any of the other characters or the plot.

It’s a fun premise and engaging characters. The audiobook is read by Willem Dafoe who’s clearly having a lot of fun.

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It seems like I’ve neglected my ”Reading” page quite a while. As is apparent for anybody still reading this piece of the internet, I’m also blogging very infrequently these days. Some days I feel bad about that, some days I feel like that’s the beauty of blogs and RSS. If anybody subscribes to me they will see what I post when I post, regardless of how infrequent the posts are.

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