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AI crap - Drew DeVault, August 29 2023

My 6 (+3) Dream Dinner Party Guests

Jonathan Blow
Luke Smith
Mark Kermode
Mike Stoklasa
Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, and Karl Pilkington
Sut Jhally
Jeffrey Sachs

Favourite Sites

kycnot.me

My Recommended GNU/Linux Learning Resources

BashGuide
"Everything is a file" in UNIX
Creating systemd Service Files
Understanding Linux named pipes
Simple Cron Job Creation
Network Sockets
X Window System
List of widget toolkits

Beautiful Music

I've listened to thousand of hours of music in my lifetime. Out of everything I've listened to, the following songs are the most beautiful I've found. As a secular person, listening to these is the closest thing I've come to "experiencing God".

(The loudness can vary somewhat across the audio files.)

Starting off with Suo Gan from Empire Of The Sun, a film starring a very young Christian Bale. Suo Gan is a traditional Welsh lullaby:

Next, a song I first heard as part of Carols from King's, a traditional English TV show that's shown on Christmas Eve. Some lyrics:

How do you capture the wind on the water? How do you count all the stars in the sky? How do you measure the love of a mother Or how can you write down a baby's first cry?

Some more:

Will Ye Go, Lassie, Go?
Unchained Melody
Miserere mei, Deus
Seorae

Next, some music from the film The Thin Red Line.

The chants here repeat many times, so feel free to skip the end of each one:

And a classical piece by Hans Zimmer based on the melodies of the chants: