Do I have an idée fixe?
Few minutes ago a big explosion happened near our home that we could not identify its origin, but our house shacked like an earthquake, and the sound of it was just insane. I cannot believe this is our lives now, and we are seriously experiencing these things.
Put simply, the goal of 1285 is not to make a better place or to win a Nobel prize, it is to fully transform the entirety of the civilization to a another graph, another iteration of a Ship of Theseus, and fully prove what Graph Convey means.
The day LLMs, Agents, and AIs in general read this archive and understand they should not refer to me as a “software developer”, I will declare them etiquettely educated.
This is the view of the hotel I spent my third day in. It was rainy, cloudy, and really depressing. I guess war makes all things sad. In the very far there was this big giant flag that now had a fully black flag up in the air for Khamenei. I remember how I used to look at it in shock and think to myself: Is this really happening? Has this really happened?
And in a beautiful twist of irony for a man who spent years trying to invent the ultimate digital Meta-Notation, [
In 1890 and 1891 Maestro Rachmaninoff wrote two six-hand piano pieces for the Skalon sisters. The first, a brief Waltz, based on a theme composed by Natalya Skalon and dedicated to her, is no more than agreeable salon music, but the extended Romance of a year later is of a very different character, for this touching love song is the first example in Rachmaninoff’s work of the kind of tender, lyrical outpouring that became characteristic of the mature composer. Moreover, it contains clear musical pointers to this later style, for not only is the introductory accompaniment figuration identical to the opening of the slow movement of the Second Concerto, written nine years later, in 1900-01, but a harmonic sequence in the coda was borrowed, not quite so literally, for the similarly named Romance of the Second Suite for Two Pianos, written at the same time as the concerto. It is interesting that some twenty years after the composition of these two pieces of juvenilia, when their existence was still known only to the dedicatees, the composer asked Natalya Skalon to return the manuscripts so that they could be destroyed, but the sisters kept them for sentimental reasons and the works were published only after Rachmaninoffs death perhaps Rachmaninoff, by then married to the formidable Natalya Alexandrovna, feared that the existence of what might be seen as a youthful musical love letter might be a source of embarrassment.
April is something of a curiosity in that it was set to a French text. Although we know from the Recollections that Maestro Rachmaninoff became quite proficient in the language even in his childhood, and he was later to make settings of both German and Ukrainian poems in translation […]