Working on two of Rachmaninoff’s Etudes Tableaux. The C major and G minor.

@Daniel said in Dogs adopt their humans: AI? I'm so naive! I've started checking the descriptions on YT videos. They often tell you if the video is AI-generated. From the dog video: This video was created using advanced generative AI technology (Sora 2) to visualize and recreate the powerful, often-untold narratives of human and animal connection. While these specific scenes are synthetically generated, they are inspired by the very real, unscripted bonds that occur in shelters and rescue organizations every single day. At Life is a Movie, we use technology to capture the heart of the human experience and show the "soul recognition" that words can't describe. How this was made Altered or synthetic content Sound or visuals were significantly edited or digitally generated.

I was rarely a read-more-than-one-book-at-a-time guy but I seem to be now. I generally have something I'm listening to, and something I'm reading in bed at night. In the last week I finished Andrew Ross Sorkin's 1929. Fantastic book. It takes you through the crash and its aftermath in narrative form, telling the story through a handful of principals. It is not an in-depth study of the depression, more about the crash and the legal aftermath and congressional action culminating in Glass Steagel. Its a pretty short book, shorter than it seemed on kindle since over half is endnotes. I was surprised when the book ended and kindle said I was only 43% of the way through. [image: 71ojtb1VxuL._AC_UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg] I also finished listening to Chernow's new bio of Mark Twain. I enjoyed the book, and never considered putting it down, but I'm going to be honest and say it was a bit of an endurance test. (in fact I think that phrase made it into the NYT review of it). It is 1200+ pages, and the narration was 44+ hours. It could use editing down to maybe 60% of its current length. Having said all that, he was a fascinating man with a fascinating life and I'm glad I read it. I didn't know all that much about him. There are two Mark Twin houses in Connecticut that operate as museums, I may go see them at some point. [image: Mark_Twain_by_Ron_Chernow.jpg]

[image: output.jpg] (I tried three times for a three cornered biretta but this freebie image generator must not be religiously inclined)

Man. I can't wait until he comes to Cincinnati. We could remodel the whole house.

@jodi We did have some big snows early in December of 1978 and again on New Year's Eve. But nothing like what hit us on our wedding day on January 13, 1979. Thanks to everyone for the anniversary wishes!

Time flies when it wants to .... I learned the first movement of that Rach piece to play with a friend of mine (a teacher). We gave it a few run-throughs. It's a real killer!

Current and former ICE agents weigh in. https://time.com/7345954/ice-agents-renee-good/

They met today and agreed to disagree. A working group is being formed. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/14/denmark-greenland-trump-white-house.html

"he is seen and heard talking to a woman he had met for a date...." We know what he was thinking!

Coincidentally, I just mentioned the AI hallucination issue on the other post.

Will believe it when it happens.

Here's Gemini's description of an AI hallucination. They're real, and not rare. An AI hallucination occurs when a Large Language Model (LLM)—like the one I am—generates information that is factually incorrect, nonsensical, or entirely fabricated, yet presents it with high confidence. Because these models are designed to be fluent and helpful, they often "fill in the blanks" when they lack specific data, creating responses that sound plausible but have no basis in reality.

Love that show!

Well, the Saturday Night Massacre didn’t do Nixon any good….

@Piano-Dad I'm waiting for the letters of concern to start flowing