Tero Parviainen

I've just shipped Aeriform, an interactive ambient techno experiment built with Google DeepMind's Lyria RealTime model. @GoogleMagenta

i guess now it never will, for corpo reasons

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Claude Code for nukes????

AI Consciousness🤔

I made an interactive blog post about how JPEG image compression works: sophielwang.com/blog/jpeg

Clever Gemini use case: Custom alarm clock sounds. Create custom tracks that actually get you moving in the Gemini app. Instructions below 👇

We trained Composer to self-summarize through RL instead of a prompt. This reduces the error from compaction by 50% and allows Composer to succeed on challenging coding tasks requiring hundreds of actions.

We're shipping a new feature in Claude Cowork as a research preview that I'm excited about: Dispatch! One persistent conversation with Claude that runs on your computer. Message it from your phone. Come back to finished work. To try it out, download Claude Desktop, then pair your phone.

I'm going to make some obvious points. (1) Blowing up all the oil infrastructure in the Middle East is an insane idea, and may well result in a global economic crash and humanitarian crisis unrivaled in the lives of those now living. We're talking about the price of everything everywhere rising, from food to gas, at a moment when inflation was already high. All of that will be laid at the feet of the authors of this war. (2) The antebellum status quo of Feb 27, 2026 was just not that bad, but we're unlikely to return to it. Expect indefinite, long-term, ongoing disruptions to everything out of the Middle East. (3) Also assume tech financing crashes for the indefinite future. The genius plan to get the Gulf states caught in the crossfire has incinerated much of the funding for LPs, for datacenters, and for IPOs. Anyone in tech who supported this war may soon learn the meaning of "force majeure" as funding gets yanked. (4) Many capital allocators will instead be allocating much further down Maslow's hierarchy of needs, towards useful basic things like food and energy. (5) It's fortunate that all those progressives yelled about the "climate crisis." Yes, their reasoning about timelines was wrong, and much of the money was wasted in graft, but the result was right: we all need energy independence from the Middle East, pronto. It's also fortunate that Elon and China autistically took climate seriously. Now they're going to need to ship a billion solar panels, electric vehicles, batteries, nuclear power plants, and the like to get everyone off oil, immediately. (6) It's not just an oil and gas problem, of course. It's also a fertilizer problem, and a chemical precursor problem. Maybe some new sources will come online at the new prices, but it takes time to dial stuff up, particularly at this scale, so shortages are almost a certainty. That said, China has actually scaled up coal-to-chemicals[a,c] (C2C), and there's also something more sci-fi called Power-to-X[b] which turns arbitrary power + water + air into hydrocarbons. But all of that will need to get accelerated. I have a background in chemical engineering so may start funding things in this area. (7) Ultimately, this war is going to result in tremendous blame for anyone associated with it. It's a no-win scenario to blow up this much infrastructure for so many people. Simply not worth it for whatever objective they thought they were going to attain. But unless you're actually in a position to stop the madness, the pragmatic thing to do is: scramble to mitigate the fallout to yourself, your business, and your people. [a]: reuters.com/business/energ… [b]: alfalaval.com/industries/ene… [c]: reuters.com/sustainability…

No one has captured what being in your 40s and truly besotted with techno is like quite like @0PN here (on John Beltran): "I got into a period of critical thinking about techno that I'm still totally immersed in. Over the past few years, no single genre has been more important to me. It's what I listen to every chance I get, particularly a lot of mid-'90s, early 2000s stuff.... I don't know what it means—and I don't even know if I care what it means—but the song definitely feels like being in your 40s. You're in the weird, middle valley of your life. It's all anticipation and no revelation. You finally figured out you're not going to figure it out, and you are just finally, in a way, present. You're right there watching every moment happen. You've given up on certain kinds of dreams, and finding out that's not necessarily a bad thing. Or at least I have. All I know is I feel very close to the source when I listen to this. And if that's not a forty-something thing to prioritize, I don't know what is."

I give it less than 6 months before Garry stops preaching LOC and starts preaching maintainable code bases. And with that one move he will go from junior engineer to a bit more senior. We watching his Eng journey live 🍿

New blog post: A Decade of Slug This talks about the evolution of the Slug font rendering algorithm, and it includes an exciting announcement: The patent has been dedicated to the public domain. terathon.com/blog/decade-sl…

claude's going in with the true power tools today

he really said thanks for the data

After months of work, today I’m releasing Foundation-1. A SOTA text-to-sample model built specifically for music production workflows. It may also be the most advanced AI sample generator currently available - open or closed. • ~7 GB VRAM • Entirely local • 100% free 😁

This is the most relatable thing I've seen today

Agree, and I think the main reason for this is how developers tend to direct agents to *build more* because that's the dopamine hit If we're mostly telling agents to make features instead of tests/docs/improvements/fixes, we're just speed-running technical debt Honestly, this is a people/process problem that exists regardless of AI... agents just make it more visible

Susan Kare in 1983: "If you're an artist, & you're skilled with media, this is a new medium that offers great control... There's a thousand little dots [per] half an inch and you have the capacity, either real or magnified, to turn off & on each one of those dots..."