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November 18, 2020
How to Use Delay and Deliberate Procrastination as a Decision Making Tool
Illustration of Frank Partnoy by Mariya Suzuki
“Life might be a race against time, but it is enriched when we rise above our instincts an...
August 24, 2020
Why We Need to Approach Work and Rest with a “Not Only, but Also” Mentality
Illustration of Aldous Huxley by Mariya Suzuki
“In all psychophysical skills we have this curious fact of the law of reversed effort...
June 6, 2020
True Leisure is Much More than the Absence of Work
Illustration of Josef Pieper by Mariya Suzuki
“Leisure […] is a mental and spiritual attitude — it is not simply the result of external ...
February 28, 2020
CompressionVAE - A Powerful and Versatile Alternative to t-SNE and UMAP
Stylized visualization of MNIST embeddings using CompressionVAE, created by Robin Jungers, programmer at Qosmo.
[tl;dr: CompressionVAE is a dimensionality reduction tool based on the idea of Variational Autoencoders. It can be installed via pip install cvae and used very similarly to scikit-learns t-SNE, or UMAP-learn. Full code and documentation can be found here: ...
December 22, 2019
A Year in Books - 2019
For as long as I can remember, books have been an important part of my life. Some of my earliest memories are of my mum reading books to me. And as soon as I could read myself I started devouring books and building my own little library.
This year my relationship to books has developed an entirely new level: I started writing a book myself: Time Off! And it has become by far one of the most meaningful things I have ever done. I cant...
November 8, 2019
SampleVAE - A Multi-Purpose AI Tool for Music Producers and Sound Designers
Photo of one of our other AI music projects - AI DJ.
A little bit over one year ago I completed a project I called NeuralFunk. The basic idea behind it was to produce a full Drum & Bass track using only samples that were generated by neural networks.
See this article here for more details.
The finished track and my detailed write-up of how it was done (see link above) gained a fair bit of attention and was accepted to the Workshop on...
October 1, 2019
Why You Should Have a Field Manual for Your Life
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Using Incubation to Unlock Your True Creative Potential
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Next Level Art and the Future of Work and Leisure
The fact that AI and deep learning have had a tremendous impact on a vast number of domains and initiated much disruption and progress over the last few years wont come as a surprise to many of you reading this.
However, what might be surprising to some is that even art and the creative fields, domains that have always been seen as distinctly human, have not been left unaffected by these recent advances.
The fear of AI replacing jobs is one of the...
June 28, 2019
Reflect on Your Rest
As routine jobs are being increasingly automated, creativity and empathy are becoming more and more central to most of our working lives.
As a result, some people are starting to question whether our currently so prevalent culture (or cult?) of busyness, which is largely based on the idea that more hours put in also equates to more results produced, is actually the way forward.
In other words: Is all this hard work actually...
