About
The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called yourself.
Music, Drums, and All That Jazz
Live, acoustic, trio fusion is where I find peace. Some call it third stream which curiously pre-dates fusion.
I planned to be a classical musician, but I gave up my music scholarship when I dropped out of music school to study computer science instead. My parents said that The Corporation would pay the rent until I realized that my gig money paid the mortgage. I spent years gigging so my time learning music was well-spent.
The beauty of jazz as an art form is that it depends on the artist, the listener, and the artist-listener, just like GPT. That is, if you think of "listener" as "interlocutor", peer-pair, or human-computer sensemaking partner. ala Peter Pirolli.
Jazz is the greatest triumph of listening as art. Take a bassist like Ron Carter, a drummer like Bryan Blade, a guitarist like Pat Metheny, and a pianist like Marcin Wasilewski, then listen carefully to their transcendent sound.
Purposeless play which is an affirmation of life – simply a way of waking up to the very life we're living.
Computer Hardware and The Infinte Extensiblity of Software
Software started as a personal science for me as an adolescent - peeking and poking at personal computers CTM close to the metal, peering and pairing at personal communications CTM close to mind. The only problem is that as personal communication has always been guarded by fear and anxiety, so too have personal communication been siloed and moated by indirection as fear and anxiety been modeled in training data whether intentionally or unintentionally.
Decades later I practice software as experiments in art and intuitive philosophy, like my heroes.
I've been fortunate to work across the entire spectrum of software from microcomputing to macrocomputing.
My work has spanned:
But nothing has influenced my work more than open source's 3 P's: Postgres, ProxMox, and Python.
It is software that gives form and purpose to a programmable machine, much as a sculptor shapes clay. Leonardo called music shaping the invisible, and his phrase is even more apt as a description of software.
What code and jazz share beyond four-letter-words is that both result from ephemeral, liminal, modal consciousness and context beyond language. Indeed, in terms of language, one is compulsively logical while the other is impulsively emotional.