Happy December 1! Here are some early holiday items for your slacking pleasure. These are both candidates for antagonists in some sort of holiday special— you know, the ones who are trying to ruin Christmas for everyone, but finally have some turnaround when Santa comes and they get the bunny they wanted when they were 3.
The Christmas Resistance Movement I mean, to some extent, I hear them. But it’s like saying that since McDonald’s does horrible things, you’re going to quit eating food. It’s entirely possible to think the commercialization is crap, but to actually enjoy Christmas. Did we learn nothing from Charlie Brown?
A Singular Christmas Apparently, some sort of machine learning system which “listened” to scads of Christmas music, and then synthesized its own compositions. If they at least had some explanation of the algorithms used, it might be interesting enough that you might be able to overlook how the finished product sounds like the dullest, worst ambient music you’ve ever heard. So instead of producing something that gives you insight into what sounds Christmassy, you just get another reminder of the miserable failure of the whole field of human endeavor that is artificial intelligence.
Update: Oh, and I know I said I wasn’t going to post any baseball-related stuff until spring training, but I just have to point out the somewhat disturbing rendition of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer that showed up on The Remy Report.
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