John Wark
@john_wark
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entrepreneur, mentor, technologist, teacher || Americana, roots, blues || founder @nashsoftware
Nashville, TN USA
Joined July 2011
Just heard that the great Joe Ely passed away yesterday at age 78. I only got to hear him live a couple of times but loved his music - with his band, with The Flatlanders, and solo. Would have loved to see him opening for The Clash! RIP Joe. #JoeEly
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I’m late with this, but RIP Steve Cropper. An essential part of the soundtrack of my youth - all of that great Stax sound from Booker T & MGs, Otis Redding, Sam & Dave and so many more.
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RIP Raul Malo. Great voice, great music. Condolences to his family and friends. Cancer claims another one well before their time. Been a tough few days, first Steve Cropper and now Raul Malo.
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I am getting tired from influencers with little to no tech industry experience to write stupid stuff like this for likes. As @simonw said: “Quitting programming as a career right now because of LLMs would be like quitting carpentry thanks to the invention of the table saw.”
its over for cs grads. if you are in cs just leave the field. its never been so over. just pivot. go do something else but cs. do it now. its getting out of hand. anything but cs.
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Forgot to mention location - on Old Peytonsville Road
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Marshall Allen - long (real long) time member of Sun Ra Arkestra - is releasing his first solo album. At the age of 100! That is so awesome. Good antidote against self-pity for being only 70-something. #stilltimeleft
https://t.co/REWDS9SH8y
jazzwise.com
The extraordinary centenarian saxophonist releases his first album, New Dawn, on the Week-End Records imprint on 14 February
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Intelligence isn't the ability to remember and repeat, like they teach you in school. It is the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use our knowledge to adapt to new situations.
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RIP Thomas Kurtz. For so many, across a couple of generations, his work helped create the gateway to programming.
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Fantastic work by everyone at @SpaceX - and it worked the first time they tried it! Just outstanding work. Congratulations to everyone involved.
Starship’s fifth flight test lifted off with our most ambitious test objectives yet as we work to demonstrate techniques fundamental to Starship and Super Heavy’s fully and rapidly reusable design. And on our first try, Mechazilla caught the booster → https://t.co/hibmw2lVv1
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Our friends @conexion_tn have a fundraising event on Saturday in East Nashville. PAELLA BATTLE! Love me some paella, especially when it helps a great local cause!
Meet Chefs Nick, Jamie, and James from Inglewood! With 60+ years of combined cooking expertise, they’re more than just chefs—they're gourmet cooks, dads, and good neighbors. Join them for a sizzling hot paella benefiting the work of Conexión Américas. https://t.co/w4qFIebAO1
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Although on second thought, in today’s remote work world, this could be a synonym for “home office”
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What a great word and concept! I knew Growler as a container for beer but had never heard this usage. It may be archaic but let’s bring it back!
Reading Bleak House; discovered the idea of a home "growlery". Seems a real loss; can we bring it back?
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It doesn’t look like this tour is coming through Nashville. Too bad, would love to hear @sonnylandreth and the Iguanas. Hopefully @CityWineryNSH will add them to the calendar.
The pristine City Winery in Manhattan hosted the Louisiana Calling tour on Sunday with Sonny Landreth and the Iguanas presenting their swampy, roots-rock, and blues to excited fans. REVIEW: https://t.co/EpZCUii6EE
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I just heard today about the passing of Phil Wiggins. Wonderful blues harmonica player. RIP.
With the passing of Phil Wiggins, we’ve lost a master musician and visionary who gracefully carried traditional blues across the generations. Read our tribute to a longtime friend and watch Wiggins’s final Folklife Festival performance: https://t.co/k4bPO4mrar
@Folkways
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LIMITED SPOTS REMAIN for Girls Who Tech! Girls Who Tech is a four-day immersive college-readiness experience for girls in 9th-12th grade. It's not too late to register! https://t.co/n8WdolWOQ4
#GirlsWhoTech #NashvilleSummerCamp
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How about stop overhyping things. What's happening is exciting enough without overblowing it. We're scaring people away from career fields by predicting the demise of entire career pathways. See also this good interview with Rodney Brooks
spectrum.ieee.org
And stop confusing performance with competence, says Rodney Brooks
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What will happen - AI assistants complementing humans in these types of jobs. AI as a sustaining innovation, not as a disruptive innovation, for many roles requiring creativity, problem-solving, design, recognizing and applying complex patterns, and more.
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Anyone predicting AI "bots" are going to eliminate jobs requiring creative problem solving skills, years of experience / training - read this. Predications of AI replacing radiologists go back 30+ years, ain't happened yet. Someday, maybe. Not yet. Not soon.
I don't talk much about this - I obtained one of the first FDA approvals in ML + radiology and it informs much of how I think about AI systems and their impact on the world. If you're a pure technologist, you should read the following: There's so much to unpack for both why
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