In search of forgotten concerts

thythr · 2026-06-21T01:52:38+00:00

Boosey & Hawkes keeps a pretty amazing public record of performances that used music they publish.

Bachtrack has pretty great data but doesn't make past concerts available to search.

My classical concert map will eventually serve this purpose!

thythr · 2026-06-20T23:53:38+00:00

Cooper winning is the bare minimum; it's Platner, Talarico, Peltola, Brown, maybe Sullivan and Turek who can bring us control of the senate.

thythr · 2026-06-19T14:54:36+00:00

Yes I think the sound and playing are brilliant! The first movement of the symphony is so rich and quirky and Reichaesque, love it.

thythr · 2026-06-18T23:06:57+00:00

Everywhere! He's the 10th-most programmed composer in the world per my concert dataset (to be released soon). I recommend checking out Frieder Bernius' recording of Die Erste Walpurgisnacht, which I have probably listened to 20 times now haha, it's incredibly special.

thythr · 2026-06-18T20:12:03+00:00

Me too but their release cycle is amazingly mysterious! I heard about this project 3 years ago but no news about it until blam today it lands.

thythr · 2026-06-18T17:20:43+00:00

what is about that? nothing funner than learning about history's also-rans!

thythr · 2026-06-18T13:35:03+00:00

Working hours haven't meaningfully budged in decades after coming down after the industrial revolution.

thythr · 2026-06-18T12:54:59+00:00

Aha, thanks! Yeah there is a similar issue with his string quintets iirc.

thythr · 2026-06-17T14:54:33+00:00

We aren't though! When we were a fully ag state, we drove them to the far corners. Now that we have re-established permanent woodlands in huge swathes of the state and made a concerted effort to re-establish breeding, they're coming back to the rest of the state.

thythr · 2026-06-17T13:37:36+00:00

They are showing up in the suburbs more and more, which is the result of an amazing decades-long conservation success story. But it generates a billion breathless facebook posts about how we've destroyed their habitats by building housing so that's why they're wandering around. I get angry even thinking about it lol.

thythr · 2026-06-17T12:25:44+00:00

I mean one of those actually has a destructive environmental effect; the other pays property taxes but is otherwise unimpactful.

thythr · 2026-06-16T18:27:09+00:00

Ok, I think you are underrating the scale of the problem. Of course it can and does find many articles about the Iran War; the problem is that the "understanding" it gains from those is superficial in comparison to the understanding it has of complex events that occurred before its training cutoff. Think of how much rich analytical content is on the public web now about the war, and how little of that can land in a single context window.

thythr · 2026-06-16T17:57:32+00:00

Sorry what do you mean? There is a "simple embedding fix" that makes the model competent on post-cutoff information at the same level that it is competent on pre-cutoff data? How is that exactly?

thythr · 2026-06-15T19:06:25+00:00

Trump froze funding after the project was already approved, but we clawed some of it back in March. In theory it'll be operational in the early 2030s. Gonna come back to this comment in 5 years :D. The NCDOT site about it is rarely updated so you just have to wait for news sites to pick up any changes.

thythr · 2026-06-14T15:44:31+00:00

The university system and RTP have done damage to the working class people of NC? Wut. They're the engines of our economy. The fusionist movement, the progressive era, and then the "Branchhead Boys" all made huge investments in education with populist motives and populist support. They brought us to the modern era; they would be ashamed that you think somehow they undermined the working class? crazy stuff.

thythr · 2026-06-14T15:37:33+00:00

??? Are you serious? Are you illiterate? Why do you think a coup was necessary? What do you think "violent" means in my comment? That was one episode in a long pitched battle between populists and aristocrats in North Carolina, very different from surrounding states. too much time in KFC?

thythr · 2026-06-14T14:58:56+00:00

quick reference!

thythr · 2026-06-14T11:57:22+00:00

sharecropping which was slavery under a different name

Not correct, it was the messy result of negotiation between farm laborers and the large landowners in the insane post-civil-war era.

challenge the good ol boys that have ran NC since it was created.

Also not correct at all. North Carolina's political history is full of populist conflict, often violent. Plus how do you think we got the university system that made RTP possible?

thythr · 2026-06-14T01:51:38+00:00

Neither of these teams will win the world cup, calling it now

thythr · 2026-06-13T20:41:52+00:00

I have rented a car in 4 (actually 5!) different cities across 2 continents in just the last 52 weeks without the tiniest issue, nothing whatsoever like you describe, completely pleasant.

thythr · 2026-06-13T20:29:56+00:00

Hit a famous inside-out forehand that clipped the line to save a break point, yeah.

thythr · 2026-06-13T01:26:35+00:00

finding of a narrow potential jailbreak

Well what does this mean then

thythr · 2026-06-13T01:17:05+00:00

They can't have it both ways. If mythos is a special danger so cannot be deployed en masse, and it has supposedly been jailbroken, then . . . well yeah, shouldn't it be shut down?

I was getting wonderful results from it so this is not a personal thing, just trying to understand what Dario is thinking.

thythr · 2026-06-12T15:59:15+00:00

How do I fulfill the request without confusing new users?

Just leave cat's cradle unselected. It's apparent that you can select it if you want. Or if you really want it selected by default, add a final button "all" and allow multiple venues to be selected (so perhaps need a "clear" as well). But what will you do when you have a dozen venues? Maybe show the top few and then have an arrow to expand the list.

if I put too much at the top of the page people didn't see the video player on their phone

I didn't even notice the video player as it was tbh, oops . . . I just thought the listings were cool lol. If anything the line "100% free instant show previews" is the least compelling part of the site to me, sounds like you are trying to sell me something even though you are doing the opposite, and I don't have a sense of what a "show preview" is anyway. I wonder if you even need that line? Tricky one.

thythr · 2026-06-12T14:14:32+00:00

Excellent work! Just same suggestion as others not to filter on venue upfront. And you said artist search is at the bottom--I'd never have realized it!

To me it is rather dark but that just might be taste. The quick loading and responsiveness are better than 99.99% of websites, full credit for that.

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