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Edwin Music Channel Nr. 137: Benedikt Frey / Menqui – RiO

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Irgendwo zwischen dunklem Elektro, Leftfield und Broken Beats mixen sich Benedikt Frey und Menqui als Labelheads von RiO für Edwins Music Channel durch knapp vier Stunden und für uns ins wohlverdiente Wochenende. Das passt.

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Eine interaktive Reise durch 30 Jahre Internet: Web ◀◀ Rewind

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Web ◀◀ Rewind führt uns als interaktive Zeitreise durch rund drei Jahrzehnte Internetgeschichte. Statt die Entwicklung nur nachzulesen, bewegen wir uns spielerisch durch verschiedene Epochen und entdecken dabei prägende Momente der Netzkultur, Memes und virale Phänomene. Da geht er dahin, der Tag.


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Video: Max Cooper – Pattern Index

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Max Cooper hat ab 08. Mai mit „Feeling Is Structure“ ein neues Album und mit „Pattern Index“ schon jetzt ein neues Video, das mal wieder einmal mehr seinen offenbar ausgeprägten Sinn fürs Visuelle zum Ausdruck bringt. Hypnotische Zeitrafferaufnahmen von Katia Schutz und Jack Fisher, die generatives Design mit realen Strukturen verschmelzen.

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Ameisen-Zoetrop auf einer Töpferscheibe

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Yohei Kisanuki ist ein in Kyoto lebender Künstler und Musiker, der wuselnde Kunstwerke mit seiner Töpferscheibe erschafft. Hier ganz viele Ameisen, die am rackern sind.


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Schallplatten unter einem Rasterelektronenmikroskop

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Wir kennen alle die Fotos von den Mikroskopaufnahmen, die vor Jahren mal die Rillen von Schallplatten zeigten. Die gibt es jetzt auch als Video. Nebst Aufnahmen von Nadel und Abnehmer. Microscopy Specialist zeigt sie, aufgenommen mit einem Rasterelektronenmikroskop.

In this video, we put a vinyl record, stylus, and cartridge under a scanning electron microscope (SEM) with up to 100,000× magnification and ~10 nm resolution.
You’ll see:
• A stereo groove at extreme magnification • How left and right audio channels are encoded in one groove
• Moving magnet (MM) vs moving coil (MC) cartridges
• What mono records really look like
• Why vinyl sounds “warm” and “airy”
• Clicks, distortion, and inner groove physics


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Walmart dumps OpenAI at the checkout

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OpenAI has spent the last year trying to get people to do their shopping inside ChatGPT, so OpenAI could take a cut of each sale. OpenAI aspired to agentic commerce — a bot spends your money for you.

In September, OpenAI set up Instant Checkout in ChatGPT. In October, OpenAI netted Walmart! [OpenAI; Walmart]

Unfortunately, chatbot advice did not convert to sales: [Wired]

Conversion rates — the percentage of users following through with a purchase of an item shown to them by ChatGPT — have been three times lower for the selection sold directly inside the chatbot than those that require clicking out.

Nobody was getting conversions: [Information, archive]

while ChatGPT users were researching products to buy in the chatbot, they weren’t using the chatbot to actually help them make purchases.

OpenAI also had to take data from a pile of retailer websites and reformat it consistently for the chatbot. [Information, archive]

Checking stock was particularly difficult. Customers would press the button to pay, and the item was out of stock. And they’ll never try to buy stuff in ChatGPT again.

ChatGPT will now call Walmart’s own chatbot, Sparky, per Walmart’s Daniel Danker:

It relies on open source generative AI models combined with some retail-specific ones trained on decades of Walmart data.

… Danker acknowledges that Sparky is slow and generates weak responses often enough that some consumers might dismiss it as unreliable.

The retailers really want chatbot shopping. OpenAI really wants chatbot shopping. The customers with the money? They’re not so convinced.

 

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Just imagine you get to spent money without being aware of it? That’s what they are hoping for with this “agentic purchasing”.
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