Strongly held belief: New York has the best talent pool in the world. Some of you are thinking, "Over San Francisco? You're crazy." Realized this after hosting hundreds of events in NYC and spending the last year flying to SF monthly to host dinners. There's a massive difference between the talent in SF and New York. In SF, everyone seems to work in tech. Walk into one room and you're probably two degrees away from almost anyone you want to meet. Even your Uber driver might try to network with you (true story). NYC is different. We have incredible talent across tech, finance, media, art, music, fashion, and dozens of other industries. At almost every dinner I host, I meet someone who's built something remarkable I've never heard of. The problem? These people are incredibly hard to find because their networks rarely overlap. So we brute force it. People attend multiple events a day, hoping to meet the right people. I call this circuit networking. But AI is changing that. I can now organize my SF dinners from NYC with @HappenstanceAI I connect my accounts, describe exactly who I want in the room, and it searches my network and my friends' networks to find people I'd forgotten about or never knew existed. Imagine doing that across NYC's entire talent pool. Which is why I'd bet on New York for the next ten years. SF has made its talent easy to find. AI could do the same for New York.

in our upcoming ISMIR paper, Learning Jazz Pianist Style with Cross-Attention Conditioning, we ask whether a transformer can learn to play in the style of twelve giants of jazz piano. here our model continues one prompt in the styles of four of my favorite pianists. sound on! 🔊

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