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A.I. and the challenges

If you asked me about A.I., I would say that the real problem is about making it ethical. We want a bias A.I., not the straight A.I.. I mean, if you see the data, you would have non-certain privileged skin tone people "problematic" based on the cases. In a scenario where A.I. the first filter, we will have them marginalized. However, we as human have a bias for working towards equality. We boost certain values to make the playing field more equal for all. Well, scientists, be it a STEM and social, it's our job together to shape the best algorithm for A.I. and build that Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) towards equality. A.I. should be a problem of culture as we have been integrating cyber reality into our society. Technology is no longer a problem of math and algorithm, it's also lives and consciousness for many people. As Baudrillard once said, we are now living in a Hyperreality. Let's build our hyperreality on equality.
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[MV] Bibir yang Telah Dicuri - JKT48

  Why an international brand like JKT48 produced a Karaoke-like MIDI music?
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Tenxi, Naykilla & Jemsii - Garam & Madu (Sakit Dadaku)

  The lyrics are not my favorite. It's more than innuendo, feels like literally a horny thought. But, what I respect from this song is that they mixed Dancehall, especially Downbeat Reggeaton with Koplo. It's a good exploration to introduce a new music in the Indonesia musicscape. The trap beat and the typical dancehall stylized vocal really mixed well together with the song. I wonder why after these years of dancehall dominance, Indonesia just produce this kind of music? 
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My Take on Risu's career as a Singer

  Risu made a tweet addressing some of the jab at her career choices in Hololive. The jab was made by people from VTuber shitposting forum in Facebook. I guess the voices make her a little bit uncomfortable so she made the statement in the Twitter. The tweet basically said that she wasn't chosen. Also, as we who followed her would know, she is a sandwitch generation. She paid for her family. It shackled her for investing to her career. I don't want to comment on personal matter as the life of her is her own choices and dilemma. I don't know about her circumstances. I would like to comment from the musical side. I want to comment on why she wasn't picked from my personal view. Let's talk about the singing. Risu chose to have duality on her singing. Although this is a gift, this is not usual in the POP world. Because of that, she did not have a singing guide. She need to learn herself for that. That's why I understand why Studi Suara felt confused when she suddenl...
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Do U - Takanashi Kiara (Korean version)

  I really like this version more than the original. The producer patched the music making it more wholly produced. I also like how it was designed more towards K-Pop. What I don't like about the original was the vocal. Kiara has the voice like Kylie Minogue. But, the original sound made the sound distribution uneven. P-san made voice register in the mid-to-high frequency. With the original song towards that sound, I felt like Kiara's voice like nagging. Thankfully, P-san panning the sound more, spreading the sound left and right, making it a full ambience. Kiara now sound more like a musical instrument. My ears can accept her vocal. I am the proponent of vocal diversity. I love world music. Sonically, I think Kiara has that unique tone and as a producer, it comes with the challenge how to compose good music using that unique vocal. In the Korean version, P-san really brings out the vocal more. I wish they could add more layers. But, this is okay because I really do like Do U. ...
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Quitting The Rat Race (Take Me To The Beach -- Imagine Dragons x Ado)

  Imagine Dragons made many versions of their new song "Take Me to The Beach". They collab with other artists in different languages based on the collabing artist. The one that get off the ground is the collab with Ado . Some people said the collab probably because of Party Like a Rockstar Podcast showed Ado performance to Jim Runge. With the advent of vtubing industry, Japanese entertainment industry now on the projection of rising up again. Previously, their Copyright law and the CD/DVD/Blueray industry made them lazy. They rather stuck to their domestic market and never considered to cater to international market. That was when K-Pop took over the reign from the Japanese. Don't get me wrong. I like Japanese music. Most of us in the 90s were anime lover. Myself have a favorite anime, the original Macross. I love the show and their takes on war and culture. What an eye opening anime. Macross really shown a different side of imperialism. You don't conquer your enemie...
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【Cover】Mass Destruction -P3fes Reload- / Mori Calliope × Pavolia Reine

  I think this is one of the cover song that bested the OG songs. The two original songs: and  are good songs. But, the cover mixes more hard and the rap is more nuance than the OG songs. Btw, OG is a good song also. Farhan Sarasin as the instrumentalist goes hard to make the song like the legendary Doom Eternal OST, Mick Gordon's "The Only Thing They Fear is You"  which to me elevates the song hard. The song composition feels like the early Nu Metal sound of Korn, Limp Bizkit, and Linkin Park, which makes it sounds familiar. The OG songs plays a little bit softer which to me a little bit off. I don't know, may be I just being used to listen to hard core electric music stuffs. One thing that stands out, Calli and Reine has the better style in rapping than the original. The original feels like a white rapper, sorry for the derogatary words in rap. Well, they all ain't black, but Calli and Reine rap has better sounding than the original. I don't want to bash the...
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