Choenden Kyirong

I’m a researcher and jazz/improvising trombonist exploring the intersection of creativity and machine learning.

Currently a master's student at @mtg_upf.

[Choenden Kyirong @CKyirong]

Mary-Lou Williams' "Tree Of Jazz" drawn by David Stone Martin. I saw this while reading an article from
@ethan_iverson 's brilliant blog/internet magazine site. Unfortunately, today was the first time I've come across this. Fortunately, I came across this today!

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Happy to have worked on this.

[arXiv Sound @ArxivSound]

Arhan Vohra, Choenden Kyirong, Laura Ibáñez-Martínez, Martín Rocamora, "Ghost in the Encoder: Decodable Artist Identity Representations in Lyrics-to-Song Generation" https://t.co/QLgL9TBxNt

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@CBCNews caught me off guard because their drum and bass tracks behind their news clips had me thinking I left my lock in playlist running while watching their latest segment on YouTube. Pretty fire

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Listening to post-bop before the gym hits harder than any pre-workout chemical mix

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Today, I identify as a scouser from liverpool

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Paul Simon is a compositional wizard

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I've spent many years using Macs and had no idea that option+shift while increasing or decreasing brightness/volume increments it in 1/4ths instead of a full step.

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Complex sinusoids are just circles that spin

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Harnessing my inner Rafa while playing on clay for the first time.

Tbh, after playing on clay, I might like this surface the most…not sure yet though. Can’t deny my love for blastin laser beams on a speedy hard court.

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Some of my earliest core memories involve marching down the streets protesting for a free Tibet starting around the age of five. This felt no different. Emotions were running high in Barcelona today with over 70,000 people marching in solidarity with Palestine.

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Listening to cyclical, prayer-like passages of music brings me back to childhood sitting in a monastery observing monks and people chanting mantras in unison. It’s comforting yet haunting at the same time. Everyone’s praying for different reasons, but we’re unified in that moment

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Paddy “The Baddy” Pimblett is an all time great name. Best name in the UFC. No doubt. @PaddyTheBaddy

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vibe economics

[rohit @krishnanrohit]

This might be the first large-scale application of AI technology to geopolitics.. 4o, o3 high, Gemini 2.5 pro, Claude 3.7, Grok all give the same answer to the question on how to impose tariffs easily.

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despite this being a misleading headline, the reasoning seems so silly

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bring me back to the days where jazz was a crime concern plz

[NME @NME]

Met Police object to iconic Blue Note Jazz Club opening in London as could cause “uptick in crime” https://t.co/2GUgOPmyvE

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can’t wait for this banger

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when is there ever not a new version of iTerm2 available?

[vicki @vboykis]

When you see this you know the team is cooking

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banh mi is not only the best value sandwich but the best all around sandwich pound for pound.

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wow—@KamalaHarris clearly cozying up to big jazz by shouting out aretha, coltrane, and miles in her nomination speech

[Chris Albon @chrisalbon]

Years ago @vboykis sent me a wonderful essay on exactly this.

Sadly, it's only available on the internet archive now: https://t.co/pmg2sTFTFB