Carpenter was a precocious child—“a sarcastic, snarky kid from day one,” she says—with serious singing chops. When her family would go out to eat at a local Irish pub called the Limeport Inn, a waitress named Patty would bring her around the tables and have her sing “Happy Birthday...
That song ain't going to make it." Cropper pressed it, and Stewart relented. The track made the cut for Pickett's 1966 album The Exciting Wilson Pickett. Another big Stax hit stayed on the shelf for nine months while Cropper and co. battled it out with Stax brass. "Fina...
This post was educational, however, I want to push back against the implicit criticism of instrumentalism and the Copenhagen interpretation. The metaphilosophical position I will use here is: to solve a philosophical question, we need to rephrase it as a question about AI design (AFAIK the full...