# herbie — RSS Amplifier

Recent posts from the 4 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover herbie.

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## [What I learned as a composer from composer Pat Metheny](https://musicandourlives.substack.com/p/what-i-learned-as-a-composer-from)

_2026-08-14 · Bob Gluck · Music and Our Lives_

Composers with distinct ideas about musical form offer something unique to learn

## [How the Moog synthesizer became a live performance instrument](https://musicandourlives.substack.com/p/how-the-moog-synthesizer-became-a)

_2026-08-06 · Bob Gluck · Music and Our Lives_

From Herb Deutsch to The Monkeys to Keith Emerson, but where's Herbie Hancock?

## [Happy Throwback...](https://upbeatwithherbiejpilato.substack.com/p/happy-throwback)

_2026-08-06 · Herbie J Pilato · The Upbeat News with Herbie J Pilato_

The Upbeat News with Herbie J Pilato is a reader-supported publication.

## [You Don't Need Expensive Facials and Creams to Have Nice Skin. Just Drink More Water, Stop Smoking, Drinking Alcohol, and Eating Crap](https://upbeatwithherbiejpilato.substack.com/p/you-dont-need-expensive-facials-and)

_2026-08-02 · Herbie J Pilato · The Upbeat News with Herbie J Pilato_

The Ultimate Skincare Routine Costs $0

## [Dr. Pat Gleeson, a Remembrance](https://musicandourlives.substack.com/p/dr-pat-gleeson-a-remembrance)

_2026-07-30 · Bob Gluck · Music and Our Lives_

Always on the cutting edge and always true to himself

## [The Cold Reset: How Ice and Intention Rewire Your Stress Response](https://upbeatwithherbiejpilato.substack.com/p/the-cold-reset-how-ice-and-intention)

_2026-07-27 · Herbie J Pilato · The Upbeat News with Herbie J Pilato_

A Healthy Way To Look At It

## [Herbie J Pilato: The Big Picture](https://upbeatwithherbiejpilato.substack.com/p/herbie-j-pilato-the-big-picture)

_2026-07-25 · Herbie J Pilato · The Upbeat News with Herbie J Pilato_

An Update on My Life and Work

## [How a Neighbor's Complex Cat Brought Unexpected Blessings](https://upbeatwithherbiejpilato.substack.com/p/how-a-neighbors-complex-cat-brought)

_2026-07-24 · Herbie J Pilato · The Upbeat News with Herbie J Pilato_

The Story of Nikita Maya

## [The saga of Herbie Hancock’s quadraphonic sound system –Pat Metheny was listening](https://musicandourlives.substack.com/p/the-saga-of-herbie-hancocks-quadraphonic)

_2026-07-23 · Bob Gluck · Music and Our Lives_

More on Herbie Hancock's Mwandishi band

## [Be Vibrant...](https://upbeatwithherbiejpilato.substack.com/p/be-vibrant)

_2026-07-22 · Herbie J Pilato · The Upbeat News with Herbie J Pilato_

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## [All Hail David Leaf: A Master Multi-Hyphenate Legend of the Entertainment Industry](https://upbeatwithherbiejpilato.substack.com/p/all-hail-david-leaf-a-master-multi)

_2026-07-17 · Herbie J Pilato · The Upbeat News with Herbie J Pilato_

This Iconic Writer/Producer/Director Continues To Make His Indelible Mark on Culture and Humanity

## [Revisiting the repertoire of the Mwandishi band](https://musicandourlives.substack.com/p/revisiting-the-repertoire-of-the)

_2026-07-17 · Bob Gluck · Music and Our Lives_

Learning from making a recording with two members of the original band

## [The Poisons of Sunscreen And How It Does Nothing To Help Your Skin or Health](https://upbeatwithherbiejpilato.substack.com/p/the-poisons-of-sunscreen-and-how)

_2026-07-16 · Herbie J Pilato · The Upbeat News with Herbie J Pilato_

But You Can MAKE YOUR OWN Natural Sun Screen

## [The Enduring Voice of Peace](https://upbeatwithherbiejpilato.substack.com/p/the-enduring-voice-of-peace)

_2026-07-12 · Herbie J Pilato · The Upbeat News with Herbie J Pilato_

The Peace Movement Through the Ages

## [Celebrating contingency and imperfection](https://musicandourlives.substack.com/p/celebrating-contingency-and-imperfection)

_2026-07-10 · Bob Gluck · Music and Our Lives_

Learning from Garnett Brown and further pondering Herbie Hancock’s Mwandishi band

## ["Never strive for acceptance. Be exceptional." - Herbie J Pilato](https://upbeatwithherbiejpilato.substack.com/p/never-strive-for-acceptance-be-exceptional)

_2026-07-05 · Herbie J Pilato · The Upbeat News with Herbie J Pilato_

"Never strive for acceptance. Be exceptional." - Herbie J Pilato

## [You’ll Know When You Get There in Italian](https://musicandourlives.substack.com/p/youll-know-when-you-get-there-in)

_2026-07-03 · Bob Gluck · Music and Our Lives_

Working on an Italian edition of my book about Herbie Hancock's Mwandishi band

## [Music I’d most like you to know about](https://musicandourlives.substack.com/p/music-id-most-like-you-to-know-about)

_2026-06-25 · Bob Gluck · Music and Our Lives_

11 pieces by Coltrane, Mitchell, Takemitsu, Feldman, Hendrix, Taylor, Coleman, Holland, Hancock, Bach by Tureck, Subotnick

## [How listening to Pat Metheny led me to The Beatles](https://musicandourlives.substack.com/p/how-listening-to-pat-metheny-led)

_2026-06-14 · Bob Gluck · Music and Our Lives_

From "Here, There, and Everywhere" to "Make a New World"

## [Shocking music](https://musicandourlives.substack.com/p/shocking-music)

_2026-06-07 · Bob Gluck · Music and Our Lives_

Music that has altered my sense of what is music - what about you?

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## [Unary Functions in an E-graph](https://pavpanchekha.com/blog/unary-functions.html)

_2026-04-24 · me@pavpanchekha.com (Pavel Panchekha) · Pavel Panchekha’s Blog_

Functions of one variable are special in numerics: thanks to equioscillation , unary functions can be approximated efficiently by polynomials. For this reason, it can be useful to rewrite functions of multiple variables so that you get large unary fragments. For example, log(exp(a) + exp(b)) can be rewritten to: a + log(1 + exp(b - a)) The fragment log(1 + exp(x)) is a unary function; if we call…

## [LLM vs Kepler](https://pavpanchekha.com/blog/llk.html)

_2026-04-08 · me@pavpanchekha.com (Pavel Panchekha) · Pavel Panchekha’s Blog_

The LLMs have gotten impressively good at certain intellectual activities. And one of the big promises that the AI labs seem to see here is the possibility of accelerating science; Dario talks about this in Machines of Loving Grace and OpenAI has had GPT-5 propose wet lab experiments . This is very cool. I like science! But Opus and Codex are sometimes kind of doofuses. And real science is not…

## [The Miracle Of Overflow](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/drherbiemac/episodes/The-Miracle-Of-Overflow-e3g0f1m)

_2026-03-05 · Dr. Herbert J. McClain / Herbie Mac / Encourager TV LLC. · Herbie Mac_

In this Week 4 teaching from When Heaven Touches Earth: The Miracles of Jesus, listeners will be taken into the heart of The Miraculous Catch of Fish — a moment where obedience collided with divine instruction and produced supernatural overflow. This message unpacks the power of saying “But because You say so” even when circumstances don’t make sense, strength is depleted, and logic says it’s too…

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## [Calming the Storm: THE MIRACLE OF AUTHORITY](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/drherbiemac/episodes/Calming-the-Storm-THE-MIRACLE-OF-AUTHORITY-e3ftc3j)

_2026-03-05 · Dr. Herbert J. McClain / Herbie Mac / Encourager TV LLC. · Herbie Mac_

In this week’s message, listeners will dive into the miracle where Jesus speaks to the storm and reveals what real authority looks like. They’ll discover how storms expose the truth about our trust—whether we lean on God’s Word or our own understanding—and how panic, fear, and internal noise can drown out faith. This teaching confronts the fear and unbelief we often tolerate in our hearts and…

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## [Healing The Leper — The Miracle of Willingness](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/drherbiemac/episodes/Healing-The-Leper--The-Miracle-of-Willingness-e3ftb5i)

_2026-03-04 · Dr. Herbert J. McClain / Herbie Mac / Encourager TV LLC. · Herbie Mac_

In this message, Dr. Herbert “Herbie Mac” McClain unlocks a powerful truth hidden in the encounter between Jesus and the leper: healing begins where willingness meets faith.This teaching dives into:• The courage it takes to approach Jesus with your truth• The compassion of a Savior who touches what others avoid• The supernatural shift that happens when God says, “I am willing”• How willingness…

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## [Water Into Wine: THE MIRACLE OF TRANSFORMATION](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/drherbiemac/episodes/Water-Into-Wine-THE-MIRACLE-OF-TRANSFORMATION-e3ftape)

_2026-03-03 · Dr. Herbert J. McClain / Herbie Mac / Encourager TV LLC. · Herbie Mac_

This message reveals the powerful miracle of transformation Jesus performed at the wedding in Cana — turning ordinary water into extraordinary wine. Listeners can expect to be inspired to identify areas in their lives where they feel empty or lacking and to step into obedience that unlocks divine transformation.For more insights and resources, visit herbieMac.org/miracles.If you feel called to…

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## [The Token Production System](https://pavpanchekha.com/blog/tps.html)

_2026-02-19 · me@pavpanchekha.com (Pavel Panchekha) · Pavel Panchekha’s Blog_

I guess we are building software factories now. Dunno about that, but we do know how to build factories: the Toyota Production System . Information over Materials Materials flow through a factory: metals become parts become assemblies become cars. Each station can only produce so much. You might try to make each station more efficient, producing more materials in less time; but this is not the…

## [Identity Without Apology](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/drherbiemac/episodes/Identity-Without-Apology-e3et26m)

_2026-02-10 · Dr. Herbert J. McClain / Herbie Mac / Encourager TV LLC. · Herbie Mac_

This week is about reclaiming the you God intended. Not the version shaped by fear. Not the version shaped by rejection. Not the version shaped by people’s expectations. But the version shaped by God’s voice .

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## [Agent Harnesses are Just Shells](https://pavpanchekha.com/blog/agents-are-shells.html)

_2025-12-05 · me@pavpanchekha.com (Pavel Panchekha) · Pavel Panchekha’s Blog_

I do most of my AI coding using Amp . It is an AI "agent", meaning it is composed of two pieces. There's the AI model itself&#x2014;currently Claude Opus 4.5&#x2014;which runs on the model provider's servers over an API, and the agent harness, which runs on my machine and allows the AI to run commands, edit files, and so on. The AI model, eh, it crunches numbers. But the agent harness is an…

## [From Purpose To Glory](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/drherbiemac/episodes/From-Purpose-To-Glory-e3bria1)

_2025-12-04 · Dr. Herbert J. McClain / Herbie Mac / Encourager TV LLC. · Herbie Mac_

In his inspiring message From Purpose to Glory , Apostle Herbie Mac reveals how living intentionally in God’s purpose leads to the manifestation of His glory in our lives. Listeners will learn how to transition from understanding their divine assignment to walking in the fullness of God’s presence, power, and favor. This word challenges believers to elevate their vision, embrace transformation,…

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## [How to Start AI Coding](https://pavpanchekha.com/blog/coding-with-ai.html)

_2025-12-04 · me@pavpanchekha.com (Pavel Panchekha) · Pavel Panchekha’s Blog_

On the one hand this is the most hyped topic ever so you'd think I have nothing to add. I don't feel that I do. But I'm known as the "AI Coding hype man" in my department and among many friends. They keep asking me how they're supposed to do AI coding. This blog post is an attempt to save time explaining. If you are happy with your AI coding setup, please just skip this blog post. This is an…

## [From Power to Purpose](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/drherbiemac/episodes/From-Power-to-Purpose-e3bri0r)

_2025-12-03 · Dr. Herbert J. McClain / Herbie Mac / Encourager TV LLC. · Herbie Mac_

In his transformative message From Power to Purpose , Apostle Herbie Mac guides listeners on a journey from simply receiving spiritual empowerment to living with intentional mission. You will learn how to recognize the authority God has placed within you, align that power with divine purpose, and step boldly into the assignments that bring glory to His name. This word is designed to equip,…

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## [Should CSS be Constraints?](https://pavpanchekha.com/blog/why-css-bad.html)

_2025-12-03 · me@pavpanchekha.com (Pavel Panchekha) · Pavel Panchekha’s Blog_

CSS is hard. The layout rules are quite complex. Most people don't know the details. Centering a \<div\> is famously a challenge. Remember the 2000s, when A List Apart would run all sorts of crazy ways to achieve the "Holy Grail" layout—a header, a main body and sidebar of equal heights, and a footer? Should CSS layout—given that it's such a mess—just be thrown out, to start over with a totally…

## [Empowered to Empower](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/drherbiemac/episodes/Empowered-to-Empower-e3afeqv)

_2025-11-04 · Dr. Herbert J. McClain / Herbie Mac / Encourager TV LLC. · Herbie Mac_

There comes a moment when your healing becomes someone else’s hope . When your testimony becomes someone’s template . When your breakthrough becomes someone’s blueprint. That moment is now .

[Listen](https://anchor.fm/s/22b7800/podcast/play/110655775/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2025-10-4%2F410550341-44100-2-126dcc1a8e2eb.mp3)

## [Decolonize The Soul](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/drherbiemac/episodes/Decolonize-The-Soul-e39qtjo)

_2025-10-29 · Dr. Herbert J. McClain / Herbie Mac / Encourager TV LLC. · Herbie Mac_

Decolonizing the soul means letting God restore your original blueprint. It’s healing, reclaiming, and rising. You don’t just get free—you get whole.

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## [Prophetic Resistance](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/drherbiemac/episodes/Prophetic-Resistance-e39qtch)

_2025-10-25 · Dr. Herbert J. McClain / Herbie Mac / Encourager TV LLC. · Herbie Mac_

The spiritual courage to speak truth in the face of power , even when it’s unpopular, uncomfortable, or dangerous. It’s not just about foretelling the future—it’s about fortifying the present .

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## [We'd be Better Off with 9-bit Bytes](https://pavpanchekha.com/blog/9bit.html)

_2025-08-06 · me@pavpanchekha.com (Pavel Panchekha) · Pavel Panchekha’s Blog_

A number of 70s computing systems had nine-bit bytes, most prominently the PDP-10, but today 1 \[ 1 Apparently, it was the System/360 that really set the standard here. \] all systems use 8-bit bytes and that now seems natural. 2 \[ 2 Though you still see RFCs use "octet", and the C standard has a CHAR\_BITS macro, to handle the possibility of a different-sized byte. \] As a power of two, eight is…

## [Distinguished (for me) Papers of PLDI'25](https://pavpanchekha.com/blog/pldi25.html)

_2025-06-23 · me@pavpanchekha.com (Pavel Panchekha) · Pavel Panchekha’s Blog_

I had a blast at PLDI'25 this year! The best part, of course, was Marisa's talk about Spineless Traversal , but I wanted to take list the other highlights of the event, both for my own memory and for others who share my research taste. My inspiration is Phil Zucker , whose PLDI post is just phenomenal. I think of the papers below as getting a "Distinguished Paper" award from me. EGRAPHS'25 This…

## [Testing My M1 Simulator](https://pavpanchekha.com/blog/more-simulator.html)

_2025-05-31 · me@pavpanchekha.com (Pavel Panchekha) · Pavel Panchekha’s Blog_

Ok, here's the story so far. Way back when I wanted to test whether sort + FastTwoSum is faster than TwoSum. But as I started optimizing it , I kept getting frustrated with how hard it is to benchmark low-level code, and eventually I wrote a simulator for my CPU, the Apple M1 chip. At this point, I was in too deep and wanted to keep improving the simulator. Compiling to Assembly As of the last…

## [Simulating Double-Double Addition Algorithms](https://pavpanchekha.com/blog/ddadd-simulate.html)

_2025-05-30 · me@pavpanchekha.com (Pavel Panchekha) · Pavel Panchekha’s Blog_

I just read David's paper on floating-point accumulation networks. It's fantastic work: he's developed a new abstraction of floating-point numbers that allows him to verify error bounds for sequences of TwoSum-like operations, and then used that abstraction to design new, faster double-double addition algorithms. Since I already had a Apple M1 simulator on hand , I figured I'd give his algorithms…

## [Some Surprising Quantifier Elimination Operators](https://pavpanchekha.com/blog/quantifier-elimination.html)

_2025-05-26 · me@pavpanchekha.com (Pavel Panchekha) · Pavel Panchekha’s Blog_

I've been thinking about quantifier elimination, and one thing I have gained a new appreciation for is how much of our ordinary mathematical syntax exists in order to get quantifier elimination for common logics. This page lists a few examples. Modular arithmetic The mod operation, as in x % 3 , is necessary to eliminate existentials like: ∃ x, y = 3 x + 2 Here the quantifier elimination results…

## [LIN-graphs, an Egraph modulo T](https://pavpanchekha.com/blog/lin-graphs.html)

_2025-05-23 · me@pavpanchekha.com (Pavel Panchekha) · Pavel Panchekha’s Blog_

I've recently been on a tear writing about Egraphs modulo T , first writing about polynomials specifically and later about the general case . My main insight is that pattern-matching, specifically relational e-matching, is related to quantifier elimination and the related notion of cell decomposition, which in fact lots of theories have. So I wanted to try to make this explicit in one of the…

## [Deciding Equality for Trigonometric Expressions](https://pavpanchekha.com/blog/trig-decision.html)

_2025-05-21 · me@pavpanchekha.com (Pavel Panchekha) · Pavel Panchekha’s Blog_

One thing Herbie does is simplify stuff, and one that I am personally interested in is simplifying trigonometric expressions. For example, did you know that sin(x) / (1 + cos(x)) and (1 - sin(x)) / cos(x) are the same? Or that both are equal to tan(x / 2) ? But how can we do this automatically? Before I move on, a thank you to ChatGPT, mostly o3 and 4.1, for generative discussions. The Weirstrass…

## [Egraphs Modulo T (Attempt 1)](https://pavpanchekha.com/blog/egraph-t.html)

_2025-05-21 · me@pavpanchekha.com (Pavel Panchekha) · Pavel Panchekha’s Blog_

Phil Zucker has been writing about Egraphs modulo T for a while now; see his latest blog post and latest paper for up to date efforts. I've been thinking about this too, and this post is my attempt to summarize. I'll be referencing Phil's ideas repeatedly, since all of my thoughts trace back to his. What is an E-graph (abstractly) An e-graph is for conjunctive reasoning with equality. Conjunctive…

## [How Operator Fusion Affects Error](https://pavpanchekha.com/blog/op-fusion-error.html)

_2025-05-20 · me@pavpanchekha.com (Pavel Panchekha) · Pavel Panchekha’s Blog_

I have recently become a big fan of the condition number formalism for floating-point error; it is a simple mental model that explains a lot about floating point. In this blog post I want to use that mental model to investigate "operator fusion": basically, why library functions like log1p , cospi , or hypot improve error. 1 \[ 1 Actually, one of the big effects of hypot is to avoid overflow, which…

## [The Promise of P-Graphs](https://pavpanchekha.com/blog/p-graphs.html)

_2025-05-19 · me@pavpanchekha.com (Pavel Panchekha) · Pavel Panchekha’s Blog_

In Herbie we use e-graphs to do algebraic rewriting of mathematical expressions. For example, in the Rust standard library's acosh function , e-graphs rewrite log(sqrt(x^2 + 1)) &#x2026; into log(1 + sqrt(x^2 + 1) - 1) into log1p(sqrt(x^2 + 1) - 1) into log1p(x^2 / (sqrt(x^2 + 1) + 1)) into log1p(x / (sqrt(1 + (1/x)^2) + (1/x))) , Still, they're bad at some things, and one that really stands out…

## [Absorption in Double-Double Arithmetic](https://pavpanchekha.com/blog/double-double-absorption.html)

_2025-05-14 · me@pavpanchekha.com (Pavel Panchekha) · Pavel Panchekha’s Blog_

In case you can't tell, I've been following a double - double rabbit-hole recently. Those previous two posts were about performance, but this one is about semantics. Specifically, it's about using double-double arithmetic as an oracle for standard double-precision arithmetic, and a specific issue, absorption , that comes up. Double-double oracles I have a dream of "safe" numerical programming,…

## [The Fastest TwoSum on an Apple M1](https://pavpanchekha.com/blog/more-fast-two-sum.html)

_2025-05-12 · me@pavpanchekha.com (Pavel Panchekha) · Pavel Panchekha’s Blog_

In my last post , I pointed out that FastTwoSum plus a sort is actually faster than normal TwoSum on modern hardware, and suggested that TwoSum is therefore obsolete. This post expands the analysis and tests futher optimizations on the Apple M1 chip. General approach The general FastTwoSum algorithm is the following: s = a + b bb = s - a e = b - bb This assumes that |a| \> |b| , or perhaps a…

## [FastTwoSum is Faster Than TwoSum](https://pavpanchekha.com/blog/fast-two-sum.html)

_2025-05-05 · me@pavpanchekha.com (Pavel Panchekha) · Pavel Panchekha’s Blog_

We all know that floating-point arithmetic is imprecise. When you do s = x + y , the value of s might not exactly be the sum of the values of x and y . Curiously (and importantly, for some applications), there's a way to quantify the imprecision: there's a family of algorithms 1 \[ 1 Called "error-free transformations", because they transform x and y into s and e without any error in the sum. \]…

## [ChatGPT o3 is the Real Deal](https://pavpanchekha.com/blog/o3-is-different.html)

_2025-04-24 · me@pavpanchekha.com (Pavel Panchekha) · Pavel Panchekha’s Blog_

ChatGPT o3 (the full version, not the mini version I tested earlier ) came out just over a week ago . I used up my rate limit that day. It is the real deal, and I am blown away. I have been an LLM skeptic for a while. But this semester of paternity leave I decided that learning to use LLMs would be a goal, and I've been trying to use them more and more. And I'll be honest: I get a lot of value out…

