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by abetusk 5y ago
I don't really disagree but it's worthwhile noting that Beanie Babies were the first "killer app" of EBay (from Peter Thiel's "Zero to One: ...", pg 43-44 [0]). > eBay also started by dominating small n
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Spleeter and UMX are both FOSS [0] [1], whereas, as far as I can tell, Cassiopeia is not. [0] https://github.com/deezer/spleeter/blob/master/LICENSE [1] https://github.com/sigsep/ope
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Bitcoin Mining Is Reshaping the Energy Sector and No One Is Talking About It(coindesk.com)
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People are giving app suggestions (supermemo, Anki), which is great, but the underlying concept is "spaced repetition" [0]. Tools like Anki (and supermemo, I presume) give you flash cards at an interval based on the spaced repetit
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by abetusk 5y ago
I've only skimmed the article, but the idea looks to be "Kernel methods" [0] (and showing their equivalence in the infinite middle layer width limit?). If anyone has more insight into the actual idea, I would appreciate an ex
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As others have said, the "modular power unit" is most likely a "power cube" (in OSE terminology) [0]. From the "Product Ecology" section, it looks like it does enable the tractor, either through hydraulic or el
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by abetusk 5y ago
> This series offers accessible, concise, beautifully produced books on topics of current interest. Leading thinkers write the books in this series, and experts deliver overviews of subjects that range from the cultural and the historica
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by abetusk 5y ago
I was more asking whether you could provide an example of reverb on the ambient sound or some app that actually uses this. I'm just playing around with adding reverb on some of the clips (using Tone.js) and it doesn't sound all th
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by abetusk 5y ago
Synthesizers provide a wide array of different types of instrument in one housing (brass, strings, pads) in addition to effects and sequencers. This means a synthesizer can supplant what would have classically been one or many different peo
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Do you have some example of this? Either an actual app that does this or some Youtube video or music sample that shows what you're talking about?
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Notice that the explosion of rap, hip-hop and punk were because the barrier to entry to music making through sampling and distribution was lowered. The 1980s and 1990s were replete with high profile artists that became famous by using the d
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by abetusk 5y ago
I love these ambient noise machines. Hope folks don't mind some shameless self promotion, but I made one as well: https://abetusk.github.io/noixer/ I had a hard time finding one that was open source and used libre
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Cryptocurrency uses the blockchain as a fundamental building block. For good faith proponents of cryptocurrencies, the appeal is that they provide the potential to do low friction digital payments (e.g. "micropayments"), reduce th
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Some relevant quotes: """ Building on recent advances in computer vision we use a transfer-learning approach to construct an embedding for artworks using deep neural networks. We generate a 200-dimensional embedding of each a
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From the Abstract: """ It is estimated that companies located in the EU invested around €1 billion in OSS in 2018, which resulted in an impact on the European economy of between €65 and €95 billion. The analysis estimates a c
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EU Economic Study on Impact of OSS and OSH(digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu)
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Whoops! You are correct! For some reason, Pascal sat in my mind as an interpreted language. Maybe my whole arguments falls apart then.
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You have to be careful by what you define as "success" and "failure". Many/most languages never really fail, they just become more and more niche. So taking your question to be, why isn't Pascal used as much as
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These are great, thanks. Someone should do an analysis after the fact to see how well the predictions went. We might even want to do them at smaller intervals, like 1, 2 and 5 years. The thing that's missing from a lot of the predictio
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By naming it "OpenAI" they've implied what their value system is, namely point 1 in your above list. Putting "open" in the name implies libre/free/open sensibilities, in that the harm from releasing techno
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The end goal is to enrich the commons. While the copy-left aspect of many of these licenses are forcing people to obey the golden rule, the intent is clearly to curtail bad corporate actors to make sure if it is used, it remains in the comm
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Nice to see this is actually open source (libre/free) under an MIT license [0]. I like these icons a lot, very well done. [0] https://illlustrations.co/license/
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Yes, I absolutely hate them. I was thinking of creating a "considered harmful" considered harmful rant but it already exists [0]. [0] https://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html
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IDE !== tooling Your sentiment about the right tools for the job is spot on, and one should strive to choose tools that make you more productive but IDEs are one tool of many. There's a host of other things to consider, like what is th
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by abetusk 5y ago
This is really interesting but I'm highly skeptical. I'm not sure we're given enough information to really get at why they're getting the results they are. They report that if A-C have a non-trivial conversation and B-C
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It’s all fun and games until Naomi Wu shows up to get GPLv2 compliance(twitter.com)
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A community fork of 3Brown1Blue's [0] Manim [1] for creating the math animations and pictures used in their videos. From the manimcommunity's README: """ NOTE: This repository is maintained by the Manim Community an
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HN often touts that crypto is either a Ponzi/MLM scheme or has as its only use criminal activity. If you make basic payment processing for services criminal, then, by definition, cryptocurrency's primary use case is for criminal a
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All the Way to Hell – Fractional Land Ownership Disrupts Fossil Fuel Development(allthewaytohell.com)
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