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by alterom 1y ago
You missed the most important part: ..got the bird to mimic that sound with enough precision for the image to be clearly recognizable in the spectogram of the recording . In fact, he didn't notice when the bird did it; he just stumb
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by alterom 1y ago
At some time in the video he's casually played a groove on the piano to back the birds for a couple of second, then stopped ("Wait, what am I doing") :) You can also see his modular setup in the background. I didn't know
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by alterom 1y ago
RFC 1149 (IP over Avian Carriers, 1990)¹ needs a 2025 update :D _____ ¹ https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1149
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by alterom 1y ago
> I would really like to know how much data you can store in that bird using some digital modulation method such as FSK (frequency shift keying). The video shows the bird capable of remembering and reproducing 5-10 frequency graphs sim
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by alterom 1y ago
>It should have been obvious It's not obvious at all that birds are able to reproduce multiplexed frequency-keyed streams with enough precisions to draw freaking pictures in spectrum analyzer graphs. Humans can barely control
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by alterom 1y ago
The video shows that there are many ways to do that :) Now, if we figure out how to convince the birds it's a predator distress call (which, if you think about it, it kind of is), we can probably get it to persist across generations.
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by alterom 1y ago
>I thought he'd transmit a PNG over a modem, get a bird to memorise that and play it back. That's essentially what he has done. Except he did the modulation/demodulation with audio software (and, technically, stored a m
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by alterom 1y ago
Thanks for answering! >tl;dr is that the desktop app (including remote SSH sessions) is free to use with a permissive license (no account needed, no subscription, commercial use is OK, etc), but using Positron in a server mode does requi
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by alterom 1y ago
While this is "based on" the open source codebase of VSCode, it's very much unclear from the project page which features and dependencies aren't open source or even free-as-in-beer (..and may require a paid subscriptio
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by alterom 1y ago
So, after all the optimization, they're using 6% of the CPU to display what amounts to a tiny animated GIF that 1990s PCs would have no problem with. But it's vector graphics! , you might say. Yeah, like Flash, which ran fine on
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by alterom 1y ago
It's not about making a document . It's about making software that would display a document in that format correctly. I.e., a browser.
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by alterom 1y ago
Have you considered that you can help the artists reach their dreams better if you make sure they check in with you about their gear before they haul it in out of the blue? In no way does doing that inhibit their art making. All it does
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by alterom 1y ago
>I'm not sure if you've ever worked in a "creative" environment filled with artists I've played in 4 bands over the past 8 years, paid and unpaid gigs, and helped organize a few events. So, no, I haven't w
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by alterom 1y ago
>again, this is not a problem but a basic expectation when you do media arts residencies If it isn't a problem, then the AI isn't a solution . You can't have a solution without a problem. Saying that "this is just
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by alterom 1y ago
>Artists in residency are not know for being technical. They use the technology, they make the decisions about technology (like which cameras to use), and they literally can't do their work without the tech — — they better be at
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by alterom 1y ago
"Use the cameras you used last time for this gig, we'll work out something for the next one" If uttering a sentence like this is a "theoretical" solution for you, I don't know what to tell you, except that yo
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by alterom 1y ago
Stack overflow didn't create a positive feedback loop where the solution to having to deal with an obscure, badly written, incomprehensible code base is creating an more incomprehensible sloppy code to glue it all together. Neither d
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by alterom 1y ago
Oh, so Claude in this case was a bandaid over a communication problem (the artists not getting the memo about not suddenly showing up with new equipment that you have to support, with no prior discussion, warning, or heads-up). It absol
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by alterom 1y ago
Robocop (1987)¹ might provide an insight :D _____ ¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboCop
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by alterom 1y ago
Oh, one of the learned behaviors to compensate for stupid tech, along with e.g. obsessively copying a long comment lest the page decides to reload tO sHoW nEw cOnTenT while I'm typing. (FB Lite "app" - as well as mobile FB
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by alterom 1y ago
Yeah, because clicking out of the app to adjust its volume is fun ! Clicks for the click God!
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by alterom 1y ago
Because the quality drop is imperceptible for most people, but the convenience of having volume controls at the component that makes sound isn't.
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by alterom 1y ago
Trumpism is just Reaganomics brought to its logical conclusion.
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by alterom 1y ago
The control panel doesn't need to reach all corners. Just enough corners to cover day-to-day usability so that new users would be able to help themselves if they get stumped. That set of corners has been pretty much covered by Window
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by alterom 1y ago
Has the proper punctuation allowed you to see that there's an extra negation there that makes the sentence say the exact opposite of what the author intended it to say?
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by alterom 1y ago
And as long he's still a Russian citizen that regularly travels to Russia, that matters not in the slightest.
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by alterom 1y ago
HN (and the mods) seem to hate nothing more than a well-sourced, well-structured long comment. The sources are still there though.
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by alterom 1y ago
What game? Is it "making a meaningful statement" or "citing sources for claims"? Not like you're playing either game, so it's hard to guess.
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by alterom 1y ago
>There are tons of completely insane things happening in SA, and much that needs to be said and done. If you're saying the minimum threshold for caring about what happens in other countries is actual genocide, then I disagree with
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by alterom 1y ago
Heckling deserved :) I'll be here all day, using flow typing on my phone :)

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