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by dahart 7mo ago
Yes, thanks! And that article points at the “problem” setup in the article: the syntonic or diatonic comma, or the discrepancy between four stacked perfect fifths and two octaves plus a major third. I like how the Pythagorean comma simplifi
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by dahart 7mo ago
Mmm no, that’s getting history and the causal relationships a bit backward. The early guitars, like their predecessors (lutes), all had moveable frets, and their designers were trying to figure out how to fret various other tuning systems b
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by dahart 7mo ago
What you’ve described would make all powerchords rooted on the A string audibly worse than standard tuning, with more flutter. Are you avoiding all A string chords?
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by dahart 7mo ago
Have you actually tried this? What songs work? To me this sounds totally impractical and useless, like it’s a logical technicality for the purposes of this discussion and not something a real musician would ever do. You’re making tuning a p
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by dahart 7mo ago
That’s not very helpful. You can only do that one string, and it breaks the perfect octave starting on the detuned string. As soon as you also try to detune the next string up, you break the octave you started from. This is a house of cards
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by dahart 7mo ago
Wanting to play in any key and not be locked into a key automatically pushes musicians toward equal temperament, even when playing solo, and even on a violin. Saying no one’s forcing you is technically true but sounds pretty naive, and (for
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by dahart 7mo ago
> You can, for instance, tune instead to get pure fretted fifths between adjacent strings, and fretted octaves between strings one removed. No, you can’t. If you tune so that octaves with one string between are correct everywhere on the
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by dahart 7mo ago
For the reasons the article explains. You can use “just intonation” a bit on a guitar, but it will only work for certain chords in certain positions. BTW note that just intonation is different from string intonation - I wasn’t talking about
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by dahart 7mo ago
Many musicians can readily confirm that the difference between temperaments can be felt and heard by trained ears. A guitar tuned to equal temperament has major thirds that warble audibly. It feels different when you use just intonation,
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by dahart 7mo ago
For some reason it’s taken me decades of playing guitar to become good enough at tuning and also sensitive enough to really feel the fact that I can’t tune the guitar. Recently I finally grokked the simple reason that 12 TET cannot be perfe
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by dahart 7mo ago
Hold on. Your first video is indeed a rolling shutter artifact. But your second video never shows enough of the string to see the harmonics. When you (for example) pluck with a finger on the 12th fret, you absolutely do have a real physical
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by dahart 7mo ago
This sometimes makes my tinnitus go away temporarily: https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/whiteBurstsNoiseGenerator.... And this I can sometimes use to pinpoint my tinnitus tone(s): https://generalfuzz.net&#x2
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by dahart 7mo ago
I know some people blame the covid vaccine. I had tinnitus before the vaccine and it got louder when I took the vaccine and then got quieter later. But it gets louder with other medications too. I suspect anything that causes inflammation c
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by dahart 7mo ago
LLMs got their training data from somewhere. But maybe they’re good at percolating the good code to the top and filtering the bad code.
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by dahart 7mo ago
Codes can be synonymous with codebases and is grammatically just fine, though probably not the most common usage.
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by dahart 7mo ago
> Yeah, that's what happens to someone's code when they moves on—becomes someone else's sandbox and they are free to knock down the castle, build another—Chesterton's Fence not withstanding, ha ha. As someone who refe
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by dahart 7mo ago
You are definitely not alone, and it’s unfortunate when people pushing AI ignore that legitimate fear and talk past it. You are right, there is something you lose, but for what it’s worth, I don’t think the loss is necessarily critical thin
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by dahart 7mo ago
That’s an assumption, jumping to a conclusion. It is true for some people, since some people say it out loud, but it is not true for everybody, and calling it “unambiguous” is an unsupportable claim. To the degree some non-voters say they d
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by dahart 7mo ago
It’s a large and incorrect assumption, and not mathing, to lump non-voters into supporters, especially when the administration is purging eligible voters.
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by dahart 8mo ago
> I don’t see how you can argue it’s not. Yes you do, you already made the argument when you pointed out the “team” size and makeup was completely unspecified, therefore the number is not an estimate, it’s just a number. When you call it
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by dahart 8mo ago
It’s not an estimate, the point was that AI produced code multiples faster than the prompter, and the prompter is in a pretty good position to make that claim. I can confirm and make the same claim, so I believe that it’s true that for some
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by dahart 8mo ago
It’s already getting harder to find juniors willing to write the code and harder to discern whether someone is as willing as they say. And I feel like asking junior to make this decision and just have self control is a tricky double edged s
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by dahart 8mo ago
It might be a mistake to assume tomorrow’s training looks like today’s. Unsupervised learning is a thing and a very hot research topic, precisely because it avoids some of today’s big problems with acquiring the vast amounts of training dat
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by dahart 8mo ago
The right to make derived works is covered by copyright law. It’s not legal to play madlibs on something and call it a derived work unless you already have the copyrights. If the edit distance is too small, proving infringement isn’t hard.
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by dahart 8mo ago
> consumers were paying for transistors they couldn’t use This is Econ 101 these days. It’s cheaper to design and manufacture 1 product than 2. Many many products have features that are enabled for higher paying customers, from software
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by dahart 8mo ago
Oh yes I forgot to mention it, you’re absolutely right, Thall’s method for df64 and qf128 gives you double/quad precision mantissa with single-precision exponent ranges, and the paper is clear about that. FWIW, my own example (emulatin
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by dahart 8mo ago
> it is in theory possible to emulate FP64 using FP32 operations I’d say it’s better than theory, you can definitely use float2 pairs of fp32 floats to emulate higher precision. Quad precision using too, using float4. Here’s the code: h
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by dahart 8mo ago
Why? I completely disagree, they are the same as any other ads. But you’re still not seeing the big picture. If you ban advertising compensation, suddenly uncompensated will become the entire problem and the only category. That’s the point.
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by dahart 8mo ago
I don’t agree with that. I’m saying that banning advertising payments will obviously have unintended consequences and fail to achieve the actual desired goal. That happens with poorly conceived regulations all the time. I’m also suggesting
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by dahart 8mo ago
I second the vote for orbit cam! Add double-click to choose the orbit point, and add a zoom control that is proportional to distance to orbit point, and it suddenly gets insanely easy to navigate the scene and find good views. It’s too hard

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