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by dimatura 1y ago
The "non-intrusive" part is interesting. I've bit the bullet with AI assistance when coding - even when it feels like it gets in the way sometimes, overall I find it a net benefit. But I briefly tried AI in the shell with the
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by dimatura 1y ago
Didn't expect to see the M8 when opening this. It's truly an amazing device, and the tables are a really awesome addition to the typical audio modulation option.
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by dimatura 1y ago
that would be pretty confusing, as it happens M8 was partially inspired by another tracker called LGPT (Little Game Park Tracker, named after the device it ran on).
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by dimatura 2y ago
I'm not an expert on GB chiptune, but from what I've heard from enthusiasts is that different GB models sound different, and even within the same model there are variations. That said, it wouldn't surprise me if the GB wavefo
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by dimatura 2y ago
Yeah, at least in the context of music synthesis, everyone just says PWM. (The term even being subject of a meme with a certain youtuber who seems to be fond of it ;)).
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by dimatura 2y ago
Note that genetic programming is a specific subset of genetic algorithms that focuses on searching for "programs" (hence the name), typically encoded in the form of a tree structure similar to an AST, though other representation
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by dimatura 2y ago
Yeah, if you look at the original NERF paper (which is not by Nvidia btw) they cite CPPNs as prior work.
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by dimatura 2y ago
The pop composition was nice, if somewhat cliched. (And of course the MIDI instrumentation does it no favors). The guitar solo in the middle was fun - it kind of sounded like it reverted to some of the baroque pieces in its pretraining. Rem
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by dimatura 2y ago
I took this course the first semester it was given. There was one TA, and now there's 24! Fun fact: The TA was the writer of Aqua's 90s hit "Doctor Jones".
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by dimatura 2y ago
Yes, there are plenty of them. Not sure what the SOTA is, though. Similar to super-resolution, it is relatively simple to create a nearly-infinite dataset for these; pick a clean image, then introduce JPG artifacts. Then train a model to in
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by dimatura 2y ago
povray is a raytracer, this is a rasterizer (like what openGL does, say). Different rendering techniques.
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by dimatura 2y ago
A nice side benefit is that ratpoison is its own screen lock (for 99% of people).
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by dimatura 2y ago
I still use ratpoison, dreading the day it stops working for whatever reason (wayland being a likely one). Haven't tried it, but Cagebreak ( https://github.com/project-repo/cagebreak ) seems like a possible successo
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by dimatura 2y ago
I definitely see this happening. Music generation has lagged behind image generation but is following more or less the same path. Early image generation models were completely unconditional; all you could do was sample an image. Then coarse
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by dimatura 2y ago
One thing that strikes me about almost every AI-generated track (from academic or commercial generators), is that even if it's often "competent" - in that it has reasonable melodies, chord progressions, etc - is how average i
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by dimatura 2y ago
I've noticed a lack of familiarity with design patterns in junior employees as well, but I've attributed it to them not paying attention in class and/or forgetting about it. Are design patterns not part of the standard curric
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by dimatura 2y ago
As someone that mainly codes in Python and only has rudimentary JS skills, I'm intrigued. The generative art pyscript demos mentioned in the blog post are really nice. Using decorator calls to "compile" chunks of python code
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by dimatura 2y ago
A more apt analogy would be a human trying to walk somewhere with their eyes closed, i.e., what you may know as open-loop control.
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by dimatura 2y ago
No, using a large context window (which includes previous tokens) is a critical ingredient for the success of modern LLMs. Which is why you will often see the window size mentioned in discussions of newly released LLMs.
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by dimatura 2y ago
I don't think whether LLMs use only the last token, or all past tokens, affects LeCun's argument. LLMs already used large context windows when LeCun made this argument. On the other hand, allowing backtracking does. Which is not s
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by dimatura 2y ago
I see what you did their
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by dimatura 2y ago
Re: reviewers, I don't see any mention of this being accepted into a peer-reviewed venue. Peer review isn't necessary for arxiv submissions.
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by dimatura 2y ago
That's shocking, sinevibes is a legit developer in the music/audio space. They made the FX for dreadbox's Typhon synth and several popular FX plugins for Korg logue synths. I'm subscribed to their newsletter and have nev
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by dimatura 2y ago
I put a link above for this kit which is about $50. However, I believe you would also need an ESC for the motor, a suitable one would probably be less than $20.
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by dimatura 2y ago
I believe it's this kit: https://www.elecrow.com/4wd-smart-car-robot-chassis-for-ardu... . It's been around a while, I got one around the time covid started. It's decent quality, although IIRC the front wheels
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by dimatura 2y ago
There's dozens of us!
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by dimatura 2y ago
I'd wait to see if they have a good black friday sale.
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by dimatura 2y ago
Agreed. As someone in a place to make purchasing decisions, if I can just sign up and try something without having to "jump on a call" and sit through a demo, I'm more likely to do so. I'm more willing to meet afterwards
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by dimatura 2y ago
Yeah, but there's many, many synthesizers that don't work like this - and many people actually wouldn't even use the term "synthesizer" for this kind of instrument.
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by dimatura 2y ago
This isn't really true in general, especially not nowadays. Plenty of synthesizers are not designed to sound like another instrument.

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