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by dimatura 5y ago
I've worked a fair bit with 3D data in a robotics context, mostly from the perception side but also a tiny bit on the motion side (and grad coursework). In practice you have to deal with pretty much all the representations, they all ha
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by dimatura 5y ago
Wow, that does look pretty feature-rich. Also seems like there might be some M8 or LSDJ influence. Cool project!
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by dimatura 5y ago
Pretty cool. Seems like this project was built on the Microdexed [1] code, which is a port of Dexed to run on a teensy. It uses circle [2] as a bare-metal basis on the pi, which was also used by mt-32pi [3] to run a sample-based synth tha
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by dimatura 5y ago
I find myself analyzing a piles of json files, or large json files now and then, usually for one-off or infrequent analyses. If I'll never touch this data again, then usually the first thing I do is collect all the data and do whatever
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by dimatura 5y ago
I think this is it. While things have changed in the last couple of decades (how could they not?) - it's still largely a matter of perception. Personally, I'm still excited about tech, even if I'm probably in the same age ran
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by dimatura 5y ago
Well, another "pointless" project this guy made eventually became a product, the flash synth. It's a tiny synthesizer that fits in a MIDI DIN5 plug. I own one because I love small and weird synths. It actually sounds pretty n
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by dimatura 5y ago
Not just in games, but also the real world. I've had issues implementing robotic mapping code coming from the naive use of GPS coordinates, for which the solution was the same as you just said: dynamically adjusting the origin.
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by dimatura 5y ago
Soon, the ability to do well in leetcode-style tests will be the only qualification needed for a coding job. At the same time, AlphaCode, etc. have shown AI can do well at leetcode. Ergo, AI will soon take all the coding jobs. (/s)
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by dimatura 5y ago
I've dreamed of a vim-like workflow for music making for a while now. I still think it would be neat, but this itch has been scratched to a large extent by the dirtywave M8 ( https://dirtywave.com ). It's a handheld hard
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by dimatura 5y ago
I haven't read this paper in detail. At a glance, it seems interesting, but not necessarily a huge breakthrough compared to SOTA in monocular 3D reconstruction (which is not a criticism; most papers are incremental and that's fine
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by dimatura 5y ago
Their picks for the boutique treatment are likely good guesses - TR909 for sure, maybe TR606. On the synth side, Jupiter 8, Juno 106 & D50 seem like good candidates.
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by dimatura 5y ago
This is pretty cool, I've looked for libraries like this myself in the past. Sometimes I've needed to render a bunch of simple 3D graphics off-screen, without any real-time or high-throughput requirements (mostly for visualizing 3
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by dimatura 5y ago
As other commenters have expounded on, the short answer is "no". While I definitely agree that one must be careful about falling into the trap of thinking everything is a nail to be hammered with NNs, it's also pretty common
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by dimatura 5y ago
While 6-op definitely gives you more flexibility than 4-op, I find 4-op with non-sine operators more than usable. Examples include the YMF262 (OPL3), TX81Z and of course the digitone.
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by dimatura 5y ago
Eh, it happens. As a PhD student in robotics at CMU I got calls from an agressive recruiter for Uber ATG, asking if I was interested in being a test driver for their cars, a job which didn't really require any kind of degree and with p
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by dimatura 5y ago
Out of curiosity, would you consider the example images and footage as "clearly trash"?
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by dimatura 5y ago
Under the lid, presumably.
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by dimatura 5y ago
I've never actually used sox for fx, I wonder how good they are. (I have used it plenty for resampling, normalization, trimming, etc). But regardless, there's thousands of VSTs out there -- a lot more options than whatever sox has
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by dimatura 5y ago
Yeah, sounds like the kind of thing Landr and Izotope are offering these days.
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by dimatura 5y ago
On the ML front (which is probably their primary motivation) it's pretty useful for the kind of things Spotify is interested. As a basic example, say you want to train a model to classify songs by genre. If you have say, a country song
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by dimatura 5y ago
Yes, this may be a specific example of a more widespread phenomenon. There's certain websites out there that republish articles from well-established publications (e.g., New York Times) almost word for word, except that they are rife w
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by dimatura 5y ago
This reminds me of a Louis CK bit, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUBtKNzoKZ4 . Folding laundry (and more generally, manipulating deformable objects) is actually a pretty tough task for robots. So there has been some resear
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by dimatura 5y ago
Yes. Unfortunately my experience in this area is about four years old, so maybe obsolete at this point. But at that time, for our problem -- which used many of the typical benchmark gym simulators -- the main bottleneck were CPUs, not GPUs.
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by dimatura 5y ago
Bad Gear's videos are great!
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by dimatura 5y ago
At this point, they should be treated as collectibles.
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by dimatura 5y ago
Time and effort?
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by dimatura 5y ago
I don't think it takes "0" more knowledge. Maybe 2-5% more knowledge? (In some made-up subjective scale). If you buy a feather and a wing you know they'll work together (I haven't looked up every feather-wing combin
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by dimatura 5y ago
I know $900-$1500 is "cheap" for most of the HN crowd, but for the rest of us there's hardware synth options that are much cheaper! For example, the Korg Volca Keys [1] is a perfectly suitably synth to learn the basics of an
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by dimatura 5y ago
It depends on whether you're more interested in the theory of how things work or how to make nice sounds (two things that are correlated, but not 100% correlated). It sounds more like the former; in that case Puckette's book is a
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by dimatura 5y ago
Now that's a name I hadn't heard in a long time. It wasn't my cup of tea -- I prefer just writing latex directly, but it's a pity, as I'd rather see more people get into writing tex/latex, even if via GUI. I un

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