fenomas

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by fenomas 8y ago
> we've abandoned Flash, but never gave up the idea I'd argue that's a very good thing. Obviously lots of people disliked the Flash player for various reasons, but the Flash authoring tool was terrific. Specifically, the
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by fenomas 8y ago
That's the analogy I usually make, yeah - it's like generating a story with a neural network trained on a bunch of stories. You'll get grammatical phrases, and sometimes sentences, but naturally none of it will make any sense
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by fenomas 8y ago
I think the dissatisfaction you're talking about arises necessarily from projects that generate notes with a network trained on a bunch of MIDI data. Our ears expect music to have structure (chord progressions, etc) but models like thi
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by fenomas 8y ago
The coins are arranged in the "glider" hacker logo, so there's probably no more meaning to it than that.
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by fenomas 8y ago
> down-looking words sprinkled in ("They were one level below me") That line presumably refers to someone's job title being one level below the author's "Designer Level 2" title.
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by fenomas 8y ago
It's white by some definitions and not by others, there's no single objective truth to the matter. But none of this has any relevance to the post originally being replied to.
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by fenomas 8y ago
Yeah, when this was last on HN I looked into it and apparently 青 historically meant any cool or pale color. The article mentions set phrases where it referred to green, but there are others that don't - 青ざめる (to turn pale), 真っ青 (pallid
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by fenomas 8y ago
Nonsense, it's white or yellow or red or otherwise, depending on the viewer and time of day and weather and whatnot. But the topic here is how people describe things, and in Japan the sun is commonly described as red.
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by fenomas 8y ago
Outside of set phrases, 青 also only means blue.
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by fenomas 8y ago
The article doesn't really make this clear, but in modern Japanese 青 as a color just means blue, unambiguously. There are a lot of set phrases where it refers to green, but these have really only survived in cases where the color of th
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by fenomas 8y ago
I'm struck by how contradictory the author's guidelines seem to be. If your documentation lives in source code and github readmes, then bam! - you automatically have permalinks to everything that are intrinsically synced to the ve
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by fenomas 8y ago
In their capacity as authors of a blog post, sure - but in their capacity as conductors of a social science experiment they're also claiming to have verified a hypothesis (that certain journals would publish absurd papers), and that&#x
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by fenomas 8y ago
> editors of the journals found perfectly reasonable something that was ridiculous and absurd by construction I understand your point, but my argument here is that the hoax papers cannot reasonably be called "absurd by construction&
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> Their entire point is that the stuff they wrote is indistinguishable from these journal's normal fare. Journals publishing papers indistinguishable from their normal fare is the null hypothesis! If accomplishing that was the autho
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by fenomas 8y ago
The relevant measure of banality here is in comparison to what the journals normally publish. What makes e.g. Sokal's hoax important is that he exposed a journal for publishing something the editors didn't even understand. Here, t
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by fenomas 8y ago
> You seem to think that the papers that got accepted were 'banal', but that doesn't change the fact that they were accepted. The banality of the papers is the central weakness of the whole thing. The whole point of Sokal-
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by fenomas 8y ago
It's hard to tell specifically how their methodology went, but this bit of the author's write-up jumps out: > As for our performance, 80% of our papers overall went to full peer review, which keeps with the standard 10-20% of p
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by fenomas 8y ago
> Jobs probably wanted something done that day or that week and had to get pissed to motivate everyone.. That's possible, but I think "Jobs got angry because he angered easily, regardless of whether it was necessary to motivate
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by fenomas 8y ago
> I can't think of an example where auto playing audio without user interaction is a good idea anyway The point of this reminder is to alert people that most preexisting content will break regardless of whether it waits for user in
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> But as a user, I appreciate the fact that websites won't be able to just start playing audio without some interaction from me. To be clear I agree with the intent of the policy. But Chrome's implementation breaks most/al
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by fenomas 8y ago
I'm no expert but I believe it follows standards. Quoting the spec: > Note: For example, a user agent could require that an AudioContext control thread state change to running is triggered by user activation https://www.w
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Tell HN: Legacy WebAudio content will break in Chrome 70
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by fenomas 8y ago
To clarify I wasn't being hypothetical, I think v8 will optimize out that check today. I phrased it vaguely because I'm not sure whether other engines would as well.
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by fenomas 8y ago
> The code below that paragraph actually does check on every access, though. I could be wrong, but I think a sufficiently clever JS engine (like v8) would remove that check at runtime, by realizing that half of the ternary operator is de
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by fenomas 8y ago
> > All I want to know is where to put my fingers. Note length, tempo, [...] is minor in comparison > NO!!! Music is the combination of rhythm and pitch. In many cases rythm is more important than pitch! Lots of folks have jumped o
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It seems to me that two separate things are being conflated here. Removing "slave" and "master/slave" terms seems fair enough, for the obvious reasons, but "master" on its own also has the innocuous sense
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> You can have markov models at various levels of granularity... This is neither here nor there. The article already applies models to two separate levels of granularity (chord progressions, and melody notes over a given chord). But for
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Having worked on procedural music for some time, I really can't see how simple Markov-style approaches like this are likely to have interesting results. You can certainly create sequences of notes that have statistical similarities to
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> ...proof that maybe the system we've decided to implement isn't as smart as we thought it was. I'd say it's a lot simpler than that - it's proof that systems that don't penalize false positives will have l
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It's called by the "hide" link under each story on the top page.

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