gnulinux

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by gnulinux 3y ago
Can your European lawyer not find you a reliable US lawyer that then you meet in person (in prison) and give them legal authority to handle your financial affairs? But yeah I understand. Once you're dealing with multiple countries ever
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by gnulinux 3y ago
I'm really curious, how does that work? Can you not give a lawyer written permission to make certain financial decisions for you such as taking money off of a bank account? Or is it that you had to sell assets such as stocks etc for wh
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by gnulinux 3y ago
It was just a shorthand. Of course everybody knows it didn't start with Bach, duh. He is a very central figure though, and any work you'll put into an artistic tradition will inevitably be compared to the greats of the tradition.
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by gnulinux 3y ago
> needlessly avant garde I'm sorry to say this but there is no such thing as "needlessly avant garde" in Western classical music tradition imho. WCM is about an artist finding his own sound, finding a unique musical langua
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by gnulinux 3y ago
Me too. It's not a convincing direction for art music imho. This is my biggest criticism of Ligeti. I don't think he needed that detuned flute in his Violin Concerto. Otherwise love his music to my bones.
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by gnulinux 3y ago
Luciano Berio's Sequenza aren't traditionally considered serialist (absolutely gorgeous and stunning set of compositions BTW). Although he certainly "sounds" serialist "as a style" the same way Elliot Carter is
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by gnulinux 3y ago
People won't care until something major happens and after that they'll implement some draconian half-measure that doesn't fix anything like snooping on office WiFi.
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by gnulinux 3y ago
I don't find Reich as convincing because I don't think he was prolific enough and canonical (with respect to forms he used) enough to make the profound statement Glass was able to pull off with his Violin Concertos, String Quartet
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by gnulinux 3y ago
> There's an argument that serialism forces composers to use those operations instead of falling back towards conventional theory. But in fact the opposite happened. It didn't take long for serial composers to start mining seri
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by gnulinux 3y ago
This is what I always say. In college/studying you learn programming, CS, algorithms etc. Once you're a software engineer, you realize that programming, CS, algorithms etc are the easiest part of your job. If the code is too hard
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by gnulinux 3y ago
This is what ChatGPT does to me whenever I ask anything non-trivial. I find it funny people think it'll take over our jobs, it simply can't even do the most basic things beyond the beaten path.
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by gnulinux 3y ago
You're missing the most important points: * Syncs between devices. I can login to my accounts in all my devices. If I can access my Dropbox account, I can access everything else with the master password. * Auto password generation. I d
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by gnulinux 3y ago
My point is that -- in my experience and musical taste -- deterministic algorithms (e.g. literal scripts you write yourself to generate MusicXML, MIDI, lilypond, PDF etc) are orders of magnitude more useful than these neural network ML mode
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by gnulinux 3y ago
Yes I'm familiar and... > Here's a taste of things to come it sounds like randomly generated MIDI... Doesn't sound like anything to me at all. Music is very subjective but I've so far seen no model that's convinc
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by gnulinux 3y ago
> If you want notes that will actually sound good when played back, it's hard to beat it. I strongly disagree with this. There is no good algorithmic music generator trained on MIDI. They all generate elevator music.
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by gnulinux 3y ago
How about MEI? https://music-encoding.org/about/ This is what MuseScore 4 will soon start using.
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by gnulinux 3y ago
MIDI is absolutely horrible for ML. It lacks very necessary information such as articulation etc which are important to make sense of music. It's popular because it's simple but there is no way to understand music by just looking
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by gnulinux 3y ago
Yes absolutely! As per my original comment neutral names are better. "Finite" has a meaning.
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by gnulinux 3y ago
Just use less common names like Brice or Werner or Rubin?
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by gnulinux 3y ago
Well at the end of the day you will have to name your container, or instance, or server, or git repo, or db table etc... Conceptually I agree with you, behavior matters. But as the article details, when we communicate with humans, all we ha
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by gnulinux 3y ago
This is why I'm a big fan of "name it Steve" philosophy. When we create a new service many people are inclined to call it something like "rhombus keyboard fibriculator" or "octatonic runner". Usually it&#x
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by gnulinux 3y ago
Yeah, it's gorgeous. Makes me jealous. Reminds me of some author I read recently but I can't put my name on them...
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by gnulinux 3y ago
I regularly take Amtrak between Boston - NYC but this website is missing this. Just a single datapoint.
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by gnulinux 3y ago
This is the kind of thing you learn in the first lecture of a discrete mathematics class that's required for every single CS program in the world. It's very obvious if you think about it. If the encoding on the memory is n that do
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by gnulinux 3y ago
But Skyrim is extraordinarily trivial and any spec/build/config can slap the game no problem. So it hardly works in favor of Skyrim.
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by gnulinux 3y ago
If it's costly it's similarly pointless. What if you respec but then all the game gives is ice monsters? Either way you gotta know the entire game to minmax. The point of playing as fire mage is to like being a fire mage even when
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by gnulinux 3y ago
This is why the only way to play RPG -- in my very very humble opinion -- is via permadeath. Each death tells you a unique story as to why you optimized your character poorly.
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by gnulinux 3y ago
Ilya himself said he's against fully open source models because they're not safe enough. He's definitely against open source, my hunch is that we will see OpenAI being less open after his takeover. Full interview here (&quo
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by gnulinux 3y ago
What do you mean by AI executive order?
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by gnulinux 3y ago
Because cities are made for people to live in.

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