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by nok22kon 4mo ago
Rode NT1-A 5th gen microphone claims 32-bit float output, insisting it will not clip peaks so maybe they do sample at 24 bit at a well chosen gain level and then convert to 32 bit float, with the max 24 bit value being above 1.0 float or as
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by nok22kon 4mo ago
I remember using Adobe Audition for resampling audio, this site shows I had good intuition your software is among the best, but not pitch black best :)
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by nok22kon 4mo ago
when beams of ultrasounds interract they can produce audible frequencies this has practical applications
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by nok22kon 4mo ago
the radio waves could be interfeering with the signal before it gets amplified
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by nok22kon 4mo ago
thermal noise allows about 18-22 bits of real precision at audio level voltages, so it's plausible that 16 bit is somewhat limiting
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by nok22kon 4mo ago
no US defense contractor can threaten the US government which is why no US defense contractor is given unsupervised access to nukes, even when maintaining them
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by nok22kon 4mo ago
the choice is progressively giving more of the company to the government, or the government taking it by force it was long predicted that it is inevitable for national governments to fully nationalize AI labs and put them under military con
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by nok22kon 4mo ago
soft nationalization
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by nok22kon 4mo ago
Hollywood solved the problem. digital movie distribution to cinema doesnt leak anymore until they are made available on streaming platforms
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by nok22kon 4mo ago
> several Russian mobile apps related to the Russian internet company VK were deleted from the U.S. tech giant's App Store. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/kremlin-demands-explana...
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by nok22kon 4mo ago
nothing guarantees the Microsoft/Apple/Ubuntu/RedHat will not push an update through their infrastructure to delete some software from your computer all OSes have malware level capabilities. it's literally the definition
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by nok22kon 4mo ago
everytime a new benchmark appears, Chinese models are far lower than the level where they are supposed to be according to existing benchmarks. then after a while they recover :)
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by nok22kon 4mo ago
AutoGluon does their own benchmarking, the default is Elo, but you can switch to other metrics: https://huggingface.co/spaces/TabArena/leaderboard xgboost is listed, they say "tuned" but who knows what t
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by nok22kon 4mo ago
why dont they invest in the amazing EU software companies then? Google bought DeepMind, so its possible but not much interest
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by nok22kon 4mo ago
ASML had $30 bil revenue in 2025 it's main client, TSMC had 4x, $120 bil revenue in 2024 the Chinese equivalents are 5 years away sounds like VW from 10 years ago - "Chinese can't make quality cars"
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by nok22kon 4mo ago
what is the EU equivalent to AWS/GCP/Azure? or do you think EU doesnt really need that, it can just rent from the americans what is the EU frontier AI model? what is the EU frontier chip fabs?
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by nok22kon 4mo ago
if you think the status quo is sustainable, and that Europeans can live a luxurious life fueled by cheap Chinese workers... > BERLIN, June 26 (Reuters) - Volkswagen is considering shutting four German factories and ramping up job cuts to
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by nok22kon 4mo ago
so where are all the EU global software/tech companies? why is EU so reliant on US software? why do the best EU software developers move to US?
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by nok22kon 4mo ago
you are correct but its also the reason for the lack of EU tech capability and over-reliance on US
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by nok22kon 4mo ago
it's because there is no incentive in general in EU to be excellent at your job. good or bad, you get the same pay, and dont get compensated for bringing extra value to the company so naturally employees have a "fuck you" att
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by nok22kon 4mo ago
> at work it is a different matter that's what I was asking, of modules are being introduced at scale or if they are a hobbist thing https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2025/08/we-need-to-seriously...
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by nok22kon 4mo ago
wasn't there a lot of talk that modules are still not really working, in practice I mean?
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by nok22kon 4mo ago
why support Win9x? actual users? as a fun thing to do?
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by nok22kon 4mo ago
Just like Windows storing 64-bit binaries in System32 dir and 32-bit binaries in SysWOW64 dir kind of makes sense (if you are insane)
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by nok22kon 4mo ago
exactly, the only reason Mozilla exists today is as a legal shield against an anti-browser monopoly suit against Google. that's the product they sell, and Google is paying hundreds of millions per year for this valuable service
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by nok22kon 4mo ago
as if they would pay.... they would pirate the contents as they already did
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by nok22kon 4mo ago
> Likewise, Banks employ more people after introducing ATM's than before. that's a common trope, and its both true and false true: more bank employees after ATM's false: less bank employees after smartphone banking
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by nok22kon 4mo ago
there never has been a nuclear war, so why do some people worry about it, I dont understand, probably they have some axes to grind
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by nok22kon 4mo ago
wouldn't xgboost be covered under autogluon? not perfect, but not missing either
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by nok22kon 4mo ago
the scaling laws work within a "generation". but what about across them? GPT-3 was 175B, models like Gemma4 with 31B vastly outperform it, so there is more to it as Karpathy noted, the initial GPTs were trained on complete garbage

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