shannifin

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by shannifin 20d ago
Been working on a note-based (rather than audio-based) AI music generator. Still very limited, perhaps I launched too early; it only generates somewhat generic melodies at the moment. Working on generating more interesting accompaniment tra
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by shannifin 1mo ago
No point in going anywhere for its own sake. When there's a need to go somewhere, we'll try to get there. (But maybe with a different mode of travel.)
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by shannifin 1mo ago
I'm not at all there yet, but this sort of thing is on my roadmap for my AI music project at tunesage.com ... That is, generating musical ideas while being conscious of phrase / melodic / thematic structure that a user can th
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by shannifin 5mo ago
Just a letter from the pope, often about how Catholic teaching relates or applies to some modern issue. They present nothing new in terms of Catholic teaching itself, but, through the pope's authority, serve as important guidance for t
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by shannifin 7mo ago
Perhaps better to redirect with further instructions... "No, let's consider some other approaches first"
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by shannifin 7mo ago
Nice! I wanted to do this sort of thing when I was playing around with 3D game programming in the late 90s / early 2000s, to capture how a wider FOV looks in movies. Alas, computers were too slow and I was too inexperienced anyway.
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by shannifin 11mo ago
I've always thought the basilar membrane was a fascinating piece of biological engineering. Whether or not the difference between its behavior vs FT really matters depends on the context. Audio processing on a computer, FFT is often gr
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by shannifin 1y ago
Learned about the tonnetz (among other models) from the book "Audacious Euphony"... Challenging (and unfortunately too expensive now), but fascinating stuff... https://www.amazon.com/dp/019977269X
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by shannifin 1y ago
Yep. He tries text in another video by flipping pixels for one or more frames, so the words disappear very quickly. Definitely harder to read, especially longer words: https://youtu.be/EDQeArrqRZ4
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by shannifin 1y ago
Others have mentioned Branta Games, but I first saw the effect here: https://youtu.be/TdTMeNXCnTs
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by shannifin 1y ago
True, I was rather pointing out that being able to parse symbolic language deterministically doesn't imply that we could then "reason" deterministically in general; the reasoning would still need to involve some level of stoc
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by shannifin 1y ago
Problem is, even with symbolic logic, reasoning is not completely deterministic. Whether one can get to a set of given axioms from a given proposition is sometimes undecidable.
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by shannifin 1y ago
Hmmm... Nothing made me cry. I will diminish and go into the west.
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by shannifin 1y ago
Ha! Fun stuff. While some ideas are actually intriguing, many if its suggestions seem to be overly vague jumbles of common phrases and technology. "AI-powered databases to leverage personalized accessibility for team management...&quot
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by shannifin 1y ago
Some little audio examples would also be nice so visitors don't have to scroll through the video to hear them. Still, awesome work!
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by shannifin 2y ago
Christmas 1996, I was 11. We finally got a modern computer with Windows 95, a CD-ROM drive, speakers, Oregon Trail 2... It was magical! The only time I ever wept with joy over a Christmas present.
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by shannifin 2y ago
They're great! They just cost too much for how much output I want.
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by shannifin 2y ago
I don't have much real use for celebrity voices (other than fun experimentation), but I'd love to be able to clone my own voice and character voices for the purposes of creating audiobooks / audioplays without having to pay m
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by shannifin 2y ago
Was thinking the same thing. Very fun idea, nice work!
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by shannifin 2y ago
Yes
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by shannifin 2y ago
The real question is why people enjoy listening to other people's useless chitchat. Humans are weird.
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by shannifin 2y ago
The Ctrl +/- zooming? It's not smooth, it's limited, it's just font resizing, not zooming back from a plane as you'd get in 3D, where the center would remain constant. Scrolling still required for navigating (if I z
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by shannifin 2y ago
Would love something like this in VS Code so I could smoothly zoom in and out of my code rather than scrolling and clicking tabs.
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by shannifin 2y ago
Sure, but luck isn't necessarily either.
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by shannifin 2y ago
Not sure this actually tells us anything useful as it's all based on an inherently simplified simulation. You get what you simulate for. You could just as easily replace "luck" with nepotism and fraud and conclude those facto
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by shannifin 2y ago
May depend on the kids' ages and what sort of viewer they are. As a young kid (like around age 6 and below) watching a movie episodically would've been fine for me. Time was different; I had no sense of a story arc spanning more t
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by shannifin 2y ago
At least in some contexts, I never really agreed with calling it "uncertainty"; a frequency cannot exist in less time than the time needed to measure it. You're not really uncertain about it, it does not exist at all. Like lo
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by shannifin 2y ago
Even without AI, the message feels spammy. "Hey, love your work. random flattery What do you think about mine?" I've received a few messages like that before LLMs were around, just an annoying self-marketing technique.
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by shannifin 2y ago
> "Figuring out whether a single given program halts is decidable" What does "decidable" mean in this context? Simply running the program may not be sufficient to know whether or not it halts. One could have a program
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by shannifin 2y ago
I confess I mostly just read cliffsnotes and sparksnotes. Felt a little guilty about it at first, but it helped me ace the tests, and saved a ton of time.

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