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by svantana 6y ago
What data are you referring to? The database is available as CC0 at https://data.discogs.com/ and has been for many years AFAIK. I really wish they would include the marketplace statistics, because from that one could estim
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by svantana 6y ago
In the digital audio world at large 1-3 people teams seem to be the norm. I suppose it's because it's a relatively small market with demand for highly niche products. Simple tools with an insane attention to detail is doable for o
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by svantana 6y ago
On the other hand, music has historically been a very social thing that have brought people together. The decline into a sollipsist "service" has been gradual since the dawn of recorded music, but Spotify et al are definitely maki
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by svantana 6y ago
Exactly! Your business can be a threat to your emotional wellbeing, but your emotions are definitely a threat to your business as well. If you're alone then there's nobody to stop you from following your whims. It's very allu
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by svantana 6y ago
Honest question: couldn't you get equally expressive using english language keywords instead of cryptic characters?
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If I were you I would take those examples, wrap them in some html and put them on github.io or somewhere else but with a link at the top of the readme. There is so much stuff around and only so little time...
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by svantana 6y ago
It seems to work well on the popular platforms (chrome, safari, ios, android) although I haven't tried linux yet. Wasm performance can vary between browsers though, which will impact the experience a lot.
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by svantana 6y ago
That sounds overly dramatic to me. I'm writing a DAW of sorts for the browser, and while I wouldn't use it on stage, it works well enough to produce music on. I didn't even add AudioWorklet support yet, and I will probably re
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by svantana 6y ago
Nice work, it looks really polished! What I would suggest improving is the single user experience: what I can do without involving friends. Right now I only see a huge list of strangers in alphabetical order. Picking someone at random seems
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by svantana 6y ago
> Is it hard to get Spotify API? Yeah spotify is moving away from 3rd party playback, the apis you can get now are basically a remote control for the app. They didn't say why but I know labels don't like streaming djing because
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by svantana 6y ago
Nice work! I have built a similar system for an ios app called Pacemaker DJ, it might be worth checking out for comparison/inspiration. I learned a couple of lessons from that project: - some music is super easy to mix (minimal house)
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by svantana 6y ago
Youtube is great for music but I wouldn't call it a social network.
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True, although I would say the content would be even more pointless without the video - the main idea is clearly to present yourself visually. My daughter uses it a lot and an interesting side effect is that she knows a lot of music I didn&
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by svantana 6y ago
As a musician, I'm sad to see that social media are almost exclusively visual. Very few browse their feeds with sound on, videos have subtitles, and any audio content needs a big "SOUND ON" banner to even have a chance of bei
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by svantana 6y ago
I think it's able to verify that the solution is correct, which is more than a lot of students manage.
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by svantana 6y ago
Exactly. Paul B gets a lot of credit for designing a nice AJAX product, but me and most people switched from hotmail mainly because of the storage, and partially because of google's cool aura at the time (remember "don't be e
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by svantana 6y ago
It's possible but more likely it's a reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizzagate_conspiracy_theory
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by svantana 6y ago
End-to-end modelling is very enticing for the lazy engineer, unfortunately parameter control (knobs) are an important feature of most audio effects, and sampling enough of the parameter space will become prohibitive for more complex effects
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by svantana 6y ago
> The lesson here just reinforces the adage about letting the compiler find and transform your source code into vectorized code with the programmer giving hints or small rewrites as needed. This has been my M.O. for a number of years, bu
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by svantana 7y ago
You're not wrong, but it seems to me the "addiction problem" of social media is not so much about the interactivity, but has more to do with the near infinite supply of entertainment.
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by svantana 7y ago
That's not it, the web interface still works as long as you're logged in, no app needed. My guess is they are sick of scrapers and data miners. If login is needed, they can ban and the proxy hustlers will have a hard time. FWIW, h
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by svantana 7y ago
I feel the same, but I don't think that's the issue; the problem is that there is such extreme amounts of new music coming out everyday, and "everybody wants to reach everybody", i.e. a lot of artists are going for maxim
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by svantana 7y ago
Not only that, but as an SE owner I can attest that many apps and web pages have more or less broken UIs on its screen. And I can't blame creators for not wanting to spend effort on a form factor with small and diminishing user share.
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by svantana 7y ago
I also do this, among other things to find subtle bugs in code and math. For every unbounded variable, what happens if it is 10^100, or 10^-100? It's a good habit that also makes you view division and logarithms with great suspicion :)
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by svantana 7y ago
At least with streaming you won't have to go through the trouble of pulling physical copies from stores and destroying them. It's sad though that file sharing is no longer a big thing, since that allowed illegal remix culture to r
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by svantana 7y ago
Indeed, good/interesting ideas doesn't equate good entertainment, unfortunately. Personally I find most speculative fiction to be boring, childish, and full of worn-out tropes (hero's journey, again?!). But in non-fiction I c
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by svantana 7y ago
I think one of the main reasons GANs are used for images is that the perceptual distance is not well defined, and the discriminator can tease whatever statistical difference the real and fake data (e.g. blurriness), thus in practice learnin
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by svantana 7y ago
Overfitting shouldn't be an issue for approximation of a known function, where you can generate an arbitrary amount of "training data". Of course you may not have the resources to do so, but that's a whole different trad
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by svantana 7y ago
Do you have a benchmark showing that gcc is faster than sleef? Sorry I wasn't clear, by "10x" I meant 10x faster than the standard library with the fastest compiler options (-O3 -ffast-math -avx512), but I've only tested
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by svantana 7y ago
Sure, so why is that speedup not measured in the benchmark?

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