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by svantana 9y ago
Yes, that was the main feedback I got after releasing it and since version 1.1 there is a modulation section where any parameter can be modulated with envelopes and LFOs, including what sound is played. I never got around to making a video
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by svantana 9y ago
I dunno, there's something to this, but at the same time, it doesn't explain the popularity of fast food, alcohol, reality tv, and porn. My feeling is that marketing is a dark art, sort of like stock market investing or song writi
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by svantana 9y ago
> I think this approach to synthesizing music from neural activity is completely misguided. Perhaps I am overly cynical, but I suspect the artist himself knew it would produce noise basically, but it doesn't matter because this is t
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by svantana 9y ago
It's on my todo-list! But as I understand it from other devs, the market for commercial audio software on linux is pretty small.
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by svantana 9y ago
Thanks, appreciate the feedback! Others are pointing me in the same directions, so I'm working on adding stuff like filters to push it more in the "canonical" direction.
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by svantana 9y ago
This is interesting, although the results are underwhelming IMO. I actually had the same idea - finding the latent space of instrument sounds and using that for synthesis - a couple of years back. After countless hours of research I managed
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by svantana 9y ago
Very impressive work, though it seems like a mistake to focus on compression, which gets less valuable as storage and bandwidth gets cheaper. You need only look to the staying power of jpeg, which is so far from the state of the art, yet it
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by svantana 9y ago
As someone with PhD studies in Information Theory, I always found the whole "compression breakthrough" very far-fetched, I wish they had chosen another technical basis for the show. Never mind that compression of any and all files
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by svantana 9y ago
This is impressive, did you actually hand-prepare loops from 10k tracks? Even at 1 track per minute, which is pretty fast, that's 166 hours, a whole month of working full time!
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by svantana 9y ago
Yeah, as too often is the case, good-for-business and good-for-society are at odds here.
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by svantana 9y ago
That is probably the best aspect of facebook, and what they should have stuck with IMO. The "let's be the place where people can see only news & opinions that they agree with" is more questionable.
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by svantana 10y ago
Yes, and you can even get similar results (of room-scale objects) by mis-using the panorama photo feature in the iphone camera app. Presumably if you strapped it to a drone with a rotatable arm, you could get something like this.
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by svantana 10y ago
Leaving aside that the original article is probably meant as a joke (the definitions are really stupid), the point of low precision is to get good performance with highly parallel operations, implemented in hardware.
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by svantana 10y ago
The reason is, the only speech data that is available in high quality and large quantities is in audio form. There has been research for decades on measuring or estimating the properties of the speech organ (oral cavity geometry etc), but t
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by svantana 10y ago
How is calling someone who denies something a 'denier' an attack? I am a denier of prayer healing, chemtrails and the illuminati, to name a few. You can call me that all day, because it's true.
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by svantana 10y ago
No doubt testing is a skill, and a very useful one, though I doubt this is the main frustration. Most people (at least myself) got into coding because they enjoy creating something from nothing. Maintaining and testing code is boring becaus
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by svantana 10y ago
That's completely ridiculous and a total mischaracterisation of what was said. What environmentalists are saying is that the negative externalities of fossil fuel burning are affecting everyone, and perhaps most of all the people in a
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by svantana 10y ago
As I understood it they all showed (modeled) contribution to temperature change at the same scale as the data graph, that's why they could all sum up at the end.
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by svantana 10y ago
You didn't tax robots, you just increased corporate tax and lowered tax on salaries. Not saying it's a bad idea, but you're affecting lots of other things than robots with that proposal.
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by svantana 10y ago
Exactly, and nevermind the automation that has been taking place in the last 5000 years or so. Gutenberg's printing press displaced the monks who manually copied bibles -- should printing presses be taxed to parity with human labor, so
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by svantana 10y ago
My thought exactly, although you would need your malware to incubate for some time to allow it to spread properly first.
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by svantana 10y ago
Interesting premise, some objections: 1) wouldn't search time be proportional to file size for hashes? These guys worked on 400kb pdf's, while most popular torrent content is in the GB range 2) Wouldn't this only work for use
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by svantana 10y ago
Unless you don't have enough money to pay for those things, of course. And that is the whole point of the system.
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by svantana 10y ago
I may be wrong here, but wouldn't reception be pretty poor using an antenna designed for >10x the frequency of FM radio? There's a reason why most FM radios have protruding antennas - the wavelength is ~3 meters.
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by svantana 10y ago
Yes I totally agree that there can be problems with high taxes (the Laffer curve, corruption, tax avoidance, etc). I was mainly refuting the idea that high tax rates must lead to "poorer" citizens. In many cases the money is just
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by svantana 10y ago
You do realize that taxes don't just disappear, right? Tax revenue pays for things like child care, health care, universities etc. That means the average consumer can spend more on frivolous things even if they are more expensive. So y
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by svantana 10y ago
Yeah either the examples from the video are cherry-picked, or something's wrong with the deployment, because what I get is way worse than what's in the video. I really don't like this new trend of throwing Deep Learning at an
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by svantana 10y ago
What I find interesting is that google/youtube doesn't circumvent adblockers, though they easily could, given that they own the whole ad supply chain. For example, they could make the ads indistinguishable from the actual video (i
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by svantana 10y ago
This is the best response to a message I've ever seen on HN
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by svantana 10y ago
Isn't the real problem that process shrinks have stopped giving performance gains? Broadwell halved the logic area of Haswell (see slide in article), but benchmarks showed improvements of only a few percent. Surely that stagnation can

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