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by svantana 2y ago
Who said anyone got mad? They simply prefer another service. Also, while anyone can create a burner account, most people don't. I'm guessing a lot of people didn't even know they were blocked, they just stopped seeing the pos
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by svantana 2y ago
Sampling a sample can definitely be useful, if the original sample is in an inconvenient format (e.g. inside some hardware). Of course, this business is in a legal gray area, because the recordings inside the machines are copyrighted. But t
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by svantana 2y ago
> it seems to me this implies the "ultimate" mathematician is a poet. And, conversely, that the best mathematical theorems read like beautiful poetry.
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by svantana 2y ago
That same argument can be used for all companies to fire all their employees. They are all human after all. Just implement all the needed features in hardware and software, done.
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by svantana 2y ago
Nice, I agree the lanczos is the best out of the pack.
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by svantana 2y ago
I feel like this article is really overselling this filter. A 4-point symmetric interpolation kernel can be parameterized as [k, 1-k, 1-k, k]/2, i.e. it has a single degree of freedom. k=-1/4 is bicubic, k=1/4 is this 'm
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by svantana 2y ago
If so, they are in trouble now that they've been disrupted by crypto and NFTs.
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by svantana 2y ago
I did some measurements on shazam and it seems to send about 7kb/minute, which corresponds to 300MB/month, i.e. no big deal. I suppose it helps that shazam was designed in the age of expensive bandwidth.
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by svantana 2y ago
Is it though? The matmul of two NxN matrices takes N^3 macs and 2*N^2 memory access. So the larger the matrices, the more the arithmetic dominates (with some practical caveats, obviously).
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by svantana 2y ago
I suppose the craft/art view of coding will follow the path of chess - machines gradually overtake humans but it's still an artform to be good at, in some sense.
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by svantana 2y ago
Me too, but a more optimistic view is that this is just a nascent form of higher-level programming languages. Gray-beards may bemoan that us "young" developers (born after 1970) can't write machine code from memory, but it&#x
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by svantana 2y ago
Well, the number of people "in tech" worldwide is a hundred million or so. OpenAI reportedly has 11 million subscribers, presumably a lot of them are developers or similar. But I also know a bunch of people in advertising who uses
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by svantana 2y ago
(2022)
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by svantana 2y ago
I tried the "Draw a unicorn in TiKZ" in chatGPT now, and it actually looks even better than in that paper, and the code is very clean too. Not surprising as the quality of outputs from chatbots have steadily improved in the ~17 mo
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by svantana 2y ago
but it ain't what it used to be
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by svantana 2y ago
I agree 100% but it's not really up to spotify - it was the rights holders who wanted it that way. Some label execs have come out in favor of the user-centric model, but as long as some labels make more money off the per-stream model,
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by svantana 2y ago
It's not really that innovative. As the paper notes, there are several similar previous works. Also, it sounds like they have done a bunch of tweaking to reduce the "irreversible forgetting" specifically for this particular d
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by svantana 2y ago
I mean, it's a bit like saying: "why is cocaine illegal but not glue sniffing? It's even worse for your health". Yes, but it's not as much fun, so in practice not a big problem. If a kid refused to go outside due to
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by svantana 2y ago
Averaged paired preference is not necessarily transitive.
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by svantana 2y ago
With clang on my intel mac it doesn't work at all, the only solution is to set those flags using _mm_setcsr().
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by svantana 2y ago
It's very possible, increased weight will increase friction in the bearing. However my iphone SE weighs almost the same as a 12-inch record (150g). BUT it is also more difficult to place symmetrically on the turntable, which also could
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by svantana 2y ago
Umm, no, scratches meet the needle once per revolution, regardless of the needle's position. So that would definitely be a possible method. But not all records have scratches, or they could be at an angle, which would give the wrong es
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by svantana 2y ago
couldn't you implement these as a texture lookup, where x is the input and the various functions are stacked in y? That should be quite fast on gpus.
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by svantana 2y ago
The math works out because they're most likely paying per API call and are banking on the near-certainty that >90% of devices will end up in a drawer within a week, never to be used again.
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by svantana 2y ago
Yes, this is the reason why the products exist. The harder question is why people are hyping them up. My guess is a combination of gadget lust and a general unease about how central smartphones have become in our lives.
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by svantana 3y ago
Nowhere in this quote (or the article) are they calling Humane a scam?
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by svantana 3y ago
They are not calling this product a scam, but rather noting its similarity to laser projection projects of the past that (obviously) turned out to be scams. A subtle but important distinction.
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by svantana 3y ago
Sure, just as tv shows use obvious CGI for animals, explosions etc - it's cheaper and more practical. Particularly background music that needs to be licensed for ads and such is very likely to be disrupted in the next few years.
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by svantana 3y ago
100%. I compare it to the invention of cameras - before that you could make an honest living as a portrait painter, no inspiration needed. Afterwards, painters needed to lean into artistic qualities to stand out. But also, 'Photography
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by svantana 3y ago
It reminds me of CGI in the 90's. Everyone was so astounded over the quality of jurassic park and toy story, the rate of improvements was mindboggling. Predictions were made that in a few years, actors and movie studios would be obsole

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