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by svantana 4y ago
FWIW, Jodorowsky is still alive.
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by svantana 4y ago
Did you know that wikipedia can be edited by anyone, even you or me? Also, the individual images are shown below.
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by svantana 4y ago
Or even better: https://github.com/iPlug2/iPlug2 . Similar to JUCE but with a permissive license.
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by svantana 4y ago
Question: How many people are working on AI at meta? Answer: 100 There is no way of knowing where this number came from and is almost guaranteed to be too low. For now, traditional search seems to be the better choice.
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by svantana 4y ago
Not generally true. On geekbench, both Intel and AMD have offerings that outscore both M1 and M2 on single core. https://browser.geekbench.com/processor-benchmarks https://browser.geekbench.com/mac-benchmark
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by svantana 4y ago
Here's a thought experiment for you: consider the hypothesis that you're wrong.
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by svantana 4y ago
> can the "result" of any thought experiment be surprising, not what you expected? Isn't all of mathematics just thought experiments? No shortage of surprising results there.
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by svantana 4y ago
Opportunity cost. In a bull market, a lot of bad ideas get (human) resources that would be better off working on something else.
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by svantana 4y ago
True, but that's hardly a use case.
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by svantana 4y ago
Not true! Cryptocurrencies have real-world productive use cases such as money-laundering, ransomware, drug and weapons trade, terrorist financing etc. As well as some less-morally-wrong stuff like hiding from oppressive regimes. A bet on cr
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by svantana 4y ago
Me too, though I think "supercritical" only refers to the water temperature they are targeting, >373 C [1]. The company name is Quaise Energy. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercritical_water_oxidation
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by svantana 4y ago
Hold up, I certainly didn't mean to imply that music has gotten worse - only that it stopped getting better (from a purely sonic perspective). There's lots of great new music coming out, but a lot of it has a retro sound anyway.
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by svantana 4y ago
Not refuting the results, but that has got to be the worst, laziest benchmarking I've seen in a long time.
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by svantana 4y ago
This is it. Music production technology made incredible strides from 1960-1990, as well as new ideas around production that the new equipment enabled. Thus, in that period, pop music sounded "old" very quickly. This all culminated
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by svantana 4y ago
I find it strange that there is so little innovation in the field of everyday tooth care. Particularly the inefficiency of brushing one tooth at a time. I like the idea of https://blizzbrush.com/ , has anyone tried it? It&#x
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by svantana 4y ago
Presumably some amount of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting is at play. Since New Zealand is footing a fixed percentage of the budget, it would only make sense to artificially inflate the costs.
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by svantana 4y ago
Yes, teensy 4.x is much faster, probably about 10x, but is also ~10x more expensive.
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by svantana 4y ago
I mean, if you're just looking at compute-per-dollar then this is a rather bland entry. The Pi Zero came out in 2015 for $5 and has >1000x the memory, is much faster and is a real computer that runs linux and even multiplies floats.
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by svantana 4y ago
This is a nice project but I don't see why they need both a rPi and a teensy - either of them are powerful enough and have enough pins to run the whole thing. The rPi is more convenient for running linux-ready software, but teensy-on
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by svantana 4y ago
As I read it, this is just a spectrogram-->pcm converter (in speech known as a vocoder), which you can do decently without a model, just pure optimization. The hard part is to generate the spectrogram, which I assume they will tackle nex
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by svantana 4y ago
The data from the study has a giant elephant in the room: war. The participants are 18 year old Norwegians who were forced to take a military examination. The reason they do an IQ test is to evaluate if they are suited for a more analytic r
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by svantana 4y ago
Thin film photovoltaic is definitely better on a watts-per-kg basis, but it's no good for the charge-while-you-sleep use case.
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by svantana 5y ago
floats are more convenient but 32 bit ints have enough headroom for most audio applications. In fact a lot of dedicated signal processors are fixed-point only.
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by svantana 5y ago
One would think that it's a winner-takes-all, hit-driven market. But actually, looking at the current OpenSea 30-day volumes, the collections approximate a power-law distribution with an exponent of ~0.94, i.e. slightly more long-tail
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by svantana 5y ago
Of course, any digitally representable artform can be enumerated this way. What's special is that melodies have low enough entropy that it's actually practical to create them all, which isn't the case with (say) movies or nov
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by svantana 5y ago
Not necessarily, you could: 1) get a loan - with good numbers, banks are easy(er) to persuade 2) put up a waitlist for new users (induce FOMO) 3) increase prices Of course, these are antithetical to the VC mantra of maximum growth at all co
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by svantana 5y ago
Artist Jenny Holzer wrote in 1999: "Monomania is a prerequisite of success", that quote has stuck with me. Most people (myself included) get distracted and change focus easily, which I think is healthy, but being long-term obsesse
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by svantana 5y ago
That's a completely different thing. Playlists will be personalised as long as you're logged in, which you must be to listen. Even their public playlists get reordered automatically based on your account history.
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by svantana 5y ago
Right, but you are using user login, and I think that gives you a lot more rate than a single account doing all the requests, which is what you need to get the no-sign-in experience on songdata.io - right?
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by svantana 5y ago
I love avant.fm! Do you know about musixmatch? They have an API for time-synced lyrics and is the source of that data for a bunch of large services.

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