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Ace-Step 1.5: Pushing the Boundaries of Open-Source Music Generation(ace-step.github.io)
2 points by tomduncalf 8mo ago|0 comments
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by tomduncalf 9mo ago
But the model doesn't need to read the node_modules to write a React app, it just needs to write the React code (which it is heavily post-trained to be able to use). So the fair counter example is like: function Hello() { return &lt
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by tomduncalf 9mo ago
Tangent but the screen scratches mentioned from the keyboard are annoying. Every generation of MacBook has suffered from them and everyone’s seems to have it after a while, I guess it’s just physics when it gets stuffed in a bag etc, but an
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How Photography Became an Art Form (Can Computers Create Art? Part 1)(medium.com)
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by tomduncalf 10mo ago
I thought this was an absolutely fascinating look into reverse engineering hardware. If you’re a musician, check out the plugins at https://dsp56300.wordpress.com/ - you can bit perfect emulate famous 90s synths including A
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From Silicon to Darude Sand-storm: breaking famous synthesizer DSPs [video](media.ccc.de)
4 points by tomduncalf 10mo ago|2 comments
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by tomduncalf 10mo ago
This was my first thought too haha. That would be mind blowing
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by tomduncalf 10mo ago
It has a similar feel to Vletrmx21 by Autechre if you dig the spooky ambient feel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-fhfYhqBr4
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by tomduncalf 11mo ago
Yeah I’ve almost never got in an Uber that was notably unclean or damaged in some way in London. Most of the times I’ve got one in SF, it’s been an unpleasant experience and so I now Waymo when I can there.
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by tomduncalf 1y ago
I’ve never had to wait more than 5 minutes at SFO I don’t think and the system seems ok to me
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by tomduncalf 1y ago
It is, but I don’t think this a bad offering - up until recently all iPhone cameras were 12mp, so you still get “good enough to print” quality. I guess it’s a bit of marketing speak but I don’t mind - to me it seems they made good choices o
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by tomduncalf 1y ago
This made me google Buzz and it turns out it was recoded by the author and there was an update in 2022. Not sure if it’s still developed. I’m not on a Windows machine so won’t be able to try it easily unfortunately, wish it was open source
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by tomduncalf 1y ago
Buzz was so great. I came across it when I learned James Holden produced his early stuff on it and was hooked. It had a good community with hundreds of synths and effects you could download from Buzzmachines. It was such a shame they lost t
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by tomduncalf 1y ago
If you work for a large org you’ll have some kind of enterprise agreement in place guaranteeing this. I can’t imagine they’d risk violating it regardless, the outcry could ruin them
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by tomduncalf 1y ago
I enjoyed watching O3 do web searches etc. Seems that with GPT-5 you only get little summaries and it’s also way less web search happy which is a shame, O3 was so good for research
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by tomduncalf 1y ago
Ha! I was at Orange. I suspect all the carriers had similar setups. Yeah I don’t miss working with that lol
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by tomduncalf 1y ago
Early in my career I worked on a carrier's mobile internet portal in the days before smartphones. It was XSLT all the way down, including individual XSLT transforms for every single component the CMS had for every single handset we sup
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Assisted dying set to become law in England and Wales after bill passed by MPs(theguardian.com)
3 points by tomduncalf 1y ago|0 comments
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by tomduncalf 1y ago
This doesn’t surprise me and I’m not sure it’s about people not wanting to interact with people or whatever - many of the Ubers I’ve got while in SF have been pretty grim (unclean, weird odors, ancient badly serviced car etc) and badly driv
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Apple unveils powerful accessibility features coming later this year(apple.com)
1 points by tomduncalf 1y ago|0 comments
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by tomduncalf 1y ago
Depends on the task I think. O3 is really effective at going off and doing research, try giving it a complex task which involves lots of browsing/searching and watch how it behaves. Claude cannot do anything like that right now. I do f
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Apple prepares more macOS-like features for iPadOS 19(bloomberg.com)
2 points by tomduncalf 1y ago|1 comments
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by tomduncalf 2y ago
Immigration (illegal or otherwise) was one of the big arguments that won the Brexit vote here in the UK. I guess it's an easy one to rile people up with for whatever reason.
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by tomduncalf 2y ago
I’ve got a very simple project demonstrating how to use the newish pure C++ Emscripten Audio Worklet API if you’re interested. It’s a bit neater than the old way you’ll usually come across which also involves writing JS code, but there aren
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by tomduncalf 2y ago
Ah yeah love this album!
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by tomduncalf 2y ago
I think Avalon’s is most interesting from a pure technology perspective so suits here! They are all great though
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by tomduncalf 2y ago
Ha fun to see this on HN! Love the approach she outlined here, though I’ve tried doing similarly but don’t have the time or incentive to invest in it just to play on my decks in my living room once a month haha.
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by tomduncalf 2y ago
They do actually have custom models for autocomplete (which requires very low latency) and applying edits from the LLM (which turns out to require another LLM step, as they can’t reliably output perfect diffs)
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by tomduncalf 2y ago
Have you tried the latest models, using them with Cursor etc? They might not be truly intelligent but I’d be surprised if an SWE can’t see that they are already offering a lot of value. They probably can’t solve totally novel problems but t
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by tomduncalf 2y ago
It's a 12mp crop of a 48mp sensor, so it's not digital zoom but it is a crop. It's just that that crop is still of good resolution.

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