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by waffletower 3mo ago
A and B examples are convincingly "human". It is complete nonsense to say otherwise. The AI versions are simply giving the music a kind of commercial streamline production treatment; treatment that many listeners need to ac
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by waffletower 3mo ago
$20.3B is far from the trillion+ investments that are causing enormous societal contention now.
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by waffletower 3mo ago
> when OpenAI imposed ChatGPT on the world... OpenAI offered ChatGPT to the world. A large, monied cross-section of the world had yet to throw its capital behind the Large Language Model technology that made the ChatBot possible. W
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by waffletower 3mo ago
I have flirted with the idea of returning to Slashdot, as I have noticed a few examples of suspect conflict-of-interest moderation occurring here on HN, given its y-combinator hosting; particularly with respect to posts related to predictio
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by waffletower 3mo ago
For typical listening (though humans can perceive bone-conducted vibrations up to 100 kHz or even 120 kHz) 16-bit-fixed/44.1kHz is a high-fidelity transport format. As a DSP researcher, I prefer 32-bit-float/44.1kHz as a transpor
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by waffletower 3mo ago
"An LLM predicts the next word based on all the words before it. That is the whole story. There is no idea sitting underneath." At most, and I will argue for less, that is half the story. This egregious over-simplification doesn
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by waffletower 3mo ago
I guess you could rent something small. But could you afford a mortgage with $180,000 back then?
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by waffletower 3mo ago
This is a totally fascist musical bias -- I have been using spectral techniques in music since the late 1980s. It has been common for decades. "Unnatural" spectral packet distortion is a component of a wide-breadth of existing m
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by waffletower 3mo ago
Given that Tidal will likely, and ironically, utilize AI to determine what music is considered AI, the decision to block monetization of AI categorized music is likely also unfair to artists who use spectral DSP and/or sample from AI g
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by waffletower 3mo ago
I don't understand how $180k was enough in San Francisco at any time in the last 15 years -- unless you were partnered with someone with a comparable salary.
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by waffletower 3mo ago
I disagree with the trope -- (AI effects) "the slow dulling of our intellects". I am old enough to remember my career change, being a developer in the Apple ecosystem, confident with Objective-C and native system libraries in iOS
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by waffletower 3mo ago
They'll sell more $20-25k Macs when Goldman green lights Apple Card credit limits that will fit one of them.
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by waffletower 4mo ago
I hope some have already thought of this addition to the AI-inundated academic's bag of tricks -- in college and graduate school I was fortunate to have some important one-on-one conversations with professors, guests and peers where I
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by waffletower 4mo ago
"Yes, going back to paper and pencil strains our current resources, but is a likely necessity" -- When I reached this sad, arthritic point in the article it was clear that the author has no constructive idea about what happens nex
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by waffletower 4mo ago
Describing California as "the Europe of the United States" ignores its essential narcissism -- defining California in terms of Europe would be met with contemptuous pashaws, even if the balkanized ethnic enclaves found there, at a
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by waffletower 4mo ago
I made a Wordle solver in Clojure a while back which is backed by an English word frequency database. My family believes it is cheating to use it. Much more fun to write that code than to play the game though :D
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by waffletower 4mo ago
If attractive, cloud providers could develop open models with their own investment, and sell hosted access as a business model. While Google checks these boxes, I haven't seen a Google much marketing focus upon their open models (Gemm
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by waffletower 4mo ago
Even a used Nissan Leaf with degraded batteries is a viable vehicle in many U.S. cities. I would not call these markets "niche", there are many mid-large metropolitan population centers where they are practical. To use "nic
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by waffletower 4mo ago
I applaud this, particularly as I view Zig as a viable alternative to rust for many applications. Do I think rust is a positive addition to the Linux kernel. Absolutely. Would I reach for rust or Zig first when I was implementing a real-t
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by waffletower 4mo ago
I don't think Dario is completely evil, but he can't see his obvious naiveté that the rest of us see clearly (vis a vis the Trump administration), and his paternal hubris, only Anthropic should win and control AI, should be perc
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by waffletower 4mo ago
A democratic process, of sorts, elected the current government of the United States. The president even won the popular vote this round. There is no guarantee that AI guidance by democratic process will be an effective counter to corporat
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by waffletower 4mo ago
I only downvoted the "Humanity has yet to create an AI" part. I agree that we have witnessed the actions of an old man with a case of dementia lashing out.
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by waffletower 4mo ago
Restart Claude Code and pick up the update to see the acknowledgement that Fable is gone.
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by waffletower 4mo ago
That might also continue to anger the current administration, should they feel the need to, as it openly shared with other actors how to achieve the same capability. If they choose not to apply the same restriction to GPT 5.5 then an argum
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by waffletower 4mo ago
I wonder how many OpenAI employees astro-turf like this.
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by waffletower 4mo ago
When I was a young child, Nixon's corrupt insecurity led him to order the Watergate hotel break-in. The investigation was broadcast on multiple television channels simultaneously and pre-empted my cartoons repeatedly. I never forgot
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by waffletower 4mo ago
Yeah, it was also so sad to lose the vintage brain damage when we migrated away from leaded fuels: https://dupri.duke.edu/news-events/news/20th-century-lead-ex...
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by waffletower 4mo ago
There is a bit of hypocrisy to shadownerfing for a so-called "Public Benefit Corporation". Shadownerfing is certainly double-edged. It emphasizes that Anthropic is committing to a winner take all strategy. Again, not necessaril
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by waffletower 4mo ago
"There's this talk about Jevons Paradox but I disagree." In my position, our team is clearly displaying "increased demand due to increased efficiency". I admit our position may be situational -- but my anecdote see
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by waffletower 4mo ago
Given Teenage Engineering's long history of premium boutique pricing, I don't see this device being priced for individuals outside of the 1% demographic. My price estimate: $25,000 US. But to their credit, even this cost would b

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