danbmil99

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by danbmil99 8d ago
Streamed it a few days ago. Remarkable film. The only thing they got wrong was Stephen Hawking-era TTS.
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by danbmil99 11d ago
I have a friend who builds instruments. A bass player who worshiped Jaco, at first he made a couple fretless bass guitars. One day he called me with a fascinating question. He was making his first guitar, and he wanted to know: Where do I p
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by danbmil99 17d ago
I built this, anyone interested? It was a wild ride https://amiga.resource.cx/exp/phantom
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by danbmil99 2mo ago
I think the most fascinating thing about music (from a mathematical/scientific perspective) is the fact that the principal harmonics of equal temperament are so close to the mathematical ideals. Fourths and fifths are so close trained
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by danbmil99 2mo ago
It is nearly incontrovertible that perfect (aka absolute) pitch is either 100% innate or picked up in very early childhood. A product like this could easily discourage kids from learning music. It's also a well-established fact that ma
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by danbmil99 3mo ago
Wow, lots of words!
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by danbmil99 3mo ago
And yet it turns
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by danbmil99 4mo ago
I find it strange that no one talks about consciousness and intelligence from the perspective of evolution. We have big brains for exactly one reason only: bigger brains bestowed reproductive success upon our species. Evolution doesn't
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by danbmil99 4mo ago
They said FORTH!!
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by danbmil99 5mo ago
You can say that again. I went through a 50-75 hour process of interviews, leet-code exams (with tight pencil-down timing), culminating with a long-form project that they budgeted 4 hours for (took me 20+). I finally had a brain fart in the
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by danbmil99 5mo ago
Is it possible the chatbot he is communicating with meant literally "I have no API endpoint for refunding your money"? Meaning their use of the verb "can't" was hyper-literal, as in "I have no way of"
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by danbmil99 5mo ago
Dunno if this is a late-in-life thing or I was always like this, but I definitely need more blue to see blue than most (this test put me at 82%, I think that means I'm in the lowest quintile for seeing blue?) Bright blue still looks mi
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Will there ever be a new programming language?
4 points by danbmil99 7mo ago|6 comments
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by danbmil99 7mo ago
More like,"AI: DW"
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by danbmil99 9mo ago
No love for "Sirens Of Titan"?
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by danbmil99 1y ago
Has anyone else had the experience of dreading a session with Claude, because his personality is often chirpy and annoying; he's always got positive things to say; and working with him as the main code author actually takes away one of
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by danbmil99 1y ago
What bothers me is this: Claude & I work hard on a subtle issue; eventually (often after wiping Claude's memory clean and trying again) we collectively come to a solution that works. But the insights gleaned from that battle are (f
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by danbmil99 1y ago
The NYC buses require you to take the kid(s) out of the pram and fold it up. A total PITA Another kvetch: using car seats in taxis. Maybe it's different now with Uber but 20 years ago the drivers hated it because you have to find the s
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by danbmil99 1y ago
As others have noted, you sound about 3 months behind the leading edge. What you describe is like my experience from February. Switch to Claude (IMSHO, I think Gemini is considered on par). Use a proper coding tool, cutting & pasting fr
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by danbmil99 1y ago
One word: baby carriages up and down stairs
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by danbmil99 1y ago
Now that I think of it, if using damped springs, the system would not be reversible. Energy is dissipated through the damping, and the system will increase in entropy and converge on a local energy minimum point. Another way of looking at i
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by danbmil99 1y ago
Quantum computation came directly out of reversible computing. Look for example at the Fredkin and Toffoli gates.
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by danbmil99 1y ago
> Nevertheless in a deterministic system you can know a future state without calculating intermediary states. Exactly wrong. See the halting problem
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by danbmil99 2y ago
Very cool! I've often wondered whether one could procedurally generate sounds of objects interacting in a physics engine? This approach seems like a good place to start.
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by danbmil99 2y ago
Started a new company.
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by danbmil99 2y ago
50.001% of Americans voted for this. FAFO
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by danbmil99 2y ago
Claude represents some sort of inflection point or phase change. With all the noise, Claude Sonnet is by far the most impressive model since gpt4.
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by danbmil99 2y ago
Here's a thought: laid-off tech workers should encript every database and hold the keys for ransom. Or just until these jokers are nullified.
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by danbmil99 2y ago
Using llama 3.2 as an interface to a robot. If you can get the latency down, it works wonderfully
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by danbmil99 2y ago
It's incorrect to say that Perfect Pitch means you can pick out any of the 12 tones commonly used in western music. It doesn't mean that; that can only come with training. The core ability with perfect pitch is to remember a note

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