heycosmo

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by heycosmo 2y ago
I have a history of publishing in computational physics. But that's beside the point. I have an exciting new result in digital signal processing and I would like to get retroactively funded for the work. If researchers can get funded f
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by heycosmo 2y ago
6-7 figures. IDK if this is realistic, but it seems reasonable to me considering the cost and risk involved in reproducing this work from scratch (salary/benefits/overhead for a research group or individual; no guarantee of succes
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by heycosmo 2y ago
Certainly. It also helps a resume. And if that is the only value to the work, then so be it. But there is a reason why R&D departments and universities publish AND protect generated IP. They want returns on investment. In my case, I inv
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by heycosmo 2y ago
Yes, of course. When I write "pay me to publish" I don't mean "cover the costs of publication", I mean "fund my work".
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by heycosmo 2y ago
I am an independent researcher currently funded by a part-time job and a very supportive spouse. I play with algorithms and have discovered a new fast Fourier transform and a neural network growth+training algorithm that doesn't use gr
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by heycosmo 2y ago
I would like to see solutions (for professionals) that ditch the whole generative part altogether. If it's so good at finding references or identifying relevant passages in large corpora, just show the references. As you said, the &quo
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by heycosmo 2y ago
I'm mostly thinking about creations that are already done and can somehow be vetted, either by demo, samples, trial version, or by a reputable reviewer that gets a sneak peek.
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by heycosmo 2y ago
I think I agree with you, but democratizing distribution is still orthogonal to the piracy problem. On the one hand, I'm more likely to pay an artist if the only official way I can get their art is to purchase from their website. On th
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by heycosmo 2y ago
> Source: I’ve been thinking about this “everything is released for free once the artist is paid” approach for a while... You should start a "media label" then. Take a cut of the threshold payment for (1) vetting and reviews of
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by heycosmo 2y ago
I think many proposed solutions to the creator compensation problem end up glossing over a fundamental difficulty: once an easily-distributed work (like anything digital) is in a consumable state (and thus copy-able), it becomes basically f
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by heycosmo 3y ago
I look at this thing and can't help thinking "where will someone set down their coffee mug when their hands are full and they need to open the door?" There isn't a flat surface on it.
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by heycosmo 3y ago
The time stretch algorithm is implemented in https://github.com/audacity/audacity/blob/master/libraries/l... particularly functions _time_stretch and _process_hop. It looks to me like a classic phas
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by heycosmo 6y ago
I have a simple rule for GUI design: build trees not graphs. Write components that accept a state snapshot and broadcast changes. If component A listens for state changes from B, then A is a parent node of B. If A sends state to B, then A i
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by heycosmo 6y ago
An audio encoder. The resulting format has simple compression parameters and will be optimized for time-stretching/pitch-shifting. The format is really nothing special; it is based on a sinusoids + noise model. The novelty is in the an
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by heycosmo 6y ago
On a related note, I highly recommend Sean Carroll's series of videos: The Biggest Ideas in the Universe [0]. The fine structure constant comes up in the 10th video on Interactions [1]. [0] https://www.youtube.com/playl
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by heycosmo 6y ago
> To assess co-evolution you need a multiple sequence alignment between protein homologs containing correlated mutations. That makes sense. So in the CASP competition, when teams are given a sequence, do their algorithms do something lik
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by heycosmo 6y ago
> I don't think I fully understood this, but I'll give it a shot anyway. If your artificial sequence aligns with others, there's a chance that it will fold like them, depending on the quality and accuracy of the multiple s
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by heycosmo 6y ago
Fascinating! AlphaFold (and other competitors) seem to use MSA (Multiple Sequence Aligment) and this (brilliant) idea of co-evolving residues to build an initial graph of sections of protein chain that are likely proximal. This seems like a
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by heycosmo 6y ago
In case anyone is interested in yet another alternative, I have this old, unpolished project: https://github.com/bauerca/jv It is a JSON parser in C without heap allocations. The query language is piddly, but the tool
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by heycosmo 14y ago
To the extent that algebra courses consist of solving # + x = # over and over again, I agree that they are mostly useless. In life, algebraic questions don't come at you in symbols and numbers, they come in words. And I would argue that the