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by samplenoise 2y ago
Ah thanks for this one, I spent a good half hour earlier today trying to recall where I know that intro from. Whosampled doesn’t have it
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by samplenoise 2y ago
They are Kendrick Lamar song titles. Not clear to me why, though
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by samplenoise 3y ago
That’s right, it’s a pretty thin layer. Parses the sheet and schedules the midi to be sent to a particular (virtual) device. Having it all in one place sounds a lot more convenient.
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by samplenoise 3y ago
A similar experiment: https://twitter.com/jvanbalen/status/1376457534580482051 And here’s some Aphex Twin: https://twitter.com/jvanbalen/status/1382372378051756032
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by samplenoise 3y ago
A particularly intriguing (to me) version of this kind of user-centered copy is not uncommon on sites in French and uses first-person verbs: “I accept,” “I start”. As opposed to the infinitive “Comment,” “Sign in,” etc.
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by samplenoise 3y ago
This made me check if there is a similar thing for fictional bands. Not really; but there’s a few articles, like: https://variety.com/lists/best-fictional-bands-movies-tv-sho...
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by samplenoise 3y ago
If you read Dutch, you may enjoy Grand Hotel Europa by I.L. Pfeijffer. It touches on the Caravaggio question.
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by samplenoise 3y ago
Find places online, then call to reserve. Just last week I called a place I found on Booking and found they had a room at half the price shown online. This is in France though where there seem to be rules about how rates are advertised.
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by samplenoise 5y ago
Raymond Hettinger’s (perhaps biased) take on dataclasses vs attrs: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T-TwcmT6Rcw
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by samplenoise 5y ago
I adopted a few tricks from either [1] or a similar video from James Hoffman’s Youtube channel some time ago (including the foaming milk with a French press one) and it vastly improved my lockdowns. The one useful thing they don’t say is (i
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by samplenoise 5y ago
Reminds me of being a classical percussionist. me: *plays quietly* conductor: can you play that a little more piano me: *plays very quietly* conductor: a little more piano even me: *pretends to play* conductor: perfect
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by samplenoise 5y ago
Tom Waits had a nice thing about a spider strumming its web in one of his live shows https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOC6pOaIUSE
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by samplenoise 5y ago
I don’t remember if the paper lists it among its limitations but it’s worth noting there is a pretty sharp continuity in Billboard’s methodology around 1991 (they didn’t really include any rap before that) that will warp this kind of analys
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by samplenoise 5y ago
Doing some form of PQ at train time is possible but typically the goal is to make the model’s embedding layers more robust to quantisation [1][2]. I did some work on this in the recommender systems space [3]. [1] https://arxiv.o
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by samplenoise 5y ago
The author is still underselling the significance of the progress made during the first years IMO. The simple idea that is still behind most practical recommender systems (using gradient descent to do SVD to complete the rating matrix) was
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by samplenoise 5y ago
The consensus here on this kind of issues these days seems to be that it’s not Google’s fault. However if their rights model would make a correct and consistent distinction between works and performance, they would know that there is no rig
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by samplenoise 5y ago
The elephant was built by French theater company Royale de Luxe in 2005 for a performance in France, before it traveled to London and elsewhere in 2006 [1]. It looks like two people who worked for them later started The Machines of the Isle
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by samplenoise 6y ago
Difficult but yes https://iceberger.boomla.net/?id=0112fe237a9686a4fdb49c1f1c6...
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by samplenoise 6y ago
Is it possible to draw one that turns more than 90 deg before reaching equilibrium?
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by samplenoise 6y ago
"The effect size of surgeons’ birthday observed in our analysis (1.3 percentage point increase or a 23% increase in mortality), though substantial, is comparable to the impact of other events, including holidays (e.g., Christmas and Ne
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by samplenoise 6y ago
> The effect size of surgeons’ birthday observed in our analysis (1.3 percentage point increase or a 23% increase in mortality), though substantial, is comparable to the impact of other events, including holidays (e.g., Christmas and New
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by samplenoise 6y ago
Which is also why saxophones can be made to sound like an organ (one open end) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmFlxwvKLz4&gl=BE
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by samplenoise 6y ago
A Twitter bot that generates new ones using GPT-2: https://mobile.twitter.com/infinite_eno . Coincidentally I just revived and tweaked it a bit yesterday, results should be a better from here on. Tweets more or less daily.
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Infinite Oblique Strategies with GPT-2(jvbalen.github.io)
1 points by samplenoise 6y ago|0 comments
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by samplenoise 6y ago
> You could accomplish much the same by using a "depth-1 network" and running an impulse through it This would be true for a linear impulse response, however for this kind of effects you need both state/memory (like a conv
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by samplenoise 6y ago
The receptive field size is how much 'history' the algorithm requires, it doesn't affect the round trip time, which can still be sub ms
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by samplenoise 6y ago
There's latency and there's the somewhat separate question of how much time is needed to make a prediction. Wavenet is causal (no look-ahead) and operates on the sample level so there are no buffers and thus no latency in the stri
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by samplenoise 11y ago
Overly concise Matlab version. If you get Dan Ellis' ispecgram [1] you can do something like: [x, sr] = wavread('rick.wav'); x_mono = mean(x,2); X = specgram(x_mono, nfft, sr); Y = X >= imdilate(X, ones(m
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by samplenoise 11y ago
I did a 'sonification' of what Shazam's reduction of your music would sound like, some time ago [1]. Perhaps it adds something to the article. You can actually Shazam it, it still works. [1] https://soundcloud.com&
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Analysis of 17k songs finds hip-hop had greatest influence on pop music(graphics.latimes.com)
1 points by samplenoise 11y ago|0 comments

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