signalsmith

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by signalsmith 2y ago
I'm not really a hardware person, although at this point I've done a couple of guitar-pedal projects. My favourite is to write OS-independent C++ DSP classes, and work with a team/client who handles the gnarly build/sig
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by signalsmith 2y ago
I don't know anything about proprietary reverbs, I'm afraid - particularly hardware units! Sometimes you can tell things about a reverb's internals by looking at impulse responses, but I've always had more fun designing
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by signalsmith 2y ago
Yes, I'm Geraint. :D I'm the tech side of Signalsmith Audio, and my partner is the Business Brain. The JSFX plugins are mostly from before we made a proper company (back when Signalsmith was just my username) - I'm glad you
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by signalsmith 2y ago
Some stuff is around the web, some is from other people. Particularly for classic kit, someone's usually analysed it before, but it's not always in a good tutorial kind of form. Personally, I did a lot of messing around with a
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by signalsmith 2y ago
*EDIT*: I just realised that the demo you're talking about doesn't include the "early reflections"! So that demo only includes echoes which have gone through the main feedback delays at least once. If you mix in some of
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by signalsmith 2y ago
I haven't done anything with Rust yet, but it's on my free-time wishlist. I'm working on WASM demos! I've been playing with WASM builds of my plugins, and it's great for prototyping/sharing, but it could defin
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by signalsmith 2y ago
First, join a good community! If you're on Discord, TAP is great: https://discord.gg/aBghGGcfYs - it's beginner-friendly while also having some heavy-hitters in there, and it's generally wholesome. You&#x27
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by signalsmith 2y ago
Given the number of connections/nodes in my design, I'd be interested to know what the performance is. For Web Audio, there's an increasing trend of compiling WASM and running it in an AudioWorkletProcessor, which is maybe 2-
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by signalsmith 2y ago
Haha, yeah - although their comment was only considering the 2D case, same as the book. You can make a (very efficient!) diffuser from 2-channel rotations, but you have to tune it a bit to get it smooth without having a slow attack. With m
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by signalsmith 2y ago
Whoah - the author (Signalsmith) here! This was a fun way to wake up, and I'm happy to answer any questions.
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by signalsmith 4y ago
A few questions that I anticipate: --- Shouldn't you find a replacement maintainer? That's ideal (and compatible with this proposal), but it shouldn't be a requirement for stepping down. --- Couldn't you just update t
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by signalsmith 4y ago
As always, there is a relevant XKCD: < https://xkcd.com/2347/ >
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SUPPORT.txt: setting expectations between open-source maintainers and users(github.com)
3 points by signalsmith 4y ago|4 comments
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by signalsmith 4y ago
OP here - fairly nervous about posting this, but just to give some context of where this is coming from: A decade ago, I got interested in JSON Schema, and at the time there was no JavaScript validator. I quickly knocked one together and s
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by signalsmith 7y ago
This is off-topic, but I really like the current GOV.UK (several years old now). I don't really have opinions on the visual stuff, but I find it really pleasant to use. Filing my self-assessment tax return (only required because I r
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by signalsmith 7y ago
In this case, the fallback is still a plain-text field, into which the user should enter numbers. Perfectly usable, but without the keyboard hint, so it seems like a graceful fallback to me.
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by signalsmith 7y ago
For me, I really appreciate the Bayesian approach because it makes it very explicit that you pick a prior. Perhaps my experience is limited, but every (supposedly non-Bayesian) model I've used in practice has been possible to re-expres
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by signalsmith 7y ago
I've seen the question raised whether the "minimalism" (in terms of not owning much) often attributed to Marie Kondo is actually an accurate representation of what she says. The alternative interpretation being something mor
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by signalsmith 7y ago
I thought the whole magic of quantum-computing was that instead of just having individual bits in an uncertain/random state, you entangled a whole bunch of bits together, meaning you can meaningfully talk about the probability distribu
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by signalsmith 7y ago
Slightly off-topic, but for anyone who hasn't encountered them: using continued fractions ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continued_fraction#Best_ration... ), you can easily get the sequence of optimal approximation
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by signalsmith 7y ago
I can also guess people's height to within an inch or two, but I can still have an abstract conversation about a friend-of-a-friend I've never met, without expecting to be (constantly!) told how tall they are unless it's rele
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by signalsmith 7y ago
In my second example, I used "Julie" instead of "a stranger". The subject is specified in exactly the same way, but people might find "they" more surprising in that case. Some people might even take it as a po
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by signalsmith 7y ago
It's kind of odd, because people seem to accept singular "they" for strangers, but not once there's a name. If I say: "I bumped into a stranger on the street and trod on their toes, apologised to them, and they apol
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by signalsmith 7y ago
> [...] manually renew every 90 days That's the opposite of the design goals - Let's Encrypt is designed to be automatable. They set the expiry to 90 days precisely because they want you to automate the renewal.
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by signalsmith 7y ago
I've also heard of Facebook Live being used to document police violence. Same problem with content-moderation, but on the other hand it means the video is out there before the police force has time to confiscate the device or even lock
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by signalsmith 7y ago
Are you asking how much it costs to get a medical degree as a UK citizen? In England* there is a cost (£9250/year), but it's slightly misleading to think of it like that because of how Student Loans work here. You pay nothing on y
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by signalsmith 9y ago
Every time I see someone discussing Monads in JavaScript without _mentioning_ Promises, I pause a bit. To my eyes, aside from a bit of type-juggling which makes Haskell programmers break out in cold sweats, Promises and Monads are similar
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by signalsmith 9y ago
AFAIU, Tor has its own browser because it includes various privacy and anti-tracking features that can't be implemented as add-ons. Without these, your connection might be anonymised, but your browser can still be tracked between site
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by signalsmith 9y ago
The JSON Schema spec was abandoned by its original authors, and was picked up by a series of other people with varying levels of standards experience (myself included). Personally, I had some promising support from my then-employer (includi
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by signalsmith 9y ago
Unfortunately (as per the article), there is precedent for someone getting a DNR tattoo as a joke after losing a bet in poker. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11606-012-2059-... This implies that people

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