symstym

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by symstym 5y ago
But remember, there's no such thing as a 10x engineer! /s
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by symstym 5y ago
You may appreciate this poignant sci-fi short story/video that references and expands on the story of Alex: https://vimeo.com/195588827
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by symstym 6y ago
This seems similar to Zig ( https://ziglang.org/#Compile-time-reflection-and-compile-tim... )
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by symstym 6y ago
Sounds cool. If you haven't already, you might want to check out the Fractal Bits iOS app. It doesn't let you manually adjust parameters, only randomly generate sounds, but it makes some nice ones. It sounds probably FM-based to m
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by symstym 7y ago
I think this is a much better introduction than TLA, thanks.
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by symstym 8y ago
A while back I found out that the popular Serverless framework/library tracks and reports back usage ( https://serverless.com/framework/docs/providers/aws/cli-refe... ). This similarly struck me as re
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by symstym 8y ago
Nice! Have you seen this similar project? If not sure if there are any ideas to be borrowed, but it sounds like it achieved excellent accuracy: https://github.com/AlbertoSabater/subtitle-synchronization
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by symstym 9y ago
This reminds me of some parts of Pieter Hintjens' book Social Architecture. He advocates that open source projects practice "optimistic merging" where essentially any patch that is well-formed should be accepted, without valu
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by symstym 9y ago
I certainly don't think that the market selects good ideas or is sufficient to promote long-term advances. Per the bit of my comment that you quoted, I'm saying that the reason that the ideas are not in use (more) is that they h
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by symstym 9y ago
I think this attitude of "we solved these problems decades ago!" is rather naive and sometimes arrogant. I think it's a fantastic talk, and that Bret Victor and Alan Kay are geniuses. But I feel that they both promote the ide
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by symstym 9y ago
I'm not sure this is a constructive comment, but I just wanted to say that you are completely correct, everyone else is crazy, and I am baffled at how much confusion there seems to be over this topic. One thing to add: Wikipedia sayeth
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by symstym 9y ago
"intelligence requires semantics and semantics is exactly what computers, by definition, lack" This sort of assertion is experimentally untestable, not rigorously derivable from any axioms that people agree on, has no predictive p
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by symstym 9y ago
Yes.. after I wrote my comment I was feeling a bit bad for sounding like I was just trashing the API. In a world where JS is slow and there is no worker thread machinery, yet you need low latency and flexible processing, the design makes mo
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by symstym 9y ago
That's unfortunate. I don't have a machine running Edge to test it on. It uses less than 20% of the CPU in Chrome on my 2012 Macbook Air. It's possible that it's a problem with my code, but in general the Web Audio API d
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by symstym 9y ago
> is Web Audio a mess mostly because it's an attempt to expose the features of the twenty-odd different OS audio backends That is a good guess, but no. The main features of the Web Audio API (built-in nodes, etc.) are not backed by
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by symstym 9y ago
It's been under development for a very long time in Chromium: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=469639 I think there were some false starts where previous specs were written and then
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by symstym 9y ago
Thanks! After a certain point it felt like a dead end to me, so I dropped it in favor of exploring something more along the lines of a JS-based Max/MSP. But it is surprising how much fun can be had with the small number of modules avai
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by symstym 9y ago
The ability to build primitive synths in a few lines of code (w/o library dependencies) is fine and well, but should not have been a priority for becoming a web standard. What's desperately needed is a well-designed low-level API.
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by symstym 9y ago
I've spent quite a lot of time working with the Web Audio API, and I strongly agree with the author. I got pretty deep into building a modular synthesis environment using it ( https://github.com/rsimmons/plinth ) be
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by symstym 9y ago
Bresenham's algorithm is also the best way to compute Euclidean Rhythms (rhythms where N hits are maximally-evenly distributed among M possible steps).
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by symstym 9y ago
Did you read the whole article? I don't think it was implying anything negative about tech workers or making value judgements. I am frustrated by some of the same things you are, but I don't think they were present in the article.
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by symstym 9y ago
The example code inline in the article just illustrates the basic idea of Evolution Strategies (ES), not their new work in applying ES. The behavior of agents is determined by a "policy function". This function takes in inputs (e.
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by symstym 9y ago
Evolution Strategies is not an example of Genetic Programming, and that book by Langdon doesn't cover anything directly relevant to the linked article.
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by symstym 10y ago
This definitely seems to set a new bar in terms of simplicity for integrating with a backend, which is nice, but this bit is concerning: "jindo will replay every jindo event that has occured on that website". That would presumably
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by symstym 10y ago
Success has many fathers; failure is an orphan.
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by symstym 11y ago
Long ago I got tired of Evernote's bugs and creep of extraneous features and switched to Workflowy [1] for the majority of my general (plaintext) note-taking. I love Workflowy and can't imagine life without it. [1] https:/&#
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by symstym 13y ago
http://fpvlab.com/forums/
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by symstym 13y ago
http://youtube.com/watch?v=L55M7_gu87I around 2:19
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by symstym 13y ago
It was fruit juice and boric acid.. not sure what came of it. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/27/health/27mosquito.html
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by symstym 15y ago
This brings to mind A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, by John Perry Barlow, one of the founders of the EFF: https://projects.eff.org/~barlow/Declaration-Final.html It was written in 1996 but feels more relevant as every yea

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