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CrypticShift

1,036karma·560submissions·November 1, 2022
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What about vaping? if it is still OK, then it is not just the drug (nicotine) they are worried about, but the health effects. Ok then, next ban alcohol please, then junk food. Are these less of a publ…
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There are already AI based Analytics Services used by labels/A&R. However, they analyse how tracks are already performing (= their emergence) to gauge the artists future success. Melody pre-a…
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> is very easily ignore by scrolling past the first two rows Right? I personally don’t use the home page at all. So, it is just a click. > Spotify's recommendation engine and rightly so, no…
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I feel we should at some point create a popular "wiki" destination (a la Wikipedia) where everyone can document how to better engage with these Backboxes. Meanwhile, lists are popping out ev…
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> written, composed, and (deep-faked) performed Ok, so : 1- Written : ChatGPT already spits out pop-hit-ready lyrics (not a high bar...) 2- Composed : AI results are, by definition, perfectly attun…
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> 10x price difference ... Why would it be any different for thumb drives? I'm more concerned with the reliability (in my experience). The middle-priced ones are not necessarily better than th…
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> global sales of thumb drives from all manufacturers surpassed $7 billion, a number that is expected to rise to more than $10 billion by 2028. More than 20 years later, they are indeed dirty cheap…
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This kind of musical chips sits at the slim frontier between the analog era and the CPU/DSP-based digital era [0] It is the custom logic IC that generates the sound, but in the original cards, th…
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Nothing to add, so, I took quotes and grouped them. Hacker News is : 1- a jungle of expertise. " tripping over each other's areas of expertise which were literally years in the making. …
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> sudden presence among us of exotic, mind-like entities might precipitate a shift in the way we use familiar psychological terms ... But it takes time for new language to settle, and for new ways…
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For general research (digesting information...), check this recent article https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33861467 Some more I found lately : https://rentry.co/A…
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Or if you prefer RSS : https://hnrss.github.io/#reply-feeds Also good for following particular threads : https://hnrss.github.io/#thread-feeds …
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> I want answers to all these questions in a comprehensive way. IMO what you need is an overview of the philosophy of mathematics/logic (as someone pointed out) Being a philosophy, you should …
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It does not seem you are searching for an audiophile experience (like a lot of suggestions here) If you are, then your max price is something you need to specify. Also, you need a lot of inputs so you…
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> there is already a fantastic external-controller-to-software bridge available via MIDI So you got that part figured out I suppose. > super cool analog controllers There is a lot of "cool&…
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Yeah... sitting in front of screens all day makes us forget we are highly developed animals first, then rational minds second (or third). Out “lower” instinctual selves who crave that sensual/phy…
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Yeah, it is more in the spirit of "no code first" [0] I suspect generic data-driven low code platforms like pipedream [1] and autocode [2] could do it this way at some point. [0] https:…
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It depends on what you mean by forum. Yeah, a lot of subject-based forums are being "redditified", and other switched to the real-time Slack/Discord model. Also, I see a lot of communit…
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https://archive.ph/f20SU --- > BlackRock has been hit with criticisms from both sides of the sustainability debate a $10 trillion Rock is not easy to roll, especially if it is blac…
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> Good ideas. Well, I just reformulated some key ideas in your post. Nothing added really. > natural language to data-code (... Python pandas/matplotlib/etc) You mean something like th…
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The idea of using the first search results as an input for GPT is a good compromise between the static/"smart" (static in time) GPT and the dynamic/"dumber" search engine…
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And this is real-time (Like the apple sing). So it is a game changer for DJs (usability-wise)
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I'm kind of disappointed at the priorities of these streaming services. I guess I'm not in the mainstream, music-consumption-wise. After all, it makes sense. If you want to engage subscriber…
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> are enough to displace genius knowledge workers I was more referring to the genius that does routine employment work mostly to support himself (like for the cliche example: Einstein working in th…
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The problem is the current systems are getting less efficient at supporting geniuses financially : - The Academic Genius (Scholarship -> Tenure) : Supposedly, you have minimal work schedule (the ar…
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At least, this book will make amazon books search results for "McKinsey" a little more balanced… Does anybody know how much McKinsey services are used in the C-suite around silicon valley (O…
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> not "artificial creativity" but a simple "statistical mean of everything uploaded There is a metaphor I rarely see used. IMO it is way better: A deep learning based software is a …
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With the current euphoria around ChatGPT, many forget that Conversational UX is not the holy grail of computing soft design. We will always need custom Interfaces for better control. This article show…
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