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dijksterhuis
4,117karma·1,384submissions·March 13, 2019
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sometimes makes weird machine music. sometimes makes machines do weird things. sometimes makes music machines do weird things.
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Key word: > during I've been paid far more for software than I have for music in the last 10+ years. Spent about equal time/effort on each. ROI is better with software (I can afford more …
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So these people just woke up one day and knew exactly how to make music?
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There's more shit to wade through. I really miss the days when Youtube's "related videos" were seemingly based on a graph data model -- populated like: other people that watched …
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tl;dr: Spotify performance royalties paid by PROs used to be fairer than other revenue streams, until independent labels + artists got screwed over by the major labels. ------ Story time. The stream…
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But I'm guessing you were paid for programming during those 10 years.
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+ 10 years crafting a unique sound.
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ML researcher here -- many people do this already: https://github.com/carlini/adv-eval-paper Personally I try to put as much on GitHub as possible.…
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> I want to be able to link to a particular sentence of a particular version of a paper. Probably best that you read through whole papers instead of looking for one sentence.
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> The medical community of the early 1960s wasn’t impressed either, and citing various procedural issues with the study, it was largely ignored at the time.
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Misleading article title. > Wilson later distanced himself from AA, as many other influential members of the program took issue with the idea of incorporating a psychoactive drug into a system of s…
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Actually the system breaking tomorrow isn't likely to be the case due to the transferability property of adversarial examples. Adversarial examples transfer between different models trained on …
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Applying some form of transformation is a weak countermeasure to adversarial examples. Especially simple ones such as low pass filters. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1707.07397.pdf Neura…
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This can be thwarted fairly easily https://arxiv.org/pdf/1607.02533.pdf
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My biggest pet peeve with this work is that they incorrectly say: > These adversarial examples have been recognized since 2014 (here's one of the first papers on the topic). Adversarial machin…
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I see you’ve played knifey spoony before!
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Newspapers are not a reliable source for news.
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Out of interest are you hooked up to an Exchange account or IMAP? Exchange email accounts are the bane of my email set up at the moment.
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No one had mentioned Hitler at that point. See another child comment for clarification. Edit: To quote the CTO later on "I could see where the endless review discussions might end up heading so I…
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Godwin's Law was part of the CTO's reasoning to split up the team and lock down code reviews to within each specific team. So it forms part of the why .
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I WISH THERE WAS MORE TV LIKE THIS TODAY /screaming
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The "environment" rapidly changed and the organisational structure didn't keep up with the competing goals within the team. None of the people were terrible. The company wasn't ter…
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Actually it was neither of those. Just because a discussion is approaching Godwin's law doesn't necessarily mean anyone is being offensive or, as you say, terrible. Also, sometimes it'…
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Yep, it was an organisational issue with different work types. To quote the CTO later on "I could see where the endless review discussions might end up heading so I split the team into product an…
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Someone else commented about a White House staffer downloading cracked copies of image editing software - so it's definitely not FOSS only!
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In case anyone is unsure of what the Rules of the Internet are: https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/30662 https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/rules-of-the-internet …
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Yeah I found that odd as well.
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This has been on my to watch list for a while! Saw the first couple of episodes. Wholly different pace to documentaries today!
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I moved our Deep Learning servers over to Docker images + JupyterHub DockerSpawners recently because maintaining all the various version dependencies between frameworks was an absolute PITA. Images ar…