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m_kos··on Larger Pacific striped octopus
There is also an auditory gap detection threshold, but no wiki page, sadly.
m_kos··on Polyend Keys: A Three-Octave Computer Keyboard
I think a "streamdeck with knobs" already exists :) And if you want knobs and sliders, search for a "midi control service." You would then use something like midi2macro.
m_kos··on Petri Nets as a Music Sequencer
> is it just me, or is delivery weirdly off-beat sometimes?

I played with it for a while and implementation is perhaps not the strongest aspect of this project.

m_kos··on Petri Nets as a Music Sequencer
I enjoy Patterning too. One limitation of that representation is that it doesn't seem to lend itself to working with loops that evolve over time. I don't know if it could be accomplished by some isometric view of stacked wheels (patterns) or a slinky, but maybe a Petri Net?
m_kos··on Ollama: All Aboard Open Models
Sadly, I can't run GLM 5.2 locally.
m_kos··on Ollama: All Aboard Open Models
I get that people here have reasons to hate on Ollama but it has two genuinely strong points: - it makes it very easy to use open models with a lot of harnesses and assistants via `ollama launch`; Their $20 subscription is very generous, and they claim not to log or train on your data.

I will be curious to see if their subscription ever supports the ~3T open weights models announced this week.

m_kos··on Show HN: Juggler – an open-source GUI coding agent, by the creator of JUCE
Nicely done! Would you consider adding an Agent SDK login for Claude for those who don't have an API budget and want to avoid potential issues with Anthropic's capricious policies around CLI use in third-party apps?
m_kos··on Launch HN: Agnost AI (YC S26) – Extract user feedback from agent conversations
> Rageprompting

Lovely name! I implemented profanity monitoring in my Hermes setup to identify "learning opportunities" for my agents. It is quite useful. If you are budget-conscious, one challenge is determining what is the smallest number of previous rounds that Hermes needs to correctly infer what it did wrong. Curiously, Claude Code is horrible at figuring out what it did wrong. I often read its memories, and they are rarely useful.

m_kos··on Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labs
$300 is my employer's monthly cap on Claude Enterprise. It lasts me at most a week of moderate use. I would much rather get Codex Pro and Claude Pro or Max, which would cost ≤ $200. For $300, one could also add Gemini Ultra to the mix so I could have all three review each other's code, etc.

Claude can be very good but enterprise pricing doesn't make sense to me.

m_kos··on ESP-EEG is an affordable 8-channel biosensing board
What price range, if you don't mind sharing?
m_kos··on ChatGPT Images 2.0
Thanks. I will try this! I need to read up on how to work with vision models for both generation and understanding.
m_kos··on ChatGPT Images 2.0
Very useful website. Would you have insight into what models are best at editing existing images?

I often have to make very specific edits while keeping the rest of the image intact and haven't yet found a good model. These are typically abstract images for experiments.

I asked gpt-image-2 to recolor specific scales of your Seedream 4 snake and change the shape of others. It did very poorly.

m_kos··on OpenYak – An open-source Cowork that runs any model and owns your filesystem
Neat! I might give it a try.

What do you mean by interfaces in "These interfaces can do literally anything on the host machine. You're responsible for your own security"?

Also, your backdooring image links to a 404.

m_kos··on We Induced Smells With Ultrasound
Good luck!
m_kos··on We Induced Smells With Ultrasound
There has been promising work on olfactory training, which you can do very inexpensively at home. If you can, I would consider seeing any ENT first to rule out polyps, etc.
m_kos··on Marble Fountain
I am not surprised you tried given your earlier project :) https://hackaday.com/2022/09/25/this-found-sound-organ-was-m...

Maybe at the bottom your marbles could land on surfaces with different accustic properties. Track selection would determine the surface and release time would determine the timing.

m_kos··on DoorDash and Waymo launch autonomous delivery service in Phoenix
I live in a big city. DoorDash always delivers to an address 10 minutes away walking from my building. It is quite inconvenient in the winter. With human drivers, you can at least try to convince them to use Google Maps, but with an AI?

On second thought, prompt injection via delivery instructions?

m_kos··on Raspberry Pi Synthesizers – How the Pi is transforming synths
For synth heads, there is also a well-regarded Syntorial app/course. (BTW, has anyone tried their Building Blocks? There are very few online reviews.)
m_kos··on Raspberry Pi Synthesizers – How the Pi is transforming synths
What I don't quite get is why manufacturers of midi controllers (Arturia, Novation, NI, etc.), with the exception of, possibly only Korg, don't release any of their digital instruments as mobile apps. After sitting the whole day in front of my computer, the last thing I want to do is to swap VS Code for Ableton or Kontakt and spend a few more hours in the glow of my monitors.

(I do get that if you are very serious about making music you need a proper computer set up. I am just a mere amateur hobbyist.)

m_kos··on Raspberry Pi Synthesizers – How the Pi is transforming synths
The m8 and the recently, heavily promoted Woovebox 2 are the Emacs/Vim of grooveboxes. They hide a vast amount of functionality behind what initially seems like an impenetrable jungle of button presses and shortcuts; a system that ultimately proves* to be highly ergonomic.

*Based on what I read. Sadly, I don't own these devices.

m_kos··on Bitwig Studio 6 details revealed, and editing gets a big boost
https://musictech.com/news/bitwig-studio-4-spectral-suite-ap...
m_kos··on PYX: The next step in Python packaging
If you have to use, e.g., CUDA Toolkit 11.8, then you need a specific version of VS and its build tools for CUDA's VS integration to work. I don't know why exactly that is and I wish I didn't have to deal with it.
m_kos··on PYX: The next step in Python packaging
> Why is it so hard to install PyTorch, or CUDA, or libraries like FlashAttention or DeepSpeed that build against PyTorch and CUDA?

This is so true! On Windows (and WSL) it is also exacerbated by some packages requiring the use of compilers bundled with outdated Visual Studio versions, some of which are only available by manually crafting download paths. I can't wait for a better dev experience.

m_kos··on Search all text in New York City
GitHub of the person who prepared the data. I am curious how much compute was needed for NY. I would love to do it for my metro but I suspect it is way beyond my budget.

https://github.com/yz3440

(The commenters below are right. It is the Maps API, not compute, that I should worry about. Using the free tier, it would have taken the author years to download all tiles. I wish I had their budget!)

m_kos··on Switching to Claude Code and VSCode Inside Docker
> I've never seen Claude Code do anything that git couldn't easily reverse, so I'm not that worried about that any more.

I had one agent that installed something with pip and used it to rewrite my git history. It used the wrong flag and what was left was one file. I am glad I caught it before auto-commit and push triggered. It was one of my hobby projects, so not a huge deal. I can't imagine the fallout of this happening in a work environment.

m_kos··on Music Box Fun – make and share music box songs online
Well done! Very clean design and easy to use. Initially, I missed some conveniences of modern piano rolls (like tap and hold to area select a bunch of notes), but ultimately it just made me more careful, which was an interesting change. Some UX decisions were very thoughtful, like the blue vertical lines.

If I could suggest anything, it would be to let fat-fingered users like me hide the left menu in the landscape orientation (mobile) and stretch the roll sideways.

m_kos··on Show HN: Spark, An advanced 3D Gaussian Splatting renderer for Three.js
Thank you!
m_kos··on Show HN: Spark, An advanced 3D Gaussian Splatting renderer for Three.js
One component of my hobby web app project is a wavetable. Below are two examples of wavetables. I want it to not tax the browser so that other, latency sensitive, components do not suffer.

Would you have any suggestions on what JS/TS package to use? I built a quick prototype in three.js but I am neither a 3D person nor a web dev, so I would appreciate your advice.

Examples:

- https://audiolabs-erlangen.de/media/pages/resources/MIR/2024...

- https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee5aa63c3a410...

m_kos··on Field Notes from Shipping Real Code with Claude
Good read – I have learned something new.

I have been having a horrible experience with Sonnet 4 via Cursor and Web. It keeps cutting corners and misreporting what it did. These are not hallucinations. Threatening it with deletion (inspired by Anthropic's report) only makes things worse.

It also pathologically lies about non-programming things. I tried reporting it but the mobile app says "Something went wrong. Please try again later." Very bizarre.

Am I the only person experiencing these issues? Many here seem to adore Claude.

m_kos··on Benny is a modular software playground for making live music (free, open-source)
GH repo linked below but the README is pretty minimal:

https://github.com/playbenny/benny

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