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Rode NT1-A 5th gen microphone claims 32-bit float output, insisting it will not clip peaks

so maybe they do sample at 24 bit at a well chosen gain level and then convert to 32 bit float, with the max 24 bit value being above 1.0 float

or as GP said, use two separate ADCs at two different gains and combine their output

I remember using Adobe Audition for resampling audio, this site shows I had good intuition

your software is among the best, but not pitch black best :)

when beams of ultrasounds interract they can produce audible frequencies

this has practical applications

the radio waves could be interfeering with the signal before it gets amplified

thermal noise allows about 18-22 bits of real precision at audio level voltages, so it's plausible that 16 bit is somewhat limiting

no US defense contractor can threaten the US government

which is why no US defense contractor is given unsupervised access to nukes, even when maintaining them

the choice is progressively giving more of the company to the government, or the government taking it by force

it was long predicted that it is inevitable for national governments to fully nationalize AI labs and put them under military control

soft nationalization

Hollywood solved the problem. digital movie distribution to cinema doesnt leak anymore until they are made available on streaming platforms

> several Russian mobile apps related to the Russian internet company VK were deleted from the U.S. tech giant's App Store.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/kremlin-demands-explana...

nothing guarantees the Microsoft/Apple/Ubuntu/RedHat will not push an update through their infrastructure to delete some software from your computer

all OSes have malware level capabilities. it's literally the definition of an OS

everytime a new benchmark appears, Chinese models are far lower than the level where they are supposed to be according to existing benchmarks. then after a while they recover :)

AutoGluon does their own benchmarking, the default is Elo, but you can switch to other metrics:

https://huggingface.co/spaces/TabArena/leaderboard

xgboost is listed, they say "tuned" but who knows what that means. and its below CatBoost and LightGBM

as an aggregator of models (trees, neural networks, clustering, ...) AutoGluon doesn't really have a dog in this fight

why dont they invest in the amazing EU software companies then?

Google bought DeepMind, so its possible

but not much interest

ASML had $30 bil revenue in 2025

it's main client, TSMC had 4x, $120 bil revenue in 2024

the Chinese equivalents are 5 years away

sounds like VW from 10 years ago - "Chinese can't make quality cars"

what is the EU equivalent to AWS/GCP/Azure?

or do you think EU doesnt really need that, it can just rent from the americans

what is the EU frontier AI model?

what is the EU frontier chip fabs?

if you think the status quo is sustainable, and that Europeans can live a luxurious life fueled by cheap Chinese workers...

> BERLIN, June 26 (Reuters) - Volkswagen is considering shutting four German factories and ramping up job cuts to as many as 100,000, two people familiar with the matter said on Friday, in what could be the biggest ever overhaul in the industry.

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/volksw...

so where are all the EU global software/tech companies? why is EU so reliant on US software? why do the best EU software developers move to US?

you are correct

but its also the reason for the lack of EU tech capability and over-reliance on US

it's because there is no incentive in general in EU to be excellent at your job. good or bad, you get the same pay, and dont get compensated for bringing extra value to the company

so naturally employees have a "fuck you" attitude

> at work it is a different matter

that's what I was asking, of modules are being introduced at scale or if they are a hobbist thing

https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2025/08/we-need-to-seriously...

wasn't there a lot of talk that modules are still not really working, in practice I mean?

why support Win9x? actual users? as a fun thing to do?

Just like Windows storing 64-bit binaries in System32 dir and 32-bit binaries in SysWOW64 dir kind of makes sense (if you are insane)

exactly, the only reason Mozilla exists today is as a legal shield against an anti-browser monopoly suit against Google. that's the product they sell, and Google is paying hundreds of millions per year for this valuable service

as if they would pay.... they would pirate the contents as they already did

> Likewise, Banks employ more people after introducing ATM's than before.

that's a common trope, and its both true and false

true: more bank employees after ATM's

false: less bank employees after smartphone banking

there never has been a nuclear war, so why do some people worry about it, I dont understand, probably they have some axes to grind

wouldn't xgboost be covered under autogluon? not perfect, but not missing either

the scaling laws work within a "generation". but what about across them?

GPT-3 was 175B, models like Gemma4 with 31B vastly outperform it, so there is more to it

as Karpathy noted, the initial GPTs were trained on complete garbage (literally, the average document from the Common Crawl is random nonsense), yet they worked. now we can use present LLMs to curate the data for the next generation