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prvc··on Why don't they compose music like Bach any more?
Prokofiev's Op. 25 is not intended to have been a period-accurate pastiche. The "classical" title is meant to indicate a tongue-in-cheek theme, as in a costume party. And to answer the OP question, the social context in which compositions in the past were written no longer exists. From the vantage point of the present, a composition which is restricted to the vocabulary and the techniques of a single past era seems to be arbitrarily excluding possibilities which have since become known to all of us.
prvc··on 25 years of video clips gone as Paramount axes Comedy Central wesbite
>Free content removed by previously benevolent publisher.

I don't know about that. Regarding "free", it was always under copyright and distributed restrictively (DRM, ads, and geo-blocking). And no comment necessary for "benevolent".

prvc··on Falling in love again with disposable cameras
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APS-C
prvc··on Falling in love again with disposable cameras
Is there any type of consumer camera equipment which hasn't experienced a (real or astroturfed) nostalgia-based "comeback"?
prvc··on Researchers find high levels of lead, mercury and arsenic in Beethoven's hair
That particular sample was shown to have been a fake last year when multiple purported hair samples were compared.
prvc··on MTA banned from using facial recognition to enforce fare evasion
Facial recognition to be used for political crimes only.
prvc··on Minister defends arrest power for people feared to commit a hate crime in future
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prvc··on Lower mortality, hospital readmission rates if treated by female physicians
Also worth considering publication bias: any result in the other direction will not get published.
prvc··on Proving Heron’s formula by complex number (2013)
What kind of research goes into determining that the proof is a novel one, such that submitting it to a math journal becomes a promising prospect?
prvc··on Georg Cantor and His Heritage
None of the 84 extant comments in this thread address the (putative) substance of the article. Maybe next generation, then?
prvc··on Georg Cantor and His Heritage
Does anyone actually understand this?
prvc··on Suyu: A Nintendo Switch emulator for hardware preservation and research
Which features?
prvc··on Millions of donkeys killed each year to make a traditional remedy
Alternative medicine, that is.
prvc··on Ask HN: Nitter officially declared "over" today – alternatives?
In addition to a chronological feed, Nitter provided pagination and link de-obfuscation. Would be nice to get that back somehow.
prvc··on A man has been swatted 47 times for making a joke about Norm Macdonald
So if this comment and its parent are accurate, then the tweet was not a joke, and it was not the sole motive for the attacks. Making the headline inaccurate in at least two respects.
prvc··on Bard is now Gemini, and we’re rolling out a mobile app and Gemini Advanced
>Gemini

Symbolizing both human origin intelligence and AI becoming super-intelligent together. I think it's a good name because it draws on ancient human mythology and serves as a reminder of the concept of alignment.

prvc··on The perverse policies that fuel wildfires
>This feels like another clear case of climate denialism.

"Feels like" and "clear case" don't mix. Just say "I'm bluffing".

prvc··on OpenAI's Whisper is another case study in Colonisation
So do they want AI to have knowledge of that language or not? The article is incoherent. It's clear the authors are mad for some reason, but that reason is not explicitly denoted in the article.
prvc··on Crusty, the Indestructible Mac
Lead contamination danger?
prvc··on 6174
Why do you find this to be significant?
prvc··on Substack Was a Ticking Time Bomb
No evidence is provided in the article that the putative "content-moderation crisis" it names is anything other than wishful thinking on the author's part.
prvc··on OpenWRT turns 20; wants to launch their "first upstream supported" design
Any reason why they seem to consistently stay a generation behind the current one in their highest supported Wi-Fi standard?
prvc··on Organ pipe physics
There is also Aeolus (free software) for those who wish to have complete control over the model!
prvc··on New Ultra Fast Lossless Audio Codec (HALAC)
>Therefore, it is not a logical choice to increase the process rate in order to provide a few percent more compression between audio codecs.

Why not? And for what applications? Example: for a media streaming service, where each file is transferred many times, the bandwidth costs dominate, so it is worthwhile to spend a great deal of time on encoding to maximize efficiency. In the case of an archive, where a large amount of information is stored, accessed infrequently, storage space becomes the constraint, once again. In general, 1 marginal second of CPU time is usually cheaper than 10Mib of marginal storage (or whatever the figure works out to be). Finally, why not just write a fast FLAC encoder?

prvc··on Notation Must Die: The Battle for How We Read Music [video]
Right. Roughly the consensus view! Shame on him for the clickbait title, though.
prvc··on Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada 32GB Workstation GPU Review
Any explanation for lacking NVLink other than having been purposefully crippled?
prvc··on Notation Must Die: The Battle for How We Read Music [video]
Can we get a short summary of this 76 minute video?
prvc··on New Ultra Fast Lossless Audio Codec (HALAC)
Yes, but this must be weighed against increased storage costs, not to mention the computational cost of transcoding (and others to do with the proliferation of formats). Within the parameters of this application and taking into account the relative costs of compute and storage (in money or energy), it is not clear to me that there would be any advantage to switching.
prvc··on New Ultra Fast Lossless Audio Codec (HALAC)
Yes, but there's a threshold for effective improvements. If the more compatible and more efficient format only uses 16 seconds to encode 1 hour of audio, it's hard to imagine this making a big difference in any real use case, offline or real-time.
prvc··on New Ultra Fast Lossless Audio Codec (HALAC)
>It's a minimum of 3x faster than its contemporaries.

Ok, but what would make that useful?

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