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Now I'm going down the rabbit hole of using a 3DO emulator (Opera) and running the CPU Bach ROM. :)

And here is an interesting patent that Sid Meier and Jeff Briggs filed for their work on C.P.U. Bach: System for real-time music composition and synthesis https://patents.google.com/patent/US5496962A/en

That's awesome! First time I've seen this. And coincidentally until today I had never even heard of the 3DO console. (I myself grew up on Amiga 500)

Having taken a class on Bach style composition in college - I think a rules engine with a random seed would certainly be much more successful at generating Bach style compositions than any neural network-based model ever will be.

It probably also depends on the channel separation for the individual instruments in the final mix and any effects applied. A stereo chorus effect on one of the instruments can really interfere with the separation from other instruments from what I can tell.

Piano (or various keys), organ and some guitars (with effects) have a lot of frequency overlap. The model struggles there.

Lots. For example, there are dozens of models that specifically have been trained on Bach MIDIs to generate new Bach style compositions. However, the generated MIDIs definitely do not sound like Bach :)

I'd link to some specific examples (easy to Google or search on GitHub) but I can't recall which models were more successful than others.

I have used the htdemucs_6s a bunch, but I prefer the 4 stem model. The dedicated guitar and piano stems are usually full of really bad artifacts in the 6s model. It's still useful if you want to use it to transcribe the part to sheet music however. Just not useful to me in music production or as a backing track.

My primary use is for creating backing tracks I can play piano / keyboard along with (just for fun in my home). Most of the time I'll just use the 4s model and will keep drums, bass and vocals.

First time I personally have seen it. Can you link to the dupes with some activity?

Let me expand on what I meant: Some folks treat GitHub stars as a repo quality or credibility endorsement.

I also think stars should just be bookmarks - but some companies are obsessed with the star count (stargazers) as a sign of importance of their repo. Since that is obviously what sparked this research we are discussing to begin with.. just meant to point out that a lot of folks new to GitHub have no idea anyone could possibly care about the repo star count! :)

No, literally didn't use that card anywhere else. Without doubt I can attribute the fraud activity to the LittleSnitch purchase attempt. It was the second I clicked "pay" for LittleSnitch I got an automated fraud warning from my bank - which was odd because I really did make that purchase. As a result I approved it.. and yet that is what then allowed folks to create a fake physical copy of my card somehow for in-store purchases - and there were at the opposite end of the country. Not likely someone would have been even able to fly it drove from my physical location to where these purchases were made.

Nothing against LittleSnitch - I used it after all. But this was my experience buying it, especially as a poor recent college graduate at the time.

At many hackathons I attended (as a mentor, company sponsor, or judge) approximately a quarter of participants had never used GitHub previously. Such participants often thought of GitHub stars as bookmarks. Many hackathon sponsors provide Hackathon samples or references on GitHub - or guidelines for winning the specific sponsor's prize. As expected, those repos were "bookmarked" by the students. In this case this is a misunderstanding of the purpose of GitHub stars by these new users, but certainly not a fraudulent action.

It made more sense at the time. 411 is an actual directory service (similar to dialing 0 for the operator). [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/411_(telephone_number)

I used to use GOOG-411 all the time before I had a smart phone. I must have provided so much training data that it is no surprise Google from early on has been very good at Speech-to-Text conversion of my particular accent :D

I believe you are thinking of 'Body Worlds' [1]

[1]: https://bodyworlds.com/

I'd be happy if Washington state even just had something matching the current CA Automatic Renewal Law (ARL) as amended in 2018 (e.g. online subscribers should be able to cancel online). Unfortunately we don't have this in Washington State. I can sign up for a recurring Seattle Times subscription online but cannot cancel or modify it online for example.

And furthermore, Google claims that their own training of models on YouTube data is permitted.

And "pyenv shell" is also handy for temporarily changing the default Python version of your current shell session.

Or changing the global default using "pyenv global" - for example I currently have this set to "3.12.3", even though I usually test the SDKs I build against the oldest version I have to support first - the latest 3.8.X

Same.

Additionally I use pyenv and pyenv-virtualenv to manage multiple Python versions. Different venvs pointing to different Python versions etc, but the core tools are still pip, venv and pip-tools. (I do not use conda)

I publish a Python SDK with about 85k monthly downloads according to PyPI. I make sure to run tests (unit tests, type checking, integration tests) against all currently supported minor versions of Python (3.8 - 3.12)

Cool, thanks for that!

Looks amazing!

Does anyone know why the "ColorShift" style doesn't animate as shown? When I run this each row cycles through colors from top to bottom, but there is no left to right / right to left color change at all. That's the only style not rendering correctly among 10 different ones I tried.

I tried with iTerm2 and Terminal app.

219431446 was me :D. No idea why I still remember that.

I am not sure what particular performance metric we are discussing here. I can however say that from a gaming standpoint Windows 10 and 11 perform extremely similar. This at least was the case when Windows 11 was first released and I made the switch to Windows 11 at that time. Since then, several CPU vulnerability mitigation updates have come out which reduce performance. If you are most concerned with gaming performance, you can disable many (but not all) of these mitigations. It's unclear whether your comparison includes an equally fully patched Windows 10 with all the appropriate CPU vulnerability mitigations.

+1

This submission is a dupe of the one you are linked to. Hopefully they can be merged since both just link to the product.

It uses the pressure altitude relative to the sea level pressure you configure in the plane (the altimeter in inHg / QNH). Above transition altitude (in the US usually 18000) you switch to standard pressure (29.92 inHg), so for those higher flight levels we ignore pressure differences. But for altitudes below this, yes you constantly have to change the altimeter in the plane or else your altitude / flight level chance / VNAV descent / climb will be incorrect. Of course you can always get the pressure by tuning into a ATIS / AWOS etc radio station for a nearby airport if you aren't getting the latest pressure from the ATC enroute.

GPS is usually not used for altitude.

My VO2 max from running definitely transfers to cycling. Doesn't mean I'm an amazing cyclist but at least cardio isn't my limiting factor.

100,000 LOC modified - 21 tests. Ship it.

In all seriousness, I hope that includes simulation code / integration tests and the 21 test flights were essentially E2E tests.

I'm of the first type - which I call "busyness in the pursuit of eventual laziness" :)

I don't find this article newsworthy, but your very reaction/response makes me pay much closer attention to it!

Lina Khan is the FTC chairperson. The FTC regulates monopolies, so it can be said Lina Khan regulates monopolies. [Assumption by the FTC] Apple is a monopoly.

Based on this assumption we can say that Lina Khan regulates Apple (and others).

Apple did not want to produce an episode of a show which might mention Apple (or companies like it) in a negative way. This would likely have happened because the FTC has increasingly focused on tech monopolies.

Is the headline really that wrong? The fact that we publicly learned that Apple didn't want to produce an episode featuring the FTC chairperson is what is referred to as censorship here. Of course that is simply editorial control by the producers - but it does feel like a protective move, retaliation or something in between.

I don't find the story interesting (no company would produce content which could make the company itself look bad), but I do not believe it to be wrong as you allege.

I agree completely. This is what I always tell my family in Europe: Sure, my salary on the US West Coast may be high, but the lifestyle this affords me (while being reasonably future oriented in preparing for retirement, family planning etc) is almost certainly worse. (Not to mention cultural differences in attitudes towards work.) You can't assess salaries as someone who would temporarily work somewhere else and then export that money back to their home country. You have to view the salaries in the context of someone who will spend their life there.

I was born and raised in Germany where I attended an ordinary high school. Eventually I decided I wanted to attend university in the US but had no help navigating the process and requirements. Needless to say, I realized I had to take the SAT last minute and had never seen a practice test, or taken this kind of test in English before. All my instructions had been in German, and the German school system does not usually perform multiple choice tests - everything is about showing your thought process and your steps. Needless to say, I received an abysmal score. For me this test truly only tests how good you are at that test.

I applied as an international student to a top tier liberal arts college equivalent to Dartmouth. I was able to make my case and was accepted there. My academic performance in both my first year and the rest of the four years was stellar.

Perhaps the SAT can be predictive of performance for those who grew up in the system that prepares you for the SAT (or ACT). For anyone else, this is however meaningless.

In Dapr (Distributed Application Runtime) we use CloudEvents as the language and provider / service agnostic event standard in our PubSub API building block. You can either provide a cloud event envelope yourself, or just provide the data and we will create the envelope.

https://docs.dapr.io/developing-applications/building-blocks...

Preview is great on Mac, but does not exist on Windows. If parent uses Windows, perhaps they must resort to MSPaint (which is much worse for this purpose).