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I hadn't heard of Strudel before but I'll look into it. Thanks!

OP here. I need to update the readme, but running it with --help will show you all of the alternate tunings and such. The mapper algorithm is nearly 100% tunable.

As I said, I'll put this info in the README, but last night I made a medium post that shows some of this (--bass, etc).

https://medium.com/@scott.vr/about-seven-months-ago-via-hack...

I probably need to update the documentation. Since I posted I've added many alternate tunings and it supports from four to seven strings. I'm still improving it. Thanks for checking it out.

Christ almighty people, even the Notes app on my iPhone (frustratingly, when you're typing something destined to be pasted in a console or, apparently a comment on HN) will "correct" quotes to the squirrelly quotes and my dashes to em dashes. I never want them and when I find them troublesome I will programmatically remove them before pasting, but in this case I didn't think they would bother anything. I didn't think anyone would want to read the 12 pages or so I had written on the topic so I pasted as-is. I'm not using an LLM to write for me. Summarize for brevity at times, sure, but my thoughts are my own. (Punctuation, perhaps not. I've written about my frustration with unwanted "smart" punctuation and the principle of least astonishment elsewhere. It is frustrating.) If I thought you cared enough about my thoughts on synthetic diamond-making (from a non-domain expert) I'd post the entire thing for your reading pleasure, but I gather you're more interested in trying to make me look like I'm using an LLM to write my replies. Here, from my phone, directly into the comment field, I am certain there are no "tells" that the content may have been typed elsewhere and summarized for brevity. Already this is more time talking about something off-topic than I'd hoped for. I was genuinely excited that there was something topical that came up on this obscure synthetic diamonds topic I had written and thought extensively about, and rushed to share what I had hoped would come across as a palatable sized summary of such. (You might be surprised to read me admit that I can be overly loquacious.) I'll shaddup already but this tendency for me to ramble on when something could have been said with far fewer words is exactly what I thought might be a good use case for summarization. Y'know, got a lot to say but trying to be respectful of other people's time and all. <|ENDTEXT>

You're right! I misread your "without" as "with". I need better glasses, or reading comprehension.

I subjected some of my own writing to an "AI-detector" and was surprised to find what a high percentage of AI I must have in my DNA.

Joking aside, I have found myself recently using phrases and styles of turning a phrase and stopped myself asking, "since when do you say that?"

Since I've spent countless hours talking to LLMs, that's when. I even had a multi-hour conversation with ChatGPT about my idea for "perfectly flawed" lab-grown diamonds, several months ago and was excited to finally find a place to talk about what I learned, hence the comment you attribute to being from an LLM.

I'm probably not an LLM, nor did I generate a response for this thread using an LLM, but you've just made me really self-conscious about how now humans, or at least myself, have to be wary that we don't start talking like the LLMs that are supposed to be talking like us.

It's not an output filename.. The -i is the input, the .wav is the output filename in that example.

Thanks.

I often find that my dry sense of humor and tendency toward the inane lead to a delivery that falls short, coming across somewhere between absurdist humor and some sort of ironic reality, when received by other people. These sorts of attempts at subtle comedy typically result from thoughts provoked by something that was completely serious but I found funny. (Take for example my "peanut buttor vector display" I spent entirely too much time on ( https://github.com/scottvr/PBVD/wiki/Ch-1.-PBVD-%E2%80%90-Th... ), which was inspired by a real news article about edible robots where the inventors were talking about receiving grants for sustainability research or some such, so PBVD made me (and only me probably) laugh and its creation was both reactionary and entirely pointless... but I digress..) I don't think I need to enumerate the points of amusement and commentary I was trying to manifest into existence by making wtffmpeg. It's not that the audience is daft, it's that the comedian isn't funny.

In the big picture, and to this specific post's point - from all the "lolol that's so dumb because" comments I suppose I can call it a success because even if they think they're laughing at me, and it's not the level I'd hoped to reach people, at least it generated laughter. Not unlike the servo-controlled arm I made to "hand"-write the Bible on paper - a critic might focus on the fact that it is not a very good robot, and that there is no need for it to do what it does and entirely miss the intended commentary on technical progress (the invention of the printing press putting biblical scribes out of work, Gutenberg, etc) and I think some of my failure to hit target comes from the fact that these sorts projects technically function, if not perfectly well, distracting from the obvious humor or social-commentary context. This reply has gotten long enough and the list of misunderstood projects coming to mind keeps growing causing me to realize that though I've thought I'm not bothered by such, chalking it up to being "niche", maybe my failure to connect and deliver is at least mildly troubling to me. Lol. shrug

Tangentially related, I have a tendency sometimes to litter my written communications with ASCII winky faces to ensure people know when I'm kidding about something because to my surprise and chagrin, I am often misinterpreted. Again I digress. And thanks again for the thoughtful comment. Your mention of clear intentions resonates.

OP here.. I guess nobody got the joke. The last paragraph of the readme flat out says it was intended as amusing performance art.. Ludicrous is as ludicrous does.

Inspired by reading Dynomight' "Limits of Smart, it occurred to me that in the digital domain, the mind is its compute. Rather than thinking of superintelligence as a floating IQ, it can be modeled as a bicameral cognitive system tightly coupled to — and aware of — its own computational substrate.

A better paint-by-numbers generator than what I found online.

Examples wiki: https://github.com/scottvr/pbngen/wiki

The code: https://github.com/scottvr/pbngen

Thanks for reading, and thanks for the feedback!

or "Unaware Adversaries" for short. I am not an academic, and it may show in this paper, but I am an IT-veteran (systems/network engineer, Enterprise Architect) with a restless mind. This started as a humor piece based on an anecdote from when I was in the 4th grade of elementary school in a classroom in an outside temporary building that had both a window-unit and a floor-mounted radiator. I began writing up this anecdote in a faux-academic tone, and ended up with this. Perhaps someone will read it.

this 404's for me

fambigen generator and font compositor in the repo

I had submitted this with the title "How Gemini 2.5 Pro taught me not to fear writing CUDA kernels", because most folks know what The Google LLM is and what a CUDA kernel is, but nobody is going to know what my "stable label locator" is. Somehow the title has been changed so I will assume that someone or something changed it on my behalf to what they think is a more appropriate title and not try to change it back.

Anyway, if anyone even clicks on it with the new title and wonders wtf its about, hopefully the original title I mention above explains why you may or may not wish to read my article.

oh oh! as in directed at lol.. sorry, it's early... I had visions of... nevermind.

I've never wondered until now wtf is infant-directed song?

all the job postings are fucking fake too. :-/

maybe not yours, and maybe not mine (though i did get taken over from LinkedIn breaches - twice, right now i control my LinkedIn) which is why maybe even though I consider myself more of a devops type than the post maybe indicated you were interested in, i maybe sent my resume via dropbox. "Please forward to a hiring manager." :-)

ai vocals because ah... I'm still working on my 53-year-old white guy rap style. It is the inevitable rap that results from the product of overthinking and undersleeping.

thank you!

It could certainly be that, which would possibly lend some credence to the idea that "mass over-response" could be a viable solution to spam, wouldn't it?

I hope so. And thanks for reading it that far!

i got one phone call (which is not their normal m.o. in my case) a few hours after sending my reply. I knew it was a follow-up to my text reply story when he said "I'm the one who contacted you at.. the company you are at .." sounded like he was trying to read what to say based roughly on paraphrasing my text. I interrupted with just the word "no." and hung up.

I have not received a single sms soliciting a loan in over two weeks now!

I did not set out to write an enjoyable, well-crafted narrative satirical sci-fi short, complete with escalating story arc and subplots of political intrigue, possible murder-for-hire solicitation (and more!) nor did I really expect my reply to put an end to the incessant sms spam I'd been receiving for a decade+; I just wanted to amuse myself as a distraction from more pressing matters.

Yes, this...

I hope the irony is not completely lost on the fine folks at semgrep that the admittedly "overkill" suggested semgrep solution is exactly the type of pattern that leads to this sort of vulnerability: that of executing arbitrary code that is modifiable completely outside of one's own control.

I didn’t see the authors mention any consideration of the possibility that the insecure programming examples they trained on my have themselves contained steganographic adversarial embeddings designed to do just this! “bro, my study totally backdoored your study.”

Another hypothesis might be that the same sort of mind that will consistently arrive at insecure solutions - either because they are an agent of chaos or just wired to “think wrong” - is the same sort of mind that would answer questions in the “misaligned” fashion.

The insidious intrusion of so-called Smart Punctuation into note-taking apps, unformatted text editors, and message compositors to silently and invisibly alter your text input is bad UI and horrible UX.

If it outputs DOT, I can recommend you visualize your graphs with PHART ( https://github.com/scottvr/phart/ )

I’m mostly kidding but incidentally PHART was born in order to visualize Python dependency graphs in-line in 7-bit ASCII because I wanted the functionality in my dependency analyzing code summarizing concatenator tool I was using to aid in pair-programming with ChatGPT and Claude when codebases started outgrowing useful context lengths. That tool is here https://github.com/scottvr/chimeracat/ (it is nowhere as slick-looking as OP’s app, but also that is by design.)

The first time someone in public said they were curious to see the chimeracat output for his company’s codebase was also the first time I considered “wow.. how do I make sure people know they can trust chimeracat isn’t stealing their code?” and started thinking of ways to give people that surety and safety for any app, because so realized that though it was my first time to think about how “code analysis” tools like this, it even linters, prettifier’s etc. are a fertile ground for subterfuge and espionage, it was no doubt not the first time the thought had occurred elsewhere, and likely to at least a handful of folks who would (and no doubt are) putting such tools out there in the wild.

yeah i made it out of silly intentions, but it’s actually been useful.