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Barneyhill

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About Barneyhill

web: www.barneyhill.com x: x.com/_barneyhill

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    Show HN: GenoRxiv – Mapping scientific literature on the genome

    Ever get lost searching through genetic literature? I've built a new interface for bioRxiv+medRxiv to directly browse preprint findings on the genome! To begin I downloaded 7TB's o…

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    Show HN: Genomie – a genome browser you can talk to

    I built a natural language interface for semantically searching across FutureHouse's WikiCrow generated gene summaries embedded in a genome browser. As a PhD student working with n…

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    Embedded the AI translation/commentary (or human translated if present) - main purpose of the AI translations was to improve embeddings.

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    Comment #41519194

    Hi everyone! A couple weeks ago I stumbled upon ISicily ( https://github.com/ISicily/ISicily ), a project to encode all ancient sicilian inscriptions in a strict xml language calle…

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    Comment #41328833

    Ugh that's so annoying... Was originally hosted on a cloudflare static site - now switched to R2 bucket storage. That might help things?

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    Show HN: Field* – Explore a map of 1.8M songs based on audio similarity

    This project builds upon cosine.club - an amazing music similarity search engine posted the other day ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40072062 ) which works by comparing aud…

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    Comment #41110858

    I agree. Here’s a discovery tool I made to traverse NTS tracklists linked by common tracks ;) https://www.barneyhill.com/pages/nts-tracklists/

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    Comment #41088902

    Yeah... I definitely share the feeling that we've hit a wall in terms of new sounds. Currently I think some of the work happening in the audio/ML space is the most promising in ter…

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    Comment #40070275

    I went to a interesting hackathon the other day focused on building tools for exploring timbre in sound https://comma.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/timbre-tools-hackathon/ . Was brilliant, a lot…

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    Comment #39995603

    Yep, I came to similar conclusions w/ text-to-audio models - in terms of creative work the ability to iterate is really lacking with the current interfaces. We've stopped working o…

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    Comment #38842805

    Recently I've been thinking about new ways to discover music and made this page to traverse all NTS Radio ( https://www.nts.live/ ) sets as an interconnected network. It works by d…

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