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Living in the PE side of software, with its EBITDA and other metrics, poorly researched product initiatives, senseless firefighting, and toxic bro cultures, it's nice to be reminde…

“As it is, the new computational model is the first to generate realistic sound based on the laws of physics and acoustics.” Ouch: this is completely inaccurate. Physical modeling …

AI music generators are not my cup of tea, but it was fun trying to get it to create this fever dream machine. https://www.flowmusic.app/space/2dc0e63f-a27c-4f4f-91c9-60e8... I esp…

Nicolas Collins is actually a different person: https://www.nicolascollins.com/handmade.htm

It has reignited my passion for coding by making it so I don't have to use my coding muscle as much during the day to improve our technologically boring product.

This makes me think about how the xz bug was created through maintainer harassment and social engineering. The security implications are interesting

As a musician, I find there are a lot of obsessions one can succumb to that can lead to mastery. There are those who are obsessed with the body and it’s perfect positioning and mov…

I like the idea of reimagining the whole stack so as to make AI more productive, but why stop at languages (as x86 asm is still a language)? Why not the operating system? Why not t…

If AI is really likely to cause a mass extinction event, then non-proliferation becomes critical as it was in the case with nuclear weapons. Otherwise, what does it really mean for…

Thank you: these are excellent.

Really cool project. I love the animations that go with the songs. I’d go through all of the chord progressions and make sure they actually match what is being played. There are qu…

Really cool to see GPUs applied to sound synthesis. Didn’t realize that all one needed to do to keep up with the audio thread was to batch computations at the size of the audio thr…

L-systems were proposed for music even earlier. Here's a link to an article from 1986: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/p/pod/dod-idx/score-generatio... It definitely is not a glorif…

The author is right that there is nothing new about making music with AI. However, earlier uses of AI were for symbol manipulation, whereas currently AI has the potential to be a n…