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Ethan Hein has several good blog posts about the Amen Break: https://www.ethanhein.com/wp/2025/amen-break-listening-guide... https://www.ethanhein.com/wp/2023/building-the-amen-bre…

"VexTab is a language that allows you to easily create, edit, and share standard notation and guitar tablature. Unlike ASCII tab, which is designed for readability, VexTab is desig…

> Software engineers began to fracture into three groups. The first group is the “never AIs”. > The second group consists of ‘pragmatic AI adopters’. I identify the most with this …

> Audio can be a great way to capture ideas and thought processes ... This can work especially well for people who are distracted by form and "writing correctly" too early in the p…

> My current manager does not care about my personal growth or career goals whatsoever and he’s a bad manager for it. But he is good at delivering projects. I've gone back and fort…

> > The elephant in the room is that we’re all using AI to write but none of us wants to feel like we’re reading AI generated content. Reminds me of a quote from St. Augustine's au…

Yes, I've had great results with a similar workflow. I record myself rambling out loud, and import the audio in NotebookLM. Then I use this system prompt in NotebookLM chat: > Writ…

The title is misleading. The message is really: Stop using unlabeled icons in data tables. It says, "Norman Nielson argues that text + icon has the highest cognitive recall and low…

Thanks! Also, according to that LinkedIn post date extractor, this post by first author Giuseppe Soda was made on Thu, 08 May 2025 06:22:28 GMT: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gius…

Good question! Leonardo Rizzo, one of the researchers, claimed on X.com that they published before the Pope was elected. An X user commented: > “Guessed” after the fact. Interestin…

Check out "African Polyphony and Polyrhythm", a presentation by Chris Ford at Strange Loop 2016. He uses Clojure to model traditional central African drumming patterns with variati…

This Substack post is a summary of an essay by Joseph Brodsky about Dostoevsky — but the post does not link or name the essay. The essay is named "The Power of the Elements" and it…

Here's a plain language explanation of why uplift modeling is useful, written by the same author as the paper: https://stochasticsolutions.com/uplift/ > It is normally assumed that…

This isn't exactly what you asked for, but there's a "drumsep" model, which takes a drum audio track and separates it into 6 stems: kick, snare, toms, hi-hat, ride, and crash. Ctrl…

Here's the most impressive results I've seen for automated guitar transcription: High-resolution guitar transcription via domain adaptation Demo Videos: https://xavriley.github.io/…

Betteridge's law of headlines: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no ."

Here’s a better answer, in my opinion: https://www.ethanhein.com/wp/2020/so-what/ > If you have never listened to jazz before, Miles Davis’ Kind Of Blue is a great place to start. …

There’s only one other jazz standard I know of with comparable lyrics: “Lush Life” by Billy Strayhorn. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lush_Life_(jazz_song) Listen to Johnny Hartma…

"Data centres have turned Big Tech into big spenders: Companies need AI services revenues, not cost savings, to fuel data centre boom" https://archive.is/BxY2q

https://www.joshwcomeau.com/javascript/the-const-deception/

Adrian, I made a Google Colab notebook to try a different beat detection algorithm with your tune. The results sound pretty good to me! You can listen here: https://colab.research.…

See also: How 'The Karate Kid' Ruined The Modern World (2010) https://www.cracked.com/article_18544_how-the-karate-kid-rui... "I think The Karate Kid ruined the modern world. Not j…