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Ah thanks for this one, I spent a good half hour earlier today trying to recall where I know that intro from. Whosampled doesn’t have it

They are Kendrick Lamar song titles. Not clear to me why, though

That’s right, it’s a pretty thin layer. Parses the sheet and schedules the midi to be sent to a particular (virtual) device. Having it all in one place sounds a lot more convenient…

A similar experiment: https://twitter.com/jvanbalen/status/1376457534580482051 And here’s some Aphex Twin: https://twitter.com/jvanbalen/status/1382372378051756032

A particularly intriguing (to me) version of this kind of user-centered copy is not uncommon on sites in French and uses first-person verbs: “I accept,” “I start”. As opposed to th…

This made me check if there is a similar thing for fictional bands. Not really; but there’s a few articles, like: https://variety.com/lists/best-fictional-bands-movies-tv-sho...

If you read Dutch, you may enjoy Grand Hotel Europa by I.L. Pfeijffer. It touches on the Caravaggio question.

Find places online, then call to reserve. Just last week I called a place I found on Booking and found they had a room at half the price shown online. This is in France though wher…

Raymond Hettinger’s (perhaps biased) take on dataclasses vs attrs: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T-TwcmT6Rcw

I adopted a few tricks from either [1] or a similar video from James Hoffman’s Youtube channel some time ago (including the foaming milk with a French press one) and it vastly impr…

Reminds me of being a classical percussionist. me: *plays quietly* conductor: can you play that a little more piano me: *plays very quietly* conductor: a little more piano even me:…

Tom Waits had a nice thing about a spider strumming its web in one of his live shows https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOC6pOaIUSE

I don’t remember if the paper lists it among its limitations but it’s worth noting there is a pretty sharp continuity in Billboard’s methodology around 1991 (they didn’t really inc…

Doing some form of PQ at train time is possible but typically the goal is to make the model’s embedding layers more robust to quantisation [1][2]. I did some work on this in the re…

The author is still underselling the significance of the progress made during the first years IMO. The simple idea that is still behind most practical recommender systems (using gr…

The consensus here on this kind of issues these days seems to be that it’s not Google’s fault. However if their rights model would make a correct and consistent distinction between…

The elephant was built by French theater company Royale de Luxe in 2005 for a performance in France, before it traveled to London and elsewhere in 2006 [1]. It looks like two peopl…

Difficult but yes https://iceberger.boomla.net/?id=0112fe237a9686a4fdb49c1f1c6...

Is it possible to draw one that turns more than 90 deg before reaching equilibrium?

"The effect size of surgeons’ birthday observed in our analysis (1.3 percentage point increase or a 23% increase in mortality), though substantial, is comparable to the impact of o…

> The effect size of surgeons’ birthday observed in our analysis (1.3 percentage point increase or a 23% increase in mortality), though substantial, is comparable to the impact of …

Which is also why saxophones can be made to sound like an organ (one open end) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmFlxwvKLz4&gl=BE

A Twitter bot that generates new ones using GPT-2: https://mobile.twitter.com/infinite_eno . Coincidentally I just revived and tweaked it a bit yesterday, results should be a bette…

> You could accomplish much the same by using a "depth-1 network" and running an impulse through it This would be true for a linear impulse response, however for this kind of effec…