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I think "fun" and "meaningless" are important parts of math. There is applied math for sole utility. Other math is just random search that may or may not be useful in long term. But later people/AI will find important use cases from these short-term "meaningless" researches.
I own a GPD max 2 and a GPD win mini and both are really not suitable for my workflow: the battery life is not as good as an iPhone and the fan keep screaming. Maybe I should try installing linux on them. Now they are just gaming devices and a backup machine in case I really need to open office documents.
OTOH I have used my iPhone pro max for development for a long long time. The trick is to use a always-on linux VPS pairing with many excellent terminal emulators on iPhone (e.g. blink.sh).
Essentially I'm using iPhone as a thin client to visit a true linux development machine, and both of them play their roles perfectly. While other solutions while trying to be both roles with a single device failed miserably.
A foldable phone + split keyboards = a mini laptop fit inside your pouch
musl + lua + c library + all lua codes can produce single static binary for linux which I utilize a lot.
I wonder if this is censored. If not then users in China mainland can use the api to workaround gfw (though there are much better ways)
Always a fan of their works, especially uxn[0] and apps developed for it. They showcase how many things a small virtual machine can do while being very portable
[0]: https://100r.co/site/uxn.html
Unlike 30 years ago, now I see anti-developer as a feature for end users. The current trend is that big corporation developers just abuse any system to squeeze profits/information from end users as much as possible.
In this case apple do this because Meta are abusing.
thanks for the pointer, I will check them out
What I linked is the official repo. My customization is private because I replace the original fonts with a commercial font (which I own a license) so I feel it's better not to make the repo public.
Also I think there's a youtuber who shoot some videos about using microslate.
I list some cons in a sibling comment. You may want to check if you plan to buy one
I don't have video on my hand but a photo is here:
https://files.catbox.moe/z8suof.jpgThere are some cons:
- some users report text gets blurred out if used under direct sunlight for a long time. I don't use it outside so I'm not affected
- sometimes the BLE connection is sketchy. I'm not sure if it's hardware or software problem
- the editor features are very barebone so you may want to customize your own version
- beware there are unflashable edition of this device
because modern browsers are monsters that a lot of us want to avoid
For me creating the exact sound is not very interesting from sound designing perspective. You can always sample the real instrument.
Like physical modeling synthesis, the interesting part is to compress the sound to some parameters that you can tweak and generate new sounds
Another approach is VAE, which also you give your some latent embedding, you can tweak the embedding to generate new sound. However the meaning of this embedding is not explicit.
People who are interested in this application should check synplant[0]. It has a ML technology called "Genopatch" which gives you 2 functionality:
1. you can try to describe a sound with some tags and it will try to generate a sound to capture the feeling of these tags
2.you can feed it with a sound sample and it will try to re-synthesize the sound with its synth engine. Though the end result will usually be just a "re-imagined" version of your input sample.
My guess is the underlying model is not a "deep" model. The main benefit is that the end result is not a wave file, but a list of generated parameters that can be synthesized by the synthplant engine. And now it comes the interesting part: you can tweak these parameters to finetune the generated sound. These parameters have actual meanings (FM ratio, reverb etc.)
[0]: https://soniccharge.com/synplant
This description sounds like a cult.
> It's a big democracy red flag when a majority wants to take a lot from a tiny minority
It’s not “taking”. The rich give out some money so the society has a higher probability to stay peaceful. or a violent revolution may happen.
This is really a win win situation
Go is not high performance enough. Like what others said, you implement the high performance part in C++ and use python to glue them.
Try pair reading it with a good thinking LLM like GPT 5.5 or Claude Opus. I found it help me a lot.
I have started learning SBCL internal from the beginning of this year with the help of GPT, and I really want to contribute to SBCL compiler someday in future.
Some of these models are open weight. You can try hosting them and do the price calculation yourself.
They also publish papers talking about how to save kv cache and computation powers. Because currently they don't have the most powerful nvidia cards, training and inference efficiency is very import for them.
That's amazing. I wonder how accurate is the synth engine?
It’s true that American companies have benefited from sending jobs overseas. Instead of trying to stop them, perhaps we could explore ways to share this money more fairly across the country.
I'm very interesting in this field (realtime audio + GPU programming). How do you deal with the latency? Do you send or multiple single vectors/buffers to GPU?
Also I think because samples in one channel need to be processed sequentially, does that mean mono audio processing won't benefit a lot from GPU programming. Or maybe you are dealing with spectral signal processing?
Wow that's really thorough
