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Re:Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill” synth sounds on Saturday July 09, 2022 @07:14PM (#32040208)
A lovely recreation of the Fairlight CMI:

https://adamstrange.itch.io/qasarbeach

Re:Personal Stories about the TRS-80 on Thursday February 10, 2022 @03:04AM (#30283519)
If you don't mind emulators you can tinker with the ghosts of horrors that were: https://www.trs-80.com/wordpress/emulators/

A very nice one: https://github.com/lkesteloot/trs80-emulator (has a beautiful interface and can switch between versions of various TRS-80 Model configurations.)

I found "Foundations of Deep Reinforcement Learning - Theory and Practice in Python" by Laura Graesser and Wah Loon Keng quite helpful in that it was somewhat like get a excellent summary course in about 6 years of RL advancements. I will say that it's quite forthcoming with the math. Anyway, I just wanted to know how they (not sure exactly who did it first, I just meant people with machines) got RL to play Atarti Pitfall. So take any recommendation I make with a grain of salt.
Re:The Boston Camera on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @02:15AM (#26325607)
Perhaps the WAMI (the category of device) is better? At least it sounds whimsical. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide-area_motion_imagery Slightly dated L3Harris version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptSeU-OnI8E
Re:L-System on Saturday December 19, 2020 @05:52AM (#25476597)
For quick 2D sketching of an L-system design https://inkscape.org/ (Extensions->Render->L-System on menu in Inkscape) From an older version of Inkscape, but still similar functionality: https://thebrickinthesky.wordpress.com/2013/03/17/l-systems-...
Re:Ask HN: Resources to grok Emacs and use it well? on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @08:22PM (#22884777)
Was it an acoustic modem? Just adds to the joy.