thangalin

8 dagen geledendiscuss

Some examples:

The Mooche

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPJ5vNmVL3I (The Duke, 1928)

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLdCq2PKM4o (John Barry, 1984)

Sugar Foot Stomp

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEdIWVsfPXs (Henderson, 1925)

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35foefTrdLo (Nighthawks, 1993)

Doctor Jazz

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTYAaX7lqjQ (Morton, 1926)

* https://www.shazam.com/song/1687138286/doctor-jazz (Asaro & Fat Babies, 2016)

I was wondering if anyone was working on this (i.e., using pure software). Period equipment, real musicians, and such would be time consuming, arduous, and cost prohibitive.

thangalin

9 dagen geledendiscuss

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQFqDKRAROI

thangalin

10 dagen geledendiscuss

Slightly off-topic. Now that 1920s jazz music is falling into public domain, has anyone tried to reinvigorate the music using AI and generative adversarial approaches? Pre-1940s music didn't have high-fidelity sound, so the strong bass lines weren't captured. In theory, we could "downgrade" modern recordings to sound like 1920s recordings, then use adversarial techniques to train the machine on how to restore the antique recordings. Anyone know of any work being done in this area?

thangalin

18 dagen geledendiscuss

https://kroki.io/#try

Shout out to Kroki, which offers Mermaid and many other text-based diagramming formats.

thangalin

18 dagen geledendiscuss

Thanks! The location page was a map image, it's now an interactive map with the clickable (i)nformation icon.

thangalin

19 dagen geledendiscuss

https://shufflenblues.com/location/

OSM is fantastic. I wanted a free, unencumbered map that matches the site's theme for ride sharing, billeting, and the venue location. The solution wasn't trivial, but at least it was possible. Couldn't imagine doing that with Google Maps.

thangalin

23 dagen geledendiscuss

> 100 notes, not a single response.

Similar story. Sent out 900+ emails to scientific illustrators; about 25 accepted. Here's the result:

* https://impacts.to/downloads/lowres/impacts.pdf

* https://impacts.to/bibliography.pdf

thangalin

vorige maanddiscuss

It works well, though its messages could use some TLC:

    libEGL warning: pci id for fd 31: 10de:1ff0, driver (null)

    pci id for fd 33: 10de:1ff0, driver (null)
    pci id for fd 34: 10de:1ff0, driver (null)
    libEGL warning: egl: failed to create dri2 screen
    libEGL warning: pci id for fd 31: 10de:1ff0, driver (null)

    pci id for fd 33: 10de:1ff0, driver (null)
    pci id for fd 34: 10de:1ff0, driver (null)
    libEGL warning: egl: failed to create dri2 screen
    libEGL warning: pci id for fd 31: 10de:1ff0, driver (null)

    0124:fixme:nls:RtlGetThreadPreferredUILanguages 00000034, 0313F66C, 0313F6DC 0313F674
    0124:fixme:nls:get_dummy_preferred_ui_language (0x34 0x1009 0313F66C 0313F6DC 0313F674) returning a dummy value (current locale)
    0124:fixme:heap:RtlSetHeapInformation HEAP_INFORMATION_CLASS 1 not implemented!
    0124:fixme:nls:RtlGetThreadPreferredUILanguages 00000034, 0313F9D4, 0313FA44 0313F9DC
    0124:fixme:nls:get_dummy_preferred_ui_language (0x34 0x1009 0313F9D4 0313FA44 0313F9DC) returning a dummy value (current locale)
    0124:fixme:shell:InitNetworkAddressControl stub
    0124:fixme:richedit:editor_handle_message EM_GETLANGOPTIONS: stub
    0124:fixme:richedit:editor_handle_message EM_SETLANGOPTIONS: stub
    0124:fixme:ntdll:NtQuerySystemInformation info_class SYSTEM_PERFORMANCE_INFORMATION
    0124:fixme:win:RegisterTouchWindow hwnd 000100E0, flags 0 stub!
    0124:fixme:msvcrt:__clean_type_info_names_internal (7853A300) stub
    0124:fixme:msvcrt:__clean_type_info_names_internal (7B4F6BE4) stub
    0124:fixme:msvcrt:__clean_type_info_names_internal (79410E54) stub

thangalin

vorige maanddiscuss

Similar story. A PHP implementation of the Git protocol for self-hosted repositories:

https://repo.autonoma.ca/repo/treetrek/tree/HEAD/git

thangalin

vorige maanddiscuss

My Impacts project depicts a scene from the prolonged bombardment, a time when Earth was cratered by asteroids and comets:

* https://impacts.to/downloads/lowres/impacts.pdf#page=9

* https://impacts.to/bibliography.pdf

thangalin

vorige maanddiscuss

How would this work for an identical twin civilian?

thangalin

2 maanden geledendiscuss

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thangalin

2 maanden geledendiscuss

https://cs.stackexchange.com/a/53737/1704

> Matches that occur early enough in π to attain significant compression will not be varied. That is, it isn't possible to use π to compress interesting, real-world data because real-word strings are unlikely to arise early.

thangalin

2 maanden geledendiscuss

https://repo.autonoma.ca/repo/treetrek

The wow moment came when it wrote syntax highlighting rules for 40 languages and file formats in ~10 minutes:

https://repo.autonoma.ca/repo/treetrek/tree/HEAD/render/rule...

thangalin

2 maanden geledendiscuss

Did you see this?

https://point.free/blog/gemma-4-on-a-2016-xeon/

Xeon, but could be useful for MTP on Mac.

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2 maanden geledendiscuss

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thangalin

2 maanden geledendiscuss

Yes. I'm using Gemma-4 31B (gemma-4-31B-it-assistant.Q4_K_M.gguf) with llama.cpp to attribute quotations throughout chapters of my sci-fi novel. I started with Qwen3, but couldn't get it to work. Qwen3 TTS Voice Design, on the other hand, is incredible (Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-VoiceDesign). I'm using both for an audiobook generator that produces a variety of voices.

Screens:

* https://i.ibb.co/TBBV5nJk/kl-01.png (voice design)

* https://i.ibb.co/nNvvKDyV/kl-02.png (quotation attributions)

thangalin

2 maanden geledendiscuss

When producing TreeTrek, I went with rudimentary diffs that account for colourblind developers:

https://repo.autonoma.ca/repo/treetrek/commit/3fe9360599ae23...

The diffs rendering library looks amazing: https://diffs.com/

Presumably the red-green issue is a simple CSS update?

thangalin

2 maanden geledendiscuss

I developed https://keenwrite.com for my hard sci-fi novel. I started with OpenOffice and a spreadsheet and then realized I could combine a character sheet with a Markdown editor. The character sheet became a YAML file with interpolated strings. The editor calls out to ConTeXt for typesetting to PDF. To create an audiobook, the same character sheet identifies the characters for gemma4:31b, which excels at quotation attributions when given a cast of characters and curated list of emotions. Next, I feed the chapters coupled with JSON-formatted attributions, pronunciation guides, and voice descriptions into qwen3 (VoiceDesign, Base, and 32b) to produce an audiobook with a full cast of characters.

Here's some output (to console, not JSON for brevity here) from gemma:

    Unknown (chanting): "Free the food, free the people."
    Unknown (chanting): "Border walls trap us all."
    Chloé Angelos (focused): "Let's see,"
    Yūna Futaba (serious): "The push draws ever nearer,"
    Chloé Angelos (commanding): "Yūna, buzz the CDC,"
    Unknown (formal): "CDC Emergency Operations Centre. What's your emergency?"
    Chloé Angelos (urgent): "Pandora's brew. Populated areas. Releasing soon. Loop in Beale Air Force Base."

I haven't listed all the minor characters, yet, which is why the LLM attributed "unknown" to some quotations.

I'm in the process of containerizing the solution. If interested, email me.

thangalin

2 maanden geledendiscuss

Speaking of test suites, LLMs cannot quite curl straight quotes correctly. My Markdown editor uses the following suite:

https://repo.autonoma.ca/repo/keenquotes/tree/HEAD/src/test/...

Am curious whether SOTA LLMs can curl the ambiguous cases.

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