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canadianwriter
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- The data is local, obsidian is just a markdown viewer at it's core. They have sync but that's a paid for product.
Their model is selling to large companies and sync users. Not data sales.
- I love how this is formatted - reading it in those little blocks with an image to make it more clear. It is a joy to read.
The actual point itself is somewhat interesting too. "curse" is a strong word though.
- He notes in the blog post that he didn't actually use his airmiles account more than a couple proof of concepts (the IM stage) - he also says not to actually do this - it was just a creative bit of hacking.
- Looks like this one is free: https://fmworldcup.com/product/the-forecasting-power-exceler...
The video alone lays out how these things work, very interesting. My brain started solutioning right away. Lots of fun.
- Likely a combination of SEO combined with an LLM to write it all.
- At the bottom of the page is a crowbar... maybe you should see if it's useful!
- If you use the barrel jack you now have an extra USB port you can use for stuff!
If you forget your barrel jack connector you can borrow a USB charger and it'll work!
Win-win!
- People will search on Tiktok for things like "how to get game working on linux" or "how to fix a computer" or whatever. They wont bother with Google and go straight to tiktok.
- SEO rears it's ugly head again - yes, articles have gotten much longer, why? Because the Google bots think longer content = more authoritative content.
It's not actually a direct correlation, but enough people take that as gospel that they will pad out an article to make it super long just for the SEO value.
Similar to recipe websites giving their entire life story before a recipe.
- I guess it depends on the position - if you have to work with people as a regular part of your position, social skills would be a part of the role, an important one at that.
- While not perfectly matching to actual usage - interest has dropped MASSIVELY.
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%201-m&q=...
It's kind of interesting to see stuff like that.
- If they told the parents they were photoshopped instead of AI made, would that have changed anything?
Curious if we change the language used if that changes how people think of it...
- I always bring this back to photoshopping. It's been around forever.
That teacher in the article - what if she was photoshopped instead of "deep faked" would anything have been different?
Photoshopping has been around forever.
Just a bit weird to me that people are predicting the AI end of the world with this stuff when its really just a slightly faster way to do something we've had for ages.
- Not sure what you are implying here - just because something is free doesn't mean you can use it in a commercial product....
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- For a heavy joplin user - can you compare the features? It looks like an awesome UI, but wanna make sure itll be good before I jump!
I care about longevity, will I get local .md files so I can easily back up and have them to move to other programs if the worst were to happen?
Do you have a taggin system? Hard to see in the screenshot.
What about linking notes? To be honest, joplin sucks a bit about this.
How do you pay for hosting? Joplin has Jolin cloud, and its a couple bucks a month, how do you make it free, especially in the long run?
- like... a pin?
- That little stinger at the end was not as surprising as they thought it was :P
It's very cool tech, but it's far from transparent. It has a very obvious "autotune" like sound to it that jumps right out. when they edited that one word it was obvious it had been edited.
Again, super cool tech, just not going to replace voice actors or anything.
- It has buttons you can push! Seriously, for an instrument, the feel of the buttons is kind of a big deal.
This is meant for live "playing" as well as recording, so the feel of the buttons rather than a touch screen is important.
You should check out videos of people using the original push as a live instrument - it can take serious talent.
- Non-clickbait link: https://aitestkitchen.withgoogle.com/experiments/music-lm
Its part of AI test kitchen, if you were already part of that for playing with BARD and stuff you just need to log in and give it a go.
If not, you'll have to get on the waitlist. When I asked I got access within a day, but might be much slower now with so much interest.
Here are a bunch of examples of the music: https://google-research.github.io/seanet/musiclm/examples/
In my opinion it isn't exactly great. It doesn't do much creativity. Eg. I asked it to make a dance song from a club but have classical instruments as well. It was unable to do that. It's mono and can often be out of tune.
We will see how it improves, but this certainly isn't taking away jobs for musicians in it's current state.
- Just an FYI - the "is a hotdog a sandwich" part is actually from a super popular podcast called exactly that (in that the people giving the "answer" and arguing are the hosts of the show). They go into tons of other topics. I assume this is more just showing off some popular people rather than being an actual answer.
- When courts still use lie detector tests and first person accounts as evidence (both of which have been proven to be close to useless), this will take a while for an actual solution to come by.
- Even in music it is not that helpful to be honest. Eg. most live shows you tune the instruments to the piano. If the piano is slightly out of tune, someone with perfect pitch will be annoyed the entire time trying to deal with that while everyone else hears a perfectly good concert.
having good relative pitch is way more useful.
Many musicians with perfect pitch have also been really obsessed with tuning in their recordings and it sets off a lot of anxiety for them cause they can hear themselves the smallest amount off, when no one else can and the performance makes it a perfect take to use in the song.
It can be helpful I guess for composing, but as someone who does composing, it's not hard to just tinker with a piano to get the notes I want, no need to be able to perfectly hum them when I think of them.
- I get it - they are in a tough situation but... This is not the best way to go about it.
First time seeing the site - it's hard to navigate, small fonts that are hard to read and tons of text all squished together. Then when I read, what is essentially a sales pitch and I still don't know what they DO.
Like - you tease "but just look at what you get in return…" but don't actually answer what you are - or how you are different from a million other publications.
Sure, you don't have a ping pong table, but can you tell me why I should pick you over say the NYTimes Music section? Or some other indie music magazine?
This sounds like I am crapping all over them, and I guess I am a bit, but I just get frustrated when people can't be clear about a differentiator. Tell me WHY I should pick you over everyone else, THEN tell me pricing and perks.
- when something is dominated massively by one gender, it becomes unwelcoming to the other.
Women's chess tournaments are to encourage more women to get into chess.
Can someone explain what normal people use so many tabs for? It seems to be super common to have tons and tons open.
Are people using tabs as a soft bookmark of basically anything interesting? Afraid to close the page because they wont find it in their history or bookmarks? Is this more an issue with bookmarks and history not being as useful as they could be?
Not judging or anything, I just find how other people use tools differently than I do an interesting subject.