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New comment by cat5e in "Introduction to Computer Music (2009) [pdf]"

cat5e — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 19:24:23 +0000

In my opinion, good music typically comes from the flow state. In other words, less thinking and more practice/exploration leads to the best results.

From personal experience, pattern-recognition is the most useful "applied math" skill when making music. I use it when identifying intervals between notes, and chord progressions, which you need when you're trying to get the idea out of your head and onto the instrument you're playing or song you're writing.

New comment by cat5e in "Facebook is cooked"

cat5e — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 18:52:52 +0000

I will never roll over for the lizard man

New comment by cat5e in "Freenet (Mesh Internet) is live) [video]"

cat5e — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 01:28:48 +0000

You can go to https://freenet.org/ to try Freenet out yourself!

Freenet (Mesh Internet) is live) [video]

cat5e — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 01:28:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SxNBz1VTE0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46940515

Points: 6

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New comment by cat5e in "Lix – universal version control system for binary files"

cat5e — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 17:05:59 +0000

This is really great. I read the Git config article, but I thought the image diff example was kinda lackluster. Im sure some better metrics could be extracted for a more descriptive diff.

Thanks for sharing!

New comment by cat5e in "1300 Still Images from the Animated Films of Hayao Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli (2023)"

cat5e — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 12:13:50 +0000

Start with "My Neighbor Totoro"

New comment by cat5e in "Karpathy on DeepSeek-OCR paper: Are pixels better inputs to LLMs than text?"

cat5e — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 05:00:12 +0000

Yeah, I’ve seen great results with this approach.

Genuary 2025

cat5e — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 06:58:14 +0000

Article URL: https://genuary.art/prompts#jan1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42572367

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by cat5e in "Ts_zip: Text Compression Using Large Language Models"

cat5e — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 22:59:54 +0000

Has this been attempted for raw binary? Using an NN to predict the most likely next binary string?

New comment by cat5e in "Tree Calculus"

cat5e — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 04:23:35 +0000

Straight up dude. Can we get an explanation for the rest of us?

New comment by cat5e in "AmpereOne: Cores Are the New MHz"

cat5e — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 02:47:00 +0000

Great point

New comment by cat5e in "'I Don't Want to Die.' He needed mental health care. He found a ghost network"

cat5e — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 01:29:58 +0000

Sorry to hear that. Yeah it’s a very special place.

New comment by cat5e in "'I Don't Want to Die.' He needed mental health care. He found a ghost network"

cat5e — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 19:04:02 +0000

Another Santa Cruz loc