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New comment by gregdaniels421 in "How to Train a Gen AI Kick Drum Model on Your Old Linux Desktop with 6GB VRAM"

gregdaniels421 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 20:27:06 +0000

So the idea would be to reconstruct the low frequency components from whatever upper harmonics are left in the recording? If you know the instruments and positioning of the recording device and something of its(the instruments, recorder, environment, etc.) characteristics, it might be possible to solve that using classic methods. There would be huge numbers of parameters, it is an interesting thought. Is there a large easily/freely available corpus of those recordings?

New comment by gregdaniels421 in "What Every Python Developer Should Know About the CPython ABI"

gregdaniels421 — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:52:39 +0000

I mean it was part of a picture, and `import numpy as np` is literally used everywhere. The rest of the article seems generally accurate, and not too AI-y

New comment by gregdaniels421 in "What's the most popular number in Hacker News titles?"

gregdaniels421 — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:00:31 +0000

For determining words that are important doing something like a tf-idf would make more sense, or doing some key word analysis like RAKE or YAKE.

New comment by gregdaniels421 in "Bootstrapping GDC with DMD"

gregdaniels421 — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:58:12 +0000

This makes me interested in the gdc-wrapper, since that has been a problem for me in the past when trying to compile under multiple compilers, but I never thought to try the obvious thing and just wrap it. I might attempt a more comprehensive version of that later.

New comment by gregdaniels421 in "Show HN: 18KB ls alternative in no_std rust and Libc"

gregdaniels421 — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:45:56 +0000

Looks like nice human written rust code, I wonder if for your use case it might have been easier to write a small python script to use glob and pathlib to just add your emojis or note which is a file or dir since that shouldn't be super slow and would be using less space too(assuming you have python on your pi)

New comment by gregdaniels421 in "Show HN: Opening lines of famous literary works"

gregdaniels421 — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 02:32:44 +0000

Is there a good way to determine after seeing N unique items in M trials how many items there potentially are? Would tracking the time between seeing new unique items help? Is this an already solved problem?

New comment by gregdaniels421 in "C++20 Improved the For-Loop Syntax"

gregdaniels421 — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 01:40:34 +0000

An articulate creature that hounds its creator for abandoning it?

If anything it is more of a Chimera

New comment by gregdaniels421 in "A tiny cell that broke a big rule of biology"

gregdaniels421 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 21:44:32 +0000

Azolla which at one point maybe caused an iceage is freshwater only and a symbiotic organism with a cyanobacteria, and the bacteria can't tolerate salt, maybe there is something cool we could do with nitroplasts to improve sea vegetation to reduce CO2

New comment by gregdaniels421 in "Superoptimizer – A Look at the Smallest Program"

gregdaniels421 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 19:10:06 +0000

Yeah for the Quajects to get the JIT-ing to work, which was outrageous cool sounding when I first read about it. It is a same we can't figure out how to have nice things like that go fast(cache flushing).

New comment by gregdaniels421 in "Superoptimizer – A Look at the Smallest Program (1987) [pdf]"

gregdaniels421 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 17:00:03 +0000

Same author did the synthesis kernel with Carl Pu, I think? The Synthesis kernel was genius, but relied on self modifying code, so can't work with modern chips well.

New comment by gregdaniels421 in "Death of the Status Update: Why 55% of Americans Stopped Posting on Social Media"

gregdaniels421 — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 14:51:52 +0000

Discord is a bit better about that with "pings"