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New comment by quaverquaver in "YuE2 · Frontier Music with Symbolic Planning"

quaverquaver — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 01:21:31 +0000

I guess it could be neat to play 100 of these at the same tempo at once but otherwise I'm having trouble coming up a use case for this...

New comment by quaverquaver in "Splash-free urinals (2025)"

quaverquaver — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 17:29:14 +0000

it is hilarious that they include Marcel Duchamp in this discussion! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_(Duchamp)

New comment by quaverquaver in "Being ambitious and being a dad"

quaverquaver — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 01:04:04 +0000

family life is not about "compounding gains" -- in part because family life is not about "gain" at all. On the contrary - you sacrifice and are ultimately consumed! The language of investing is entirely out of place in this context.

New comment by quaverquaver in "Ask HN: Does anyone else feel like nothing matters anymore?"

quaverquaver — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 02:42:39 +0000

^hell yeah! thx

New comment by quaverquaver in "Beware the Permanent Periphery"

quaverquaver — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 09:54:59 +0000

we are seeing robust profits and growth in margins in the S&P even ex tech and some of this spillover from the hyperscaling but some may be due to productivity enhancement from AI.

New comment by quaverquaver in "Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?"

quaverquaver — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:23:55 +0000

maybe the comment length is a ruse to increase token consumption

New comment by quaverquaver in "Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?"

quaverquaver — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:11:59 +0000

I have codex rewrite all Opus' comments with great results.

New comment by quaverquaver in "How Gödel's Proof Works (2020)"

quaverquaver — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 21:00:07 +0000

while it is a groovy into to recursion and other cool ideas, GEB annoys me in that I feel like the three figures in the title are ill matched. Godel proves a super important result in math, sure... Escher was a skilled draughtsman who had a feel for tesselation. An OK artist IMO but no special insights. Bach on the other hand was an expressive genius who in the volume, power and beauty of his productions just seemed to drop out the sky like a meteor. Escher does not belong in the same breath frankly. if Bach made a crab canon or did other marginally math-y things that is just not the point - the work lives or dies in entirely different terms...

New comment by quaverquaver in "U of Michigan drops first-semester grades to ‘curb mental health crisis’"

quaverquaver — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:19:11 +0000

research tilts towards grades not helping learners in contrast to non-quantitative feedback so there's that.

New comment by quaverquaver in "Frame selection is the whole game: notes on making LLMs watch video"

quaverquaver — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 01:49:57 +0000

perhaps a representation of movement rather than a series of frames would better model what people see when watching video - highly compressed formats might even be directly useful in this regard?

New comment by quaverquaver in "Cagire: Live Coding in Forth"

quaverquaver — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 16:39:07 +0000

concatenative code is sort of a natural fit for audio in terms of representing signal flow...

New comment by quaverquaver in "Cagire: Live Coding in Forth"

quaverquaver — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 16:32:28 +0000

for FORTH like synthesis environment you will want to check out SAPF! (by James McCartney author of SuperCollider) https://github.com/lfnoise/sapf

New comment by quaverquaver in "Claude Sonnet 5"

quaverquaver — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:30:41 +0000

these are capital intensive commodity businesses. They can be plenty big - see railroads or airplanes... or refining... but that doesn't mean that most value won't be added elsewhere.

New comment by quaverquaver in "Claude Sonnet 5"

quaverquaver — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:26:34 +0000

I would not take "space data centers" as a given! from most to least likely these will be vaporware, vaprorized-ware, rubble-ware, loss leaders.

New comment by quaverquaver in "Swedish parliament abolishes permanent residence visas for migrants"

quaverquaver — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 23:10:31 +0000

marginal tax rates reached 94% in 1944 on income over 200k in the US. The high marginal tax regime gave rise to a period of relative equality. Nothing stupid about it - if a long right tail is a social ill (it is) then why have it?

New comment by quaverquaver in "Swedish parliament abolishes permanent residence visas for migrants"

quaverquaver — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 23:05:00 +0000

...but there is data that there are issues upstream - there are fewer couples to begin with! That is not economical (economies of scale) suggesting that we are looking at changes in social structure rather than some kind of aggregate economic adaptation.

New comment by quaverquaver in "Shunning AI is the human choice"

quaverquaver — Thu, 21 May 2026 14:08:49 +0000

...but one of your examples has had disastrous consequences. Sure cars prevailed but they have changed the climate and let to unfriendly development patterns. Likewise social media may make people less happy, less likely to couple etc. Novel tech solves problems but can create others. We can surely afford to move deliberately at least, particularly in education.

New comment by quaverquaver in "Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian"

quaverquaver — Mon, 18 May 2026 23:17:25 +0000

...yes but apparently while the posterior hippocampus actually grows in these people the anterior hippocampus shrinks... so there may be tradeoffs required to get this level of spatial knowledge... https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.070039597

New comment by quaverquaver in "EFF is leaving X"

quaverquaver — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:06:12 +0000

X is a rare platform where an individual manipulates the algorithm per his own personal political whims. And, yes he is explicitly racist and anti-democratic. No org that cares about freedom should contribute to what is really a personal effort to commandeer the information environment.

New comment by quaverquaver in "America could have $4 lunch bowls like Japan but for zoning laws"

quaverquaver — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 16:00:08 +0000

In the US per official data ~5% have more than one job (and that includes lawyers doing consultancy for example) https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS12026620