Readit NewsAlthough that feels a bit exaggerated, I feel it's not far from the truth. If there were, say, 3 closed source animation software that could do professional animation in total, and they just all decided to just kill the product one day, it would actually kill the entire industry. Animators would have no software to actually create animation with. They would have to wait until someone makes one, which would take years for feature parity, and why would anyone make one when the existing software thought such product wasn't a good idea to begin with?
I feel this isn't much different with AI. It's a rush to make people depend on a software that literally can't run on a personal computer. Adobe probably loves it because the user can't pirate the AI. If people forget how to use image editing software and start depending entirely on AI to do the job, that means they will forever be slaves to developers who can host and setup the AI on the cloud.
Imagine if people forgot how to format a document in Word and they depended on Copilot to do this.
Imagine if people forgot how to code.
I've noticed this too, and I think it's a good thing: much better to start using the simplest forms and understand AI from first principles rather than purchase the most complete package possible without understanding what is going on. The cranky ones on HN are loud, but many of the smart-but-careful ones end up going on to be the best power users.
I was initially overly optimistic about AI and embraced it fully. I tried using it on multiple projects - and while the initial results were impressive, I quickly burned my fingers as I got it more and more integrated with my workflow. I tried all the things, last year. This year, I'm being a lot more conservative about it.
Now .. I don't pay for it - I only use the bare bones versions that are available, and if I have to install something, I decline. Web-only ... for now.
I simply don't trust it well enough, and I already have a disdain for remotely-operated software - so until it gets really, really reliable, predictable and .. just downright good .. I will continue to use it merely as an advanced search engine.
This might be myopic, but I've been burned too many times and my projects suffered as a result of over-zealous use of AI.
It sure is fun watching what other folks are daring to accomplish with it, though ..
Its always curious to me that this technology hasn't been adopted in the QWERTY keyboard field, although that may be due to patents .. as I understand it the piano keyboard manufacturers are very aggressive about protecting these patents, and its one of the reasons that all synth manufacturers get their keybed mechanisms from the same supplier (Fatar TP9S) .. though recent technology has moved on to use piezo-electric switches.
https://www.fatar.com/products/tp9s/
(Some other interesting details here: https://www.fatar.com/products/)
Xenharmlib has deep support for intervals, chords, scales, non-standard notations, and advanced topics like non-Western harmonics, diatonic set theory, and non-octave-repeating systems and also allows for the mathematical manipulation of ratios and structures (harmonic exploration).
PyTuning allows for generating scales from ratios/cents, EDO, just intonation, and custom temperaments and facilitates calculations such as frequency ratios, comma approximations, and temperament comparisons, aligning with the article's derivations and trade-off discussions at a similar depth.
I hope to see more math of music articles in the future .. its a fascinating subject indeed!
It's strange to think that alternative architectures were possible though and could get such a foothold in some industries. The specificity is mind-blowng. Everything is "PC"s today.
Yes, imho, there is a great deal of ignorance of the actual contents of the NSA leaks.
The agitprop against Snowden as a "Russian agent" has successfully occluded the actual scandal, which is that the NSA has built a totalitarian-authoritarian apparatus that is still in wide use.
Autocrats' general hubris about their own superiority has been weaponized against them. Instead of actually addressing the issue with America's repressive military industrial complex, they kill the messenger.
He thought he would get away with it, because they were also doing it - the difference is, they did it way over the horizon, out of sight, whereas he did it in his own backyard for all the world to see.