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peatmoss commented on Meta Segment Anything Model Audio   ai.meta.com/samaudio/... · Posted by u/megaman821
hbn · 3 days ago
I hope we keep making progress in isolating tracks in music. I love listening to stems of my favorite songs, I find all sorts of neat parts I missed out on. Listening to isolated harmonies is cool too.
peatmoss · a day ago
From the papers I've read, the stem separation models all seem to train off what seems like a fairly small dataset that doesn't have great instrument representation.

I wonder if you could assemble a big corpus of individual solo instruments, then permute a cacophonous mix of them. IIRC the main training dataset is comprised of a limited number of real songs. But I think a model trained on real songs might struggle with more "out there" harmonies and mixes.

peatmoss commented on Blender 5.0   blender.org/download/rele... · Posted by u/FrostKiwi
porphyra · a month ago
Blender is really an amazing case study of open source software. Apart from the Linux kernel and web browsers/tools, it is perhaps the only open source software that managed to beat all the commercial software in its niche. It has rendered Maya nearly obsolete.

Meanwhile, in other niches, Microsoft Office still beats open source office suites like LibreOffice; Photoshop isn't about to give up its crown to GIMP; Lightroom isn't losing to Darktable; and FreeCAD isn't even in the rear view mirror of Solidworks.

I wonder what will be the next category of open source to pull ahead? Godot is rapidly gaining users/mindshare while Unity seems to be collapsing, but Unreal is still the king of game engines for now. Krita is a viable alternative for digital painting.

peatmoss · a month ago
MuseScore is good enough that I haven't bothered to check back with commercial vendors. I'm pretty novice with it, however, so perhaps Sibelius power users will disagree.
peatmoss commented on AirPods libreated from Apple's ecosystem   github.com/kavishdevar/li... · Posted by u/moonleay
peatmoss · a month ago
Tunable transparency mode sounds great, and I wish Apple would do something like this as first-party support.

As a casual trombone player, who often plays in louder settings, the airpods pro are almost excellent hearing protection. Passive (even "audiophile" or "concert") earplugs make me feel like I'm under water. Airpods Pro attenuate a lot of sound but don't feel so unnatural.

Unfortunately, they tend to drop my own sound out of the mix when sounds around me get louder.

I'd love a mode that selectively let in more trombone frequencies, or better, that mixed noise cancellation and transparency to give me more of a studio monitor effect. Maybe the airpods could figure out which sounds were mine via the buzzing sounds that propagate through my head from my lips.

peatmoss commented on Apple nears $1B Google deal for custom Gemini model to power Siri   9to5mac.com/2025/11/05/go... · Posted by u/jbredeche
peatmoss · a month ago
I think the answer here involves licensing and Apple control of the infrastructure, but my first thought was, "I historically trust Apple with my data a bit more than I trust Google, how is this not just trusting Google with my data?"

Apple previously pitched a vision of local-first AI for privacy, but seems to have badly miscalculated the kind of customer experience they could provide. My personal experience is that Siri has suffered greatly.

Case in point, I like to listen to music in the car, and Siri now confidently starts playing artists whose names sound nothing like what I requested. Also maddening "Play [x] on Apple Music" "You'll need to authorize me to use Youtube Music"

Still I live with / pay for so much that is broken based on a kind of Apple privacy vibes inertia. Siri being wired up to more of my personal information plus Apple maybe shipping that data to Google is going to make me reevaluate that.

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peatmoss commented on KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices   community.kde.org/KDEConn... · Posted by u/snthd
CaptainOfCoit · 2 months ago
From the feature list, how do I actually accomplish these things without having the app open on iOS, or at all?

- Receive your phone notifications on your desktop computer

- Reply to text messages (or even read?)

peatmoss · 2 months ago
I don't think those work between iOS and KDE Connect. I would love to be able to type iMessages on my Linux desktop's computer. If I'm wrong about this not working, someone please let me know, but I've never been able to make messages work.
peatmoss commented on German government comes out against Chat Control   xcancel.com/paddi_hansen/... · Posted by u/SolonIslandus
shevy-java · 2 months ago
This is strange, because not long ago it was Germany (!!) that pushed heavily for mass-sniffing of people. I don't trust this. People should watch very, very carefully what Germany is actually doing next. I would not be surprised if the mass-sniffing comes in a few months when nobody is looking.
peatmoss · 2 months ago
I can't remember where I read it, but I read that Signal's popularity was high (highest?) in Germany. Assuming I'm not misremembering or that the situation hasn't changed, it seems that Germans care enough about the issue to stake out a position.
peatmoss commented on CompileBench: Can AI Compile 22-year-old Code?   quesma.com/blog/introduci... · Posted by u/jakozaur
calebkaiser · 3 months ago
There's been a decent chunk of research in this direction over the years. Michael O'Boyle is pretty active as a researcher in the space, if you're looking for stuff to read: https://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/mob/
peatmoss · 3 months ago
Thank you! I'll take a read.
peatmoss commented on CompileBench: Can AI Compile 22-year-old Code?   quesma.com/blog/introduci... · Posted by u/jakozaur
peatmoss · 3 months ago
Though this is more "LLM uses a variety of open source tools and compilers to compile source," I do wonder about whether there will eventually be a role for transformers in compiling code.

I've mentioned this before, but "sufficiently smart compiler" would be the dream here. Start with high level code or pseudo code, end up with something optimized.

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