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started on a little low level c++ audio library. how is this API format?

love to get new vulkan validation errors after updating video card drivers

For another insightful example of flat ontologies in popular culture, may I refer you to the works of [1] [2] of Takahashi et al. exploring the implications of dividing the material world into just two categories:
1. small enough to be rolled into katamari,
2. will soon be small enough to be rolled into katamari.

[1] Katamari Damacy, Namco, 2004
[2] We❤️Katamari, Namco, 2005

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had no idea the 3d filesystem from jurassic park was actual existing software and now i'm questioning every over the top CG hacking scene i've seen

Arthur C. Clarke: In the year 2000 we will have instant telecommunications via satellites...

Me: wow, he was so right

Arthur C. Clarke: ...aaaand genetically engineered monkey servants.

on the one hand, i'm not looking forward to humanity becoming a blue collar workforce for AI-run corporations, on the other hand, this will be a good chance to finally learn woodworking

"QUICK. WHAT ARE THE 128 MOST IMPORTANT INSTRUMENTS? WE NEED TO HAVE THE GENERAL MIDI SPEC IN TOMORROW!"

"UH FUCK, PIANO 1 PIANO 2 PIANO 3 FLUTE OBOE GUN"

"GUN???"

"HELICOPTER"

So I've been building a 100% analog polyphonic synthesizer with an unique twist. To use only vacuum tube era technology from the 1930s.

Over 300 neon gas diodes create the sound you hear. Pretty awesome for technology from 100 years ago.

Still a work-in-progress, but I wanted to post a video of it with the innards spread out across the workbench. : }

I call it the "Neon String Machine"

#synthesizers #music #electronics #audio #synthwave

Hey I made a little zine for Valentine's Day of various dedication pages from books and you can buy it here: buy.stripe.com/eVacP2bUj7l25dS

this websites is a giant fridge and i am but a weak little magnet

is the grim reality of the labor requirements of your overly ambitious project starting to set in?
start a new one and experience the rush of naive optimism all over again!

"in the future, women with soundchips in their earrings will listen to Beethoven's symphonies"

youtube.com/watch?v=r28i-k3mL3

Someone made an endless simulation of Seinfeld, using AI generated dialogue in a lo-fi 3D world. It's kinda fascinating twitch.tv/watchmeforever

card game AI development went from "i'll knock this out in a weekend" to reading AlphaGo papers real quick

me doing research for a nice bookshelf speaker setup: "these hifi reviewers are the most obnoxious people i've ever seen"

me after i set it all up: "mm yes i feel a warm sparkle in the upper registers and hints of chocolate in the bass"

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