Skullgrid

Skullgrid , 1 day ago (edited 1 day ago)

This week, I spent a few hours listening to Dadabot's Pho Queue stream.

I read the little prose they left in the stream description. And I found myself wanting to go back to it several times. Something about the screams of "FA KYUU" sounds morphing into saxophones, being garbled, sometimes screamed, sometimes sung, the transitions that were talked about in the prose felt nice to listen to. sometimes it felt like it was coming up with genuine new ideas, for itself at least, that it didn't generate before.

Then I started thinking of the level of art discourse we have in the modern world, especially visual arts, and ideas from Cage. And the nature of the music industry.

Jackson Pollock and his CIA funded splashes of paint are only worthwhile to people who actually like them. The AI generated saxophone warblings, the screeches that come out of it, the choppy, syncopated drum beats give me feelings. It is art to me.

There is a person behind the scenes, that curated the algorithm to bring out music in a certain way. Pho Queue doesn't sound the same as a "bach faucet" , because of the human creativity and curation that went into the way the music is generated.

Brian Eno and John Cage made music with procedural generation features before the current wave of generative AIs. It's an established perspective to have on music. Some performances use radios being tuned to frequencies just to add a new source of sound.

How is this stuff any different?

On the other side of the coin, does music made by humans inherently mean anything? The crap churned out by pop musicians that are flying around with private jets, composed by commitee with the end goal of generating another product for someone else to buy, is there any expression or emotion in there? What does the zillionth love song made by a billionaire have to offer that hasn't been expressed a zillion times before?

There's some more to be written , like if I make music myself that relies heavily on timbre, or effects that I bought, who's really doing the expression, and how? If the musical theory of what I'm playing is simple, and contributes less to the aesthetic feelings of the music I'm making than my guitar's timbre, the way I set up my effects pedals; is the expression I'm doing actually more in how I turned the knobs on my pedals to get an aesthetic than the actual notes I play? So then am I expressing something, or are the people who designed and manufactured my equipment?

But then we get into this :

I thought using loops was cheating, so I programmed my own using samples. I then thought using samples was cheating, so I recorded real drums. I then thought that programming it was cheating, so I learned to play drums for real. I then thought using bought drums was cheating, so I learned to make my own. I then thought using premade skins was cheating, so I killed a goat and skinned it. I then thought that that was cheating too, so I grew my own goat from a baby goat. I also think that is cheating, but I’m not sure where to go from here. I haven’t made any music lately, what with the goat farming and all.

The talk about AI is stupid. It's a tool.

The talk about the IMPLICATIONS of AI, and who uses it to automate what, at the cost of who, is the actual argument to be had.

If some metal band that can barely scrape together enough money to tour uses AI to generate an album cover, it shouldn't be taken as a horrifying act of taking money out of an artist's mouth. If BMG fires everyone they have on the art dept to only use AI art, that's something to be concerned about.

Skullgrid , 2 days ago

Yeah, who else would want free big boobs bimbo surgery, a busty intellectual?

Skullgrid , 2 days ago

I thought having at least Hu and Watt as their names would make the sketch make a little more sense

Skullgrid , 3 days ago

Ok, but all you did was make more people pay attention to the trending panel which made people look at the slur.

Skullgrid , 3 days ago

which skin are you using? post a screenshot , alongside your current playlist so we can be entertained

Skullgrid , 4 days ago

this news is so foreign to me I have no idea who's in the right or wrong.

this means it's a high quality post, and not just more news from the US, Canada , Australia and Europe.

Skullgrid , 5 days ago

Why? You should teach the same things to your son at the least for empathy , the most for prevension.

Skullgrid , 5 days ago

What? Why shouldn't his daughter and son be taught that sometimes, men act inappropriately and that women feel threatened and all the rest?

Skullgrid , 5 days ago

Something something feet pics

Skullgrid , 4 days ago

Agile sprints are 2-6weeks.

I have never, in over 10 years of working in agile seen a single company go one day over 2weeks.

Skullgrid , 5 days ago

Oh look, actual antisemitism

Skullgrid , 5 days ago

Why not share a source that doesn't fund fascism?

Skullgrid , 6 days ago

This is bait to then switch the genders then cause outrage.

Skullgrid , 6 days ago

Otoh, not everyone has the frankly marginal technical skills it requires to download and use KoboldCPP,

if it's anything like Stable diffusion, there's probably a webui that lets you run it if you can follow basic instructions

Skullgrid , 6 days ago

At this point, if they're asking for the scientifically specified strain of virus to be served to them, I'm not sure it sounds like "anti science" , more like "braggadocious risk taking"

Skullgrid , 5 days ago

Covid has a mortality rate of about 3%

hah great, makes the 1 in 50k risk of a certain vaccine's side effects even more ridiculous to think about

Skullgrid , 7 days ago

I hear he's more into the head of the pig

Skullgrid , 7 days ago

So... "go outside and touch grass" is bullshit? :P

Skullgrid , 7 days ago

More like his mom is going to get his dad to give her the bidness

Source : I made my own milf and she wants dick.

Skullgrid , 7 days ago

oof, one of them sex negative feminists.

Nah, joking aside, different people want different things at different times. I spent time with the baby and cleaning the kitchen etc as well.

Skullgrid , 6 days ago

Great, now fix it without having over half the country go into poverty, you privileged piece of shit boludo.

Skullgrid , 6 days ago

bueno, la gente de argentina, mas que nunca estan en una situacion de sufrimiento. Necesitan ayuda para las cosas mas basica, y la unica meta de Milei es para sacar lo que necesitan.

VOS creo no estas sufriendo de nada, asi que callate la puta boca o sobrevivete como estan sobreviviendo los de mas.

Skullgrid , 7 days ago

even then you're fucked. I've been on "the bench" at my contracting company since christmas, which led to my wages getting halved. every fucking day I read about layoffs in software development flooding the market with better programmers than me.

Skullgrid , 8 days ago

I tried to think of a comeback about how safe caesareans are, but then remembered when my wife said she started feeling faint during hers and the brick I shat as a response.

Skullgrid , 8 days ago

Skip one night of sleep, go to bed at your target hour, pref an hour or two before.

wake up at 4 - 6 am

Go to bed at 9, fall asleep at 10

Skullgrid , 9 days ago

https://i.imgur.com/tNWffCY.jpeg

Skullgrid , 9 days ago

yes, if he thinks of Israel as a place for jews that want to live in his country to be deported to.

See also : Rishi sunak, Rwanda.

Skullgrid , 10 days ago

Therefore, the money going to the remaining studios goes up.

LOL

People believe this shit? The money goes directly to some CX or some manegement asshole or chair or board or fucking whatever. What studios? What devs?

Skullgrid , 10 days ago (edited 10 days ago)

They've been doing remote learning stuff for a very long time

I remember seeing some of their stuff come on TV late at night in the UK in the 90s and 00s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_University

Skullgrid , 10 days ago (edited 10 days ago)

Luke Correia put it best

Skullgrid , 10 days ago

having lived in cities with amazing metro, ok metro, no metro and towns with shitty train access and great train access...

this is 150% true. Having an underground station near your house makes the entire city 30 min away, using buses or horribly interconnected trains makes things 1 to 2 hours away.

Even living outside the city, having a direct rail to the nearest metropolitan center take an hour increased quality of life for me by a fuckload.

Skullgrid , 10 days ago

this kid's got dynamite CEO written all over him

Skullgrid , 10 days ago

bruh, your company has money for all those layers in your lasagna?

Skullgrid , 10 days ago

Ex test lead, this 100%.

My job was to organise the work between the workers, keep the business away from my subordinates, and only waste their time when they had the complete information being asked for the specific reason.

And if I wasn't doing one of the things above, my job was to pick up the horrible things that no one else wanted/I had experience and domain knowledge in (eg : accessibility testing)

Skullgrid , 10 days ago

no but bro, the code complexity tool says that this scope has 14 complexity instead of 13, we gotta cram it in a single ternary for code legibility

Skullgrid , 10 days ago

Did he say it as a compliment, admittance or insult?

Skullgrid , 10 days ago

I want some advice, I started a new playthrough, and the furthest I got before this one was going into caesar's camp or something dressed as one of his legion, but when I returned to the friendly faction, I left the armour on by mistake and they turned on me, and I lost my save.

I haven't got a companion yet, but I'm about to fix ED-E. What happens if I try something similar, and try to dress up like a normally enemy faction and go to their base with a companion (ED-E or other)? I'm trying to do a speech/int run , how should I manage my companions so they only shoot when I start to get into combat, or I am sneaking around or walking around in costume?

Skullgrid , 12 days ago

Numbers add up VS being unvaccinated and getting covid, somethingsomething fuck antivaxxers

Skullgrid , 13 days ago

Is this the current version of that game? is the 100% science lady involved in this?

https://www.pcgamer.com/i-think-i-love-draconia-the-only-mmo-about-dragons-peacefully-collecting-seashells/

Skullgrid , 13 days ago

these would pair well with

Slow-Cooked Russet Potatoes That Fall Right Off The Bone

Skullgrid , 12 days ago

bro about to be visited by his friends

Skullgrid , 14 days ago

Dating... dating never changes

Skullgrid , 14 days ago

"your voucher has been redeemed! here's the purchases :

Factorio

Dwarf Fortress

Rimworld"

Skullgrid , 13 days ago

There are war criminals on both sides. Some I assume are good people.

Skullgrid , 14 days ago

SLCCSC putting in work, I think .

Which state is st Louis in?

Skullgrid , 14 days ago

You cannot, afaik, I just didn't recognise the states listed as where the st Louis chess club might be located, but I didn't know what state it was in.

Skullgrid , 16 days ago

The D.R.E.W. system

be D.irected by D.anny D.eVito

wR.ite your sex list on the back of your script

E.ntice your host

W.in the dick out of his pants.

That one sucks, let me try another

D.emand you can stay at his place

R.evise your previous lovers on a list

E.licit sexual actions from your host

W.rite his name on your list

Skullgrid , 16 days ago

Pray tell Mr Babbage, what if you were to only put into the machine the right questions, would the wrong answers come out?

-Some aristocratic idiot 1869, april 20.

EDIT : I should really provide the source just for fun.

On two occasions I have been asked, — "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" In one case a member of the Upper, and in the other a member of the Lower, House put this question. I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

Passages from the Life of a Philosopher (1864), ch. 5 "Difference Engine No. 1"