I've been dabbling with Neural Networks lately, specifically I've been trying to get a NN to learn to be a audio effect. I'm still in the early stages of learning me and "it" stuff. But here is a wave file with one file original and the other modified by a NN behaving as a rather simple waveshaper.
If you care to listen to it: testtrol
I have read a few of science fiction books in my days, but I recently stumbled on a "genre" that combines sci-fi and dystopian societies. My faves!
In a humanitarian outburst of sharing I hereby give you the top three books. All thought-provoking and a good action-read, on Wikipedia not all of them are labeled as science fiction, but I bought them in the sci-fi bookstore in Malmö so I'd go by that category anyways.
In no order:
Market Forces
You win contracts to your firm by racing against your competitors. And if you are in for a promotion, there is almost always a colleague to race against. And the races are to the death. Very cut-throat competitive.
Jennifer Government
The US of A is run by corporations, the government is a shattered in a libertarian utopia, but the companies does not behave well. Employes dont have their own last names, but keep rather the company they work for like John Nike. John Nike starts of the book by killing of kids in a marketing scheme, making demands for the new Nike's much much higher.
For The Win
Workers in third world countries works as gold-miners in on-line games, selling the farmed gold to rich western players that cant be bothered to level up themselves. Shit hit's the fan when these workers try to organize unions and demand fair salaries.
When you where in kindergarten, or first grade. Little anyway. Let's say you've made a drawing. You're mighty proud of this masterpiece. Let's think about the following scenarios:
1, Someone takes your painting and draws something on it.
Obviously you're heartbroken since you're drawing is now destroyed.
2, Someone draws you painting again, copying it with crayons.
This is probably not as upsetting, it probably depends on if it was one of the cool kids or not.
3, Someone takes you're picture, walks over to the copy-machine and makes a copy of it and keeps it in his or her drawer, never showing it to anyone.
Do you even care? you're a toddler.
4, Number 3 makes a copy and gives to his or her best friend.
you're getting popular right?
5, The same copy machine is used again and the kid from example NR 1 is not destroying you're drawing but extending it on his/her own copy.
Does this upset you? I don't think so, you have you're own painting still and the other kid has a new one.
So what does this all mean? I'm thinking that when we grow up, we loose a bit of common sense kids have but we keep (and expand) some of the feelings and reactions that we thought we have grown up from.
Svar: JA!
Bevis:
As you all know I like to do some geocaching once in a while, but I'm often a bit surprised as how wrong the coordinates can be. This is sometimes frustrating, and could easily be fixed, all you need is enough data. Another peeve is that you need to write on paper, to validate your find. I geocache with my phone, I don't feel the need to write my name on moist paper, nor do I really need to exchange small treasures. It's the search and the "getting out into nature" that does it for me.
Let me describe the solution to the described problems.
1 Every cache has a QR-code.
2 To validate your find all you have to do is scan the QR-Code
3 profit
A few things happens in the background though, when scanning the code, you
* Check the co-ordinates of the device that scans the qr-code
* check the device that does the scanning.
* Looks up the the cache in the database (so the app could present you with a dialog like: "You found "kära jesse" would you like to log it?")
* Saves the registered coordinates and the device that found it (some devices have better GPS) so that the more ppl log the cache the better it's co-ordinate gets.
* You log the find.
I think this could be something, I really really do. The more finds, the better coordinates.
Perhaps I should do a little test with the new geocaching.com API's, guess we'll have to hide a whole bunch of QR codes then.
I just want to hang this idea out here, one idea reason is for me to collect my thoughts so that it's not in shambles, so I can go back to check out what I want. Another reason would be for someone other then me to take the idea and run with it.
OK, so this is what I want:
* An AU/VST plugin that can load a settings file (ie neural network) that emulates an effect (be it an old vintage distortion or something other out there)
This is how I think it could be done:
* Make a neural network trainer where you input the original audio file, what kind of parameters to run on it, and the expected result. Then then train the neural network with new output and change the parameters to that that would output the new sound-file.
A good thing about being a kickstarter junkie is that open sometimes buy's really really useful stuff like this: http://www.shiffman.net/teaching/nature/nn/ but in .pdf format, and with even more info. So maybe, maybe I will be able to make this happen even though I previously thought I lacked the math skills needed.
Now if you'lll excuse me I'm gonna do a whole lot of reading.
Installing Lion on the old macbook.
Re-installing Lion to remove all old-stuff so I can give the computer to the missis.
Re-installing windows on Tova's computer, some odd dll was missing, reinstalling seems like the least problem for me.
Fixing my bike, some moron tried to steal it Friday (during the day) but failed, since it was locked. What the idiot managed to do though was to break one of the gears of off the bike, since the lock got stuck there. I could not find the pannier, or bicycle-basket that I would have guessed it was called in English. Oh, well. I managed to get the gear back on and the metallic o-ring that keeps it in place also. I hope it will last for a while, it seems safe.
Shame I fixed it without using Staffans weld.
I've been meaning to write about this subject for some time now, but life has gotten in the way.
Anyways.
When someone is turned to a vampire, however the process I think we can all agree on the fact that it turns the now-vampire's head upside down. It's a time of turmoil and bloodlust. A time when you know you will live forever. Start to kill humans to stay alive. A time to renew you're whole wardrobe and also get new friends.
Now another fact that I think you we can agree on. A vampire is never poor.
In some cases the vampire lives in a crypt, but almost always s/he is surrounded by ancient valuables. More likely the vampire owns a mansion or a castle, where he/she lives.
No my to my question. How is it, that in a time of turmoil and lust for blood a vampire start's investing in the future? Does vampireism come with a heightened sense of economics together with sun-allergies?
Possible solution could be:
* Accidentally leaves money in savings account and remembers later.
* Steals everything of value from it's victims.
* Low "living" cost's
* A secret hidden trust fund
If you can think of more, please share!
A song composed entirely of small c-programs that renders wav-sound, arranged and assembled into an epic 38 minutes portraying the four seasons (homage to Vivaldi's Le quattro stagioni) starting with spring, moving into summer autumn and then winter. All parts by itself a song in it's own. Together they form a masterpiece.
Johan Larsby - Seasons by Larsby
{
long left = ((Y*(Y>>12)&(int)(Y*2.01) &int(Y*1.99))&(Y*(Y>>14)&int(Y*3.01)&int(Y*3.99)))+((Y*(Y>>16)&int(Y*2.02)&int(Y*1.98))-(Y*(Y>>18)&int(Y*3.02)&int(Y*2.98)));
int right = ((t*(t>>12)&(int)(t*2.01) &int(t*1.99))&(t*(t>>14)&int(t*3.01)&int(t*3.99)))+((t*(t>>16)&int(t*2.02)&int(t*1.98))-(t*(t>>18)&int(t*3.02)&int(t*2.99)));
}
for ( t=0; t<_SIZE; t+=1 )
{
int left = (3*t)^(t>>6)%256+(t%2);
int right = int((3.0011*t))^(t>>5)%256;
}
for ( t=0; t<_SIZE; t+=1 )
{
int left = (3*t)^(t>>6)%256+(t%6);
int right = int((4.0011*t))^(t>>5)%256;
}
{
int left = (t|t>>9)*(t>>(t>>12&13));
int right = (t|t>>9)*(t>>(t>>12&13));
}
{
int left = (t>>4| (t&((t&t&3)*t>>5))) / sin(t * .00025);
int right = (t>>4| (t&((t&t&3)*t>>5))) / sin(t * .00026);
}
{
int left = sin(t * .00025) * 24000 + sin(t * .001) * 5000 + (cos(t * .0005) *cos(t * .0005)) * 50 + cos((t*t) * .001) * 30 ;
int right = sin(t * .00025) * 23000 + sin(t * .003) * 5000 + (cos(t * .0005) *cos(t * .0006)) * 50 + cos((t*t) * .011) * 30 ;
}
{
count+=0.2;
int left = sin(count * .00025) * 24000 + sin(count * .001) * 5000 + (cos(count * .0005) *cos(count * .0005)) * 50 + cos((count*count) * .001) * 30 ;
int right = sin(count * .00025) * 23000 + sin(count * .003) * 5000 + (cos(count * .0005) *cos(count * .0006)) * 50 + cos((count*count) * .011) * 30 ;
}
{
int left = (t&t%4)-(t>>6&t>>11&(t*2)) ;
int right = (t&t%4)-(t>>6&t>>10&(t/2)) ;
}
{
int left = ((t%16)*(t>>4)|(0x156783131)-(t>>4))/(t>>17)^(t|(t>>4)) ;
int right = ((t%32)*(t>>4)|(0x156783131)-(t>>4))/(t>>17)^(t|(t>>4)) ;
}
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