apropos of nothing:

this is an appreciation post for @simonwillison.net, who tries out literally all the tools, and joyfully shares (for free!) what he learns in the hope that it will be useful to other humans

grateful to have someone relentlessly building with the garage door open 💗🙌

A friend got me onto espresso tonic. Such a perfect summer drink.

Kyiv, Odesa: Russian terrorists targeted residential buildings overnight. Entire apartment sections have collapsed in some areas, the number of casualties has surpassed one hundred.

The whole thread is worth a read but using Hobbes as an analogy for human/AI assistant relations is lowkey brilliant

(Whispering quietly)

Ready Player One

Datadog released an open-weight, state-of-the-art time series foundation model called Toto, designed for multivariate time series forecasting with an emphasis on observability metrics.

They also introduced BOOM, their time series observability benchmark.

I've been really enjoying working with JAX recently and I'm happy that I could make a tiny contribution to improve audio workflows; from the next release on, expect about a 10x speedup in jax.scipy.signal.stft!

github.com/jax-ml/jax/p...

Holy crap! The vocal effects plugin I wrote for BABY audio as a collaboration during my Master's at AAU Copenhagen is currently #4 in the iPad app store charts for paid music apps 🤯

Complex www.smbc-comics.com/comic/ivy-le...

It's hard to overstate how dramatically pixi.sh and github.com/astral-sh/uv improve Python environment management. I've nearly entirely eliminated conda/mamba from my toolkit - and on the rare occasion I need one, I can trivially generate an environment from pixi.

Black-box and gray-box models for nonlinear audio effects were compared on a large dataset (ToneTwist AFx); time-varying gray-box models were introduced, and subjective evaluation was conducted.

Video of @stefanlattner.bsky.social 's talk at DMRN+19 is finally online:
"Models of Musical Signals: Representation, Learning & Generation" @c4dm.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixHf...

Writing a Python script that outputs CMakeLists.txt - in other words, I'm writing code to output some code that will output some code that will compile my code. Modern computing is weird.

Anabel and I rewatch Buffy regularly, and the thing that always impresses me is how regardless of varying strength of budget, writing, other actors, etc, Sarah Michelle Gellar gives it her all in every single scene, every second she's onscreen. Funny, sincere, heroic. Cleans her plate.

This feels like it was designed in a lab specifically to appeal to every possible facet of my musical taste.

For anyone interested in #audioprogramming, #audiotech, #musicai, #musictech, #aimusic research: @arxiv-sound.bsky.social is now live. Inspired by, but not related to, the similar account on the former bird app.