air217's comments

On: How to effectively write quality code with AI

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attention is all AI needs

On: A Social Filesystem

[air217]

nostr protocol and the client/relay model is one simple way to separate apps (clients) from the data (relays)

On: Ask HN: Share your personal website

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sammyjaved.com

On: My favourite small hash table

[air217]

Used Gemini to explain this. Very interesting and I think Gemini did a good job explaining the Robin hood fairness mechanism

https://gemini.google.com/share/5add15a1c12f

On: Audio Decomposition – open-source seperation of music to constituent instruments

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I developed https://pyaar.ai, it uses MT3 under the hood. I realized that continuous string instruments (guitar) that have things like slides, bends are quite difficult to capture in MIDI. Piano works much better because it's more discrete (the keys abstract away the strings) and so the MIDI file has better representation

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> I realized that continuous string instruments (guitar) that have things like slides, bends are quite difficult to capture in MIDI.

It's just pitch bend?

I think trying to transcribe as MIDI is just a fundamentally flawed approach that has too many (well known) pitfalls to be useful.

A trained human can listen to a piece and transcribe it in seconds, but programming it as MIDI could take minutes/hours. If you're not trying to replicate how humans learn by ear, you're probably approaching this wrong.