Amir

Amir , 2 days ago to fediverse in Introducing ink.key, a fediverse music collective/net label.

yearning.gay

lmao

Amir , 9 days ago (edited 9 days ago) to memes in Math

Cursive big f: “integration”, which can be interpreted in two ways. One is “area under the curve” for some part of the curve. Other is “average value of a part of the curve multiplied by the size of that part of the curve”. Curve being the function, the graph, f(x), however you wanna call it.

Normal d: “differentiation” (from difference), infinitely small change. Usually used in ratios: df/dx means how much does f(x) change relative to x when you change x a little bit.

Cursive d: “partial”, same as normal d but used when working with higher dimensional data like 3D. Can also mean “boundary” of something. Example: boundary of a volume in 3D, like wrapping paper around a box. Or, boundary of such wrapping paper itself, if it’s not perfectly connecting.

Omega: just a Greek letter used as a variable, in this case there’s a history of it being used as a sort of “density” variable in the field of differential geometry. The college row in the meme is kind of translating the high school row from a function to a 3D volume.

Amir , 11 days ago to technology in Top EU Court Says There’s No Right To Online Anonymity, Because Copyright Is More Important

Companies could take and steal as much as they want from smaller artists in that case

Amir , 12 days ago to showerthoughts in Today's date is Dozen/Half Dozen/Two Dozen

December 6th is still coming

Amir , 14 days ago to lemmyshitpost in Long Cow is coming

Neural networks aren’t going anywhere because they can be genuinely useful, just not to solve every problem

Amir , 14 days ago to lemmyshitpost in Long Cow is coming

That’s specifically LLMs. Image recognition like OP has nothing to do with language processing. Then there’s generative AI which needs some kind of mapping between prompts and weights, but is also a completely different type of “AI”

That doesn’t mean any of these “AI” products can think, but don’t conflate LLMs and AI as being the same

Amir , 15 days ago to lemmyshitpost in It's your amigo, Ralph!

if a tree falls in a forest and no one hears it

Amir , 19 days ago to technology in Photoshop Terms of Service grants Adobe access to user projects for ‘content moderation’ and other purposes

Link? I just find graphite dev which is not related to drawing

Amir , 19 days ago to technology in Spotify has raised prices for the second time in a year, with no new benefits, after its CEO sparked outrage by claiming the cost of creating 'content' is 'close to zero'

If you must use Spotify, use ZSpotify with DOWNLOAD_REAL_TIME and hope you don’t get banned. Alternatively, use it with a burner account.

I prefer Deezer and pay for Deezer HiFi. Deemix still works to rip FLACs from there.

Amir , 20 days ago to technology in Spotify has raised prices for the second time in a year, with no new benefits, after its CEO sparked outrage by claiming the cost of creating 'content' is 'close to zero'

Isn’t YTM like 128-192kbps AAC? I’d rather not even bother ripping that lol

Amir , 20 days ago to technology in Spotify has raised prices for the second time in a year, with no new benefits, after its CEO sparked outrage by claiming the cost of creating 'content' is 'close to zero'

Spotify’s encoding (vorbis 320kbps) should be transparent at the maximum bitrate. However, it’s possible that the files uploaded on there are mastered differently, for average consumer consumption instead of the full dynamics of most source material. I know SoundCloud enforces “loudness” mastering with presets when uploading for example.

The real reason Spotify’s quality is inferior to others is that, if you have the music files, you can apply in-app parametric equalization on every platform and compensate for imperfections of your output device.

Amir , 20 days ago to technology in Spotify has raised prices for the second time in a year, with no new benefits, after its CEO sparked outrage by claiming the cost of creating 'content' is 'close to zero'

Tidal, Deezer and Quboz all have ways to download the content. The most stupid one being to record the output of the music player, but there’s tools that automatically get the full metadata too and ensure the audio is cropped to silence.

To do it in an intended way, Bandcamp and other services let you pay once to have access to the source file on your account “forever”.

Amir , 20 days ago to technology in Spotify has raised prices for the second time in a year, with no new benefits, after its CEO sparked outrage by claiming the cost of creating 'content' is 'close to zero'

Opus at max bitrate is only like 1/4th the size of FLAC. At that point, why not just store it in 10GB while keeping the full quality?

Amir , 20 days ago to programmerhumor in AI layoffs

Only one of them gets to make the decision to fire the other

Amir , 20 days ago to world in Biden: ‘every reason’ to believe Netanyahu is prolonging Gaza war for political gain

Somehow this is just as incoherent as Trump transcriptions