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I think this is nasty to provide as a service to others because the voice didn't consent. I don't agree with others when also critiquing personal use. Personal use should be fair use as long as you aren't stealing or mining a service to minimize some personal cost.

So is this a text to speech model while mimicking somebody's voice? That is pretty cool.

One thing I don't understand is how you get specific models for someone's voice. Do you fine tune to that voice?

The issue of style transfer is not something I understand for audio. Anyone have example papers to read? I am familiar with MuLan, MusicLM, and MusicGen.

article seems good but ledger.com publishing this is kinda hilarious.

also i am about to work better at the office for focus mode

I understand that this paper is about controls. I wish there was more detail in how it differs to other music generation methods like MusicLM. That seems to be in the MusicGen paper though [5]!

But then I am more curious about how this compares to MusicLM in terms of music generation.

I completely agree that theory is incredibly important to undestand and retain things. I just disagree that DE doesn't teach the necessary theory, at least the ones at HYP (for physicists) didn't.

This is why I found this article kinda pointless.

At the end of the day, most practitioners will work with just a bag of tricks, so if that is what the class teaches most of the time, I really don't mind at all. Yeah there is deeper theory to changes of variables and all that, but for an intro class that is aimed at a wide audience (physicists and any sort of applied math), then yeah some light theory and a bag of tricks is perfect. The students that need more will learn that theory later anyways in a second or even third class.

You don't have to sacrifice that much rigour either.

Not every class needs a narrative either. I agree that concrete examples to go with the abstract is more needed in mathematics, but differential equations isn't a victim of that.

I see other comments say that differential equations are victim to :

> why we are we learning this?

I don't think this really applies to differential equations at all to be honest. And people say the same complaints about learning scales in music or wtv. Just learn shit and figure out meaning later works too.

Thanks for sharing. Do i need to play the first two? Does it go on sale often? Haven't used my switch since god of war ragnarok came out, and this seems like a good excuse!

Then why did she make that statement?

> Or maybe because there wasn't actually a good case to block the merger?

OK, then she shouldn't have taken the case and wasted time!!!! Exactly my point. I am confused as to how she got the job when she seems wildly out of her depth.

I have been rage researching her all day, and I can understand why sentiment within the FTC lawyers is so low right now lol. BS like this might actually turn me into a Republican because at least the federalist society puts up ideological morons that get the job done.

Someone with at least a decade of experience in non-academic law. Or at least 5....

I am all about academics. I think intelligentsia is undervalued in America. But not all skills in academia transfer to industry/gov, and you need new ones too that can only be built with experience. She is people's boss ffs. Would you want your boss in government to be someone that has never had a leadership position in government????

> She wrote a paper that provides a new legal basis for antitrust enforcement in the U.S. that allows for different theories from the currently prevailing "consumer harm" doctrine.

That is my point. This is nearly purely all academic experience. No experience in managing such a large system like the FTC. How is she supposed to manage people?

> Her paper on antitrust was a huge deal in the legal world. It would be more accurate to ask, "who knew her?" and the answer would be pretty much everybody in the legal community.

From what I understand talking to Columbia Law school grads in anti trust, it was just riding a populist wave. I don't know too much so I will take your word for it.

> The FTC hasn't had a successful major antitrust case in decades...

No, but they have done deals, something Lina Khan said she should consider more when she was getting roasted at that congressional hearing.

On the other points: I don't know enough about this space to talk on the other points which is why I was asking those questions.

So I had no idea who she was and looked up her background....

She seems wildly inexperienced.... Clearly smart and motivated, but wildly out of her depth. No wonder they failed to prevent the Microsoft + Activision Blizzard merger. Lawyers with decades of experience on her ran around her in circles

How did she get that job? Who did she know? Was she set up to fail? What the actual hell is this?

I am incredibly disappointed in this corrupt bs. Like this can't be all just because she wrote that thesis on Amazon. No way that justifies her position.

I don't care about her ideological positions or wtv, but has she actually succeeded in any anti trust case? I have been rage clicking through her history, and while her academic record is impressive, I see nothing successful during her tenure at the ftc.

No need to apologize. I do a terrible job at ignoring IQ rationalists. Guess it balances out because IQ rationalists do a great job ignoring well-substantiated data from biologists.

How cursed it must to be so growth oriented with a fixed mindset.

I have.

Identical twins separated at birth can have vastly separate outcomes. Nurture >>> nature pretty definitively.

Next thing I notice, someone is gonna post a gwern style response on IQ ridiculousness.

I DESPISE THAT QUOTE.

Nobody is born anything.

Nobody is born a slave, a criminal, a prodigy, a prophet, an athlete, an intellectual, an iconoclast, etc..

Every moment a person is born is an opportunity for us to be surpassed or ashamed.

What a disgusting gatekeeping statement.

The only thing people are born anything as are maybe royalty, which is an entirely different disgusting enterprise.

Maybe I am channeling too much OnePiece 1096.

The forecasts were overblown and X/Twitter is definitely stickier than people thought, but pointing at cherry-picked hyperboles to state that the criticisms were just emotions and hysteria is just ridiculous. Twitter did quite indeed suffer a lot from the Musk takeover, just by looking at ad figures, engagement, and the actual content on the site.

Anecdote: I used to be a daily twitter user, and I barely use it now because you can pay to traffic terrible content (not ads)

I didn't have much trouble. When MacbooksAir 2011 version had those SSD hardware failures, I told multiple classmates of mine about the hardware failure page and they got the repairs for free instead of spending $800.

This seems like a very unusual bug by Apple standards. Makes me consider upgrading to new macbooks...

In 2015, I told my circle of friends at college that Elizabeth Holmes was a fraud, and that she was only able to get so far by masking as the female Steve Jobs. I simply stated that what she was claiming was impossible. I got called a misogynist lol.

Really smart people sometimes get lost in the structure of narrative and forget to do basic queries. I also learned that you gotta be careful who you criticize even if you are totally right. People won't change their opinion on your statement when the evidence vindicates you.

> True effective altruism at play here.

Ngl, I feel terrible for all the people that lost FTX money, but it is kinda amazing to see the world see what a terrible mess and how irreducibly dumb most of the effective altruists are.

Kinda like when gwern went off on his eugenics rant and people went: are all of these "rationalists" libertarian lunatics?

What Zuckerberg did back then, investors have wised up to since then.

> Almost feels like only start ups qualify as employment opportunities

Always good to remember that we are on HN; a lot of entrepreneurs are somewhat frustrated that they have to compete with Big "wtv" for talent.

> Zuck finally got over his bad VR trip

Whether the trip was bad or not is up to debate, but what makes you think Zuckerberg is quitting on AR/VR? His recent interviews suggest anything but that.

I dont mind Mac and chrome.

> if you downvote this out of reflexive politics you are a clown

It is not that serious... The emphasis that you yourself added is counterproductive to your point and deliberately precludes discussing viewpoints that would be valid because nobody wants to deal with a "hyper-reactive".

Every day I am happy that I switched to Ubuntu and Firefox 24/7, except for work computer...

Government has legislature and litigation focused on big tech right now on multiple fronts.

how to find out if you are affected? 23andme is one of my biggest regrets. I did it when i was 22 and kind of an idiot lol.

Some questions on what you said:

1. Those symptoms you describe seem more general to fascist/totalitarian governments than just socialist governments. Are you saying all socialism is equivalent to totalitarian governments?

2. Do you believe those symptoms are unique and in-masse to socialist governments?

3. Why do you add China to that list when it is widely considered by many diverse institutions to be state capitalist?

> But Sony having some real competition is a good thing. Sony has a bad tendency of anti-consumer tendencies in their gaming space when they are the leader and they get cocky. They did it with the PS3 and they are repeating some of that with the PS5 generation.

PS5 is widely regarded as the best playstation experience since the PS2.

Great backwards compatibility and third-party support.