It's only an anecdote but I used to buy Adderall on Libertas, which was a Monero-only drug market, seemed to work pretty well and solved a real world problem for me.
I run data collection scripts on 64 different darknet sites. Markets that accept both BTC and XMR get hardly any XMR deposits, WHM is a major market that makes up essentially all the XMR traffic but is growing much slower than BTC-accepting markets despite being very popular on Dread.
I too would love to see this! Also- perhaps you could have it modulate in steps rather than just arbitrary frequencies so that it can be played in tune with other things.
Something I find interesting is that they're adding built-in entropy to this update. You will now be able to set the probability that a MIDI note will fire in a melody. Or set a range of probabilities for the velocity value of a MIDI note. I'm sure that you will be able to map the range probabilities to the ADSR of synths etc... I'm curious if that is more of a novelty or will actually be a valuable tool for exploring ideas.
Do you get to define seed values? I'm just thinking in terms of reproducibility if you are composing a track instead of playing live. A super cool feature I didn't even think would be helpful before
YES. The Elektron sequencer is the first time I ever felt stepping out of a computer might make for a more powerful, fun sequencing experience. It's a joy to use.
Probability-based triggers are one of my favorite things, and something that I thought was pretty lacking here (I only came to Ableton just recently, but nearly every arpeggiator I've used up until now has had a note probability feature and it does wonders for variation in patterns).
I think there's a fairly common story that goes like: two people, founders, spend a few months hacking on an idea together, without getting paid, build a functional MVP, run a beta, get positive feedback from beta users, maybe start making revenue, enough to have confidence in product-market-founder fit, want to start taking salaries so they can work on the nascent product full-time, reach a level of codebase complexity where adding another developer would add a lot of value, decide the right path forward is to raise a seed round to launch and reach a revenue milestone in 12-18 months, raise enough money to pay the founders salaries + make a few hires...
And now you're in the situation where you have put in enough upfront work to have confidence in product-market fit but still choose to raise money and build out an initial team ahead of real revenue / traction.
I used to make MIDI maps of songs in Ableton and then record myself singing along to it. The I would use the "convert audio melody to MIDI" command and get a MIDI map of my audio recording and overlay it with what the song should be. Gives you good visual feedback to correct things that you might not have noticed ... Oh wow I'm coming up flat on that 5 every time. etc...
Also, second everyone who is saying get a voice coach. Very valuable in surprising ways.
Possibly unrelated but I would pay $ for a one-click earnings call app. Type in a stock ticker, get the most recent earnings call in an audio player in one second.
Thank you, great insight, I'll give it a thought.
I want to have a focused, narrow scope for the MVP, but I think finding and digging (public!) financial information is a mess currently, even with all the apps, blogs, yahoo finance and the likes out there
I've hung out a bunch at Twitter's offices (in both SF and NYC). It's pretty eye-opening and a good lens into why Twitter the company is so fucked up.
The vibe that comes off is more of a social hangout club than a serious tech company. You meet your friend for lunch and there's professional chefs cooking gourmet meals, you hang out in the social area while the celebrity of the day comes into the office and everyone takes pictures with them. There's breakout rooms where people are filming marketing videos. The people that are hanging out talking to celebrities all day are making $200,000+ somehow. Anyone with right of center political views is casually censored from the platform with no recourse, because it's a "cool social hangout platform" not a serious technology product with mature guidelines of what acceptable speech is and formalized appeals processes. There won't be any productivity loss from everyone going remote because nobody is doing real work anyway.
> Anyone with right of center political views is casually censored from the platform with no recourse
You have a persecution complex. Almost every conservative political figure and media personality has a twitter account that they post regularly on. Only a small number of abusive psychos (e.g. Milo) have been banned for breaking Twitter rules.
> Anyone with right of center political views is casually censored
I've been having very productive conversations with someone on twitter whom I'm pretty sure is a Catholic fundamentalist. I'm specifically following a few other accounts because the provide outside-filter-bubble views, and they're all rather further than "right of center." Haven't heard a peep from any of them about Twitter censorship.
"Anyone with right of center political views is casually censored from the platform with no recourse"
That's just not true - Donald Trump hasn't been "casually censored", neither have any of the GOP representatives who have Twitter accounts.
If you say abhorrent stuff, then yes, their platform, and they can say "you're not welcome here", but just look at the cesspit of comments on the recent "gate" hashtag and you'll see there are MANY right of center (some cases miles right of center) voices on there.
I don't get what is wrong with expecting a candidate to have carefully read an algorithms book at some point in their lives. Most software engineering jobs expect a degree in CS, that implies 3-4 years of study. You should be able to remember important information related to CS.
