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You might find what you're looking for in VST plugins for DAWs, rather than standalone AI products


There's a few commercial offerings but they seriously lag behind.

Some very desirable features are just not available as plugins (or I didn't find them), like enhancing the recording quality: this is only available as paid services aimed for podcasters so work on spoken voice only.

Again, the problem is that most of the offerings are trying to leverage the neural network for some complete solution, in the way replacing the steps professionals are perfectly able (and need to decide on) to take themselves. I'm constantly looking for specialized solutions that do the job that's impossible to make manually. The best example is Demucs for stem-splitting: it does one job and leaves me to work on the rest.


The initial use of solar on the Prius was to power a ventilation fan while the car was parked, and the current version seems to specifically be designed to provide power to the air conditioner while driving. But, I also can't imagine the difference between cooling down the cabin is much different from parking in the sun or in the shade - you'd be running it continually to achieve "room temperature" during the entire drive either way.


You can't imagine that air conditioning power draw varies with the heat load that it is working against? As a heat-pump, it takes more energy to move more energy.

In the old days, they used duty cycle to adapt to the changing load. Modern ones do things like varying compressor displacement or compressor speed to adapt to the load. Variable frequency inverters are used to efficiently drive electric compressors.

The variable displacement trick is used in ones mechanically linked to internal combustion engines. It can vary the compression stroke to account for different load as well as different engine speed.


Watching power draw on my Leaf with LeafSpy, the AC seems to use between 500-1000W (maybe more sometimes, but that's just off the top of my head from a few times running it while driving).

At the low end maybe achievable with a full rooftop covered in solar panels, but probably not adequate at 1kW+.


That's a fun, simple test! I tried a few models, and mistral-nemo gets it every time, even when run locally without any system prompt! https://build.nvidia.com/nv-mistralai/mistral-nemo-12b-instr...


You can listen to actual AI-generated songs in the style of Nirvana with the OpenAI Jukebox: https://jukebox.openai.com/?song=807313705


Very cool, but the two Nirvana tracks on there are pretty terrible.


I think they only switched to Epik/Voxility for a few hours after being kicked off Cloudflare, but I'm not familiar with where they would have been hosted or what services they used 3-4 years ago.


Could you not find it again via the HN site search? https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22hot%20sauce%22%20recipe&sor...


This is awesome and helped me find it again! Thank you!


His current live show is a bit intense: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj9URI2aKgM

But it's also very rare for him to tour


Today there is an educational organic farm about 1,500 ft away from where the wheat was grown: The Urban Farm in Battery Park http://thebattery.org/destinations/urban-farm/

And there are hundreds of community gardens across the city that are maintained by neighbors and supported by the Parks Department.

Bonus: A time capsule was also part of the piece, set to be opened in the year 2979 http://www.agnesdenesstudio.com/works7.html


Is this stuff edible? Being in a city sounds like it would be near a lot of pollution? Does it not affect the plants?


The garden is overseen by professionals, so it has likely had soil testing done, especially since they are growing produce.

Manhattan is mostly an island of bedrock, and there is no manufacturing or industrial areas in Lower Manhattan that would contaminate the soil. The only concern would be protecting the garden from water running off the streets bordering the park, but those all have drainage and curbs installed.


Air quality is also an issue!



> Corpora is a collection of small files. It is not meant to be an exhaustive source of anything: a list of resources should contain somewhere in the vicinity of 1000 items.


Thanks, will check it out.


For anyone interested: There's an enjoyable radio adaptation of 'A Logic Named Joe' from X Minus One in 1955 https://archive.org/details/XMinusOne55122831ALogicNamedJoe


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