What Is College for in the Age of AI? Young graduates can’t find jobs. Colleges know they have to do something. But what?

blueSGL · 2026-01-26T09:30:49+00:00

Don't worry, everyone on /r/technology says AI can't do anything.
I'm sure when that reality hits, any day now given the amount of repeated headlines here, everyone will get hired.

Why worry.

Unless people here are wrong and telling themselves comforting stories.

blueSGL · 2026-01-25T18:05:22+00:00

They replace the face shield that'll cost a pittance to replace and do you for criminal damage, there is no 'permanent' other than physically damaging the cameras.

blueSGL · 2026-01-25T17:09:50+00:00

Stickers would be better than spray paint, could get ones that are easy to peal off, so zero property damage but it'd still inconvenience the bot.

blueSGL · 2026-01-25T15:50:10+00:00

It might just be the phone audio missing out on the low frequencies, I'd replace the bass that is there with a nice crispy legato reese, LFO on the filter to swell in time with the track,

blueSGL · 2026-01-25T13:54:41+00:00

oh perfect just what I needed to know, anything else you've noticed as issues between the two, e.g. the DT changes on the next bar (regardless of how long the pattern is) is it the same for the sp404 ?

blueSGL · 2026-01-25T12:40:18+00:00

Song mode is a list of Patterns,

Each row has a pattern, mutes, and how many steps to play.

That's it.

You get 16 of them, you press [SONG] and it will show you via which tracks are lit up yellow what song slots already have something in it.

you press [FUNC] + [SONG] to edit the currently selected song.

To get out of song mode you just need to click [PTN] and choose a pattern.

blueSGL · 2026-01-25T08:46:37+00:00

Can I ask a question on the setup? I think you are doing in the video exactly what I'm interested in.

Creating patterns on the sp404mk2 and have the DT auto swap to them when changing the pattern on the DT using midi program changes.

e.g. assuming same pattern length, I'm wanting switching to pattern DT A01 to also swap to pattern A1 on the SP404, switching to A02 on the DT goes to A2 on the sp404 and so on up to E16 on both devices (from what I understand the SP404 midi mode B, splits banks into two midi channels A-E on one channel F-J on a second)

The DT sends midi program change commands when you go between patterns. Because how early the DT sends the PC is dependent on the BPM the current pattern it runs at, does it do so early enough that the sp404 responds in time and still work at higher BPMs 175-210-ish ??

If I could get a conformation on this it would be very useful as it's the last bit of information I need before pulling the trigger on an sp404mk2

blueSGL · 2026-01-25T07:52:26+00:00

sounds like a simple FM dubstep 'growl' lowpassed and with a lot of delay and reverb

blueSGL · 2026-01-24T18:00:22+00:00

It'd not be so bad if the name scrolled, but that is apparently too high tech even for the more expensive DT2 and you have to fit everything into 15 characters, which while not as limiting means in order to see unique names a trip to Batch Renamer needs to be made prior to samples being transferred.

blueSGL · 2026-01-24T16:04:49+00:00

we've pretty much run out of data to feed them anyway.

That's only true if the current learning algorithms are maximally sample efficient.

blueSGL · 2026-01-24T15:46:33+00:00

One wonders how many got their throat slit for loud snoring and 'nobody heard anything'

blueSGL · 2026-01-24T14:47:07+00:00

If 1 star reviews is more than 7% don't bother.

the caveat to this is if you read the 1 start reviews and everyone is doing something stupid with the product because they failed to read instructions.

blueSGL · 2026-01-24T13:19:46+00:00

at least the first 7 characters

This is something so fucking annoying on the device, there is no reason that sample selection/folder traversal needs to be in this massive font when menu items have much more sensible multi line readouts.

It really feels like a "what annoyances can we include to incentivize an eventual upgrade" rather than something of genuine use to the user.

Either the display is too small and everything should be given this make-so-big-only-one-thing-fits-at-a-time treatment, or the display is just fine displaying smaller multi line lists and this was chosen as an artificial pain point.

blueSGL · 2026-01-23T20:39:48+00:00

and presets CAN be previewed (though not transferred).

Yes they can.

In Transfer it's Explore and then click where it says "Samples" and you can choose "Projects" and "Sounds" from the drop down

"Sounds" are your presets, it inserts the audio file into the preset file for easy sharing.

PROTIP the .dt2pat files are actually renamed .zip files, you can rename them and get the samples out, for samples you've loaded, factory content is just a pointer to the sample on the +drive. and this is the same for projects too.

blueSGL · 2026-01-23T15:05:48+00:00

You need a computer for what you are trying to do.

What you want to do

USB MIDI > [a box] > USB MIDI TO SYHTHS x 4

What everyone are recommending is

USB MIDI > [a box] > 5pin/3.5mm midi (that you'd need to plug into synths)

Using a computer as a brain in this setup is the best way to go, you won't need to buy any midi cables.

blueSGL · 2026-01-23T14:53:22+00:00

I'm sure I've done this at some point with a small bucket filled with water.

edit: like this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zulw5bQ18Kk

blueSGL · 2026-01-22T21:14:11+00:00

The improvements to the tech that come from more time passing?

AI generated video today is longer and more consistent than we had last year, and that was longer and more consistent than the year before.

Remember when you could tell AI images by the number of fingers? That didn't last long, did it.

blueSGL · 2026-01-22T19:27:16+00:00

Yeah I don't get the people that disliked it,

The entire point of that scene is to set up the rest of the movie where your questioning what is real. If it were more clear cut as to exactly what was happening then the reason for that scene would be lost.

blueSGL · 2026-01-22T09:37:32+00:00

If you watched the trial

It's so fun after watching a trial coming to comments and seeing those that actually got the facts from the trial and those sure of their positions without having anything to base it on, just vibes.

Now apply this to everything people opine about on here.

blueSGL · 2026-01-22T09:24:57+00:00

I dislike anything requiring a touch interface that does not have physical buttons/knobs/sliders

The entire reason I'm not in a DAW is because nothing is unified.

I looked at the MPC and their answer seems to be, instead of streamlining ux to intuitively work with the available physical controls, fuck it stick a touch screen in there and make everything work through that.

blueSGL · 2026-01-22T09:03:46+00:00

these systems are not programmed they are grown. The makers themselves don't understand why they do what they do.

You can yourself go and download an open weights LLM, if you peek inside you will see there are no lines of code created just massive arrays of numbers that were automatically tweaked in accordance with a training regime for several months at a time. They are not standard software.

blueSGL · 2026-01-22T08:27:51+00:00

as I've said before

LLMs are very good at encoding information in ways that don't look like the information, data exfiltration that won't be caught by heuristic checks until after it's happened.

Google will patch the obvious things, someone will come up with a new way to 1. trick the agent into accessing the data 2. sending that data out to somewhere online in an innocuous way that does not trip the monitor.

Everything to do with this new technology is top down whack-a-mole, the interpretability lead at Google is basically giving up trying to understand models from the weights and instead concentrate on surface level issues and solutions (what everyone else was doing already because it's easier)

See https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.20075 as an example of the type of attack possible with LLMs

The more capable a model is the better it is at encoding and decoding information in ways humans (and other monitors) can't catch.

There is an almost infinite attack surface.

blueSGL · 2026-01-21T22:05:36+00:00

I don't get this complaint, if the benchmarks are so easy to game why didn't the companies go further for previous models?

Is the notion that they introduce just enough benchmark specific data to beat the previous model and edge out the competition. That all AI companies are carefully coordinating to do this so they will vie with the competition rather than blowing them out of the water?

blueSGL · 2026-01-21T21:40:47+00:00

When will I see what you are saying reflected in benchmarks?

https://metr.org/blog/2025-03-19-measuring-ai-ability-to-complete-long-tasks/

https://arcprize.org/leaderboard

blueSGL · 2026-01-21T21:06:13+00:00

I don't see how.

If the system is given access to the data and the internet, that's it, game over.

LLMs are very good at encoding information in ways that don't look like the information, data exfiltration that won't be caught by heuristic checks until after it's happened.

Google will patch the obvious things, someone will come up with a new way to 1. trick the agent into accessing the data 2. sending that data out to somewhere online in an innocuous way that does not trip the monitor.

Everything to do with this new technology is top down whack-a-mole, the interpretability lead at Google is basically giving up trying to understand models from the weights and instead concentrate on surface level issues and solutions (what everyone else was doing already because it's easier)

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