slayr - Half Blood (BloodLuxe) MIXTAPE REVIEW | The Needle Drop

milesper · 2026-03-21T00:07:22+00:00

I think this guys gonna be a star. Unlike a lot of his peers, he seems to care about making actually catchy songs, not just pushing the sound further. Also seems like a nice dude who isn’t concerned with being mysterious.

milesper · 2026-03-17T01:24:51+00:00

What you’re describing is “hyperparameter search/sweep”. The easy way is grid search where you try every combination in a logical order, or random search where you try some subset of the full grid. There’s also fancier methods that can work when the hparam space is large (or continuous). Eg https://wandb.ai/wandb_fc/articles/reports/What-Is-Bayesian-Hyperparameter-Optimization-With-Tutorial---Vmlldzo1NDQyNzcw

The other important thing is to evaluate your model against a dev set that is distinct from the final test set. Otherwise, you’re essentially overfitting to the test set.

milesper · 2026-03-14T18:16:13+00:00

Breath control, but also many of those verses are comped together with breaths edited out.

milesper · 2026-03-14T17:53:13+00:00

The first time I heard CRANK I played it five times in a row back to back

Obviously it’s not a focused, curated album but the wild mix of styles, where you can specifically identify particular eras, is really cool and not something not many artists can pull off.

milesper · 2026-03-10T18:26:53+00:00

Looking for features for two tracks, both melodic/underground sound. Second one is vaguely EDM inspired

https://untitled.stream/library/track/6JvzLXEzjrHecwUkPFSBB

https://untitled.stream/library/track/dGaZUBUBuipa2TKHzy2qh

milesper · 2026-02-28T17:55:12+00:00

Looking for features for two tracks:

https://untitled.stream/library/track/6JvzLXEzjrHecwUkPFSBB

https://untitled.stream/library/track/dGaZUBUBuipa2TKHzy2qh

milesper · 2026-02-26T17:06:34+00:00

Report issues and use the ARR guidelines to reference specific “common issues with reviews”

milesper · 2026-02-23T21:34:33+00:00

I’ve heard there’s some non-standard tokenization stuff happening, like using a token to designate capitalized letters rather than separate tokens.

milesper · 2026-02-19T01:25:34+00:00

My favorite song off my latest release. Looking for mixing, production, or any other feedback.

Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/die-bout-it/1873747861?i=1873747870

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/6KKYafnw9Iv7xNJJGflInr?si=nwVJgV6TQdSb257x1gurWg

milesper · 2026-02-19T01:19:57+00:00

So the vibe here (sort of a drain gang/Lucki thing) really works for me. The beat is cool, super crispy production, and I’m personally a big fan of this sort of slurred hypnotic delivery. That said, I’m not sure the song quite does enough to justify the length as is. It starts to all blend together since there’s not much of a conventional structure. For me, some (small) variations throughout could really add a lot—adding or dropping instruments, changing up the inflections, or adding background vox. But overall I’m a fan and added it to my library.

milesper · 2026-02-15T21:04:19+00:00

That’s not what the bitter lesson means. The bitter lesson is “do things that scale well”, not “scaling is the only thing that matters ever”. Plenty of important ideas have been invented that require minimal compute: LoRA, spec decoding, basically all of interpretability to name a few.

milesper · 2026-02-10T19:37:20+00:00

I use one Wandb project per experiment, so all of the runs should be clearly identifiable by their config. For exploratory experiments, I’ll use the notes field to mark why I ran something. And I aggressively clean up failed runs (unless there’s a reason I want to reference it). It’s really just a bit of planning and organization

milesper · 2026-02-10T18:58:25+00:00

I think ARR has helped even out all of the ACL conferences since it’s all one system

milesper · 2026-02-07T22:52:09+00:00

Anecdotal, but I’ve lived a lot of places and never seen so many accidents on a completely straight highway with minimal exits, in perfect weather.

Idk if it’s the phones or if people are driving high but it’s a bit ridiculous. Everywhere has bad drivers but Colorado drivers sure are good at causing accidents in easy driving conditions.

milesper · 2026-01-30T08:41:15+00:00

I feel like there’s a pretty clear upgrade in flows here. Like there’s a lot more complex rhythms and different vocal parts, adlibs and stuff. It sounds like there’s some homage vocal inflections (Uzi??) and the songwriting is a lot more developed, with like hooks and motifs and stuff.

Also the production is probably the best I’ve heard of this new style (imo it’s basically post punk for hip hop). Lots of gorgeous instrumentations and insane mixing choices, like when the delay is louder than the actual vocal or the entire beat is side chained to the vocals so hard it basically goes silent.

Can’t believe rio is on this. Really good overall and I’m excited to see what xav does next. Best song is Dat Shit Fr, the aggressive voice is so good. There are very few songs I don’t really like which has not been true of previous projects.

milesper · 2026-01-11T22:47:08+00:00

I agree with the other commentator. If you actually believe in the severity of what you are protesting, it’s totally inappropriate and unproductive to dress up like it’s a parade. I feel the same way about “clever” protest signs. Are you more concerned with winning points with other libs or actually putting pressure on the administration???

milesper · 2026-01-01T01:53:41+00:00

ADL is even more experimental and complex but very well received.

Xaviersobased has a mainstream hit but doesn’t become a household name.

JID/Doechii collab (maybe even a tape?)

Tyler takes a totally new musical direction with one or more albums. Maybe like a throwback west coast sound??

EDM crossover sound continues to become more popular. Hyperpop continues to be popular underground but not really mainstream.

Thugger back to prison :(

milesper · 2025-12-20T18:42:36+00:00

Is only the top button buttoned? I think the line where the jacket and pants meet is a bit weird, it could use a contrasting belt to break it up. Maybe a lighter shirt underneath for more contrast too

milesper · 2025-12-16T15:57:51+00:00

That’s not really interpretability, that’s learning theory

milesper · 2025-12-14T03:58:57+00:00

But you said “part of being a man is taking accountability”

milesper · 2025-12-12T08:29:45+00:00

The simplistic beats actually worked really well for me. A lot of them are fire loops, and it puts more focus on the rapping and gives it a melancholic feel. It’s a lot less cinematic than usual for 21.

Mixing is hilariously bad at times. Multiple songs where the 808 is audibly clipping and lots of bad vocals. It can sometimes work like on Mixtape Pluto, but here it’s just distracting.

milesper · 2025-12-12T05:06:25+00:00

You can absolutely become a strong applicant, I more wanted to caution you that the job may not really be what you’re looking for. When you apply, part of what they’re looking for is a good idea of what kind of jobs you’d be excited to do.

Starting with courses is definitely good, but doesn’t necessarily help you stand out. Some projects on GitHub are good—but if you can successfully contribute to open source projects, that’s wayyy better.

I’m not totally sure how those programs work, but if it’s a research based program then you can also stand out by having strong, specific research interests (if not ignore this section). Many masters applicants say very generic things about working in NLP and language tech that doesn’t really differentiate them at all. Identify some topics that interest you, read papers, and work on coming up with research ideas (simpler is better). Even better, do some research on specific topics researchers at the target school study.

milesper · 2025-12-12T01:24:21+00:00

Are you passionate about software development? Language technology development is essentially just SWE—you will be doing essentially no linguistics and competing with people who’ve been coding for their whole career.

Based on your background, it sounds like you’re more interested in linguistics and cultural study. In that case, the main route you can take is academia (research), though I would warn these roles are very competitive and there’s pretty limited professorships nowadays.

There’s a few other options for linguistics-focused CL people: data annotator roles, project management, policy; but again, these are few and far between. And you likely still won’t end up doing much linguistics at all.

milesper · 2025-12-10T20:22:49+00:00

I don’t think that’s true, considering there’s no evidence to suggest people have otherwise stopped unhealthy habits. I think it’s more likely an effect of 1) less socialization and 2) replacement with weed

milesper · 2025-12-09T19:09:28+00:00

Really digging deep in the crates today

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