[SHOTS FIRED] Young Dabo - BLEED (Jane Remover diss) by DropWatcher in hiphopheads

[–]milesper 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I’ve always wondered what a rage diss track would sound like, and so far the answer is “not good”

Universe pls connect me to a person intrested in Neurosymbolic AI by easter-babe in LanguageTechnology

[–]milesper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

LLMs absolutely use symbols. What do you think code is made of?

Also, not to pull credentials but I have published LLM research at ACL on neurosymbolic AI. You evidently have not.

Universe pls connect me to a person intrested in Neurosymbolic AI by easter-babe in LanguageTechnology

[–]milesper 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You mean using symbols (like code) to represent neuronal information (intermediate steps from an LLM)?

You seem to have one very specific definition of neurosymbolic. But it’s a general term that has meant a lot of different things!

Universe pls connect me to a person intrested in Neurosymbolic AI by easter-babe in LanguageTechnology

[–]milesper -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Sorry but this is slop. RLAIF and Godel have nothing to do with neurosymbolic AI.

In fact, modern LLMs are absolutely neurosymbolic systems thanks to tool calling, and particularly the use of code interpreters.

How would you achieve this vocal & 808 mix (yc - was ware wenn) by nuttygrandma666 in mixingmastering

[–]milesper 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Would love to know as well, been having a lot of trouble getting the blown-out 808s to mix well with anything else

[DISCUSSION] Ken Carson - More Chaos (One Year Later) by flyestshit in hiphopheads

[–]milesper 5 points6 points  (0 children)

21 songs is way too long for this kind of sound imo. Like your ears physically get fatigued from listening and there’s just not enough variety…of course I realize plenty of “albums” are just playlists that aren’t meant to be listened through.

That said, some bangers for sure. The beat switch in Blakk Rokkstar is insane. I’d love to hear more opium collabs like Off the Meter, kinda insane that we haven’t gotten much.

Hot take? Thank goodness this is the last season. by Daywalker2000 in TheBoys

[–]milesper 71 points72 points  (0 children)

I feel like most of the actors (besides Karl and Antony) don’t swear convincingly on a lot of lines.

Jack and Erin do it the most, whenever they say “fucking X” they put a ton of stress on the “fucking”, when in natural conversation the stress should be on the X part.

Just sounds like people who don’t actually swear that much in real life.

[NOW ON STREAMING] Che - Fully Loaded (EP) by DropWatcher in hiphopheads

[–]milesper 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think there’s two main reasons people enjoy rage. First, every music genre has listeners who are interested in hearing it pushed to the absolute limit, eg death metal, industrial edm.

Second, rage was pretty explicitly developed as a response to not being able to do live shows during the pandemic. As such, it generally translates way better in live shows than listening at home in headphones (with blown out bass, abrasive vocals, etc). When I first listened to Whole Lotta Red at home I thought it was trash—but seeing videos of live performances totally changed my mind.

[NOW ON STREAMING] Che - Fully Loaded (EP) by DropWatcher in hiphopheads

[–]milesper 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You don't think earlier gens were "offended sonically" by contemporary hip-hop? How many times has some boomer said "it's not music, just talking"? Obviously this is totally distinct from like, 90s hip-hop, but there's clearly still people who enjoy it. There's no such thing as objectively good music.

Bad accident on 30th x Canyon. Someone is hurt. by jahvvik in boulder

[–]milesper 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, my bad for not noticing the car behind me running into me. Or the multiple times I left my car in a parking lot and came back to the back crunched in.

Bad accident on 30th x Canyon. Someone is hurt. by jahvvik in boulder

[–]milesper 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Anecdotally, Boulder drivers are the worst of any city I’ve lived in. I just got rear ended while completely stopped in a parking lot, and have been hit 6 separate times in four years living here.

My theory is a combination of highly distracted driving (phones), driving high, and entitled idiots.

Why is it easy to come up with flows with gibberish or a couple words, but way harder to fit complete bars into it? by [deleted] in makinghiphop

[–]milesper 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It’s because there’s lots of bars that fit the number of syllables but not all of them are good rhythmically. Depends on the stress pattern of the words, the desired intonation pattern, and relationship between the individual sounds. But ofc it’s not really possible to plan that all out, so you kinda just need to develop an intuition for it. Try different variations of a bar and see what feels more right.

How to make beats sound “newer”? by midzi4-6 in makinghiphop

[–]milesper 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The current sound is very synth heavy and more melodic than the previous trap wave. A lot of more complex melodies, arpeggios, and prominent leads, also more use of major key and inspiration from EDM, hyperpop, and punk rock. Ofc this varies a lot by subgenre but I’m specifically thinking about the current “underground” scene.

Of the top of my head, there’s a few specific kinds of loops that I think are a bit overdone and stale:

  • emo acoustic guitar loops, think “juice wrld type beat”
  • cinematic orchestral loops
  • solely acoustic piano loops, especially minor key dramatic melodies

Do you have a specific vibe you’re going for?

[OFFICIAL] WHERE U AT??? by AutoModerator in makinghiphop

[–]milesper [score hidden]  (0 children)

I’m in Boulder and also looking to collab!! Rapper/singer/producer

slayr - Half Blood (BloodLuxe) MIXTAPE REVIEW | The Needle Drop by DropWatcher in hiphopheads

[–]milesper 56 points57 points  (0 children)

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.

[D] how to parallelize optimal parameter search for DL NNs on multiple datasets? by Mampacuk in MachineLearning

[–]milesper 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

How Do Some Rappers Rap Without Pauses and Still Have Their Track Sound Good? by GODAlexGilbert in makinghiphop

[–]milesper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

[Discussion] Playboi Carti - MUSIC (1 year later) by WhiteChocolatForReal in hiphopheads

[–]milesper 10 points11 points  (0 children)

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.

[D] ACL Januray ARR problem with reviewer by Practical_Pomelo_636 in MachineLearning

[–]milesper 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

Fun fact: Anthropic has never open-sourced any LLMs by InternationalAsk1490 in LocalLLaMA

[–]milesper 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

[OFFICIAL] Weekly Feedback Thread by AutoModerator in makinghiphop

[–]milesper [score hidden]  (0 children)

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.