I can’t remember where I’ve seen it but there’s some interesting work done Michael Levin in this space. Something along the lines of how cells alone can have a goal but within a group exhibit different goals. This can go from cell to tissue to organ, all the way up to society. I’m not a biologist so I’m butchering his ideas, just writing this if anyone finds it interesting to look him up.
I’d love to make a midi controller for my alpha juno and tx81z with a screen for the envelopes. Like a generic controller with say 12 pots and some switches to change operators/pages. I come from a software background not an electronics background so I find it difficult to find info about where to go with this idea. Would building this be a good stepping stone? Does anyone know any good sites for info on this?
Ultimately I’d love to put that dx7 that’s on a raspberry pi but put it in the format of the digitone. I loved everything about the digitone but the sound.
I also have a software background and have been learning hardware design recently for a midi controller project of my own.
For the project you describe, you probably don't need more than a basic understanding of electricity. You'll want a microcontroller. I like the Teensy, as it has good libraries and many people have used it for midi-related projects.
You'll probably also want to design a proper PCB. You wouldn't have to, but once you know how to do it, it opens up a lot of possibilities. Kicad is great, once you get the hang of it. The learning curve is steep. There are a lot of good videos on youtube though.
I've been using JLCPCB for boards, and mostly Tayda for through-hole parts. JLCPCB's minimum order is five boards, and if you aren't doing anything fancy it's usually super cheap.
Boards can be either be all through-hole or you could have some surface mount. Surface mount is great for mass production, as you can order the boards with the surface mount components already placed, and it's cheap.
As much as I'd like more people to build it, I don't think it's a good match for your situation.
Both things that make the ottopot special (and thus a bit more involved and expensive) won't work with hardware synthesizers as far as I'm aware; 14bit CCs and MIDI feedback for updating the LEDs.
I think your best way forward would be to buy something like an Arduino starter kit with a handful of components and a breadboard and just start following some examples from arduino.cc — probably using USB MIDI at first because it doesn't require any additional components with modern microcontrollers. From there it's easy to go to DIN MIDI.
Overall I've found MIDI projects a very good entry into the world of electronics and microcontrollers because it's really simple and even the smallest projects can have immediate, motivating results.
Same on Firefox on Android, but reader mode gets past the popup
The plant the article is talking about is https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boquila which can apparently mimic nearby plants of different species, and can mimic several at the same time. It's not understood how yet.
One experiment showed that it could mimic fake plastic plants, which would be mind blowing as it would require something approaching vision, but the study apparently has flaws.
the interesting part is main author of the research just did his experiments in home. he contacted a professor and hope professor do research on his plant. but the professor encouraged him finish this by himself. unfortunately, this why critics found problems in it.
Between 1Blocker, consent-o-matic, and Lockdown Mode, I didn’t have any issues. I checked and lockdown mode isn’t the cause of the good experience this time, so it must be one of the extensions.
ChatGPT (at least in Plus) when using the GPT-4 model selected (instead of GPT-3.5) currently consistently reports the April 2023 knowledge cutoff of GPT-4-Turbo (gpt-4-1106-preview/gpt-4-vision-preview) as its knowledge cutoff, not the Sep 2021 cutoff for gpt-4-0613, the most recent pre-turbo GPT-4 model release.
The most sensible explanation is that ChatGPT is using GPT-4-Turbo as its GPT-4 model.
Current cutoff date is Jan 2022. That's iOS 15 out for a couple of months which is good enough for most things in my experience. If your deployment target really already is iOS 16, the gaps can be filled with the documentation and other sources.
This was about 6 months ago and I had no issues that it wasn't able to solve. It might not know about the latest features, but I don't think that matters unless you're building something cutting edge. It'll try to show you how to build what you want using the features set it's familiar with. It's probably better now with the browse plugin too.
If you find a way please leave a reply. I’ve a background in computer science but thinking of returning to academia. This and neuroscience in general interests me most
It's a long-game for me. I don't have any of the qualifications, track record, or anything else that objectively qualifies me for this problem domain.
Just unwavering belief in myself and my ability to learn anything. I'm skilling-up right now and seeing if I can find a peripheral angle to start some useful work.
I do not plan to take an academic route--in fact, a CS route. Michael Levin is vocally looking for people in CS (ML) to help work on things. Maybe you already qualify.
It's the most important problem: I'm going to work on it, with or without permission or endorsement.
While I agree that the government should plan better for integration, I still think people should be able to travel wherever they please. It seems incredibly unfair to deny those whose misfortune was being born in a poorer country.
If you look at how humans have identified in terms of communities, we’ve gone from a tribal identity all the way to a national identity. It only makes sense as we go on to become a global identity.
Pretty much anything in elife or nature communications for open access journals, or neuron, nature neuroscience for non open access. You can almost always find biorxiv preprints for closed access pubs too.
You can always check the impact factor of the journal you’re accessing, and their acceptance rate etc… it can give an indication of the credibility of article published, as well as the journal.
I pretty much only like Reddit for niche communities and fighting shit google results.
The latter is a necessity but for the former there’s other communities to satiate my needs. It’s just that it’s a bit of a fragmented way of diving into my interests.
Where are these other communities? I can’t find them. And no, I don’t count Discord as an acceptable replacement. Googling for old-school forums has been pretty fruitless for me thus far as Google is basically useless without appending site:reddit.com these days (the supreme irony of that…)
I guess it depends on how niche your interests are. I’m mainly into electronic music machines and synth diy. There’s enough forums for me. There’s other stuff that I frequent on Reddit but at the end of the day it’s usually just crap to distract me that I could do without.
I'm part of a lot of smaller women-centered communities on reddit - my favorite subreddits were r/MoneyDiariesACTIVE, r/FIREyFemmes, r/girlsgonewired r/adhdwomen, r/AmateurRoomPorn, r/AskWomenOver30, etc. Not all of these are explicitly for women only but they all have a majority female user base. I don't think there are equivalents in a forum-type format; I'd probably have to go to TikTok or something, but I don't care for that format so I'll probably just lose those communities for the most part.
The big "mostly women" subreddit I'll miss, despite being a guy, is the /r/RomanceBooks subreddit. It is hands down the best book community on reddit. At least as far as community and moderation goes. It sounds like the mods don't think the alternatives are technologically mature enough.
