Show HN: Catchy melodies made with a diffusion-based neural net assistant I've created a diffusion-based neural net generative assistant that makes creating new melodies much easier, even for non-musicians like me. These are meant to be just the catchy "hook" parts of songs, so more work is required to make them into full songs, but this is already handled well by existing products (e.g. there are plugins that can suggest a few possible chord progressions based on the melody and there is even good singing software that I used without any tweaks to make the “voice” playlist: Synthesizer V Studio). This side project turned out to be quite challenging because of how little data there is to train on - several orders of magnitude less than DALL-E or GPT-3 had available for its training, so it required a deep dive into research of new generalization and augmentation techniques and some feature engineering. Various other instruments: Voice: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoCzMRqh5SkE1yC8_WtJ-... Synth: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoCzMRqh5SkFj7RNZvjr7... Bell: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoCzMRqh5SkEYHYvHX9m9... Guitar: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoCzMRqh5SkGKvfkP2Oex... Sax: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoCzMRqh5SkHfsZgzzdSh... Grand Piano: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoCzMRqh5SkFMch5x60uh... SoundCloud electric piano: https://ift.tt/9oWQX3i... SoundCloud vocal: https://ift.tt/9oWQX3i... https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoCzMRqh5SkFwkumE578YO4qa1NTkmMi4 May 12, 2022 at 12:30AM
Women Pioneers at Muni: Adeline Svendsen and Muni’s First Newsletter By Jeremy Menzies To close out Women’s History Month, here’s a look back at one woman whose work to bring Muni staff together in the late 1940s created a legacy that lives on to this day. Adeline “Addy” Svendsen was founding editor of Muni’s first internal newsletter, “ Trolley Topics .” Adeline Svendsen sits at her desk in the Geneva Carhouse office building in this 1949 shot. Trolley Topics was a new venture when it started in February 1946. As Svendsen wrote in the first issue it was created, “to bring a little fun, a little news, and a lot of good will to all our fellow employees in the Railway.” Just two years prior in 1944, Muni merged with the Market Street Railway Company, expanding the small municipal operation into the largest transit provider in the city with hundreds of employees, vehicles of every shape and size, and dozens of facilities scattered across town. The newsletter was meant to help unite ...
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