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
Show HN: Launch VM workloads securely and instantaneously, without VMs Hello HN! We've been working on a new hypervisor https://kwarantine.xyz that can run strongly isolated containers. This is still a WIP, but we wanted to give the community an idea about our approach, its benefits, and various use cases it unlocks. Today, VMs are used to host containers, and make up for the lack of strong security as well as kernel isolation in containers. This work adds this missing security piece in containers. We plan on launching a free private beta soon. Meanwhile, we'd deeply appreciate any feedback, and happy to answer any questions here or on our slack channel. Thanks! April 29, 2021 at 07:50AM
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