(Michael Chinen)

Author: mchinen

Art and entertainment for AI entities

What kind of art or entertainment would hypothetical artificial intelligence entities of the future find interesting? Would they want to make a certain type of art? Would they appreciate human art? Would they appreciate art made by humans explicitly for them? To be clear, this post is not about the art that Generative AI makes […]

AR/VR 3D Audio editors in 2024

I’m curious what the ideal 3D audio editing interface for casual editing/playback would be like in VR or AR. ‘3D audio editors’ might not be the right term here. There are a few companies including one I ran into recently called Sound Particles in Leiria, Portugal that produce professional audio editors for post-production, including cinematic […]

Code mysticism and Halt and Catch Fire post LLMs

I’ve been re-watching AMC’s epic series Halt and Catch Fire. As a historical drama covering computer and internet developments and an seizing opportunity with ambition in the 70s to the 90s, it was nostalgic and motivating to watch when it came out in 2014. It never really got that popular. It was sort of scoped […]

Brainstorming on Windows

The choice of a window in a discrete Fourier transform (DFT) is an art due to tradeoffs that it implies. When the time domain signal with a single frequency (e.g. a sine-tone) is transformed into the frequency domain, it creates a lot of other ‘phantom’ frequencies called sidelobes. The no-window choice of the rectangular window […]

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