Gwern Branwen

Was `?fallback=original` removed from the current Ar5iv HTML versions? A user pointed out to me that most of the HTML links were now broken, and testing it out, it seems...

That's unfortunate. So they have no plans to re-enable it and I have to file a new bug report all over again on the ar5iv repo?

I see. So it's not really a piano roll at all. How many tokens total do normal MIDI files encode to? I'm suspicious that such a format is a good...

char-RNN would never have worked because the hidden state fades out quickly and in practice it can hardly remember anything past a few hundred timesteps. The instruments are generated in...

I'm not convinced the MIDI representation is a good one, but if you're not interested in testing out ABC, then I'll try some other implementation. The original Trax one I...

[We also](https://github.com/shawwn/BigGAN-TPU-TensorFlow/tree/shawwn) can report failure; after swapping the initialization to `tf.orthogonal_initializer(1.0)` to make it more BigGAN-like, a 6h run on a TPU pod (~12k/s or >4.3m total) produced only blobs...

Well, we know that *now*. Unfortunately, the README doesn't mention that at all (a minor omission, to be sure).

Yes, but if you don't specify a directory, you would expect it to launch with `~/` as the cwd. What else could it possibly be? `/`?

Oh, a graphical program still needs to care about it at least a little. As long as that GUI program is running on a system with a hierarchical file system,...

I hope ChatGPT didn't write your comment... Most of these points don't make sense to me. "nobody" and "ftp" may not have home directories - but you had better not...