>>1954 The owners didnt know how to manage it, the site is probably permanently dead now. Theres a thread on wapchan that sorta discusses it if you're interested

>>1943 this is most of what i used as well. using the inspect element of other sites (simple ones, like personal sites/blogs) helped me learn too, seeing how others organized their own websites under the hood.

>how did ya learn? I once came across a tutorial on how to make a website using Notepad, and for a while I was doing HTML using Windows 10 Notepad

>>1942 For HTML go to w3schools. For CSS also w3schools but i actually recommend Sass (https://sass-lang.com/) because it makes it easier to do composition of your styles. For javashit just stick to plain javashit. Don't bother with Web2.0 (Flask, Django, Spring, Ruby on Rails) unless you run a service for end user. Learn from websites on Neocities and Nekoweb how they code their website since you can just F12 and see it.

sadgrl's guides are what i started with and can absolutely recommend them if you're gunning for just a personal page https://sadgrl.online/guides/ there's also this one: https://internetingishard.netlify.app/ you'll also need to think about how you want to host it. there's shared hostings and VPSes you can buy online, or you can just host from a computer you own physically. if going with latter, you'll wanna research a little into web servers, probably Nginx, and stuff like SSL. and ditto anon regarding Sass actually, it's pretty nice.

Hello Hikarins! Everyone, I appreciate your tips and guides; I’m studying and trying to learn from everything you post here. Soon, maybe i'll got a website up and running. Thanks yall!! Im reading all of you guys drop here.

LOOKS GOOD

>>146 thank you!

>>12977 >eat less meat >full of fats >17.8 Please don't fall for the lies about eating meat. Sugar is the only bad thing you mentioned, your body needs fat, cholesterol, and meat to be eated

>>12442 18.1 and I can't gain weight! I understand that I have to eat more but it's hard. It's hard to cook everyday and it's hard to it in the office. Hate office.

>>13000 Meats and fats are good. It depends on the meat and the fat, though. Deli meats are commonly very processed and high in sodium. Can't go wrong with some lean chicken, beef, or turkey!

>>13022 why is sodium bad anyway? does it not reduce carb cravings?

>>13000 I should state I love fish and my diet has strong Nordic and Mediterranean influences. As in, it's rare for a week to go by where I don't eat salmon, haddock, squid or shellfish (those frozen medleys you buy, not as good as fresh but satisfies the palate for a fraction of the cost). When I said I ate less meat I really meant cutting off red meats and leaning more into poultry and seafood. Almost everything I cook up starts with a base of rapeseed or olive oil lol I eat lots of veggie soups as side dishes as well, and bread is often wholemeal. って 心配してくれてありがとうね

>>13020 Looks like shit

>>13020 cant we just talk through smoke signals

>>13020 I agree. >>13024 If you use a smoke sensor it *might* actually possible to do. Hmmm. You just gave me an idea there.

>>1897 i finally got around to implementing proper image thumbnails. im kinda starting to run out of ideas on what else to implement

>>1946 JSON API for IB phone apps Tripcodes Better moderation tools More flexibility (like the option for admins add thread-specific html/css/js) An invite system A captcha that doesn't depend on third parties Anubis support PGP threads (temporary threads where only the OP can read the replies)

>>1947 i did just get around to reworking my ban system, i wouldnt say its complete but atleast it does the bare minimum like image hashing. PGP threads do sound interesting but i they would probably be a mess to moderate lol, i might focus on adding tripcodes now though (also a captcha would be good).

>>1897 i hate variable fonts, i hate ttff, i hate css3, hate hate hate hate hate

>>1946 Vote ban. I know, it's kind of a double edged sword.

>>1127 But he's an admin.

>>1128 Moderator/dev, not administrator Also, who cares? It doesn't matter

>>1128 Okay. So you decided to dig through an admin's site (not even linked here) and then post to cry about identity politics bs? What is your purpose?

You've woken the Hive

4taba had this really neat feature where you could reply to posts within that post, implemented as a little box containing the nested replies, and you could enable this type of reply with an email field option akin to sage. I liked it because it helped prevent off-topic posts from risking thread derailment. Hopefully somebody remembers it and knows what I mean, I don't know if I'm describing it very well. I miss that site.

I found it on ssh club

>>45 Holotower is "friends" with wapchan Wapchan is friends with various other chans including here. I basically went down a rabbit hole of alt-chans referring to each other.

>>1154 wapchan love

>>45 I saw someone recommending it on an altchan in early 2025.

>>45 kissu.moe sister site!

i dont get it either

>>12430 Update I HAVE NOW Watched the anime and yes she likes to use Desu alot when Talking also I really Liked it Currently On ep4

>>12479 The manga is better nano

Suiseiseki supremacy

>>12479 I wish I could rewatch S1 and S2 with you all Maybe someone should setup a cytube?

>>512 i am the other inflammatory guy holy shit, did you make this? Because the guy who wrote that is a genius, I wish I could live at the bottom of the barrel, who gives a shit goddamnit, but I am from the west and I can only assume that I would be systematically oppressed even worse somewhere else (somehow, I will not get into my personal situation) It also seems like less of a choice that you can just make one day, and more of a choice that you make throughout your life and when it hits that you are at the bottom of the barrel, again, you are either swimming or drowning

>>512 >>513 It's not really that novel of an idea. there's this guy called Diogenes, and let's just say he encountered the same philosophical conundrum but he got over it.

>>512 Not meant to be taken literally i hope anarchists will often take an issue here "society is using search for meaning against you" and rail against it in a comically exaggerated way reminds me of bob blacks writing

>>517 its good that they do, accelerate.

>>512 There is way more non-material wonder to existence, all that phenomenology and ontology and metaphysics and truly paranormal phenomena - but, life is just like it's described in there. I do not agree with what the author is asking or proposing. Clean your room, wash yourself, give yourself the precise quality nutrition your brain deserves. It's always better to be an elite grade NEET. >>513 It's everyone's individual fault they're not being omnipotent, for sure, and I'm not being sarcastic. But what you'd be omnipotent for? Actually, don't answer that, I'm not a genie. The bigger premise is that there's a presumption that "anything is worth it and that living doesn't go on as inertia, with something like suicide takes too much experienced effort" (I call myself dumb cattle over being driven by inertia I do not identify with and disintest in the extreme effort needed to stop it completely). Choosing which hobby to take, which job to get, which city to move to is juggling the inertias. Actually, it sounds already great if you're not under risk of death, especially imminent death. This only says it's only as good as long as some urgency doesn't interrupt anything. With urgency of incoming death, I had seen that both surviving unscathed and instantly dying are win-win, and the gruesome death or disability are the complete failure of luck and fortune with only one way to deal with them for real. You can outplay any card hands you want, I don't see any value out of whatever good birthright opportunities and victories and rewards are possible in this world, or at least in this era.

The Elfen Lied dub is hilarious.

>>1876 "I'll take a potato chip, and EAT IT!" truly kino >1880 I haven't watched Elfen Lied in AGES but I do remember the dub being a bit silly.

Black Lagoon

Berserk 1997 has a damn fine dub. Most dubs where steve blum is a main character i enjoy. The big o, bebop, champloo, GTO, etc. off the top of my head, space dandy, jjba, hxh, FMA, hellsing, fooly cooly, black lagoon, death note have good dubs. While subs are preferable I wouldn't say that the average dub that comes out nowadays, or even as far back as the 90s were truly a sea of shit as a lot of people say. Most dubs were simply average, and the worst thing a dub can do in my eyes is go out of its way to change shit for no reason like the prison school/dragon maid dubs funimation did.

>>1912 > average dub that comes out nowadays smoking behind the supermarket dub is unbearable

>>1932 why do you need to know this? if you dont give me something i wont give you either :p

kris is the only example that comes to mind and its one of the best because in classic UTDR fashion theres meta storytelling and in this case kris and the player are clearly show to be 2 different entities now its not known whether kris knows that they live in a video game but they do know that the heart shaped object in their chest(the SOUL) is a different person that poses a threat to their evil plans as kris constantly rips us out of their chest so they can do bad stuff like open fountains everywhere to help kickstart the roaring and during chapter 4 kris decides to keep you for way longer than usual allowing you to sneak through thr house while they are on a phone call with a mysterious person twlling them what to do and when kris notices the soul they immediatley hit us with a can of chocolate or a hockey stick

>>1934 man i suck at explaining pls play deltarune im not doing it justice

>>1935 deltarune is a series of linear ass rpgs that play like a comic book, not worth 20 bucks

>>1934 Thanks! I'll check it out. Let's imagine that you are playing a horror game. The protagonist knows much more about the world and his own life than you do. In order to get that information, you have to check emails, read messages, and watch the news. Does that sound like needless trouble? Would it be better if the protagonist were as oblivious as you?

>>12994 i haxxord it

>>12995

>>12994 Bad gayway

>>12994 It's back up

the first half since i couldnt post more images in one post for some reason

>>55 the distinction actually is cut but wet not dry consciousness is an action or state of being one which humans characterise humanity by an thus delude themselves into thinking they are conscious far more often than they actually are, for instance, believing that it is a nescessary prerequisite for producing language. animals do become conscious far less often than humans it is true and this is because they are far more integrated into their environments and thus have more direct mechanical responses to input. trying to scientifically quantify consciousness fails in conception because science depends on consciousness to be intelligable (one has to not know something first and an instinctual machine in incapable of not-knowing, it only requires input). conscious beings however require not just input but knowledge, acknowledgement of which of a possible set to act on and then the input which triggers the action. consciousness can recognise other consciousness by acknowledging shared language (system of/ontop of instictual mechanism) but never be sure of the non-consciousness of a being (what's the difference between a non-consious being and one speaking a compleatelly unitelligable language? how would another consciousness meet you if it shared with you no perceptual instincts?) humans mean by "god" merely a consciousness with more influence than humanity. nature spirits and ghosts cease to be supernatural when scientifically explained. an alien species with more advanced technology than humanity would be gods.

>>73 you sound so retarded its crazy, should have left that shit in 5th grade anyway mammals, birds and bony fish all have consciousness look up the barracuda hanging around divers waiting for them to expose lionfish

Has anyone seen the videos of the pets who get buttons to push that says a word? I remember one dog eventually learned quite a lot of words, but was confused that it was a dog and not a human. It needed to be put on anti depressants afterwards.

>>76 serms like a leap on logic but this dog was apparently on antidepressants for anxiety issues before the button board came into the picture, according to an ai overview anyway, the wikipedia article makes no mention of it wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunny_(dog)

>>36 i think the way i act in my dreams is more nuanced than most people irl tbh

>>1178 thank god finally. goodbye now.

anyway, frieren and fern eating burger

fern got MAD but that's a good thing because now I can see her POUT also really liked last chapter of the manga

the new season that released pretty recently was very cozy! despite not being as long as the previous season i think they made the most of the ten episodes they had. The last episode where they fight the serpent sage of destruction is definitely some of the best fight scenes since the exam arc. pretty hyped for when the next batch of episodes drops

>>1908 It was very cozy! I am glad you liked it hikarin. Only being 10 episodes was a shame.

>>65 I like the new spoiler image!

>>66 It's actually the old version

u can playz wit 1 hand NOICE!

it becomes ez mode if you get the dude

so close to 100... died this wave

it is for eating! i hope this helps!

>>12990 Separate the juice for kombucha making, and eat the freaking sauerkraut

Make some dumplings with it. Are you not familiar with dongbei food?

not hard if u like programming hard if u dont like it

>>13003 i have delved into programming, i dont hate it, but the career paths off of cs arent limited to programming i am asking seriously, how hard is the pace, the maths/study volume etc (You) are clearly not the person my thread is asking for, I'd like for a cs graduate to reply

not them but that's unwarranted aggression and they gave you a good reply for your question. you can check the courses and the syllabi for whatever college you have in mind yourself. what people here can give you is the general vibe: it isn't calculus that filters people, it's programming

it depends on the university itself, if you're going to an ivy league then you'd find it full of theory, which is beautiful but so challenging and unpractical but if you went to a john university you'd do some combination of hopefully modern development courses and gradate. but you need to familiarize yourself first with creating somewhat big programming projects if you wanna do well but wherever you go, the hardest thing about a CS degree imo is dealing with unnecessary courses that bloat your schedule

>>1884 I'm usually not a seasonal anime watcher but I have enjoyed the first episode of the new Ghost in the Shell anime.

I'm watching a few. New season of Jobless Reincarnation, the new Ghost in the Shell series, and most importantly SAGA OF TANYA THE PEAK SEASON 2!! I have been looking forward to this one for ages. About the others though, I really like the Eris training arc so far. It's a real shame that she's doing all of this just be Rudeus' third wife... The new Ghost in the Shell series emulates an older art style which is really cool, and it is more lighthearted than the original series too. It's worth a watch.

>>1886 i was a bit dissapointed when i found out that there was only two episodes that were focusing on eris. Like they were putting her all over the marketing material and you think that with rudeus big moment in the previous season that they would chill and we would get to see eris doing badass things, but instead she gets sidelined for more slow paced (albeit still pretty intriguing) rudeus family life plotline. I feel that it would be kind of strange for rudeus to marry his cousin, but then again they already clapped soooo y not i guess

iron wok jan, daemons of the shadow realm, and reiwa no Dara San are all good… iron wok Jan is very very good.. reiwa no Dara San is a pretty crappy slice of life but it’s enjoyable so I’d give it a watch if you’re into that sort of stuff

>>1873 >>1876 yeah welcome to the NHK also clearly references FF11. it was all the rage in japan back then. i never played it though i can't say how good it is. i think they closed the servers for new characters recently but i wouldn't even play it since i don't use windows and square obviously shut off PS2 support

>>1873 I love IMOQ so much. It's a completely unique experience in terms of atmosphere. What makes it even more immersive for me is that you barely see any character interactions outside of The World. It's like a double layer of escapism. You're focused on exploring an imaginary world within an imaginary world. The characters' behavior somehow manages to not ruin this magic. The only windows into "reality" are the news portal and email. I don't know if any of the existing MMOs are capable of offering the same experience though.

>>1873 Lineage 2 maybe? It was quite popular where I lived in my childhood. It's medieval and I recall it pretty comfy.

>>1873 unfortunately that doesn't exist irl, all the old classic mmorpg were very toxic grindfests. as the others say, those are idealized references to either ff11 or ff14 because those were/are the popular mmorpg in japan. if there is an isometric perspective, it's probably a reference to mu online, mabinogi, dofus, or one of the many, many smaller games that were the same. this is hard to explain because there isn't a modern equivalent, but the point of those games was grinding (mechanically following a spreadsheet or flowchart), there was little to no skill involved, games like that aren't mainstream anymore I don't want to be too negative, but you didn't want to be there, you didn't want to be the person sitting and mindlessly grinding mu or maplestory after school/work. just like how nowadays you don't want to be the person that spends all their waking day on tiktok. this is an unpopular opinion, but modern mmo like tarkov, arc raiders, marvel rivals, lol, or fortnite beat the shit out of the mmorpg of old, because they actually involve skill and have friendlier communities anyway, to answer your question, I think mabinogi still has fan-hosted servers, and maybe lineage or lineage 2. but anyone still grinding on a fan-made server 20 years after the fact is bound to be... not an anime character, to put it lightly

>>1873 xanadu next looks pretty much like it, but it's not an mmo

ah sweet, a malice mizer thread. If your still out there, i gotta say that your plasylist despite not being the biggest is pretty good. Gardenia especially is one that i've been listening to a lot recently! here are some of my faves: (claire a melody of the moon) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkwDkT_CLUk&pp=ygUTY2xhaXJlIG1hbGljZSBtaXplcg%3D%3D (beast of blood) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1wgD3bNLqI&pp=ygULYmVhc3QgYmxvb2Q%3D (fragments of rememberance) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoJy-5rW-5Q&pp=ygUZZnJhZ21lbnRzIG9mIHJlbWVtYmVyYW5jZQ%3D%3D

Okey pape spam complete for now.

You know you can attach 3 images per post right?

oh wow. i did not know dat.

here is one I like

My current wallpapers, both are ideal on a 16:10 monitor tho

>The silver lining is that they are probably more broken inside and that they will probably mess up badly in the future, maybe karma is building up to bite them in the back? I still believe good will win, even if evil reigns for long. Like I said, If we want good to win, Then it's on us to push for it rather than just hoping that good will win. As Joshua Graham would say, "You can't except God to do all the work". It's on you to make that change.

>>39 that's true, I heard of a parable where God condemned people who did not do much with their time, despite having the ability to do better, over time, I feel like I've realized that I have too money and too little time, it sucks

what do you mean by karma? if we take the simplest popular definition - that its basically just cause and effect - why would you not believe in it? if a person does something bad then it makes world worse and then they have to live in a worse off world thats karma and there 0 superstitious elements in this defenition >>33 you say it as if thats all shes done in her life bully you and "win" whatever that means

karma does traditionally mean causation but more importantly the unknown and persistant influence of conscious action on an unconscious environment and applied both to mental as physical actions. especially in buddhism mind is listed the sixth sense an thus part of the world-environment is made of unconscious mind-stuff (actually technically all of reality is "mind" and there is no mental-physical dualism). the description and confusion about good and bad and what happens from them are malformed interpretations of environmental transferrance (karma). every action is far more particular than "a good action", a bad action however while also particular is simply bad. evil is not bad but the form of being when bad has become good by posessing/deceiving acting consciousness (the maker of environments). to consciousness good always prevails and always to the 'detriment' (catastrophic rebuilding) of environment. bad (not evil which is consciousness manifest) prevails in proportion to the degree of diminishing consciousness.

>>57 if i evade taxes i lose a little and gain a lot, because everybody else is shoulderimg the burden with me retard

>>326 bruh, did you read the fucking post.

scroll to the top of the thread and read it

Rain World is an incredible game both gameplay-wise and lore-wise. There is no game anywhere close to what Rain World is, it's crazy. The strong inspiration on Buddhism is also a very strong plus that adds to the depth of the game and the messages it transmits

The enemy animations are all shit, it looks as though they were generated on shitty 3d models with evolutionary algorithms NOT worth the pricetag WILL rape your processor

I bought it before the price increase, 25$ is a bit much for just the base game. don't buy on console, you can't mod it and the dlc kept coming out late.

>>12952 I like the direction the series is taking, it was definitely worth the wait.

i hope they remake the first episodes because they have a huge gap of their quality and quantity compared to their latest episodes the lastests episodes.

>>12294 I had a friend who used to play this, and he recommended this game as well https://www.whiteenamel.com/explore/ I haven't spent a lot of time in either game though

>>12320 That's neat, I've always wanted to sit down and play the original game since I never experienced it on a random side note, here is an SCP browser game: https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/billiths-proposal-ii/BASELINE.html

Check this series out: https://youtu.be/6e6RK8o1fcs?si=7mhrjpM5dCzGOyKl

>>12957 also you can just store and serve them, you dont have to handle them at all

The main goal of this project is to create a realistic traditional singing voice synthesizer (although integrating machine learning ideas into it could also be interesting), but side goal is also to recreate VOCALOID2 (actually this was the original goal, but the objective changed early on). Part of this task is to implement the expression system. I had long realized that there were two separate expression systems, but initially there had been some confusion between what belonged to which. Initially, I worked based on the expression system described in Jordi Bonada's 2008 PhD thesis, in Chapter 3, because this was by far the most complete description. For a long time, I had thought the expression briefly mentioned in the 2003 paper "Sample-Based Singing Voice Synthesizer Using Spectral Models and Source-Filter Decomposition", in part due to the reused figures. Because of this, I referred to this system as the "Bonada 2003" expression system, because that's where I thought it had been described, although only briefly. Later, I read parts of Jaume Ortola's 2001 Master's Degree. In there, some of the "2001" (or "Ortola 2001") expression should be described. Good detail is provided on the dynamics curves, which use Manfred Clynes' Predictive Amplitude Shaping algorithm. On the other hand, the pitch model is not really described, stating only: "The pitch contour of the singing voice has to be carefully generated in order to obtain a faithful synthesis. So we have designed a mathematical model for reproducing the smooth pitch transitions between notes. This model allows us to control the transition duration and the tuning deviations at the end and the beginning of the notes in accordance with the musical context.". Nothing about what happens in between the note transitions was stated at all, so this was a total mystery at the time. With what I know now, I am still not fully sure. The basic model is probably either flat lines or linear interpolation between the start and end. On the other hand, looking at the figures, besides the vibrato present in some of them, there is clearly something else as well. In one expired patent I read, the mean was subtracted from timbre variations and those were added on top of interpolated timbre, so perhaps something could be happening like that for pitch, although it is unclear then what would happen for the areas that don't correspond to stationary PhUs. Another possibility is some kind of random noise that is added. Actually, the figure looks suspiciously like something that has been linearly interpolated at the edges. You can clearly seen in the transitions and expressive parts, full pixel-level resolution; on the other hand, in these areas, it looks like straight line interpolation. So perhaps it is random noise that is interpolated. Anyway, this "mathematical model" in reference in many other places, but not described in any of them. For example, in "Sample-Based Singing Voice Synthesizer Using Spectral Models and Source-Filter Decomposition": "In the case of note transitions, the process is the same but whenever no template is specified, a pitch model is applied that overwrites the absolute pitch track of the score, like shown in Fig. 3, so to avoid pitch discontinuities. This pitch model has to be carefully generated to obtain a natural sounding pitch curve in the output synthesis. A mathematical model has been designed to produce smooth pitch transitions between notes and allow the control of some parameters like duration, shape and synchronization to phonetics and musical rhythm."

So recently I have been reading the expired VOCALOID patents, and made an effort to catalog and then read them all. I read https://patents.google.com/patent/JP2006330615A which describes the expression system described in Bonada's 2008 PhD thesis. Because of this, I am now calling this expression system the Bonada 2005 expression system. Interestingly, this finally described that mathematical model. The mathematical model for the legato transitions is not mentioned at all in Bonada's thesis, so I think it was replaced by the performance-sampling method for producing legato transitions that he also described in that thesis was used instead. Another interesting thing that this patent mentions is the addition of supplemental points before attacks and after releases. This was not mentioned at all in Bonada's thesis. Interestingly however, the thesis did provide the parameters for these points. Second, another very interesting thing is that in the patent, all of the parameters have fixed values, with the option to randomly scale them. On the other hand, in the thesis, the values were generated according to gaussian distributions. This must have been entirely different methods for generation and not just a writing quirk because, for example, the patents mentions that the points A and C are above the nominal pitch, and B below, while in the thesis, all points' gaussian distributions have a mean of zero. For this, along with other differences, such as the description of the supplemental point pitches being inconsistent with the given parameters in the thesis, I believe these two descriptions actually referred to two different iterations of this expression system, which I am now referring to as Bonada 2005 V1 and Bonada 2005 V2. This clears some things. On the other hand, there are also things where there is now more ambiguity, so more things to test. Other things are still unclear, such as how the point based model is used to generate the dynamics.

In the last post, I talked about some potential experiments I would have to do on the pitch/dynamics model for my VOCALOID2 recreation project. I had already programmed the base code for Bonada 2005 expression system, actually many months ago now. This was all in anticipation of the day I finally compare my system to samples that were actually generated by VOCALOID2. Well today I decided that day is now... and I was totally wrong about everything. Well not everything,- I was wrong about the expression system. It was actually the Ortola 2001 expression system that was still used in VOCALOID2 seemingly, except using a different dynamics model from the Predictive Amplitude Shaping algorithm that was used in VOCALOID1. Anyway, at first this made me even more concerned, because there was much less information about the Ortola 2001 expression system. One of the big mysteries was how the pitch was handled over the note duration. Well, as you can see in the attached image, it is very simple. In fact it is actually the simplest thing possible - it is a straight line. Another thing that concerned me was the dynamics model, since there was no description of this at all anywhere. But luckly, it proved to be incredibly simple. Simple enough that I was able to recreate it just by fiddling around for a couple hours in Jupyter notebook. In general, I feel like I have enough from the creators of VOCALOID that I have in a way gain an intuition for their thought process and what mathematical structures they favored. Below, I have presented in a demonstration of a partial recreation of the dynamics model and template-less portamento pitch transition model (my [orange] vs V2 [blue] portamento pictured). For an example of this thought process understanding, the first thing I tried for note dynamics decay was a formula of the form y*(e^-x - 1), which was inspired from the formula used for computing the source curve in the Excitation plus Resonance model, and it worked. Another example is the way the exponent is used in the portamento transition function, which was inspired in a way from the formula used for that same transition mentioned in the Bonada 2005 expression system patent (https://patents.google.com/patent/JP2006330615A).

import numpy as np


def synthesize_note_dynamics(note_on, duration, amplitude, sr=22050):
    v = np.zeros(round((duration + note_on + 1.0) * sr))
    for itr in range(len(v)):
        t = itr / sr

        if t >= note_on and t < note_on + 1.25:
            amp_attack = np.cos(((t - note_on) / 1.25) * (np.pi / 2.0)) * 0.4 + 0.6
        else:
            amp_attack = 0.0

        if t > note_on + 1.25:
            amp_decay = 0.6 + (np.exp(-(t - (note_on + 1.25)) / (duration - 1.25)) - 1.0) * 0.175
        else:
            amp_decay = 0.0

        if t >= note_on - 0.015 and t < note_on + 0.005:
            amp_spike1 = (1.0 - abs((t - (note_on - 0.005)) / 0.01)) / 4.0
        else:
            amp_spike1 = 0.0

        # Note: There is also a fade of about 33% that occurs near the end that lasts about 100ms. The rest of the fade is handled by an articulation from phoneme to silence. The fade is not modeled here since its time depends on the length of that articulation.

        v[itr] = (amp_spike1 + amp_attack + amp_decay) * amplitude

    return v

# In cents
def synthesize_portamento(start_time, duration, start_pitch, end_pitch, sr=22050):
    v = np.zeros(round((duration + start_time + 1.0) * sr))
    for itr in range(len(v)):
        t = itr / sr
        if t >= start_time and t < start_time + duration:
            if end_pitch >= start_pitch:
                v[itr] = start_pitch + (end_pitch - start_pitch) * (((t - start_time) / duration) ** 0.8)
            else:
                v[itr] = end_pitch + (start_pitch - end_pitch) * ((1.0 - (t - start_time) / duration) ** 1.5)
        elif t < start_time:
            v[itr] = start_pitch
        else:
            v[itr] = end_pitch

    return v

Update on my proposed improvement to the Wide-Band Harmonic Sinusoidal Modeling algorithm: https://listserv.cuit.columbia.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A2=MUSIC-DSP;8bd93c70.2608C&S=

>>447 So that's how it started

I know a bunch, but right now I'm trying to learn Chinese, and it's weird. The grammar is easy, but the tones are griefing me, I think I can recognize them sometimes when listening but I don't feel like I'm pronouncing them right, and I don't have anyone to practice. And then there is the obvious issue of hanzi (the symbols), you can infer a lot from the radicals, but it is still pretty hard. I'm using anki right now and the hsk textbooks, but if anyone has resources like other books or tools, games, books for children and beginners, anything really, I would appreciate some pointers.

>>508 idk board games and ingredient lists in chinese grocery stores I guess? also really pay attention in chinese book stores for random stuff, not books, but uhhhh, idk, reading the covers of stationary tools count as immersion, no?

>>508 In theory it's considerably simpler than English or other European languages, but the Hanzi makes impossible to brute force a basic understanding (at least reading) in 1 month as is possible with English/others.

>>502 It's не сдавайся. Sounds like "з" but it's written with "с".

>>12984 that pansy ass fist isnt hitting or hurting shit keep samefagging and shit though, great! unchecked candy assry killed this place

>>12976 should be eating burgers instead

>>12966 Waddup OP

>>12966 op im hungry can you spare some of your cardboard for a hungry anonymous

>>12985 >unchecked candy assry killed this place Proof?

>4-ch I made one or two threads there. Otherwise, always used Vampiros.xyz (I think it's .org now?). Never heard about the others.

I'm not much of an oldfag since I discovered a lot of the old textboards while chan-surfing during Covid, but I still use 4-ch and world2ch. World2ch is the more active one, although the only really active textboard I've been able to find is the Strange World / Ayashii Warudo area that the Heyaoians run

>>1905 Fuck yeah boy. If you want some other good rpg's that don't hold your hand I suggest the Ultima games. Ultima 6 and 7 are some my fav games. I would recommend starting with Ultima 4. You can read the story of Ultima 1, 2 and 3. Pretty simple story.

>>1755 I've been playing TF2 for the better part of 6 years now, it's easily been my most consistent game. Outside of that I've been trying to grind through some of my backlog and games friends have suggested me. Right now I'm getting through Kirby's Dream Land 3 after beating the first 2.

>>1801 I ran sort of a similair build in pp, but I used a rifle instead of a handgun.

>>1922 heh... pp....

>>1923 That's all you stupid, gay (and cute ) hikarin think of. Isn't it??

once or twice a month i make sure to walk for 40 kilometers in a day

i have got crippling depression and havent gone outside for 3 days, maybe when i wake up i will

>>12962 You should go for a walk, Hikarin . Fresh air and sunlight is nice. I hope things go better for you.

finally got an overcast day, it is still 32 degrees in the shadow but my garage got some nice wind so it was nice and cool, did some fitness shit

I was sick for a while but I finally managed to get back to the gym. Not at my top performance but I was so stir-crazy that I went anyway and did a lighter workout.

>>1890 dad drew the hair and told his son to do the rest istg, super cool though

That's a very good migu

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wanted pear got banana captcha doesnt work in landscape mode but can now zoom out to see whole canvas in tegaki wowe attentive admin :o

>>143 messed it up

Hikarin, nobody here is smart enough to be part of a research group.

>>432 Read papers, interpolate a research project between the most recent papers, design an experiment, run the experiment, write up a paper, repeat.

>>410 The only time I was a part of a research group, I had to do everything myself.

>>482 iirc in elementary the kids in my group were never recognizing that there was an optimal way to work the given essay or whatever, so i would be doing my own while they fucked around, it might have been the main language class where i submitted my own thing (that was miles better than what the other retards made) and the teacher gave me my first non-passing grade because i didnt cooperate lol

My latest 485 research group meetings consistent just of me.

how much cyberbullying would it take to make Tomoko a lolcow if she were real

Dude I can't even Imagine it though nice Tomoko

eh, she would arguably be worse

Of cause she is just a normal girl who kept trying to got a greater life experience......

anyone have thoughts on monster hunter collab?

i got to kill arkveld it was very cool and epic

>>1667 I got the mount from the normal version of the trial The target dummy also looks nice

>>1709 ew modbeast

thoughts on current Evercold reveals?

>>277 I wish we knew more about pre-indo european europe

>>278 same. I'm obssesed what language albanians were talking before indo-europeans givong their language to albanians tribes

The late Chalcolithic (Copper age) is more interesting that it seems, related region but ~2000 years before. Before people settled down for tin as alloyant they were using arsenic, antimony, nothing (pure copper), silver-nickel-zinc (from ores that were smelted into natural "alloys") depending on the region and availability. Except for arsenic all of those became rare by the early bronze age despite being cheap or natural impurities that started thanks to widespread long distance trade of tin.

>>322 pretty sure they were talking albanian.

>>12949 you sound lame

>>12950 This is you btw.

>>12953 saar I'm not the american guy

>>12949 stay mad europoor. albeit i actually agree with Damsleth here, the American experiment is Satan.

>>12959 Don't call me a eur*poor C-C-CANDY ASS, I live in Tennessee and will slaughter any damned y*nkee to come my way with my oudachi. (the post you're replying to is my only other post in this thread.)

>>12940 i love pink haired bitches so much thank you jesus for creating them amen

>>12942 ... But pink haired women dont exist in real life, except dyed ones though.

>>12947 my heart belongs only to 2d women (and maybe men )

>>12948 This nyagan wants to get pegged by astolfo.

>>12954 im the one who pegs...

osu ruined my life for around 3 months good times

ah... osu, either i don't play it for months, or i play it for a whole month. no in between

quit w maybe one day I will have the time again

DDR forever!!!!!!!!

I hate and love this game at the same time.

>>12245 when sharing links, you should delete everything after the ?is= it's all tracking info

>>12246 OH FOR FUCK SAKE!

here's a cool image

>>12240 The girl you posted has an extremely pretty face. Would you mind posting the original image?

this image is also cool

smart stupid smart gamble yeah

Any strong and smart and cool hikarin who are good at chess want to coach a lowly noob like myself?

Someone could try making a hikari chess club on chess.com

>>12926 I prefer go and shogi

>>12936 Good idea. I made one if anybody is interested. https://www.chess.com/club/hikari3-chess-club/join

>>491 Exactly my point, Hikarin! It’d be crazy calling the French conservatives and reactionaries leftist, but the market definition (because it takes our current world and political problems for granted) makes it seem like monarchist traditionalism could be leftist. Another example (I got this from Racecraft too but it’s the book I’m reading right now so still on topic!) is the set of antebellum southern planters who argued slavery was better ethically than capitalism. Their argument was basically conservative and paternalist, but many of their descriptions of capitalism can read as surprisingly left wing if you ignore what they thought was better.

>>491 >>493 Isn't right-wing vs left-wing mostly about linking social hierarchy to property? Like rightists believe wealthy individuals and families have demonstrated their ability to preserve and grow value so it's fine if they run the show, but leftists believe this is an arbitrary and unethical way that leads to inefficiency and instability.

>>492 No idea. Presumably there is a point because they do it.

>>494 Well, there are many positions both on the left and on the right. If you go back to the early 19th century, the more abstract idea that seems to divide political discussions is the cardinality of history: does history have a "direction"? In other words, is there any degree of historical determinism? Rather than a straight yes or no, the answers were an spectrum, and there were positions on the more affirmative side, like Hegel and then Marx (but both from completely different angles) and there were positions more on the negative, like Kierkegaard. It is important to remark that this was a question about the facts, so it preceded moral judgement: before saying that X is good or bad, you have to know what X is, you have to determine the facts. That's why you're never going to read Marx saying "capitalists are bad because they mistreat workers" instead his point usually was "capitalists strive to make the most efficient use of their workers". I think the other anon was onto something with the individuals vs structure dichotomy: the first sentence is merely a matter of personal opinion on a group of individuals, the second makes a statement about the structure: that it incentivizes efficiency.

I have been reading a bunch of stuff recently because my new job involves a lot of just sitting and waiting. Most of it I wouldn't recommend, at least not to everyone, but here two books that I liked and I think they could be interesting to some of you. >From 'LUGAL.GAL' to 'Wanax' - Kingship and Political Organization in the Late Bronze Age Aegean It's a compilation of 5 papers on the modern theories and interpretations of the archaeological evidence, especially the written records of the time and the recent findings at sites like Agios Vasileios. Most of it is about how little is actually known about the people of that time and their societies, and how theories are mostly speculative because of the fragmentary nature of the materials found so far. It left me with questions about the parts that are known, like what can be inferred about the population size and the level of stratification from the numbers in those linear b ledges. Unfortunately, it's hard to find more recent papers on the internet, it's not like STEM where papers that are uploaded to libgen almost immediately after publication. >Propaganda in the Information Age - Still Manufacturing Consent Another compilation of papers, these focused on a modern reevaluation and development of the propaganda model described by Chomsky in the 80s. The main difference being that nowadays mass media is even more concentrated than it was back then. It's a really interesting read and it includes a summary of the points made by Chomsky in his book "Manufacturing Consent" so you can follow the texts even if you haven't read that.

Willkommen. I too am a relatively recent arrival to the site, which is easiest the prettiest imageboard I have seen.

Welcome newkarin! The site is pretty self-explanatory, but I will highlight some fun things we have that are maybe not as common as other sites. For one, you can draw an image on-site on any post using the Tegaki button in a thread (the pencil under the new reply/new thread form). The Oekaki board is specifically for art but you can use the Tegaki feature on any board . You can also make polls or embed Youtube videos with the buttons next to it. We have a textboard, /dis/, that is an interesting feature but unfortunately not used much. so maybe give it some love. There are also some styling features to give your posts some charm. Enjoy your stay!

>>12923 thank you! i'll stay a while!

>>12923 the tegaki software is so clunky i spent like an hour on this slut (no seriously), and couldnt post from my tablet anyway

I think the new one looks cooler

>>990 Don't come here often. Just have a few alt-chans bookmarked from the time 4chan went down. But when i skim through them I noticed this place is much nicer looking now.

I only use yotsuba-b so it's hard to tell

I forgot there's a fucking Twitter theme, If I recall it was originally an April fools joke. It's so dumb..........

here is mine

I'm a simple man

>>1910 BASED BASED BASED *KISS*

just got lxqt up and running

I posted in this thread a while back but that was on a now-broken laptop. This is my desktop on my PC, just slightly riced KDE. Desktop icons are the devil! >>1936 Looking classic hikarin, very nice.

flowers

>>1883 Current thoughts: how apoplectic people get when you call kris a "he" is really funny. Seeing 72 citations on the wiki for Kris shows that people either care a LOT, or don't care to the point where the people who do keep adding more citations. Ralsei hating on flowery was great throughout the whole chapter Aqua is best flower. No thoughts head-empty adorable. Flowery I can't decide whether he's embodied Rudy in his college days, or if he's his own person. But I do quite like the subversion of him being basically a hero in his own dark-world rather than a villain. The fun gang has to fight him out of necessity rather than because he's wrong. If anything, he's right about it not being fair that castle town still exists. I still don't get what the knight is doing. I understand he's causing the "roaring" but like, random kidnapping doesn't actually help with this. I suspect some BS plot-twist in chapter 7. Suisei living in the closet is interesting. She's completely going full escapism. Weird route is Kino. Just straight Kino.

Honestly flowery seemed pretty decent at first but became on of my Favourites during the bossfight and knight scene On a completey unrelated note heres my Favourite deltarune fan design

>>12795 looks like a darknet board thats been bootstrapped in one weekend

>>12796 hell yeah h3 is fine too

>>12844 thats a "héyyll nyo" thing, not a "héyyll yeahh" thing