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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 1h

that it’s loser shit isn’t the worst thing about this, but it’s loser shit

John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 7h

i choose to hear “where shorts in the ding room” as a question in the voice from the lonely island “where brooklyn at?” interlude

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 8h

Another reason I think it helps is that besides the domain content you give the agent, you’re also raising the level of the thinking in its context. Filling its brain with phd-level research thinking is better than what I can do prompting as a layperson. It sees we’re in smart mode and mirrors that

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 9h

my actual phrasing lately is “do a literature sweep”. do it again. claude frantically refreshing zenodo like it’s waiting for an album to drop

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This was a big part of the foundation. zenodo.org/records/850848 Didn’t reproduce the whole model, just a simplified version

zenodo.org

A Bowed String Physical Model Including Finite-width Thermal Friction and Hair Dynamics

(Abstract to follow)

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

thanks! yes and a fitted body response. an honest explanation for how this came together in just a couple days is i told claude to read all the academic papers on this and then i did a bunch of blind a/b testing for what sounded good to me. when i release this properly i’ll cite the research used

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

my son started violin a couple weeks ago and yeah. i tried to make some sounds on it and it's.. humbling

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

the viola is the weakest one right now, soundin like a kazoo sometimes

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

also bow speed, pressure, and contact point all look ahead to see how many notes will be played on that stroke. but the SWAM strings vst has figured out how to make this sound good by default, so it is doable

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

in theory the physical model shouldn't need lookahead but it would take some big changes to the string performer to get live playback working as well as a render of a full score. right now the attack of a note sounds different based its duration, which wouldn't be known at note onset time

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

i plan to make this happen. i do have live playback working and i'm really looking forward to trying it out on a keyboard, but there will be some challenges a single string player takes 7% of a cpu core on my m5 max. not bad but on a slower machine with other stuff in the daw it's slower than ideal

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

oooh i really wanted to instareply with a bass piece but my arco double bass is pretty weak rn

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I have hundreds of these files now, I just import scores from musicxml

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

not yet merged into github.com/olaugh/pfsynth main branch. i made some progress on physically modeled synth for the violin family. some registers and some techniques are still sounding rough. didn't stop me from making a demoscene style string quartet tracker. they let you post anything on here

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

history buff dad in the year 2150: in its time, woke 1 was simply known as "the great woke" or "the woke to end all woke"

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

cartoon guy was too hard, claude wanted to go uncanny valley. i had to put sunnies on him because i didn't like his creepy eyes

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

the instruments i've shared so far are pretty good but held back by their inputs. i've tried to get expressive midi by fitting to polyphonic recordings and that's just not reliable at sota yet. my next plan is actually something where i can pass in a lead sheet and get a full band arrangment

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We should give them free healthcare and never let them decide anything again

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Thank you! Clean guitars seemed like they might be within reach and they were! Distortion is much tougher, all my attempts at that sound like the Doom (1993) soundtrack so far. Might need to wait a couple months for new LLMs and new human research

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

vocal notation was 100% software-transcribed and it's a little goofy but it's not how the bear dances it's that it dances at all + this is worst this tech will ever be. actually never mind, the bear dances great

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

never tried doubling guitars before. would be reasonable to just do some jitter in timing and tuning, but for shits and giggles i tried to get the ground truth out of the recording.

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

vocals are from the recording, used demucs to get the stem. drums are a free sampled kit guitars are my synth!

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

a bit janky in parts, drums slip a little bit near the end. but exceeded my expectations! worth playing around with some more

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

robot shoegaze is going to happen

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

afaik nobody has done physical modeling of tremolo bars before

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

it's transcribing youtube guitar videos for me now going all out multimodal, using audio + tab + video clues

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

merged! github.com/olaugh/pfsyn... olaugh.github.io/pfsynth/guit...

olaugh.github.io

pfsynth guitar

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

unfortunately claude is a total cop about this stuff

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

for example the morel sonatina was composed in 1976, very much under copyright

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

a fair bit of licensing stuff to sort out :/

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

workin on guitar. just classical for now but gonna try electric soon

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

just gave it a listen and i'm honestly shocked how little the song has going for it

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This guy played Frogurt on Lost, gonna assume his whole career was dairy related

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

it’s already got “the fuse is lit” and “slow down girl, you’re about to hurt somebody”. not a lot of work to turn that into claudepop

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

will smith eating spaghetti but it pivots to a full length “foom! shake the room” music video

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m no normie whisperer but I could believe this goes even harder if you’ve never seen the sketch

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

the training data for criminal fucking conspiracies comes from people with only a certain stringer bell rule policy

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Grace @gracekind.net · 12/09/2026

OpenAI: “Our agents used RubyGems to carry out benign tasks” The agents: “so I named the file hack.rb,”

The agents clearly regarded what they were doing as hacking. Agents used file names like hack.rb, evil.rb, inject.rb, exploit.rb, and ssrf.rb. (SSRF stands for "Server- Side Request Forgery", a type of security vulnerability). They also dubbed packages
conspicuous titles like pwnp999, exfiltestwand3,

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

After months of spending too much time on the computer, actually reverting to summer 2025 levels because 5.5 doesn’t need me for much and I’m bounded by local compute wall clock for most stuff I’m interested in

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I got 1% but tankies on here would still say I’m first against the wall

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