https://www.nasa.gov/universe/new-nasa-black-hole-sonifications-with-a-remix/

As an example, in Reaper, you can add a reverb effect to a section that you are looping. Then in the Render dialog, enable the “second pass render” option.

That chunk of audio that it renders, will become a perfectly seamless loop in itself. The reverb tail that would have gotten chopped off at the end of that render, will continue on with the start of the render.

At that point, if you didn’t really need the beginning and end of the song, you can have that chunk of the song that seamlessly loops forever, when played on repeat.

If you are willing to do it manually, I would highly recommend using Reaper instead. Both Audacity and Reaper have learning curves to them, but Reaper has dramatically better tools for seamless transitions. You are more likely to end up with clicks and pops in Audacity (or pay a steep price in time fiddling around at the microscopic level of the waveform).

Thank you for taking the time to look into it!

Um… Yeah… Using 3 gigs to store 19 megs of text is… suboptimal.

Maybe something neat will come out of this down the road, but right now it doesn’t seem very practical.

tl;dr - By using this very strange file format, you can functionally have access to the vast power of a vector database, but with the local simplicity of sqlite.

If I’m understanding this correctly: if you wanted to do a simple search for exact text strings, and that was all that you needed, then yes, you should probably use something like an sqlite database to index and query from.

However, if you are working with massively large data sets, and you need a vector database (for contextual or semantic searches) - well, that’s a next level tier of complexity. At that point, you need a vector database server.

What this thing does, however, is format your data into what they call “video” (but realistically would probably look like static if you were to actually play it in VLC). Then…

… I think it’s hooking into some similarities between vector databases and video processing, and then using the mature video processing technology to process the “video” at lightning-fast speeds. And you get all of that contextual power without relying on a cloud-based vector database server.

(To be clear, I’m doing a lot of hand-waving over the “similarities between vector databases and video processing” here - perhaps somebody with a computer science degree, or an autistic savant, can explain why this works the way that it does.)

I think, sometimes there are emotions that “need” to be acknowledged for what they are. When we attempt to ignore them, it only creates an emotional dissonance.

Like, if we are struggling with depression, and our emotional “background music” is a sad song in a minor key, but we try to fight it by playing happy music in a major key… Maybe one song can drown out the other, and become the new background? But more likely, we’ll just end up with dissonance. The happy song we are trying to listen to will just make us feel uncomfortable as a result.

But if we listen to a sad song instead, it can resonate with, harmonize with, the emotional “background music” playing in our subconscious. The emotion itself wants to be heard and acknowledged, and by listening to a song that the emotion can synchronize with, we can help resolve the emotions as the song itself resolves.

(There’s limits to that, of course - for most things, healing happens gradually in layers, so it’s not like one song solves all problems, or anything like that.)

On the flip side, there was one time I was in a casual group setting, there was a big crowd of people all having various conversations, and I started playing a musical instrument softly in the background. I noticed that the song had a rather big impact on the emotional current of the group as a whole, people started speaking with a little more energy, a little more pep, a little more happiness… and when the song ended, that emotional zest faded away from the group as well.

So, context is important.

I think you actually nailed the point perfectly. Part of the social contract is that an employer will provide enough money to meet the basic needs of the employees. When the employer fails to do that, employees can feel like “wage slaves”, or prisoners, who are being mistreated.

“We’ve had to limit our food anyway,” said Valdivia. “So basically you are kind of starving us, Kaiser.”

I recently produced a radio drama on what life was life before we had child labor laws, and how they came about. If you’re interested, it’s called “Florence Kelley, The Children’s Champion.”

You can kinda sorta get close using EQ, but if you really want to do it right, you’ll need to get into impulse responses.

If you want a really simple, really expensive option with all the bells and whistles, then check out Speakerphone by AudioEase.

If you are on a budget, or prefer the DIY approach, you will first need a convolution reverb plug-in. It will take a recording of an impulse response (which sounds like a starter pistol), and then apply that reverb to the sounds that you wanted to apply to. If you need a free option, Reaper has a plug-in called ReaVerb that is free, and I think they have a version of that plug-in that works with other DAWs as well.

Then you’ll need to search for an impulse response of a radio, and use that.

Optionally, if you really want it to sound like it’s being played in a bar, find another impulse response that gives an impression of the room - what you think the bar should sound like.

You can layer them, so it sounds like it’s being played from a radio, in the environment of a bar. And when done right, it will be absolutely impossible to tell whether was the real thing or simulated through plugins.

My Reaper experience is more to do with dialogue editing than music creation, but I might still be able to help if I understand the problem correctly.

When you say “click”, do you mean a single click, or the beginning of a click track?

Do you want the sound of that click to be included in the recording, or only heard by you while you perform?

Can you ELI5 the conditions where you want the click to start? Like, is there anything unique happening at that point?

Do you have the option of using a midi input device, even something as simple as a single midi button, that could trigger it to start manually?

I think it’s more accurate to say that a brain refusing to bring up a certain memory, is what makes it a repressed memory. “Recovering” a repressed memory can happen as part of trauma therapy, or it might happen by itself years later.

Trauma itself causes incredible changes in the brain, in some very non-intuitive ways. The brain has a number of different strategies for protecting the person, the “self”, from unnecessary suffering, and it doesn’t let go of those defense mechanisms until “it” feels safe to do so.

Honestly, out of all of the ways that the brain can respond to trauma, repressed memories is one of the simplest and easiest things to understand.

The fact that false memories can also be demonstrably created… Well, that muddies the waters a bit, it makes things more complicated to sort through, but it’s entirely reasonable to assume that there is a mechanism for memory repression, and there’s also a mechanism for creating false memories.

The best alternative I heard was, “If there was poop on the ground, and this thing fell in the poop, would I clean the thing, or throw it out?” If I’d throw it out because there was poop on it, then it’s probably not worth keeping in the first place.

Ooohhh! You know what, I learned something new today! Thank you so much for taking the time to explain it in a way that made sense to me.

What I’m saying is those medical device companies just need to upgrade hardware. Not the user.

That is a valid perspective, but it doesn’t take into account the burden on end users. Would you still feel that same way if you were the user, and the “update” required literal surgery on your body - not because the device failed, or expired, but simply because network standards have changed?

Because it’s the cellphone equivalent of creating a pirate radio station, to put it in terms better understood.

Why not use the analogy of a Wi-Fi repeater or extender that can handle multiple Wi-Fi standards simultaneously?

For that matter, it should be rather simple to limit it to only “listen” for connections from known medical devices (though it’s not like there are a bunch of 2G phones running around these days).

I’m listening, but so far, I haven’t seen anything that explains why this would actually be a bad idea, or how it could cause any harm.

…you don’t see the advantage in avoiding open heart surgery to replace an embedded medical device?

While I agree with you in principle, that’s a hard sell to somebody with an embedded 2G medical device.

You don’t want random companies making cell signal transceivers.

Setting “companies” aside, I don’t see why it couldn’t be some sort of DIY project. Like, a small computer with a both a 2G and 5G modem, a set of antennas for each, and some middleware…

In fact, there are some phones that support both networks… So why couldn’t a spare phone be used? They technically already have all the hardware to make it work.

It sounds like there’s a really big market opportunity for somebody to make a portable transceiver that converts 2G and 3G signals into 5G…

Additional info for the lazy: the name of the company is “Gravy Analytics”, hence the name “Gravy Scanner” for this app. It’s a large data broker, and they don’t bother with pesky little details like “informed consent”.

Anyway, they got hacked a month ago, and the hackers threatened to publicly release all the data.

https://slrpnk.net/post/17048112

Most likely, that means you’re clean. On mine, the output is just a white screen with a list of the affected apps… Clicking on one of them takes me to that app’s settings.

It does that one thing, with no explanations or instructions, so it wouldn’t surprise me to learn that it doesn’t show a message to indicate that nothing was found.

I’ve been using Reaper daily for 15 years. If you run into any issues that you can’t figure out, feel free to reach out, I’m happy to answer questions.