Avinash

Oh boy, oh boy. It's not just Prof. CNR Rao who got the notice. The names in this list are sooooo bloody mind boggling. Goes to prove how ridiculous the SIR exercise is! See below 🧵

Let it burn bright.

Let it spread like wild fire straight into the hearts of every Indian.

Let it burn the chains of fear that tie us down.

Let it turn to ashes the hatred that poisons our hearts.

Let us be reforged in that fire to reclaim our nation from the evil that is eating into it's soul.

They first went after print media to censor political caricatures. So the artists like @satishacharya choose social media to freely express through their art.

First, they started blocking one post at a time, and now they have blocked the entire account wholesale.

Governments will come and governments will go. Right's once snatched away in the name of 'national security' seldom get restored.

Do not let your vote become a victim of the ECI's incompetence.

Nearly 1/3rd of Delhi's voters were removed in the revised voter rolls by the ECI.

And now, further 1/3rd of them have been sent notices.

And the list includes former chief minster Arvind Kejriwal and the current chief minster Rekha Gupta among others.

It's take you a minute, one search and you'll know which list your name ended up in. Find out now!

datachutney.io/karnataka-sir/…

So I did a thing with Jev. Saw a few posts about training Jev to play video games. I figured, why not try to get Jev to play a song?

Found a piano version of Bella Ciao. Put it through a piano transcription model. That gave 1,353 notes with their timing and loudness. The timing and loudness became the fixed level layout. The pitch itself was hidden from Jev.

The task: At each note, Jev had to pick one of the 88 piano keys. And for each choice, it would get one of the following four feedbacks:

hit: the exact note
close: 1 semitone off
warm: 2–3 semitones off
miss: further away than that

Jev took, on average, about 7 tries per note to get it right on a keyboard with full 88 keys. It took 7,794 attempts to learn all 1,353 notes. Mostly because the rule required starting from the beginning for each missed note. Would have been a lot fewer attempts without this condition.

See the results!

The part that's blows my mind: It recreates the song without ever hearing it once!