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The Different Levels of Software Beauty

To me, great software is beautiful software.

Obviously, the primary concern is that the software works properly, that it does what it is supposed to. But if that is all, the software will never be great.

Here are my conditions that great software must meet, from most important to least important. But they all matter!

1. The user experience. Does the software let the user reach their goals quickly and efficiently? User satisfaction rather than ease of use. Great software is not necessarily simple, but it does get out of the way.

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    0 poke808,225:gosub 31000
    1 poke53269,0
   10 remifa=0thena=1:load"c.font3",8,1
   20 remifa=1thena=2:load"lespirites",8,1
  900 ww=68:dim n(ww):dim keer$(50)
 1000 rem *** the game ***
 1010 rem ** after a game over **
 1015 poke 53265,peek(53265) and 239
 1020 sc=0:gd=0:ft=0:ln=0:l$="":w$="":keer=1:keer$(0)="":keer$(1)=""
 1030 gosub 20000:gosub 10000:jaja=0

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#pragma once

#include <cmath>

/**
  State variable filter (SVF), designed by Andrew Simper of Cytomic.

  http://cytomic.com/files/dsp/SvfLinearTrapOptimised2.pdf

  The frequency response of this filter is the same as of BZT filters.

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To allow the Hugging Face version of Whisper to predict word-level timestamps, a new property alignment_heads must be added to the GenerationConfig object. This is a list of [layer, head] pairs that select the cross-attention heads that are highly correlated to word-level timing.

If your Whisper checkpoint does not have the alignment_heads property yet, it can be added in two possible ways.

Method 1. Change the model.generation_config property:

# load the model
model = WhisperForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained("your_checkpoint")

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#pragma once

#include <JuceHeader.h>

/**
  Silences the buffer if bad or loud values are detected in the output buffer.
  Use this during debugging to avoid blowing out your eardrums on headphones.
  If the output value is out of the range [-1, +1] it will be hard clipped.
 */
inline void protectYourEars(float *buffer, int sampleCount)

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// Compile this with:
// $ gcc synth.c -o synth -framework AudioToolbox

// Based on the CH07_AUGraphSineWave example from the book
// "Learning Core Audio: A Hands-On Guide to Audio Programming
// for Mac and iOS" by Chris Adamson and Kevin Avila

#include <AudioToolbox/AudioToolbox.h>

typedef struct

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inline float denormalsToZero(float x) {
  return (std::abs(x) < 1e-15f) ? 0.0f : x;
}

/**
  mystran's Bi-quadratic filter

  https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=4836443#p4836443

  This is not a direct form topology! Essentially it is modified coupled form

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#include "Button.h"

Button::Button() : _pin(0), _oldState(0) {
}

void Button::attach(byte pin) {
  _pin = pin;
  pinMode(_pin, INPUT);
}

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I ran into a problem with Xcode 12's Core ML compiler, and several people have emailed me about what appears to be the same issue.

The workaround is to use Xcode 11 to compile the Core ML model. This means you still need to have Xcode 11 installed (which is a good idea anyway).

What worked for me is the following...

From the Terminal, switch to the Xcode 11.7 installation (your path may be different):

sudo xcode-select -s /Applications/Xcode11.7.app/Contents/Developer/

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