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Dumping Korg i5m PCM ROMs – part 2 - Learning to Fail

Ali Naci Erdem Personal Blog RSS

Previously I have started writing on fixing my korg i5m (part-1). Removing the ROM chips was not fixing the problem but taking advantage of this opportunity, I have started trying to dump them out. The problem was that I was not sure if I am reading correct values or not. After working for hours...

Dumping Korg i5m PCM ROMs - part 1

Ali Naci Erdem Personal Blog RSS

Recently I was working on fixing a korg i5m 1995 workstation -that I’ve bought as is on eBay years ago- which has a noise problem in the output. A mechanical but not random weird noise. I also have an i5s (a version with the keyboard and speakers) and I like the samples of that device, so ordered...

Speeding up Latent Dirichlet Allocation

Alex Smola

The code to our LDA implementation on Hadoop is released on Github under the Mozilla Public License. It’s seriously fast and scales very well to 1000 machines or more (don’t worry, it runs on a single machine, too). We believe that at present this is the fastest implementation you can find, in...