samstevens

hey I’m just spinning up in ssl birdsong models (BirdMAE, SongMAE, etc) can you share any resources? My email is stevens.994@osu.edu, would love to read your work.

I’m really excited to see some more open SAE work! The engineering effort is non trivial and I’m going to check out your dataloading code tomorrow. You might be interested in an currently in-progress project of mine to train SAEs on vision models: https://github.com/samuelstevens/saev

Very odd that they don't do linear probing on the model features and measure ImageNet validation accuracy. In general, this paper is missing comparisons to existing vision models on existing benchmarks.

The visual prompting is a neat trick and it's great to see scale continue to work, but without comparisons to other models or releasing the code/weights, I don't think this strategy is going to be competitive.

This looks incredible! I've bookmarked this to check out later, but as an immediate question: do any of these support Apple Music/Spotify as a backend for downloading music? I'd prefer to stick with a monthly subscription for access to all music if at all possible.

Edit: also, you have an incredibly pretty website.

We just have different music listening processes. My process used to be supported (browsing my Library by Artist, Album, Genre, etc.) and got pushed to the side to support a process more like yours (Radio, Apple's curated mood playlists, etc.). I wish Apple's designers didn't limit my process in order to make room for other peoples'.

Apple Music (especially when coming from iTunes) has a very tight concept of a "Library". If you add an album to your library, all the songs are also in your library. If you add a playlist, you have the option to add all the songs to your library.

In my (arguably limited) experience with Spotify Premium, I can't browse all my songs in my "Library". If I'm missing something in the UI, please let me know; I would love to hear otherwise.

If you disable Apple Music, what happens to the tabs? Do you only have Library and Search?

And $10 for unlimited music ($5 because I'm a student) is unbeatable. I just wish the app was better.

Author here; I agree that I'm not considering other users in my rants. I'm not a designer, and don't have solutions that would help everyone that Apple is targeting with this product.

Part of the reason I'm unhappy with the options forced on me is the removal of my ability to customize the tabs. If Apple wants to push Radio, that's fine. Do I have to suffer navigational difficulties, when previously I could replace that button with "Albums" or "Songs", etc.?

With regards to queuing, I don't mind the way it's modeled. I reorder songs all the time; it's very useful. The actual act of dragging the songs is not very graceful at times--I'll fly by the next song in the list, or not move at all past the top of the screen. Like I said, after playing with Spotify and noticing similar issues, I think it's a Swift/iOS issue, not an Apple Music problem.