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https://www.dmitrivolkov.com/

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Location: New York City area, open to relocate

Remote: Yes, also open to on-site

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: most experience is in C/C++ and OCaml, also comfortable with TypeScript/JavaScript/React Native/Expo, C#, Python, (System)Verilog, Rocq, and of course SQL. I usually pick up new stuff quickly, full laundry list on the resume.

Resume/CV: https://www.dmitrivolkov.com/volkov-resume.pdf

Email: dmitri at dmitrivolkov dot com

Website: https://www.dmitrivolkov.com/

Recent CS masters graduate, looking for opportunities starting in September. My background is in programming language theory (particularly logic/relational programming), so would be very happy to work with functional languages, compilers, automated reasoning, and/or formal verification. I also have a background in music (I'm a published composer!) so particularly interested in audio/music-related stuff as well. Curious to learn more about embedded/systems stuff. I've also done full-stack work across databases/cloud infrastructure/web APIs/frontends, and independently released a commercial music production plugin (Pivotuner, more info on my website).

Would be curious to know how algebraic music theory is being applied here. Overall this seems pretty basic; no real voice leading, or even chords with more than 2 notes in them. Algebraic music theory runs pretty deep and I'm not seeing much of it applied here. I honestly can't imagine paying $7 for a two-voice, repetitive 40s long midi file.

Seems potentially LLM'd, account is new and I couldn't find any other sign of existence of the creator. They've also submitted this 4 times in the past month.

Location: New York City area, USA

Remote: Yes, also open to on-site

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: C/C++, Python, TypeScript/JavaScript/React Native/Expo, C#, (System)Verilog/Vivado/FPGAs/embedded, OCaml, Rocq/formal methods and formal verification, relational/logic programming/symbolic AI, SQL, JUCE/audio/music programming.

Resume/CV: https://www.dmitrivolkov.com/volkov-resume.pdf

Email: dmitri at dmitrivolkov dot com

Website: https://www.dmitrivolkov.com/

Just about done finishing up a CS master's degree, and looking for opportunities starting in the late summer or fall. My background is in programming language theory (particularly logic/relational programming), so would be very happy to work with functional languages, compilers, automated reasoning, and/or formal verification. I also have a background in music (I'm a published composer!) so particularly interested in audio/music-related stuff as well. Open both to software enginering roles and research positions (anyone looking for new PhD/doctoral students?) I've also done full-stack work across databases/cloud infrastructure/web APIs/frontends, and independently released a commercial music production plugin (Pivotuner, more info on my website).

Location: New York City area, USA

Remote: Yes, also open to on-site

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: C/C++, Python, TypeScript/JavaScript/React Native/Expo, C#, (System)Verilog/Vivado/FPGAs/embedded, OCaml, Rocq/formal methods and formal verification, relational/logic programming/symbolic AI, SQL, JUCE/audio/music programming.

Resume/CV: https://www.dmitrivolkov.com/volkov-resume.pdf

Email: dmitri at dmitrivolkov dot com

Website: https://www.dmitrivolkov.com/

Just about done finishing up a CS master's degree, and looking for opportunities starting in the late summer or fall. My background is in programming language theory (particularly logic/relational programming), so would be very happy to work with functional languages, compilers, automated reasoning, and/or formal verification. I also have a background in music (I'm a published composer!) so particularly interested in audio/music-related stuff as well. Open both to software enginering roles and research positions (anyone looking for new PhD/doctoral students?) I've also done full-stack work across databases/cloud infrastructure/web APIs/frontends, and independently released a commercial music production plugin (Pivotuner, more info on my website).

Location: New York City area, USA

Remote: Yes, also open to on-site

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: C/C++, Python, TypeScript/JavaScript/React Native/Expo, C#, (System)Verilog/Vivado/FPGAs/embedded, OCaml, Rocq/formal methods and formal verification, relational/logic programming/symbolic AI, SQL, JUCE/audio/music programming.

Resume/CV: https://www.dmitrivolkov.com/volkov-resume.pdf

Email: dmitri at dmitrivolkov.com

Website: https://www.dmitrivolkov.com/

Finishing up a CS master's this semester, and looking for opportunities starting in the late summer or fall. I have experience as a full-stack (or fullstack, or full stack, whatever people ctrl-f for) developer as part of an intern/consultant position where I worked directly with customers to deliver features across databases/cloud infrastructure/web API integrations/frontends. I've also mostly-independently bootstrapped a commercial music production plugin (Pivotuner, more info on my website).

Open to most anything! I'm a fan of functional programming/programming language theory/compilers, currently doing research in logic/relational programming. I also have a background in music (I'm a published composer!) so particularly interested in audio/music-related stuff as well.

In general I'm trying to figure out what to do next, so would be up to connect regardless of hiring-related stuff!

Location: US, New York City area

Remote: Yes, also open to on-site

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: C/C++, Python, TypeScript/JavaScript/React Native/Expo, C#, (System)Verilog/Vivado/FPGAs/embedded, OCaml, Rocq/formal methods and formal verification, relational/logic programming/symbolic AI, SQL, JUCE/audio/music programming.

Resume/CV: https://www.dmitrivolkov.com/volkov-resume.pdf

Email: dmitri at dmitrivolkov.com

Website: https://www.dmitrivolkov.com/

Finishing up a CS master's this semester, and looking for opportunities starting in the late summer or fall. I have experience as a full-stack (or fullstack, or full stack, whatever people ctrl-f for) developer as part of an intern/consultant position where I worked directly with customers to deliver features across databases/cloud infrastructure/web API integrations/frontends. I've also mostly-independently bootstrapped a commercial music production plugin (Pivotuner, more info on my website).

Open to most anything! I'm a fan of functional programming and programming language theory, currently doing research in logic/relational programming. I also have a background in music (I'm a published composer!) so particularly interested in audio/music-related stuff as well.

The framework used in the book, malt[0], is currently not GPU-accelerated, but it's being worked on.

Maybe interesting, I used it for a toy implementation of the GPT architecture[1] in about 500 lines.

(I studied with one of the authors, Dr. Daniel Friedman; wasn't super involved here but proofread a late draft and TA'd for a course based off the book.)

[0] https://github.com/themetaschemer/malt

[1] https://github.com/sporkl/malt-transformer

Location: New York City area

Remote: Yes, also open to on-site

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: C/C++/JUCE, OCaml, JavaScript/TypeScript/React, Python, logic/relational programming, Rocq and formal verification, SQL, embedded programming and FPGAs, some DSP.

Resume/CV: https://www.dmitrivolkov.com/volkov-resume.pdf

Email: dmitri at dmitrivolkov.com

Website: https://www.dmitrivolkov.com/

Finishing up a CS master's this semester, looking for opportunities starting in July/August or the fall. Research focus in programming language theory, but experienced across the full stack. Most interested in R&D-related stuff, especially related to audio or music (my other degree). Potentially looking towards applying for PhD programs this fall as well, so would appreciate to know if anyone is recruiting students!

I have experience independently building/releasing apps/plugins, and contracting for small and mid-size businesses (handling both frontend and backend). Have also conducted and applied research, including technical implementation and communication (papers/presentations/documentation).

Racket! This is the language that the common author (Dr. Daniel Friedman) uses, and many of the Little books use custom DSLs implemented in Racket.

Racket now runs on Chez under the hood (inheriting the performance), and has a pretty decent ecosystem as far as schemes go.

(I TA for Dr. Friedman’s programming languages course)

Anecdotally, I feel like OCaml is growing in popularity, probably due to ecosystem improvements. Stuff like dune and other OCaml Platform tools becoming mature, multicore support, recently first-class Windows support, etc.

Overall a good intro on the subject. I feel like at the start it might benefit from being a bit more explicit about pitches being frequencies and ratios being intervals; probably just worth a reminder for people who aren’t as familiar

Might be interesting to talk about how the usual ratios come from the harmonic series. For sounds that don’t produce a harmonic series, other potentially non-integer ratios can actually sound more consonant. The youtube channel New Tonality[0] has a bunch of great videos about this

Also wanted to mention that I’ve been working on a piece of commercial software[1] for working with freestyle/adaptive just intonation, if anyone’s interested

[0] https://www.youtube.com/@new_tonality [1]: https://www.dmitrivolkov.com/projects/pivotuner/

If anyone’s curious to see complete pieces built out of this sort of technique, check out Conlon Nancarrow’s Studies for Player Piano (he does some other pretty crazy polytempo stuff too, like changing the speeds of different parts at different rates).

Personal favorites that use the same polytempo technique are No. 36 [1] and No. 37 [2].

I’ve been studying his music lately and am working on a piece with similar rhythmic experimentation, so happy to try to answer questions!

[1] https://youtu.be/IOlId8O6D5w [2]: https://youtu.be/g0gNoELvpPo (I prefer the Werco recordings, but this is a cool vizualization)

Thanks! We were originally thinking of approaching things more from the educational side, but it’s kind of a hard point to make without experimental evidence, which we don’t have.

As far as playing a quantum circuit through the end, that’s what our python and max implementations do! Should work with any gate; but because it’s simulation-based, there’s a limit to the number of qubits. We’re also working on a follow-up about sonifying arbitrary hamiltonians.

a lot of it does end up being that kind of thing, but not all. some of it’s kind of like how quantum math has been used to model (if I remember correctly) seismology or weather, and some of it’s about sonifying the entire quantum state, including superpositions (assuming no error/noise, the random part of quantum doesn’t happen until measurement, where superpositions are destroyed)

From what I've seen, the music industry (all genres including pop, classical, etc.) tends to be more about personality than actual content these days, so it's not really an issue.

Virtual singers are already pretty good anyways, I feel we've already passed the point of diminishing returns.

And even if you look at virtual singers, the ones which are popular are the ones from ten years ago, not the newer ones with more realistic voices.

I don't remember the details, but the reason the 2019 paper was challenged was because Google did not take into account quantum simulation optimization techniques when estimating how long the computation would run on classical computers. I wouldn't be surprised if there's a similar situation here, where unconsidered optimizations prevent this from being quantum advantage.