My talk from the Audio Dev Conference (ADCx India'26) is available to watch on YouTube!
https://t.co/1dmQKstf1v
I present a multi agent system where specialised agents for harmony, melody, rhythm and texture work together to create compositions that exhibit emergent behaviours.
I had so much fun working on this talk, and I'm looking to take this research forward. Do reach out to me with your thoughts and feedback. Appreciate it!
#audiodev #aimusic #emergence #agenticmusic #generativemusic
my partner in crime lost his job for doing the right thing several years ago. this guy built the team, trained new hires, cleaned up problems nobody else wanted to touch, stayed late, worked overtime to keep the operation up and running and he never ever chased recognition or accolades.
he was the kind of employee every company claims to value cos of their impact on growth and production.
then on one prep talk meeting, he questioned a policy that was hurting and screwing junior staffs without being dramatic or insulting. he simply asked why, that everyone needs clarity. do you know that 14 days later, the hr called him in and told him he was a threat to power and not a culture fit to the company...
they took his laptop, car key, card, badge, revoked his access and that was the end of it
i was on duty and present that day. meanwhile, the manager behind the dreadful policy got promoted and the company kept posting about transparency and psychological safety. and that was when i learnt a lesson most workplaces never admit; integrity is welcomed until it becomes inconvenient. you can be loyal, hardworking, competent and ethical
but the moment those qualities challenge someone's power, ego or comfort, they suddenly become a problem. systems protect themselves first. people are replaceable. control rarely is.
Unbelievable amounts of context is lost on WhatsApp calls with clients yaar. Every time I finish a call I have to run and make notes. Someone solve this please!
Self care is a much needed priority, not a luxury.
But complete lack of consideration for others’ needs and convenience is not self care, it’s brutal insensitive selfishness.
#AajKaGyaan
Yet another person saying I can’t be married coz I haven’t posted anything on Instagram.
I mean seriously? 🙄
Life isn’t online. Relationships are real, physical. Posting (or not), doesn’t mean anything.
This gen has completely lost it 🤦🏻♀️
has anyone figured out how to make yourself do things you dont want to do without sitting around idly for hours thinking about how you have to do things you dont want to do. anyone at all?
10x engg myth is one of my tech’s favorite tropes like all my teen age i spent to become super duper cracked guy but that was not how things work
while intellectual horsepower is great , elite engineering is rarely about someone sitting in room having 10x larger thoughts than everyone else
output !== input let me tell you something a really really great engineer doesn't succeed because they think ten times faster . they succeed because they choose high-leverage actions
engineering is a team sport when you working on a org like 10x thinker narrative implies a lone genius spinning up masterpiece suppose like if a really really super super cracked thinker creates a systems that so complex that no one else can maintain it or no one can you it let me nog just think a craftsman people who can understand everything and putting efforts into something they are in
simple systems are harder to build then complex systems so complex systems is a liability
instead calling something else let’s call this for saving engineering culture upstream things in great then before we had . a 10x engineer makes the ten people around them 2x better
a pure 10x thinker who can't communicate just creates a bottleneck for any org ( i used to be the same 10x thinker guy ) it’s all from my experience
Conversely, an average engineer supported by great tooling, clear product requirements can easily put out "10x" the value of someone drowning in bureaucracy ngl this works trust me i have seen this mang times
Doing the work is hard, but what's even harder is not doing the work and spending the rest of your life coping with unrealized potential. The fatigue from hard work is surface-level; the regret from inaction runs deep.
I have been having this thought.
Past is always past.
Past should be in past.
That school friend who is not responding to your calls or messages. Leave her alone.
There's no point.
If friendship has to return , it will. With no explanation.
Also. Life is shit.
He should be hilarious.
He should be intelligent.
And so on. List goes on.
She should be pretty.
She should be ambitious but not very ambitious that she forgets family.
And list goes on.
Lists we have for our partners.
After this dreamy phase.
You realise.
What have we thought about future
Even investment strategies can turn into arguments.
Surprisingly whether love or arranged marriages . Nobody talks about this..
It's sad. Coz we want societal approval. But society never approves. It just changes sides when needed.
Very strange thing about Indian marriages - Indians plan weddings for months. They never plan marriages.
Marriage is not an event. Marriage is after the event.
Life is lived after it, but they have no plans for it. Nobody has discussed how the marriage is going to look after the wedding, apart from the honeymoon destination. That's it.
The entire pre-marriage process in India is about matching horoscopes, checking skin color, negotiating dowry softly, and booking a caterer. Nobody's having the actual hard conversation.
One important part nobody talks about - emergency funds, investment corpus, financial cushion. Everything is about the wedding day.
Because it's an uncomfortable conversation. The hard reality is life runs on money. Most marriages break because of financial issues.
The wedding is visible. (Society can judge it, compare it, rank it)
The marriage is invisible.
We plan the wedding. Nobody plans the marriage.