Akilles

10 25 wips kms ✪ Listen to William Akilles Lindstedt ♫ Dubstep, Electronic, Electro, Hip Hop, House, Psytrance

Continue or scrap?
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I've always been fascinated by the context of sound. It's interesting how just two chords can evoke feelings. Sometimes even just two notes (?!)

Where can I find sweet boom bap type drum samples? Apart from create digging in obscure hipster second hand shops.

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Interesting! Thx for sharing. I'll have to check it out.

Someone vibe code this Ableton MCP and hit me up later ok

If you consider me artificial, yeha

Oh yeah for sure!

In the 2000s, all those players were American. Now we have a mix of players, funded by their governments.

AI investment programs:

▪︎ USA: $500 billion
▪︎ China: 1 trillion yuan

It's going to be a much more exciting arms race, and it will be an entertaining watch.

Image of DeepSeek web interface

Now DeepSeek has emerged as a significant 'disruptor' in the domain, challenging established players with its Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture with 671 billion parameters.

Training costs are extremely low at $5-$6 million, compared to competitors spending >100x ➜

Today’s LLM market shows similar patterns:

▪︎ ChatGPT dominates with ~80% market share
▪︎ Google Gemini follows with ~17%
▪︎ Claude holds ~3%

Just as the search market consolidated around Google, Yahoo, and Bing, the LLM market is concentrating around a few major players. ➜

Logos of 2000s: Google, Yahoo, altavista, aol, ask jeeves, Inktomi, overture, excite, msn, netscape. Logos of 2020s: ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Gemini, AI Studio, Le Chat, Copilot, Replit, Claude, Perplexity, X Alpha.

In the early 2000s, multiple search engines competed for market share: Google emerged as the dominant player despite strong competition from players like Yahoo, AltaVista, and MSN, Google’s PageRank algorithm and focus on search quality helped it capture over 90% of the market share by 2002. ➜

SBSettings (2008) vs Control Centre (2025)

Please stop anthropomorphizing language models, it makes them feel really bad

vscode terminal with available names, white canvas with names and various logo draft ideas

Update on my artist rebranding journey:

Using Python to scrape SoundCloud for available short user names while throwing random doodles at the canvas.

Midtempo Excel Core

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Writing tests that only assert what my code already does and calling it “test-driven development”

Summoning Python devs! I need to implement 2FA. Is PyOTP the way to go? Or should I use some other library?

Developers! Black or Ruff?

Back to some 124 BPM in Ableton. It's been a long time since I did vocoders.

This is outside my music production comfort zone, but to improve I must learn to produce and mix more genres. What is this, anime house?

It's a real fun tempo to work with, but I think I should rework the stabby chords.

It was no joke:

I've been learning Linux from behind the scenes! Not interested in using Win11 as a main machine, so I've been playing around with a distro on a laptop. If any of y'all are linux-curious, I recommend digging up an old laptop or making a VM and learning it yourself.

Adobe PLEASE support Linux I'm tired of bringing around two laptops to conventions

A common misconception but an interesting epistemological take.

This year I'll try to finish and release more polished electronic music.

I made a marketing plan with a tiny budget of $100. I'll try to fully commit to the plan but not sure if it's too much while having a full time job. What do you think?

no, this is vibrato
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check out this tremolo
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Well done! Nailed that spookyness.