hydra VS hydra

Nice tool, only unfortunate name, consider changing it. Already very well know security tool named hydra https://github.com/vanhauser-thc/thc-hydra been around since 2001. Then facebook went ahead and named their config tool hydra https://github.com/facebookresearch/hydra on top of it. Like we get it, hydra popular mythology but we could use more original naming for tools

This looks really impressive, and I'm excited to see how it performs on our data!

P.S., I think the name conflicts with Hydra, the configuration management library: https://hydra.cc/

I've been trying to learn PyTorch Lightning and Hydra in order to use/create my own custom deep learning template (e.g. like this) as it would greatly help with my research workflow. A lot of the work I do requires me to analyse metrics based on the logits/activations of the model.

However, hydra seems to have several limitations that are really annoying and are making me reconsider my choice. Most problematic is the inability to group parameters together in a multirun. Hydra only supports trying all combinations of parameters, as described in https://github.com/facebookresearch/hydra/issues/1258, which does not seem to be a priority for hydra. Furthermore, hydras optuna optimizer implementation does not allow for early pruning of bad runs, which while not a deal breaker is definitely a nice to have feature.

Do you hate the fact that they don't let you return the config file: https://github.com/facebookresearch/hydra/issues/407

I kind of built this due to frustrations with Hydra. Hydra is an end to end framework, it locks you into a certain DL project format, it decides logging, model saving and a whole host of things. For example Hydra can do the same config file overwriting that I allow but you have to store the config file with the name config.yaml inside a specific folder. On top of that hydra doesn’t let you return the config file from the main function so you have to put all the major logic in the main function itself (link), the authors claim this is by design. I can find Hydra useful for a mature less experimental project. But in my robotics and ML research, I like being able to write code where I want and integrating it how I want, especially when debugging for which I think this package is useful. TLDR; If you just want the config file functionality use my package, if you want a complete DL project manager use Hydra. While hydra implements this config file functionality, it also adds a lot of restrictions to project structure that you might not like.

For managing configs of ML experiments (where each experiment can override a base config, and "variant" configs can further override the experiment config, etc), Hydra + Yaml + OmegaConf is really nice.

https://hydra.cc/

I admit I don't fully understand all the advanced options in Hydra, but the basic usage is already very useful. A nice guide is here:

https://florianwilhelm.info/2022/01/configuration_via_yaml_a...

Different hydra

https://github.com/hydra-synth/hydra

I heard about vvvv in my first year of studying in this industry. And kyma for sound design.

But I later discovered that the more mainstream ones are puredata and its commercial version max/msp. for sound design I also use: supercollider and csound.

After some years, I felt that I still preferred text-based interaction while I need some even simpler live coding or prototyping tool. so I made glicol.

for visuals, I would recommend:

https://hydra.ojack.xyz/

and

https://nannou.cc/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QY2x6aZzqc

Graphics

- Processing is a great place to start: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JzDttgdILQ

- Great intro to programming shaders for art from kishimisu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4s1h2YETNY

- Inigo Quilex invented ShaderToy among other things. I haven't watched this yet but I'm sure it's awesome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFld4EBO2RE

- Hydra looks pretty neat for live-coding graphics in the browser: https://hydra.ojack.xyz/

I was really hoping to find a platform that would allow for integrating a programmatic 'score' of music and drive visuals from it, like one step above just using the wave-form to trigger visuals.. I don't know if I've found what I'm happy with yet.. I think I'll try to hook up the OSC signals from SuperCollider with some visuals, but not sure. I want to use shaders if possible, and SC doesn't really support that. Gibber seems great but I'm not sure. Maybe Tidal has it, but the Tidal lang might take a while to learn. I want to use raw frequency values for the notes as much as possible, and that's really easy in SC. I don't want to be stuck using midi notes.

Or https://github.com/hydra-synth/hydra (Livecoding networked visuals in the browser, since 2017)

http://hydra.ojack.xyz would be my secondary recommendation. You can pull all different kinds of source into it and do lots of the typical video mixer effects plus a lot more.

If you like this, then you will probably like /r/livecoding. https://hydra.ojack.xyz/ is a great starting point if you'd like to code visuals - it is JS based, reactive to audio, quite easy to get started.

hydra - this is a free browser based coding environment that generates visuals. There’s a lot of documentation on their site on how to use it which is great. I’m not super knowledgeable on it but there’s a very active discord server.

Hi there, I just have a friends small party and I'm looking for online visual generators to mix into Resolume via iPad or web browser, is just for fun so is not worth to generate visuals from scratch since is a very small party and we want only to have fun with the projector so I'm looking for online (or iPad apps) that can generate visual elements to mix like ( http://spacetypegenerator.com/ , https://hydra.ojack.xyz/ or https://patatap.com/) so I can run them in an iPad and have some fun with feedback and Resolume. Do you know more resources like this?

Im using hydra.ojack.xyz for a university project and am having some issues. I am aiming to use my laptop mic to affect the onscreen visuals with the audio. I have literally 0 coding knowledge so was using openAI for help but the code its giving me doesn't seem to be working.