How to make an Interdimensional Radio Tuner, and maybe Cable too…

Rick and Morty Interdimensional Cable device

I am writing this down as a blog-post so I do not forget it, in case I do not have time…

While listening to a radio tuner flipping stations while driving, I got bored of same stations repeating over and over again… So I recalled the interdimensional cable from an old Rick and Morty episode and realized that we have the means and the right technology to make this happen !

Basically, we can generate 4 seconds of each station randomly, and use the random seed as the radio frequency equivalent. This would make an awesome YouTube streaming channel !

Then I started thinking about building one by myself, and realized that the only constraint that I have is hardware, and then I developed a method that could work with my hardware as well.

It is just too simple.

First, collect the data. We can use the Internet Radio stations, there are plenty of them. Collect random 4-second samples from each.

Then, here comes the fun part. We can split the sound waves into tokens and have a gpt-like generating model to generate new radio content. However here is one major problem… and that is, there are just too many tokens and combinations!

Well, maybe not much of a problem, this is an interdimensional radio prototype, so some quality loss is acceptable. Audio can withstand a lot of loss, so we need to figure out how to splice it properly. That too has a solution, and it is to simply modulate the signal and then splice the modualted signal. Collect the tokens, and make a token dictionary, updating it only when a wave that is too different from other waves. So, once you splice the wave, use the dictionary to get the token patterns, and train a model to output/generate the token patterns.

In reverse, we can generate patterns, convert them to tokens, then combine into wav date demodulate and get our interdimensional radio !

Forward: WAV → μ-law → delta modulation → frames → tokens → GPT

Reverse: GPT → tokens → frames → inverse delta → inverse μ-law → WAV

We already have technology to make this not just a radio tuner but actual radio stream, and not just the stream, but an actual interdimensional cable… It is only a matter of time, and hardware. Another simpler way to do this is use Bayesian approach and a noisy signal… but I will leave this for another blog since I may try that one separately.