We can count all the ways of ordering 52 cards.
It's 52!, or 80658175170943878571660636856403766975289505440883277824000000000000.
Enumerating them is where it starts to get tricky.
Re:Can AI Write Pop Songs?
by CJefferson on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @05:09AM
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Yes, you are right, I meant enumerate :)
Re:Can AI Write Pop Songs?
by ingenuous2 on Monday July 03, 2017 @11:08PM
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We don't necessarily need to count all ways of ordering 52 cards if we can build a model of how people will react to playing those cards.
Re:Can AI Write Pop Songs?
by adventured on Monday July 03, 2017 @04:58PM
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Nope, not being sarcastic. You're radically overestimating the range of potential pop songs (much less the range of possible good songs, which is far, far, far smaller).
Human ears & taste/preferences drastically, inherently reduce the set. It's a deck of 9 or 10 cards, not 52.
I hope you are being sarcastic :) Even though pop songs aren't that imaginative, exponential growth means causes problems. We can't count all ways of ordering 52 cards using all the computers in the world in the history of the universe, and I bet one could come up with an algorithm for creating pop songs, one per ordering of a deck of cards.