Programmers generate every possible melody in MIDI to prevent lawsuits

Re:Programmers generate every possible melody in MIDI to pre... by nkrisc on Friday February 28, 2020 @06:33AM (#22442074)

That's all great until the judge asks for a demonstration to show it can generate the material you're presumably suing over.

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Re:Programmers generate every possible melody in MIDI to pre... by jnbiche on Friday February 28, 2020 @07:07AM (#22442197)

At that point, you simply explain Cantor's diagonalization proof and the concept of countable and uncountable infinities.

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Re:Programmers generate every possible melody in MIDI to pre... by nkrisc on Monday March 02, 2020 @07:39AM (#22463843)

But is it enough to prove that it could produce any melody? After all, couldn't a binary adder produce every executable binary possible? Well, eventually, and with enough memory.

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