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Re:Ask HN: What side projects are you working on? by tsm on Thursday July 26, 2012 @09:47PM (#4299610)
Writing a program that analyzes traditional Scottish music and composes new tunes in the same style. Right now I'm in the careful planning phase--reading up on LSTM recurrent neural networks and such, but I should be able to start coding shortly (at the very least I can do all the software engineering parts while I figure out what the best algorithm to use is).

I'm not deluding myself about its long-term non-profitability...I'm just doing it because I find it fascinating. At least there's no hosting cost--I already have a laptop running SBCL and Emacs, which is all I need.

Re:Ask HN: What side projects are you working on? by kkoppenhaver on Friday July 27, 2012 @03:55AM (#4300459)
As a former music composition major, I find this fascinating. Exploring where creation as humans ends and what can be composed using a set of rules is an interesting boundary to me. Best of luck to you!
Re:Ask HN: What side projects are you working on? by rvid on Saturday July 28, 2012 @03:44AM (#4304998)
That's really interesting. Will you be open-sourcing this?
Re:Ask HN: What side projects are you working on? by tsm on Saturday July 28, 2012 @06:11AM (#4305216)
Thanks. I am planning to open -source it once I start coding.