Re:Show HN: I trained a 125M model to autocomplete piano on-...
by elwell on Thursday August 20, 2026 @11:34AM
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OP found a different source of joy: "I wanted the fun of working through the problem myself, rather than just implementing someone else’s research."
Re:Show HN: I trained a 125M model to autocomplete piano on-...
by ghm2199 on Thursday August 20, 2026 @11:37AM
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Fair enough.
Re:Show HN: I trained a 125M model to autocomplete piano on-...
by yieldcrv on Thursday August 20, 2026 @01:09PM
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as with every discipline that AI and therefore computers can reason through suddenly:
you could always do the discipline you liked before for self fulfillment purposes, and you can still do it for self fulfillment purposes now
Re:Show HN: I trained a 125M model to autocomplete piano on-...
by debugnik on Thursday August 20, 2026 @04:21PM
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But most people who want to get good at their main discipline, even for self-fulfillment purposes, have been gaining the necessary experience through their job, because an unrelated job takes away too much time to do so.
Re:Show HN: I trained a 125M model to autocomplete piano on-...
by yieldcrv on Thursday August 20, 2026 @04:38PM
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its a good motivator and looks like we'll be returning to the more feudal version where just that class was focusing on the arts, only because everyone else is preoccupied with doing the things that pays the bills
unless they're actually serfs again and won't have bills to pay, but no access to anything outside of the fiefdom that they maintain all day
Re:Show HN: I trained a 125M model to autocomplete piano on-...
by jeffreygoesto on Thursday August 20, 2026 @01:23PM
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Reminds me of a story a coworker told me about his band rehearsal when the new drummer counted one-two-three-four-five-six-se-ven-eight.
I think one of the great, early, joys of learning a piano is gaining the following intuitions: The seemingly harder path of learning sheet is actually faster. Your mind _should_ learn to think in two dimensions Spatial — where fingers go — and Time — pitch and tempo – ** when learning. The _internalization_ of Space and Time queues guide the fingers in a dance that is vastly satisfying. This skill leads you to the final part of the journey that is improvisation and the one more exciting than what i am on now.
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Space: Your finger placement on keys right, e.g. knowing how to go from landmark/anchor notes(mid-c, G, F etc) and then go to the others above and below it. Crudely this is some what like typing from your landmark f and j qwerty keyboard
Time: The out singing/verbalizing of the notes/beats on a time measure as you play them(per the time measure). e.g. you can say out loud 1-2-3-4 for 4/4 measure, if the measure has quarter notes say out loud. And `1-e-and-a-2-e-and-a-3-e-and-a-4-e-and-a` for a 4/4 with 1/16th note granularity. Do this as you play the notes and you get a sense of tempo.