radicalzebra

With respect, I think there's a fundamental error in this reply. You're making a dogmatic statement about what interpretability is taken to mean, which assumes of course that the vast body of work, both in academia, journalism, and business meetings, holds a consistent view. The point of this paper, however, in part, is to point out that this view is mistaken.

Cool post! I think as technologists seeking to build tools for music creation, browsing, etc. there are some high level points to take from Professor Berger's article. As we deploy machine learning to match listeners and songs, we're often blindly satisfying expectations, when the entire essence of musical experience seems wrapped up in upsetting expectations.

This looks interesting. Am I correct in understanding from your diagram that Kozo generates both the clientside and backend code? In what language does the developer write? Another question: how much control does the developer have over the server once the application is deployed?

Thanks for any response and good luck with this project!

Humans spend far less trivial amounts of time creating works of literature. A novel may consume three years of an author's life. And yet for years society has been enriched by a lively and often sharply critical literary discourse. By comparison, this is a trivial project, and yet the culture is so much more defensive.

You even threaten to downvote me! (oh my). How can you simultaneously want to change the world and clamor for censorship?

I think there is a problem with how shamelessly uncritical we can be, especially when imposing ourselves upon other walks of life, especially art. Startup culture should aspire to be more than a Tony Robbins convention.

I wish I didn't have to worry about being "negative" in posting honestly about this site. It really is something awful, and reflects something disappointing about modern startup culture.

First, the synthesis of floaty background nonsense constitutes a contribution to a problem, not a solution we've been looking for. This is akin to making an automatic reality show generator. Nothing could be less aspirational. Second, what's upsetting here is how technically uninteresting this particular bot is, and yet we have a comment thread vaguely waving hands and intimating that something marvelous and deeply technical is going on here. The third problem is the pretension. The word "stochastic" here simply means some coins were flipped. It's hard to imagine how you would be posting about a "deterministic" music generator.

I think I need to wash my ears.