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Well I think the terrifying part is that a computer might be able to generate an identity / artist(s) for the music it creates that we would also feel a stronger relationship to than the real thing.

On a purely musical level, there are already some artists that I really enjoy, who I suspect use algorithmic composition heavily in their music. I was wondering about this one the other day, since it's sort of similar to algorithmically mashed-up sample pieces that I've made (but better):

https://inpuj.bandcamp.com/album/anthill

I am no fan of either party, and I consider people like Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton to be right-wingers as well, but the self-proclaimed political right does the majority of warmongering.

This 'weaponized brain' bullshit arises out of a very legitimate fear of the US military, the right-wing nutcases that pull its strings, and its extensive history of unethical human experimentation. If DARPA is seriously interested in reducing TBI then perhaps they should consider conducting fewer fraudulent wars.

Unless computers are significantly better and faster at creating art that humans enjoy.

The people who wrote and compiled information for this article are engaged in speculative vigilantism and snitching. Maybe this info is already known to the feds, or maybe not, and maybe it is factual, or maybe not. Regardless, releasing it does nothing but harm people who don't deserve to be harmed. Stop snitching!

Ugh, I'll just continue to buy drugs on the black market and use them at home. No one wants to go lay in a hospital bed after shooting up. Addicts can safely manage their own addictions, if they are provided consistent doses and clean needles.

Legalize it, tax it, and use the proceeds of the taxation for needle exchanges and rehab clinics.

Agree to disagree, but I see democrats and republicans as two sides of the same murderous, thieving coin.

It's clear that he issued an executive order, which may or may not be utterly meaningless.

And Gitmo was just an example, not necessarily saying it would even be at the top of my list. Of course sending the detainees to other prisons is not the answer. These people need to be freed, now. Same deal with the multitude of other US military prisons and CIA black sites.

Such a weak excuse. Sure a TV show might not play clippings from a speech of his, but if Obama actually offers to do a live interview on any TV show, no one would turn down that ratings boost.

Right! That's why I consider, for example, his campaigning on closing Guantanamo to be completely disingenuous.

Get on TV every single night, spread awareness about what's happening there, tell US citizens that we need to lead by example, and use the propaganda machine to create positive change, for once.

This is a great question. What would the world look like if no individual could earn more than a million dollars a year, or if companies were taxed at exceedingly high rates once they reached a valuation of 100 millions dollars?

I realize it would be tricky to implement, but considering the societal benefit of more even wealth distribution the idea itself is worth exploring.

Exercise never feels terrible to me, and my mind always feels clearer afterwards.

It's very prevalent here in Cambodia too. One of my favourites fruits, and it in NO WAY tastes like pulled pork when it's unripe.

I actually prefer it slightly unripe, since it can quickly become exceedingly gooey and sweet.

Dude, definitely try it. It doesn't taste anything like pulled pork, ripe or unripe.

Source: frequent eater of Cambodian jackfruit :)

I recently quit, and my caffeine intake was at most moderate, but it took me 6-7 days to feel totally normal.

It looks like Stripe can defer payment for 7 days:

https://stripe.com/blog/auth-capture

Give your users something like "first two weeks free", which will annoy the fraudsters who want the charge to go through immediately.

Do you know if Braintree handles EU VAT in an automatic way? I've read the article below but I'm not totally sure what to make of it:

https://www.taxamo.com/braintree-announce-partnership-taxamo...

I am definitely not interested in hand-coding a solution.

> invited to places like Facebook by Zuckerberg

Ah so now Ahmed will get to see the worst of the worst on a different end of the spectrum.

Let's hear these unpopular opinions of yours...

> Bernie Sanders scam

Bernie Madoff? Different guy.

Lifting in a gym is not necessary. I get a fantastic workout by doing body weight training and lifting weighted sacks that I made with materials costing ~5$.

Not at all.

I'm a sprinter, so I do take a quantitative approach to running.

I also lift weights, and I would say that I do so seriously. But my weights are my own body and big rice sacks filled with water bottles that I heave around in various ways until I'm tired. I'm an experienced enough athlete to know when I'm hitting my limits, without following any specific metric.

I approached learning electric guitar similarly, with heavy emphasis on technique. Early on I really wanted to be able to play a jazz fusion style a la Allan Holdsworth, John McLaughlin, Shawn Lane, etc. I got derailed for many years by a wrist injury, which has since finally healed, but in the meantime I got very into making electronic music. I'll never be the greatest guitarist ever but I'm good enough to incorporate some of my improvising into the electronic music I make and that's been really satisfying.

I agree that the same discipline applies to engineering, coding, etc. but the end result, creating beautiful music, is a unique feeling for me. It just seems more magical somehow. Good luck on your musical journey!

Ah, yep, we listen to a lot of the same stuff!

Piazzolla did compose some guitar material, his "Tango Suite" for two guitars written specifically for Sergio and Odair Assad. The second movement is my favorite:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNDlnNnxfhw

Carlo Domeniconi's "Koyunbaba" is another guitar piece I've always really liked, performed here by the not-Star-Wars John Williams:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNDlnNnxfhw

And of course other greats like Villa-Lobos, Tarrega, Granados, Albéniz, etc.

I do realize the singular devotion and training that is required to reach the highest levels of classical guitar playing. It's astounding! My dad took master classes from Eliot Fisk (whose playing I don't really like that much) and got the opportunity to play in front of Julian Bream a few times (whose playing I DO love).

Thanks for that nice performance of Lute Suite #4. It was my mom who instilled in me an early love of Bach. If you've never heard Angela Hewitt or Alicia de Larrocha playing Bach, then I'd highly recommend checking them out!

And damn, your teacher is a ferocious guitar player. Both pieces are great!

Ok, I felt slighted by your presumption that I can't read classical notation.

Can we turn the discussion around? I'm legitimately curious about what music you like. My dad tried to make it professionally as a classical guitarist (a long time ago), so we may have more in common than you think in terms of musical taste.

Here's an example of music I really like that can't be adequately described by classical notation. Jan Jelinek's "Do Dekor"...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkpaDpwdSUI

Jelinek's music is actually fairly tonal but has static-y, noisy textures with arhythmic clicks and pops. I think you might like it.

That though is actually fairly traditional compared to some of the noise music and harsh metal that I enjoy. Here's another example, some blistering avant-garde instrumental death metal:

https://soundcloud.com/willhill/refulgent-shadow-sunspot

I can read classical notation well enough for my purposes. I listen to Janacek, Sibelius, Delius, Schubert, Faure, Scriabin, Sorabji, Mompou, and other composers you would probably consider legitimate music. I just don't limit myself strictly to the music of dead white men.

EDIT: Let's hear some music you've created, with all your vast ability and knowledge. I'll post some of my own and we can let HN users be the judge...

What an incredibly elitist and dismissive view of music. You are aware that there are entire musical traditions that do not employ notation, right?

You're excluding tons of music outside of 12 tone temperament, not to mention plenty of electronic, jazz, and experimental music.

And you're idea of Mandarin being more complex than English, French, German, etc... I would challenge you to find a single linguist who agrees with that. I for one do not.

Definitely!

Though you may already know, aligning notes to exact subdivisions of the beat is called quantization.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantization_%28music%29

Quantized music feels noticeably less organic and lively, to me at least. Audio sequencers like Linux's Hydrogen give you the capability to mess with "lead" and "lag", but it must be done individually for each note and so is fairly tedious.

I've used the Python module pydub along with a random number generator to set samples slightly ajar, but, while it helps, a purely random approach doesn't capture how human performers implement lead and lag.

I absolutely recommend pydub as an easy way to manipulate sound files.

https://github.com/jiaaro/pydub

I also think Clojure is a great fit.

I've had some really good results with sample-based algorithmic composition, so I'm really looking forward to this:

"In the near future, Alda’s scope will be expanded to include sounds synthesized from basic waveforms, samples loaded from sound files, and perhaps other forms of synthesis."