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Daniel D. Johnson
Personal blog · hexahedria.comaimathprogramming
Daniel D. Johnson's personal blog at hexahedria.com covers ai, math and programming. Since 2014, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Classical music generation with recurrent neural networks”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Daniel D. Johnson's personal site for its personal projects, including a refraction simulation, music generation with RNNs, and machine learning art. One commenter named it as a top personal project site.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Hi! I am a researcher at Transluce. I'm interested in understanding language model behaviors and the internal representations behind them, and in building technology to ensure that AI systems ac
Most-linked posts?
- Classical music generation with recurrent neural networks3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-08-08
What Hacker News says?
Daniel Johnson's blog is hard to beat http://www.hexahedria.com/ Stephen Wittens' site is another that comes to mind https://acko.net/
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on “Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?”Submitted Classical music generation with recurrent neural networks as a story · 443 points
HN discussionI'm quite sure I have seen other attempts to generate music with RNNs recently, although I don't remember exactly anymore. You don't cite that many references to other approaches, only the one from Boulanger-Lewandowski from 2012. I did a quick search, and I probably miss a lot, but I found these: http://papers.nips.cc/paper/5655-deep-temporal-sigmoid-belie... http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2806383 http://gitxiv.…
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on “Music Language Modeling with Recurrent Neural Networks”Submitted Refraction Simulation as a story · 78 points
HN discussionMy take (as someone working in the area) on how/why we are encouraged by this progress: The model is unconditional i.e. any concept of form at all was learned directly from data, with no real structural hints to what it should learn. Generally you get much stronger "global structure" the more prior information you provide either in the model itself or in the input/targets (such as chord constraints, etc.). This is o…
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on “Making Music and Art Through Machine Learning”Submitted Discrete and Computational Geometry Projects as a story · 18 points
HN discussionVery nice! Looks like the author just started at HMC, from his about page. ( http://www.hexahedria.com/about/ ) Impressive kid.
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on “Refraction Simulation”Submitted Shift Clock as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Introducing the GGT-NN as a story · 2 points
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