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maraoz.com
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maraoz.com is a personal blog at maraoz.com about culture, programming and philosophy. Since 2016, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 33 times, most often “Training a Recurrent Neural Network to Compose Music”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for posts on machine-learning music and art, such as an ABC-RNN music model post and a transcript about a puzzle in a film. The comments only link to these posts without judging the writing.
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.
maraoz's website.
Most-linked posts?
- Training a Recurrent Neural Network to Compose Music5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2016-02-14
- The Secret of Psalm 462 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-08-21
- OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since Bitcoin2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-07-18
- Getting Artificial Neural Networks Closer to Animal Brains2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-07-12
- Social Media Considered Harmful2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-12-24
- Dark Tech Backpack: Tools to Reduce Information Leakage2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-10-23
- The (Un)Reasonable Effectiveness of Raw Power2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-02-12
What Hacker News says?
Disagree with the largely coherent statement. The output I've read from GPT-3 is still quite confusing, for example this[0] blog post demonstrates some of it's capabilities. Reading through the article it generates is very confusing. Statements are made and then later contradicted, elements that do not actually exist on the page are referenced. And there just doesn't seem to be an actual cohesive narrative. All the…
Comment linking /2020/07/18/openai-gpt3/
on “Why GPT-3 Matters”Submitted OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since Bitcoin as a story · 1079 points
HN discussionI realized there was a puzzle about halfway through the movie. But there is no way I'm spending another 56min just to complete the challenge. It's a good movie, though. For anyone who's interested: https://maraoz.com/the-secret-of-psalm-46-transcript/
Comment linking /the-secret-of-psalm-46-transcript/
on “'500-hour' Order of the Sinking Star is as complex and exhausting as it sounds”Submitted Training a Recurrent Neural Network to Compose Music as a story · 134 points
HN discussionThat was my first thought when I saw this too! Definitely another addition to my side project idea backlog. Related: have you seen this? https://maraoz.com/2016/02/02/abc-rnn/
Comment linking /2016/02/02/abc-rnn/
on “A music programming language for musicians”Submitted Road to Artificial General Intelligence as a story · 103 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…
Comment linking /2016/02/02/abc-rnn/
on “Making Music and Art Through Machine Learning”Submitted The Meaning of Bitcoin as a story · 58 points
HN discussionSubmitted Weird People as a story · 22 points
HN discussionSubmitted A vision for Decentraland's next 5 years as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted In Search of the Lost Web as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Read as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Training a Recurrent Neural Network to Compose Music as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Great Software as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Interviewing Albert Einstein via GPT-3 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted In Memory of Mat Travizano as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The (Un)Reasonable Effectiveness of Raw Power as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Light Tech Backpack: 10 Tools to Defend Your Attention as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dark Tech Backpack: Tools to Reduce Information Leakage as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Social Media Considered Harmful as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting Artificial Neural Networks Closer to Animal Brains as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted "The Deception", a sci-fi microstory as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted More 2023 Book Recommendations as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Another blog with 2021 book recommendations as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Let's Rewild the Earth with NFTs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Social Media Considered Harmful as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting Artificial Neural Networks Closer to Animal Brains as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Training a Recurrent Neural Network to Compose Music as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Secret of Psalm 46 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Short Story: Dawn of Personal AIs as a story · 1 points
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