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Monty Anderson
Personal blog · montyanderson.net/writing · on HN as montyandersonaiprogramming
Monty Anderson's personal blog at montyanderson.net covers ai and programming. Since 2023, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Semantic Sound Synthesis with Agents”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its posts on the limits of text-to-audio models and an alternative: giving LLM agents direct control of Ableton. The comments only cite or link the posts; none judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Semantic Sound Synthesis with Agents2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-04-10
- How to Search Anything2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-10-09
What Hacker News says?
Yep, I came to similar conclusions w/ text-to-audio models - in terms of creative work the ability to iterate is really lacking with the current interfaces. We've stopped working on text-to-audio models and are instead focusing on targeting a lower-level of abstraction by directly exposing an Ableton environment to LLM agents. We just published a blog today discussing this - https://montyanderson.net/writing/synthes…
Comment linking /writing/synthesis
on “Show HN: Sonauto – A more controllable AI music creator”Submitted New Bottlenecks as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSingle-file vector database in C. Lots of work to do! https://montyanderson.net/projects/vecdb
Comment linking /projects/vecdb
on “Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?”Submitted How to Search Anything as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI went to a interesting hackathon the other day focused on building tools for exploring timbre in sound https://comma.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/timbre-tools-hackathon/ . Was brilliant, a lot of groups focusing on the use of ML to characterise the "unexplainable" in sound synthesis. We ended up submitting a tool for interacting directly with Ableton using LLM agents after becoming disenchanted with text2audio models, wrote abo…
Comment linking /writing/synthesis
on “Everything we can't describe in music”Submitted Semantic Sound Synthesis with Agents as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Embeddings, Vectors, and Arithmetic as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Search Anything as a story · 1 points
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