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by TheOtherHobbes 2881 days ago
Not to a creative musician.

There should be a special name for this fallacy, because it occurs so often on HN.

Just because a domain looks a bit like a trivial mathematical operation to mathematically inclined outsiders doesn't mean that the math really is trivial, or even that the real core of the domain is best summarised as a trivial mapping.