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by vunderba 287 days ago
And that's perfectly fine.

But when we conceptualize something like music in the form of evolutionary computation then it is important to be able to define a good metric for the fitness function otherwise you might as well just take X pieces of music, normalize them to the same key signature/tempo/etc., and then randomly mash them together.

If you're just in the mood for something more exotic, I'm happy to go repeatedly sit on my piano for a few hours and send you the final samples.

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> then it is important to be able to define a good metric for the fitness function

This product seems to have shipped successfully without one.

> If you're just in the mood for something more exotic, I'm happy to go repeatedly sit on my piano for a few hours and send you the final samples.

This feels needlessly condescending.