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>orange man bad You know, I was nodding along until you shoehorned that one in.
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I’m plenty calm, I was just stating an objection. I don’t know where you’re getting the idea that I am not.
Show HN: I trained a 125M model to autocomplete piano on-device
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#72Pretty Impressive!!
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#73> Eventually I used Gemini 3.5 Flash for pairwise evaluation But, but… wouldn't that be… (gasp) DISTILLATION? Fun project!
The horror!
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#74Are the weights of the model available?
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#75This sort of “autocomplete” is actually fundamental to how classical composers were trained. For anyone interested, I’d highly recommend reading Robert Gjerdingen’s article Gebrauchs-Formulas. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259731561_Gebrauchs... You can also listen to the transcript of four Russian composers, including Rachmaninoff, playing this pattern recognition and generation game at a dinner party in…
To add to this: classical extemporization, post-Romantic period, also sort of fell out of favor as the composer began to pre-empt the performer and the "written note is sacrosanct" effectively became the de jure standard.
There's a great story around how Beethoven, perhaps one of the strongest improvisers of his day, completely upstaged Steibelt, a contemporary musician and by all accounts a bit of a charlatan. I'll include the entire quote verbatim from "The Lives of the Great Pianists" by Harold Schonberg.
This time Steibelt had prepared a brilliant fantasy for piano and strings, the theme coming from the Beethoven trio he had heard the previous week. Steibelt's admirers were in raptures. Now the issue was joined, and Beethoven had to show his strength. He walked to the piano, grasped the cello part of the Steibelt work en route, put it upside down on the piano and insultingly drummed out a theme with one finger. Then he improvised, and—angry, excited, on his mettle—how he must have improvised! Before Beethoven had finished, Steibelt stole from the room. He never again would meet Beethoven and made it a condition before going anywhere in Vienna that Beethoven not be invited.Re: Show HN: I trained a 125M model to autocomplete piano on-device
#76Would you be willing to share about how much it cost to train a model like this?
Luckily I have access to 4x RTX 4090s, so I didn’t have to pay cloud GPU prices directly. If I had, it probably would have added up quite a bit given how many training runs and experiments I ended up doing.
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#77Question as a musician: Do you find satisfaction in the piece it created in-and-of-itself (subtracting the satisfaction from making the tool itself)?
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#78Congratulations! It is amazing!!! Can you do the same with a song and give different drums to see which one fits better?
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#79Hearing the start of Für Elise, and then it being taken in an incredibly different direction, is surprisingly disconcerting.
Can we hear it?
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#80I too am currently learning to play Sonatina in G Major, it's a fun one! the end is surprisingly tricky