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I think it's one of the 2 examples where Machine Learning actually was seen usefull as DIY-project.

The other one is with a cucumber farm: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/how-a-japanese-cu...

Fyi: The real reason why i posted it, is that suddenly your RSS feeds on your website work again i suppose :P

So all your items on your blog are suddenly in my list again :)

That and ... it's an awesome story :p



> The real reason why i posted it, is that suddenly your RSS feeds on your website work again i suppose :P

I fixed a minor bug in my Hugo setup and posted a new article, that's probably the reason why that changed. Now I still need to go fix the images on older posts. No rest for the wicked!

My current project also has ML in it; music, MIDI, programming, what's not to like :)?

I'm very much unsure about whether or not I will be able to get it to work though, I may have bitten off more than I can chew with this one.


Ahhh, yes. It could be that the URL or Unique Id changed of the feed.

No worries for the images though, as i'm not using that ( but i could)

http://handlr.sapico.me/ :p


Can confirm, Feedly handed me a bunch of older posts as unread along with the "Briefcase" on earlier today...


BTW: The search feature on your site sends the query over HTTP (missing the S).


Thank you, I will fix that.

edit: it should be working correctly now. Make sure you refresh the page first.


works fine now, thanks


What's the current project? I've been wanting to post one of mine for the past few years, but I never get around to it...


Trying to create a very patient (and cheap) piano teacher. I realize it will never be a substitute for a real teacher but if it gets me 50% there that's already quite neat. But this is much harder than I thought it would be.


Lol, i was thinking about the usefullness of Music, MIDI and AI. That i have no relation to it.

BUT, this is probably the only thing that i want to do with Music - learning how to play the piano.

Nice one!


What's hard about it? Can you share some more details? Are you using a led strip on the keys?


Polyphonic sound decomposition is pretty much an open problem. I have an 'interesting' idea on how to solve it. I'm sure I'll be accused of cheating if I get it to work ;)


Oh, that's true (Melodyne made a plug in that will do it, AFAIK). Can't you do something else, like optically or mechanically read the keys? Do you even need to read them? I guess you want to tell people if they made a mistake, hmm...

Something you could do would be IR LEDs and an IR camera, where the LEDs are only reflected on the shiny keys when they're pressed due to the angle.


Hehe, 'why don't you' :)

Yes, there are many use cases that I have in mind where this is a must. In fact, if I can't crack it then it's a useless project (other than that I will learn from it).

There are all kinds of devices that could give you midi inputs (such as the 'Piano Bar', sadly discontinued), but that's the easy way out. After all, you could also simply use a MIDI enabled keyboard. But I want it to work with a real piano, as well as possibly other instruments.

The best software for this at the moment is Anthemscore.


Hmm, very true. Do you want it to not require modifications to the piano? I guess that would mean that you pretty much need to do sound decomposition...


Yes, zero hardware changes or mods to the piano. I think that would be a dealbreaker for many people. It also means that the barrier to entry would be much lower.


Hmm, yes, if you can get it to work with just sound, that would be trivial to set up. If not, I think the light idea would still be valuable, as technically you wouldn't be changing the piano (just adding a camera and light above it).


I've actually toyed around with that idea, one interesting application would be to convert Rousseau style youtube videos back into midi.

I'm quite sure it is possible but it would still require a lot of set-up. The microphone is such a temptingly simple target that it makes sense to pursue that one first.


That makes sense (although the microphone is only a simple target if you ignore the unknown unknown of deconstructing the sound :P). I'm very much looking forward to your progress!


I liked "counting bees on a rasp pi with a conv net" too.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17103635




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