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haliax on Oct 25, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Statistics for hackers?

If it helps, the sort of questions that interest me are: what types of sounds are pleasing to the ear, or, what rules do I have to constrain randomness within before I can generate music that sounds like _____, or (presumably with a factor model) what team is most like to win the world cup =P

keenerd on Oct 25, 2009 | [–]

You could try looking at existing generative music schemes. This one is classic[al]:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musikalisches_Würfelspiel

brent on Oct 26, 2009 | [–]

I wouldn't spend too much time on the world cup problem :-).

http://arxiv.org/abs/0909.4555

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