Automatic, machine-generated music has been a small interest of mine for some time now. A few days ago, I tried out a deep learning approach for generating music… and failed miserably. Here’s the story about my efforts so far, and how computational complexity killed the post-rock. The spark of an idea When Photo Amaze was… Continue reading Generating music with deep learning
Category: Technology
Historical design decisions and consequences
Douglas Crockford discovered JSON and he also wrote a reference implementation for JSON in Java. One of the great stories I heard him share was on Hanselminutes episode 396: He was contacted by some developers that were getting syntax errors while parsing JSON using his reference implementation. It turned out that they were transferring JSON… Continue reading Historical design decisions and consequences
Ubuntu — not ready for primetime
I wanted to install Ubuntu on my Dell XPS 15 to try out Steam for Linux. This was not the enjoyable experience I had hoped for since a lot of things did not work perfectly out of the box. Below are some steps I had to take to get the system going. Fixing the graphics… Continue reading Ubuntu — not ready for primetime
Why you should not use Microsoft Silverlight for your next web application
The above warning message sums up everything I dislike about proprietary web technologies. Silverlight is a fairly new Microsoft technology from 2007 and Moonlight is its Open Source and not up-to-date equivalent that I have to use because Microsoft does not provide Silverlight for Linux. Since most software only run on Windows anyway why is… Continue reading Why you should not use Microsoft Silverlight for your next web application
Times New Roman versus Georgia font types
Note: This blog post is a rare example of an opinion/observation that is no longer relevant and/or represent my current views, but I’m keeping it here for historical reasons :-) It seems that at the moment, the Georgia font type is winning the font race on the internet. But even for fonts, one has to… Continue reading Times New Roman versus Georgia font types