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gully_boy··on Show HN: On Making Music with the Machine
>> After a point, I suppose it doesn’t really matter how you make something, what matters is what is made, and how that thing conveys the emotion and the essence.

Somewhat agree with the second half, but disagree with the first. How things are made totally matter... a realistic painting vs a photo, even of the same subject, etc.

gully_boy··on Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on in 2024 -ideally not crowded already?
With the advances in ML (not just LLMs, but mostly image generation/recognition), getting a cheap EEG machine to read your thoughts and visualize your dreams.
gully_boy··on Pricing Americans with finite-difference
was thinking exactly this... and even better, why not on real data, especially since real, clean, data in this field is not at all hard to find.
gully_boy··on Let me repeat that back to you
>> * Gives you some time to think what to ask next.

I have found this quite an important part of this strategy actually, especially in negotiations (eg on a termsheet or something like that). having some time to both a) understand what was just offered to you but also b) give enough time to ask questions/respond.

gully_boy··on Was BASIC that horrible or better?
>>One of the most harmful falsehoods about it is that somehow GOTOs and line numbers would turn you into a bad programmer for life.

i had nightmares about avoiding GOTOs in my teens...