alt Hacker NewsI didn't get past the wanky declaration that he listens to classical, listing out dozens of composers.
The term DJ is synonymous with modern, electronic music, anyway.
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Yeah, that's where he lost me too. Strikes me as very pretentious.
He didn't even say "classical", he was circumspect with "that moste illustriouse of musical traditionnes".
Or someone cueing up well-known pop/dance tunes at a wedding/disco. Last time I was at one they weren't generally firing up symphonies, string quartets then doing a deeper drop of a heavy hitting baroque banger to see the bodies hit the floor.
Glad I wasn't the only one. Love how he goes on to say how he's aware that people are unfamiliar with all those names he just dropped.
Me three. I thought it was an attempt at humor, but I got to the end and didn't find a punchline?
I learned Windows programming from his book, I'm sort of shocked he doesn't seem to have a base-level understanding of how transformer models work..
That, and instrumental music. Seems to believe the set of all music = pop songs + western civilization tradition classical music
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Author comes off as what days is called “performative man”.
The Spotify AI DJ makes some pretty cool sets for me, but I listen to Hyperpop and Outrun type electronic music, stuff like that. A DJ spinning sets of classical music is pretty weird haha. I’d recommend just listening to the Classical New Releases playlist, which is excellent.
It almost feels like he asked an AI to write out a list of composers