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I think this is true today, but timeless and classic music comes from creativity. And creativity is a trial and error process of building on prior approaches and techniques. Randomly testing new approaches and techniques by blending and extending past approaches and techniques seems like something generative AI (with human prompting and targeted supplementation) would be particularly good at.


It's not like the AI made this on its own, it was iterative work with a human

> As I was making the song, I felt like I (a guy with no musical ability) was working with one of the most talented (and patient) bands to bring my song to life through brute force trial and error.

Max Martin comes to mind as an interesting comparison

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Martin)


All great questions. With these generative AI tools, the effort required for making quality music has dramatically decreased. The big challenge becomes how do you stand out in a very crowded market. To break out, I think you almost need to have other artists (or influencers) who have already made it validate your work and expose you to their audiences.


And if you want to listen to my creation, here it is: https://soundcloud.com/the-squeeze-972740152/crushed


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I wish there was a way to specify a prefix or suffix.


If you are looking for more control over the domain name generation process, then you may be interested in trying out a tool we recently built called Mashword (https://mashword.com).

The approach is different from this tool as it does not blindly suggest domains, but rather keys off of the words you enter. Mashword takes entered words, determines the pronunciation of the words, and then generates unique spellings and combinations using a variety of algorithms. It will also quickly run domain name availability checks and provide quick links to register the domains if they are available.


What I'd really want is this service but put "software", "capital", "health", "app", etc. at the end of each domain. I bet there are some pretty interesting company names available if you add a suffix.


I'm thinking of showing suffixes like that once you click on a result that you like. Is that what you are envisioning as well?


How much do you expect average early stage (Series A and B) venture valuations to decrease in 2020 vs 2019?

(A) 0-10% (B) 10-20% (C) 20-30% (D) 30-40% (E) >40%


What percent of your company’s workforce do you expect to be laid off next week?

(A) Zero, we are hiring. (B) 0-10% (C) 10-20% (D) 20-30% (E) Over 30%


How much do you expect new sales bookings to change at your company in the next quarter?

(A) Up >20%, (B) Up/Down 20% (C) Down 20-30%, (D) Down 30-50%, (E) Down >50%


How about expanding beyond coding? The U.S. has a shortage of skilled people that goes well beyond coding. E.g. machinists, pilots, nurses, etc.

Also, I think your business model would be much more scalable if you left the educating to others and instead focused narrowly on being a financial program.


Yep -- 100% -- right now it's web development but in the short term we'll bring in other types of software development. Medium term, other knowledge work like data science and finance. Longer term, nursing. Nursing (and other fields where there are more immediate safety issues and logistics issues (hard to do nursing totally online) are very big areas and we probably need cheaper capital to do it (unless VR/AR changes that).


Another way to generate inflation is by increasing the velocity of money in an economy-- i.e. people spending money faster by borrowing more and saving less. Doing so increases the amount of money in the economy, but instead of the source being a printing press it is a bank balance sheet.


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