Hooray for Side Projects! Smooth Music for Coding, Driven by Machine Learning
summary
Node.js controls Reason via MIDI to auto-generate endless background mixes, initially random then refined by user applause/boo clicks stored in MongoDB; a brain.js neural network trains (thousands of iterations, he cites ~4,000) and the server uses Socket.IO and Google Cloud. The project names its web frontend Zapper (QR demo worked intermittently on conference Wi‑Fi), audio streaming attempt is unfinished, and the ML-guided mixer shows measurable improvement after retraining.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Start
- 11:11Innovation Days
- 12:59About the project
- 16:31Get yourself connected
- 17:53The secret sauce
- 25:06Training neural networks
- 26:42Time for another demo!
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