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I don't see anyone harping on notation, but using notation to point out why the analysis is lacking.

• alganet 2y ago
  The author self-reported lack of music knowledge. Using notation to point out the mistakes makes no sense. Unless the message in those critics is "learn notation".
  • dboreham 2y ago
    You don't need to learn any notation to understand the concept that human perception of music is driven by relative frequency relationships, not absolute frequency.
    • alganet 2y ago
      Yeah, that seems about right. Many musicians can just play a song that feels good. Never knowing anything about notation or frequency stuff. Maybe a data guy can extract something useful from an incomplete dataset too. What was the author trying to do? Showing some prowess with data while learning about music. I think the result was good.
  • duped 2y ago
    The notation is the tool to describe abstract concepts. It's impossible to talk about why analysis is flawed if you don't even have the language to describe the data being analyzed. edited to remove some snark.
    • alganet 2y ago
      So it is _exactly_ what I called it to be then: HN giving a pseudo-lecture on notation. Because notation is important. However, it's a loose exploration of data, no hypothesis. The "flaw" only exists if you treat it like it is meant for professional musicians.