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Comment · 15 years ago
Dunno, I think the raw frequencies work fine in your case, because there aren't really any themes that all (or many) authors across your selections keep returning to.
But, thanks :-)
Comment · 15 years ago
The exact details are out of my hands -- I'm just a tech guy -- but we're active members of the music information retrieval community and always have been.
No-one even knows if it's possible to crowdsource good enough BPM data like this yet, so even demonstrating that it's feasible would be progress :-)
Comment · 15 years ago
Don't worry, we do intend to share the data publically once it's all in.
Comment · 15 years ago
It's actually pretty debatable whether this year's KDD Cup will really help the science of music recommendation:
http://musicmachinery.com/2011/02/22/is-the-kdd-cup-really-m...
Because it's entirely anonymised, not just the users but the artists too -- c.f. Netflix's problems with deanonymization:
http://33bits.org/2010/03/15/open-letter-to-netflix/
This means you can't use any interesting characteristics of the music itself, or the associated metadata, to aid the recommendations. All the interesting domain knowledge is stripped out, which likely means the best solutions still won't work as well as algorithms that use metadata (like Last.fm's) or content analysis (like Pandora's) or both, and certainly won't lead to any particularly interesting insights about what drives people's tastes.
Disclaimer: I work at Last.fm
Comment · 16 years ago
Yes, and graduates with an interdisciplinary background and strong reasoning skills are more likely to get the interesting jobs than pure software engineers who know JUnit inside-out.
(Generalizing from myself with a sample size of one)
Comment · 16 years ago
As a counterpoint, I like this quote from Twitter's Nick Kallen:
This smacks of the oft-ridiculed Java AbstractFactoryFactoryInterface. But let me put it bluntly: AbstractFactoryFactoryInterface's are how you write real, modular software–not little fart applications.
http://magicscalingsprinkles.wordpress.com/2010/02/08/why-i-...
[N.B. I'm not saying there isn't a lot of truth in the factorial article, it's just you have to know which challenges just need a one-liner function and which require an AbstractFactoryFactoryInterface]
Comment · 16 years ago
If you're also on gmail, you can manually set up a filter to 'never send to spam'.
I've had to do this for friends' emails before, e.g. someone whose domain has a letter->number substitution which sets off spammer alarms.
Comment · 16 years ago
It may be a 'great' name ideologically, but the fact that there are three other comments in the thread giving three different ways it's pronounced, shows a certain degree of name fail.
EDIT: Sorry, five different pronunciation suggestions at last count.
Comment · 16 years ago
Dear gods, please, someone give it a better name.
Sadly, superficial things like names are important if you want to compete with better-known products.
I can't even pronounce LibreOffice fluidly -- there are no words in English (I think) with a schwa followed immediately by a short 'o' sound, so no native English speaker is phonologically equipped to deal with it.
Comment · 16 years ago
"Our servers are over capacity and certain pages may be temporarily unavailable. We're incredibly sorry for the inconvenience."
Posting an apparently controversial rant to HN when you don't have the capacity to handle the traffic... considered harmful.
Comment · 16 years ago
Have you tried it with Firefox pre 4.0? Doesn't seem to work on 3.6.13.
I can select the section of code but not actually edit it. It's just plain, unadorned text in a regular div.
But pressing Execute does nothing anyway, apart from a page refresh.
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