y3di

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I'm a college kid that wants to start a startup some day. Right now I'm just focusing on building cool apps.

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Comment · 6 years ago

I wonder if you and the rest of these commenters extend the same amount of compassion to the hundreds of thousands of non violent people stuck in prison that you do to the multimillionaire CEO of a state surveillance company. Someone who literally got away with shooting up a place of worship.

And if you do, great. Lets work towards fixing the mass incarceration problem in our country. That way, many more people can be given the same second chance that allowed Patton to attain a material wealth that vastly surpasses the overwhelming majority of humans on the planet.

Comment · 12 years ago

I'm working on a simple little utilty for finding and exploring internal rhyme schemes in poems and songs. I made this in order to better show people just how complex a rap artist's rhyme combinations can get. You can view my work in progress online at http://reasonedrhymer.com (Click on a combo or word to filter the results)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/j7u3f9rllmb1jbx/Screen%20Shot%2020... The screen shot shows a subset of the rhyme combos found in the Eminem song 'Lose Yourself'.

Comment · 12 years ago

The reason 'have it' wasn't matched is because the vowel phoneme in the word 'have' is: "AE" whereas the example in the screenshot was matching combos with successive vowels "AH - IH". So 'have' didn't match that scheme. I agree that these should match, and have been throwing around the idea of matching similar sounding phonemes together.

I completely agree though, the metre/rhythm plays a huge part in a poet or rapper's flow and you don't get the full story without incorporating it. The issue is that I haven't found a way to programmatically pull the metre from a song, and rapper's don't generally keep track of their metre, let alone put it online in a machine readable format (though I'm sure you could find ones for hugely popular songs like 'Lose Yourself' online!).

I am interested in figuring this out though, and have been throwing around ideas for people to simply generate metre for songs by having a tool that simply allows users to match words to times in a song. Though I'm not sure how scalable that is, or how to create such a tool that is drastically simple and fast to use, because otherwise it defeats the point. My hope is that there'd be a way to algorithmically parse the audio and look for inflection points in a song for where words might lie but I've done no research towards that end. digression: This kinda tech would probably be useful for generating 'sing-a-longs'

Comment · 12 years ago

https://www.dropbox.com/s/j7u3f9rllmb1jbx/Screen%20Shot%2020...

A utilty for finding and exploring internal rhyme schemes in poems and songs. I made this in order to better show people just how complex a rap artist's rhyme combinations can get. This was created with CMU's pronunction dictionary (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMU_Pronouncing_Dictionary)

The screen shot shows a subset of the rhyme combos found in the Eminem song 'Lose Yourself'. You can view my work in progress online at http://reasonedrhymer.com (Click on a combo or word to filter the results)

What I wanna do eventually: - Permalinks to analysis for specific songs (and which current combo's are being viewed in that song) - Speed up the core algorithm - Allow people to add new words to the pronunctiation dictionary - Move away from the barebones bootstrappy look - Explain the process visibly on the site

Comment · 12 years ago

where's react?