nervechannel

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by nervechannel 15y 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 :-)
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Lyric clouds, genre maps and distinctive words(blog.last.fm)
7 points by nervechannel 15y ago|3 comments
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Musical complexity, audio analysis and crowdsourced data(blog.last.fm)
5 points by nervechannel 15y ago|0 comments
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by nervechannel 15y 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 y
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by nervechannel 15y ago
Don't worry, we do intend to share the data publically once it's all in.
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Last.fm launches crowdsourcing experiment for tempo (BPM) detection(blog.last.fm)
26 points by nervechannel 15y ago|10 comments
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by nervechannel 16y 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 th
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Mining Valentine's Day listening trends(blog.last.fm)
14 points by nervechannel 16y ago|0 comments
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by nervechannel 16y 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)
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by nervechannel 16y 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–n
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by nervechannel 16y 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.
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by nervechannel 16y 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 suggestio
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by nervechannel 16y 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)
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by nervechannel 16y 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... consid
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by nervechannel 16y 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
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by nervechannel 16y ago
That's not slow. In 20 generations, humans hardly change at all.
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by nervechannel 16y ago
But many interesting problems can't be solved by throwing more RAM at them, because RAM isn't the bottleneck.
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by nervechannel 16y ago
That's terrible advice, I hope you're being sarcastic but I fear not. There's plenty of useful stuff outside of CS which isn't liberal arts. Maths, stats, electronics, physics could all be useful in an entirely computing-based career. Biolo
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by nervechannel 16y ago
If I could go back and do it all again, I'd definitely do more stats courses. Also if you're interested in data science in general, some basic linguistics (syntax/semantics) would be useful. (Saying this as someone with a PhD in natural lan
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by nervechannel 16y ago
Did anyone else assume that headline was about a big argument breaking out between some startups?
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by nervechannel 16y ago
I went to an article on Facebook which starts off by explicitly discussing the portrayal of events in a movie I haven't seen yet (and intend to). How's that not a spoiler?
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by nervechannel 16y ago
Exactly. Something else scary that doesn't resemble a spider.
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by nervechannel 16y ago
SPOILER ALERTS please.
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by nervechannel 16y ago
"It is fundamentally different from the ad platform that is Google. People go to Google to find something they need, possibly ready to buy, which a good percentage of the time can in fact be solved by someone's ad. Facebook ads, on the othe
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by nervechannel 16y ago
a). They didn't link to the study. Or if they did, not anywhere I could see. Inexcusable in 'science' journalism! b). Any control group on the babies to see if it's actually fear of spiders they learnt, or just fear?
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by nervechannel 16y ago
Yeah, good point. Probably smartphones too, I'm not a big enough user of apps to say for certain though.
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by nervechannel 16y ago
It's interesting how software got better over time on the same hardware back then. My first was a 48KB Sinclair Spectrum which I used for at least 5 years, and the games coming out by the end of that time were much more sophisticated than
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by nervechannel 16y ago
The experimental noise band/art collective Throbbing Gristle used to systematically mis-spell certain words in all their writings (e.g. "the" -> "thee", "of" -> "ov") so people would have to concentrate to read them. This reminded m
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by nervechannel 16y ago
"As a Brit I do find it mildly racist that they’re censoring a British Classic" Eh? Bollocks.
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by nervechannel 16y ago
This is the first time I've heard someone argue that undocumented bugs are better than well-documented ones.

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