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by stevetjoa 10y ago
In the spirit of releasing things before they're ready... I've been working on Violin.io ( https://violin.io ) since 2015. It's eventually intended to be interactive sheet music in the browser synced with YouTube re
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by stevetjoa 10y ago
I welcome it. I enjoy the challenge of staying focused when I notice out of the corner of my eye a crowd forming or people filming. Sometimes I cope by playing with my eyes closed. Violinists have options where to position their eyes: on th
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by stevetjoa 10y ago
Steve here. Indeed, I already play at least four orchestra concerts per year and a number of chamber performances. Busking provides a performance opportunity of a different sort by playing solo music which is more exposed and musically dens
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by stevetjoa 10y ago
Steve here. That guy is great! Perfect idea for a trumpet. He's always standing on a bench/podium in the northwest corner of Union Square. His sound really projects; you can hear him from inside the 2-Muni bus that rides on Post.
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by stevetjoa 10y ago
I think that's a great idea. Electronic aids, despite the overhead, have a higher ceiling than a feeble acoustic violin. It can be more unique, more exotic, and more easily heard. My focus on software is also 0-5 hours a day, and those
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by stevetjoa 10y ago
Steve here. Thanks for reading! Those earnings are certainly not sustainable over eight hours in a day, nor over every day of the week. But they are attainable in strategically timed bursts. Some earnings are also skewed by a very few who d
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My Experience Busking in San Francisco(stevetjoa.com)
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by stevetjoa 11y ago
For anyone interested in this area, the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS) [1] is full of papers on the so-called area of image forensics -- the identification of processing that has been performed upon an imag
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by stevetjoa 11y ago
My first experience with Persona was through my mobile phone provider, Ting. They still use Persona: https://ting.com/account/login . I loved it then, and I love it now.
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by stevetjoa 11y ago
Off-topic, but your article's design looks beautiful. What did you use to generate it, e.g. a converted IPython notebook, or homemade CSS plus MathJax? And what did you use for the figures?
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by stevetjoa 11y ago
I glanced through the entire PDF. While it looks like an outstanding comprehensive overview to neural networks, it doesn't appear to really address NLP all that much, despite the title. I would gladly welcome if you or someone could wr
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by stevetjoa 11y ago
Hmm, interesting. Perhaps it is not worth it to "hire" a spectator to donate, but I think simply a spectator to stand around like an audience member can be more effective. That's another thing that often clusters; people who
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by stevetjoa 11y ago
I busk solo violin in San Francisco's Powell Station -- 45 times since January 4, 2014. I last played on September 20 and made $51.02 per hour. My friends have encouraged me to write about my experiences onto Hacker News, but I never h
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by stevetjoa 11y ago
Slightly off-topic, but because I love this topic so much: there is a wonderful documentary called Pianomania about a piano tuner ("piano technician", if you will) to the stars. The story centers around a good-natured piano tun
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by stevetjoa 11y ago
Nowhere did they mention http://www.baseball.com/ , the website I would have guessed was referred to by the title before I read the article.
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by stevetjoa 11y ago
... in part due to some hilariously complicit Hacker News accounts that are making serious-sounding comments. Not gonna lie; I was initially fooled.
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by stevetjoa 11y ago
http://musicinformationretrieval.com A collection of instructional IPython notebooks related to music information retrieval.
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by stevetjoa 11y ago
Forgive the comment hijack, but for those interested in the basics of music information retrieval (MIR), I started to compile some notes on MIR as IPython notebooks here: http://musicinformationretrieval.com It's clearly in
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by stevetjoa 11y ago
For small personal transactions, I like Square Cash [1] because I can pay by sending a simple email. Deposits also seem to be pretty fast. [1] https://squareup.com/help/us/en/article/5372-square-cash-wit.
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by stevetjoa 11y ago
Great idea! Although it appears that the Audio widget does not display correctly. Compare: http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/stevetjoa/stanford-mir/bl... https://github.com/stevetjoa/sta
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by stevetjoa 12y ago
Brief HN discussion on the same article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8124560 Recent HN discussion on another article about orchestral conductors: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7687641
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by stevetjoa 12y ago
I have yet to go through it, but there is OnlineStatBook: http://onlinestatbook.com/index.html Chapter 1: http://onlinestatbook.com/2/introduction/introduction.html
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by stevetjoa 12y ago
I'm sorry to report that, according to the Associated Press, Hari Simran Singh Khalsa has been found dead "in one of the narrow gorges or ravines that crisscross the rugged mountains in the colonial town of Tepoztlan." http:
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by stevetjoa 12y ago
A collection of IPython notebooks for music information retrieval (MIR). Work in progress: https://github.com/stevetjoa/stanford-mir We began using these as instructional material at a summer workshop on MIR at CCRMA,
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by stevetjoa 12y ago
Thanks for making this. Relevant plug: I have a Vagrant box [1] and GitHub repo [2] containing IPython notebooks that we use in a workshop on music information retrieval. (Caution: the IPython notebooks are under heavy development, i.e. inc
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by stevetjoa 12y ago
Shameless self-promotion: in my Stack Overflow answer [1], I reference good introductory LSH papers [2-5]. In short, LSH is an algorithm that hashes points that are nearby in a feature space into the same bin with high probability. Contra
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by stevetjoa 12y ago
My reason is simple. I use Instacart frequently. When I first evaluated Google Shopping Express, it didn't seem possible to buy basic perishables such as milk and orange juice (and I don't mean the canned kind that sits on shelves
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by stevetjoa 12y ago
I like wash.io. I can't afford to use it every time (I think I've used it only three times so far?), but each instance left me satisfied. I find it especially useful for wash+press and dry cleaning where the alternative is to brin
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by stevetjoa 12y ago
Would someone here kindly be able to comment about the usability of Parse vs. Firebase vs. AWS JS SDK? I've looked into all three. They seem comparable because they are "no-backend" solutions and NoSQL stores. It seems like t
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by stevetjoa 12y ago
You can think of the orchestra as a meta-instrument. Just like a violinist plays the violin, a conductor plays the orchestra. Someone has to make the musical decisions. In a string quartet, it might be the first violin. In a baroque ensem

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