Statistically Optimal Music

ShinyPlasticBag writes "'Eigenradio makes its optimal music by analyzing in real time dozens of radio stations at once. When our bank of computers has heard enough music, it will go to work on making more just like it. Since we listen to so much music all the time, Eigenradio is always on and always live. What you hear on Eigenradio is the best of the New Music, distilled and de-correlated. One song on Eigenradio is worth at least twenty songs on old radio.' Listen up here or here (SHOUTcast)."

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IMHO this is yet another example of how academic projects are judged by the amount of attention they attract, rather than on whether they advance the state of the art. This is the reason why people like Kevin Warrick [sundayherald.com] can stick a dog tag in their arm and go around claiming they are the world's first cyborg - all while being lavished with attention by the mainstream media.

Step 1: Invent retarted station based on an alphabet's soup of statistical techniques that have no relevance to anything

Step 2: Publish this crap wherever will accept the junk

Step 3: Pay Taco for a link on slashdot

Step 4: Put out press release of your shitty project

Step 5: Hope this helps your tenure outlook

Step 6: Cut workload down to 10 hours/week. This is pretty close to profit.