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Automatic Christmas Music
crispinalt writes "Just in time for the holiday season, Brian Whitman, the creator of Eigenradio, has had his computers compose the 'statistically optimal' Christmas music in A Singular Christmas, a freely downloadable MP3 album. A bank of computers listened to as much Christmas music as they could handle, and then learned their own true meaning of holiday cheer. Enjoy!"
1. Spread catnip on organ keys
2. Add two cats and a recorder
3. ???
4. Profit!!
The Spoon
Updated 6/28/2011
...of fruitcake.
I work at Rockefeller Center in NYC - the music is starting to drive me mad!! The *last* thing I need is people finding ways to optimize the torture!
--LWM
I can't listen to this stuff, maybe someone in the first few moved it instead of copying, so please put it back :)
/. crowd, all them servers are belong to us :7
Geez, we, the
I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I can think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.
I for one greet our new Christmas-song listening computerized Overlords.
+++ MELON MELON MELON +++ Out of Cheese Error +++ redo from start +++
all is gone, all the bytes
round platters spinning away
IT admins going "what the hey"
Thrash in heavenly peace, thrash your drives to pieces.
"Look Lois, the two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a fat white guy who is threatened by change."
but how can he post these?!? MP3s are illegal. mit's gonna have is ass. he should be ashamed for robbing profits from a desperate industry
No, but thanks to Slashdot, i can not listen to it and not think of Dirk Gently :p
Man is a slave because freedom is difficult, whereas slavery is easy.
Students at Miami left today; I have about 140 megabits to lay waste to if someone would like to give it to me (scp or something) you can IM me at ToadMan8. I kinda want to see if I can /. the University.
I haven't posted in so long, my sig is out of date.
So here it is, merry slashdot effect
Everybody's having 401s
Look at your bandwidth now
It's only just beg-u-u-u-u-n
Ctrl+Alt+Del got it right in the "Video Games Don't Make People Violent..." strip. :-)
I wonder how soon is the RIAA going to claim he committed a copyright infringement by processing the music with a neural network (presumedly) and publishing the results?
I also wonder how many software patents he infringed on by implementing the program(s)... Y'know, math isn't everyone's privilege.
The album should be called "A Christmas In Computer Hell" or maybe "Heilige Fucked Up Buzz Box Nacht"
What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.-Edward Abbey
You know what's statistically optimal?
The unit probability of a dude who writes computer programs that can compose their own music not having the bandwidth in place for a proper slashdotting.
HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO ALL, AND TO ALL A^ytR^%}}}}}}}}}}}
Crap. I'm downloading it. It's like the big red button with a sign that says DO NOT PUSH. Well, now I HAVE to even though I know it will only lead to a dark and scarey place ;)
It cannot be creepier than a big shopping mall near where I live.
It plays Chrismas "elevator-type" music, but something's clearly wrong with the sound system, as about half the output volume is just static and feedback.
I look at the other shoppers and no one seems to be bothered by the static. It has not been fixed in the two weeks since I noticed it.
Miami network admin: "Sir? We've got gigabytes of usage all of a sudden, all from one VLAN."
Miami network manager: "Let's see... all the students have gone home. Who's left in that building?"
30 seconds later, Toadman8 becomes confused as his IM session (and all network traffic) drops.
Moral of the story: When laying waste to a network bandwidth-wise, it is best to do it when you're able to point a finger elsewhere.
You insensitive clod!
"Was it a millionaire who said 'Imagine No Posessions?'" -- Elvis Costello
...s about half the output volume is just static and feedback.
That was one of those RIAA spoof MP3's that was downloaded by accident. That's what they get for using iMesh to download elevator music. The static was probably less annoying than the music itself. It could also be hiding subliminal messages getting you to buy...buy...buy.
This is just what we need around Christmas. Something else to boost the suicide rate.
This sounds like the soundtrack to the aftermath of WWIII!!!
"Music for children to scream in their sleep by."
"Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart, he dreams himself your master."
It's kind of like what you'd expect a snail to compose.
(shivers)
After having listened to these it is obvious that they ran the program on the wrong directory. Should have been:
/allthegoodchristmasmusic /home/brian/newmusic
/dev/null /home/brian/newmusic
$ automakemusic -scan
not:
$ automakemusic -scan
A distinctive mark, characteristic, or sound indicating identity