When one is inebriated, one can make the decision not to drive. I've been inebriated many a time, and never driven drunk.
You say that inebriated people don't know that they are inebriated. If in doubt, they can consider: have I had somthing to drink this evening? If so, they don't drive. If they want to get fancy they can calculate BAC.
Have you ever had a drink? Or is your sense of humor just too deadpan for me to get? If so, congratulations.
Yes, most popular music is based on these formulas. But the vast majority of songs following these formulas do not end up hits or anywhere near it. These are the sort of propoerties that leads a song to "sounding like a hit", according to the article, not necessarily being a hit.
My own suspicion is that the selection of a few hits out of the many thousands of virtually indistinguishable hit-sounding songs has more to do with marketing, chance, and the appearance and dress of the performer than with complex mathematical properties in the music. The article gives no details whatever on the "algorithm" or what it's basis of operation is. Since computer scientists have been working on music analysis since shortly after the first computer and have not come close to the types of results described, I strongly suspect
the algorithm is based on human-entered properties of the song, including non-musical ones such as the age, gender, and appearance of the performers, not analysis of an actual recording
the algorithm will perform somewhat worse than music executives at picking what songs (out of the "potential hits") will actually be hits, and
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When one is inebriated, one can make the decision not to drive. I've been inebriated many a time, and never driven drunk.
You say that inebriated people don't know that they are inebriated. If in doubt, they can consider: have I had somthing to drink this evening? If so, they don't drive. If they want to get fancy they can calculate BAC.
Have you ever had a drink? Or is your sense of humor just too deadpan for me to get? If so, congratulations.
My own suspicion is that the selection of a few hits out of the many thousands of virtually indistinguishable hit-sounding songs has more to do with marketing, chance, and the appearance and dress of the performer than with complex mathematical properties in the music. The article gives no details whatever on the "algorithm" or what it's basis of operation is. Since computer scientists have been working on music analysis since shortly after the first computer and have not come close to the types of results described, I strongly suspect