I disagree in my view since pandora requires "expert reviewal" of each song to provide meta-data it is only ever going to recommend fairly mainstream bands. When I used my free trial this expectation was borne out.
I also find that for specific sub-genres the meta-data isn't fine grained enough. You start to see bands which personally I would class as very different with almost identical meta-data. This is a problem with the way the reviews are structured. The reviews are performed by expert musicians BUT not necesarily ones which are knowledgeable or experienced in the domain of the tracks they review. Which means if your an avid listener of a genre like say prog-metal you find its recomendations of NWOBHM style bands wholly inappropriate.
Also the assumptions used in science certainly aren't as major as the assumptions made in any religious text. Looking at something like mathematics assumptions boil down to things as fundamental as two parralel lines never cross. Religious text ask us to assume the existance of hundreds if not thousands of specific people throughout history at the least and thats without even touching on any of the more spiritual aspects of the text.
Why does strumming frantically produce hammer-ons? If im using hammer-ons and pull offs i have to strum less not more.
To be honest in the hands of novices you could just play a random pre-recorded solo and they probably wouldnt know the difference and in the hands of someone who can play....why???
This isnt the kind of music genome project i want to see. Basically the traits which are analysed are highly subjective and if you listen to a lot of one particular genre of music (particularly smaller genres) you are almost certainly going to be more qualified to judge the supposed traits than the experts. To me it seems they essentially lumped all of heavy metal together leading me to getting results like megadeth with a seed of tool despite the two artists not sounding similar at all.
I'd prefer to see a project which tries to create an analytic genome for each song, I've been thinking about if it would be possible to do something like compare FFTs of segments of the song, sam 2 second frames throughout the track. If these could be encoded in some kind of relative way you're likely to get music that has similar characteristics. Further its entirely objective.
However from what i remember they're experts are all from Nashville so if your into country music your probably gonna get some pretty decent results.
Ultima underworld was great..I remember I didnt find out about mantras until about halfway through and the only two I had were for unarmed combat and jumping. The great thing was the punching was so fast i became a killing machine:)
Its deliberately faceitious to pick such trivial examples. Each of which is at least as easy within a decent GUI application incidently. More realistic examples might be
Sound:
Locate beginning and end of a vocal track and trim
Use EQ to reduce mudiness on a wav
Photoediting:
Remove red-eye from photo
Correct color balance
In the first task in each case you require a visual view of the object being edited which is unavailable on the command line, in the second you require constant feedback as you change parameters also unaviliable at the command line.
As for designing presentations and spreadsheets I absolutely defy you to come up with something as professional looking and easy to use as the average PHB does every day in the same amount of time.
Apart from that you seem to have missed the point of my argument. Sure if im intimately familiar with sox i might be able to pull that off but in an audio app such as cool edit i new how to dothis before i had ever done it. Just go to the menu and select pitch-shift, similarly time stretching can be acheived in three clicks.
Histogram based Normalisation is a 2 click procedure in all the image apps i have ever used. Also for a better result you can stretch the histogram yourself which requires constant visual feedback.
As for using a spreadsheet as a calculator.. why? I may as well set you the chalange of doing CAD with emacs. If the user wants a calculator they can have it.
Your illustration example im not entirely sure about what you mean but this is exactly the thing apps like Publish are for.
The digital camera example is trivial using a normal file manager and photoshop. Certainly easier than looking up syntax for using CLI image processing.
Of course you guys who use linux exclusively dont have well designed apps for a lot of this stuff. No good sound / music editing apps (no audacity DOESNT count) and the gimp is pretty pitiful compared to photoshop so you might not have experienced a well thought out and designed GUI before.
This is one of the most commonly cited reasons that linux is kept of the desktop. The sooner you guys realise this and stop trying to force everyone to become inimately familiar with every god damn CLI command you'll see a much bigger uptake.
And for your information I use both linux and windows, often simultaneously (via KVM switch) but id never try to do some tasks under linux.
CLI is all very well if your doing something which you have done before, however for learning a new task a GUI is MUCH better. A typical GUI can display orders of magnitude more information that a terminal (or DOS) window. Additionaly a good GUI will organise the information spacially in order to group similar functions / option. With CLI all you have to rely on is cryptic man pages.
Now I agree that for some tasks CLI is much more efficient than using a GUI but it does presume quite a lot of task specific knowledge which isnt always easy to find.
Plus there are some things that you just plain cant do in a CLI, sound, photoediting, music, word processing, designing presentations, spreadsheeting the list goes on. In the end the CLI is essentially just a programing language and is suited to simple but repetitive tasks. Anything which requires more human decision than automatic repetition is going to be more efficient with a GUI and vice versa.
And installing something on every car wouldnt be ungodly expensive? Theres definately more cars than there are 1/4 mile stretches of motorway in the country.
I thought great idea for a second when I thought they were going to POS tag books (seens how theyre scanning them anyway) but then i read the article and realised that its basically rubbish.
I minor'ed in NLP for my Masters at edinburgh this year, the statistical stuff is where its at, specifically hidden markov modelling of speech units. Its truly remarkable what you can do with only TNT (trigrams n tags) which as the name suggests is a trigram tagger.
Stay the hell away from formal semantic modelling..its horrible.
You can access all edinburghs course informations via http://inf.ed.ac.uk/ if you want to see the kinds of things covered in each course.
I did Introduction to Computational Linguistics, Natural Language and Speech System Design and Semantics and Pragmatics of Natural Language Programming.
Actually over here in the UK loyalty cards usually work a little differently. Basically you swipe your card when you pay and you accumulate points which are redeemed usually with monthsly vouchers off subsequent bills.
You dont receive a discount on items, there isnt a normal price and a card carriers price. Granted that in the balance the company needs to pay for its data mining somehow and that ultimately has to come from the customers but it is certainly a system which is less insulting to the customers on a day to day basis
the problem with this is the quality of player produced content. Player building are an inherently bad idea since they require large empty areas to construct buildings in, the result would be wastelands of nothing but empty houses.
Although building things and adding content creates a sense of accomplishment to the person doing the creating it rarely adds anything of any value to other player's experiences
If you want to play what is in my opinion the finest story driven game ever created pick up yourself a copy of planescape torment..you can get it for peanuts these days but its well worth playing through
I know its the vicilian side really but I worked 2 summers at the Ministry of Defence (UK) and had an eyebrow piercing, a tattoo and bright red hair at the time. I even won a scholarship from them.
I got final stage interview last summer with IBM with the only concession a normal hair colour
I realise that once ive finished my degree and join the real world it may be necessary to remove piercing etc but I think one or two quite mundane piercings (like eyebrows or ears) probably wont hold anyone back too much. Prob have to take my lip ring out though:(
I've actually noticed that people who save lots of things to their desktops are usually people who are very computer literate. You tend to find people who just use their PC for surfing the web and watching dvds or whatever have a perfectly clean desktop whereas people who work on lots of different things at once have cluttered desktops.
Personally I keep everything current on my desktop, then when it gets two full (maybe about 1/2 covered with icons) i rearrange anything i havent used for a while. Means that in any program I can access all my files pretty much instantly.
I used genre as a subgrouping for a while but abondoned it in favour of a larger just artists file, the reason being that a lot of music i would class as one genre but people would look for it in another or noth be able to find it.
Also the tendency is to create really narrow genres and you end up with a bit of a nonsensical mess anyway.
Epic games give me much more of a sense of accomplishment when i finally beat them but equally well sometimes I just want a diversion for 10mins or something
I think part of the beauty of nethack is that sometimes games can last hours and hours or sometimes they last minutes (like when you fall down the stairs while blind and are killed by a newt whilst helpless)
I remember attending an introductory lecture when i was deciding which uni to go to and one of them touched on time travel. Basically they were saying the conventional view that time travel forwards is possible and backwards isnt but the thing I really like was they had this little diagram and the section representing backwards time travel was simply labelled as FORBIDDEN!
yeah your exactly right. I think a lot of people misunderstand this. Obviously pi isn't random it is irrational which means that you can't represent it as a finite decimal string. Its definately not random and each digit isnt random either since it is always the same value. I mean people don't think SQR(2) is random do they and theres no difference.
In what way do you define Apple as the industry leader. I know it must be on revenue right? no how about installed user base yeah that mkust be? No i finally got it its because I've taken a dislike to the fact that microsoft products cost a lot of money and you're a freeloading tinfoil hat wearing moron who can simply pretend that windows doesnt exist.
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I disagree in my view since pandora requires "expert reviewal" of each song to provide meta-data it is only ever going to recommend fairly mainstream bands. When I used my free trial this expectation was borne out.
I also find that for specific sub-genres the meta-data isn't fine grained enough. You start to see bands which personally I would class as very different with almost identical meta-data. This is a problem with the way the reviews are structured. The reviews are performed by expert musicians BUT not necesarily ones which are knowledgeable or experienced in the domain of the tracks they review. Which means if your an avid listener of a genre like say prog-metal you find its recomendations of NWOBHM style bands wholly inappropriate.
Also the assumptions used in science certainly aren't as major as the assumptions made in any religious text. Looking at something like mathematics assumptions boil down to things as fundamental as two parralel lines never cross. Religious text ask us to assume the existance of hundreds if not thousands of specific people throughout history at the least and thats without even touching on any of the more spiritual aspects of the text.
Why does strumming frantically produce hammer-ons? If im using hammer-ons and pull offs i have to strum less not more.
To be honest in the hands of novices you could just play a random pre-recorded solo and they probably wouldnt know the difference and in the hands of someone who can play....why???
This isnt the kind of music genome project i want to see. Basically the traits which are analysed are highly subjective and if you listen to a lot of one particular genre of music (particularly smaller genres) you are almost certainly going to be more qualified to judge the supposed traits than the experts. To me it seems they essentially lumped all of heavy metal together leading me to getting results like megadeth with a seed of tool despite the two artists not sounding similar at all.
I'd prefer to see a project which tries to create an analytic genome for each song, I've been thinking about if it would be possible to do something like compare FFTs of segments of the song, sam 2 second frames throughout the track. If these could be encoded in some kind of relative way you're likely to get music that has similar characteristics. Further its entirely objective.
However from what i remember they're experts are all from Nashville so if your into country music your probably gonna get some pretty decent results.
Ultima underworld was great..I remember I didnt find out about mantras until about halfway through and the only two I had were for unarmed combat and jumping. The great thing was the punching was so fast i became a killing machine :)
Its deliberately faceitious to pick such trivial examples. Each of which is at least as easy within a decent GUI application incidently. More realistic examples might be Sound: Locate beginning and end of a vocal track and trim Use EQ to reduce mudiness on a wav Photoediting: Remove red-eye from photo Correct color balance In the first task in each case you require a visual view of the object being edited which is unavailable on the command line, in the second you require constant feedback as you change parameters also unaviliable at the command line. As for designing presentations and spreadsheets I absolutely defy you to come up with something as professional looking and easy to use as the average PHB does every day in the same amount of time. Apart from that you seem to have missed the point of my argument. Sure if im intimately familiar with sox i might be able to pull that off but in an audio app such as cool edit i new how to dothis before i had ever done it. Just go to the menu and select pitch-shift, similarly time stretching can be acheived in three clicks. Histogram based Normalisation is a 2 click procedure in all the image apps i have ever used. Also for a better result you can stretch the histogram yourself which requires constant visual feedback. As for using a spreadsheet as a calculator .. why? I may as well set you the chalange of doing CAD with emacs. If the user wants a calculator they can have it.
Your illustration example im not entirely sure about what you mean but this is exactly the thing apps like Publish are for.
The digital camera example is trivial using a normal file manager and photoshop. Certainly easier than looking up syntax for using CLI image processing.
Of course you guys who use linux exclusively dont have well designed apps for a lot of this stuff. No good sound / music editing apps (no audacity DOESNT count) and the gimp is pretty pitiful compared to photoshop so you might not have experienced a well thought out and designed GUI before.
This is one of the most commonly cited reasons that linux is kept of the desktop. The sooner you guys realise this and stop trying to force everyone to become inimately familiar with every god damn CLI command you'll see a much bigger uptake.
And for your information I use both linux and windows, often simultaneously (via KVM switch) but id never try to do some tasks under linux.
CLI is all very well if your doing something which you have done before, however for learning a new task a GUI is MUCH better. A typical GUI can display orders of magnitude more information that a terminal (or DOS) window. Additionaly a good GUI will organise the information spacially in order to group similar functions / option. With CLI all you have to rely on is cryptic man pages. Now I agree that for some tasks CLI is much more efficient than using a GUI but it does presume quite a lot of task specific knowledge which isnt always easy to find. Plus there are some things that you just plain cant do in a CLI, sound, photoediting, music, word processing, designing presentations, spreadsheeting the list goes on. In the end the CLI is essentially just a programing language and is suited to simple but repetitive tasks. Anything which requires more human decision than automatic repetition is going to be more efficient with a GUI and vice versa.
And installing something on every car wouldnt be ungodly expensive? Theres definately more cars than there are 1/4 mile stretches of motorway in the country.
I thought great idea for a second when I thought they were going to POS tag books (seens how theyre scanning them anyway) but then i read the article and realised that its basically rubbish.
I minor'ed in NLP for my Masters at edinburgh this year, the statistical stuff is where its at, specifically hidden markov modelling of speech units. Its truly remarkable what you can do with only TNT (trigrams n tags) which as the name suggests is a trigram tagger.
Stay the hell away from formal semantic modelling..its horrible.
You can access all edinburghs course informations via http://inf.ed.ac.uk/ if you want to see the kinds of things covered in each course.
I did Introduction to Computational Linguistics, Natural Language and Speech System Design and Semantics and Pragmatics of Natural Language Programming.
I concur, you can never have enough rock concerts anywhere.
Actually over here in the UK loyalty cards usually work a little differently. Basically you swipe your card when you pay and you accumulate points which are redeemed usually with monthsly vouchers off subsequent bills.
You dont receive a discount on items, there isnt a normal price and a card carriers price. Granted that in the balance the company needs to pay for its data mining somehow and that ultimately has to come from the customers but it is certainly a system which is less insulting to the customers on a day to day basis
the problem with this is the quality of player produced content. Player building are an inherently bad idea since they require large empty areas to construct buildings in, the result would be wastelands of nothing but empty houses.
Although building things and adding content creates a sense of accomplishment to the person doing the creating it rarely adds anything of any value to other player's experiences
If you want to play what is in my opinion the finest story driven game ever created pick up yourself a copy of planescape torment..you can get it for peanuts these days but its well worth playing through
I know its the vicilian side really but I worked 2 summers at the Ministry of Defence (UK) and had an eyebrow piercing, a tattoo and bright red hair at the time. I even won a scholarship from them.
:(
I got final stage interview last summer with IBM with the only concession a normal hair colour
I realise that once ive finished my degree and join the real world it may be necessary to remove piercing etc but I think one or two quite mundane piercings (like eyebrows or ears) probably wont hold anyone back too much. Prob have to take my lip ring out though
I've actually noticed that people who save lots of things to their desktops are usually people who are very computer literate. You tend to find people who just use their PC for surfing the web and watching dvds or whatever have a perfectly clean desktop whereas people who work on lots of different things at once have cluttered desktops.
Personally I keep everything current on my desktop, then when it gets two full (maybe about 1/2 covered with icons) i rearrange anything i havent used for a while. Means that in any program I can access all my files pretty much instantly.
Bob Fisher is a advanced vision researcher at Edinburgh Uni, he maintains this rather excellent page on computer vision http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/rbf/CVonline/
I used genre as a subgrouping for a while but abondoned it in favour of a larger just artists file, the reason being that a lot of music i would class as one genre but people would look for it in another or noth be able to find it.
Also the tendency is to create really narrow genres and you end up with a bit of a nonsensical mess anyway.
Epic games give me much more of a sense of accomplishment when i finally beat them but equally well sometimes I just want a diversion for 10mins or something I think part of the beauty of nethack is that sometimes games can last hours and hours or sometimes they last minutes (like when you fall down the stairs while blind and are killed by a newt whilst helpless)
I just looked at the game and while I haven't tried it I just don't see the attraction at all. It looks so pointless.
I remember attending an introductory lecture when i was deciding which uni to go to and one of them touched on time travel. Basically they were saying the conventional view that time travel forwards is possible and backwards isnt but the thing I really like was they had this little diagram and the section representing backwards time travel was simply labelled as FORBIDDEN!
yeah your exactly right. I think a lot of people misunderstand this. Obviously pi isn't random it is irrational which means that you can't represent it as a finite decimal string. Its definately not random and each digit isnt random either since it is always the same value. I mean people don't think SQR(2) is random do they and theres no difference.
Go away or I shall taunt you a second time!
seriously i'm listening.
In what way do you define Apple as the industry leader. I know it must be on revenue right? no how about installed user base yeah that mkust be? No i finally got it its because I've taken a dislike to the fact that microsoft products cost a lot of money and you're a freeloading tinfoil hat wearing moron who can simply pretend that windows doesnt exist.