George Tzanatakis has an open source framework for audio analysis. Amongst the things his framework does is accurate automatic genre detection, mfcc, fft and beat detection.
He also developed the fingerprinting for moodlogic which works.
Philips also have a paper describing a system for fingerprinting, they can detect a song based on any 5 second sample.
I think it is fairly urgent that an open source fingerprinter is released (the music brainz one is by relatable and is closed and fairly inncacurate cause it only uses one feature vector instead of multiples)
Accurate fingerprinting will be useful for:
1. Getting rid of duplicate songs in a collection 2. Correctly tagging songs in an mp3 collection after the fact (ala musicbrainz) 3. P2P - get better quality search results. 4. Sharing metadata (other than id3) such as favourite songs number of times played etc. This info can enable us to find out lists of the most popular songs at the moment - etc.
Fingerprinting should be open, I am very surprised that the people researching this have not released a practical and accurate open engine for identifying songs.
The abstract of the paper (Reversible Data Hiding) is: "We present a novel reversible (lossless) data hiding (embedding) technique, which enables the exact recovery of the original host signal upon extraction of the embedded information. A generalization of the well-known LSB (least significant bit) modification is proposed as the data embedding method, which introduces additional operating points on the capacity-distortion curve. Lossless recovery of the original is achieved by compressing portions of the signal that are susceptible to embedding distortion, and transmitting these compressed descriptions as a part of the embedded payload. A prediction-based conditional entropy coder which utilizes static portions of the host as side-information improves the compression efficiency, and thus the lossless data embedding capacity"
I just tested this at home and was unable to disable the popup messages on my win2k box. however firewalling the messanger port or disabling or messanger is a guranteed method of stopping this nonsense.
I own an archos mm, and about a week ago I gave up on watching movies using the archos. It just involves way too many steps, and the quality is not perfect.
1. First you have to source the movie 2. Then you have to convert it to a divx avi. not any divx will do, it has to have the exact divx format supported by the ajmm. archos recommend using virtualdub. virtualdub does not remember your last settings so you have to reload the settings from a file. 3. occasionally you get audio syncage issues - to get a video right it may take a few encodes. 4. if the picture is too big it will not work 5. transferring a movie into the ajmm over usb 1 takes quite a while, I have still not got the usb 2.0 cable. and have not bothered chasing archos about it, yet.
So what do I do? If there is a movie I want to watch on my tv, I will drag it into nero and burn to vcd. works almost every time on my dvd player.
I use my ajmm to listen to music, sound quality is perfect, provided you throw the headphones archos bundles in the bin, and buy new ones.
I use my ajmm as a file taxi, if i need to take any large files to my friends place. the ajmm requires no driver installation under windows xp. that is fantastic.
I will be using my ajmm to download pictures from my sony memory stick while traveling. Have tested the whole process and it appears to be working (*the dsc-f707 has the option of saving a thumbnail with normal shots - watching large res pictures on the archos is painful cause rendering is too slow - so ill be using that option)
I love my ajmm, with all its quirks. and no other device out there can play mp3s perfectly and copy files from my memory stick directly.
Professional Go players can remember every game they ever played professionaly. I talked to a professional player about that once, and he explained that as a beginner you can see lots of options for every move, but as a master you only see 3-4 options for every move (sure you see a bit more at fuseki). Remembering a game becomes much simpler when there are less options. Keeep in mind there are 19x19 legal positions at the beginning of a Go game.
For quite a while there was a 1 Million dollar award for the first Go program to beat a professional human. Interestingly I can consistently beat the best Go AI out there, and if I played a pro I would probably lose with a 10 stone handicap. (in rough chess analogy that would probably be like playing with no queen, bishop an rook)
As posted earlier I do not think standard minmax search does much good with Go AI. It appears that a whole new set of non traditional techniques are required to solve this problem.
I think that if any AI researchers want to get closer to solving this program they will have to spend lots and lots of time with professional players
Before the flames start - I have nothing to do with the MyIE project
I just downloaded a nice piece of freeware that does tabbed browsing for IE - uses the ie engine to render
still looks like there is a bit of work in the drag and drop department, but i have a feeling i will not be using vanilla ie anymore - tabbed browsing is just TOO good
downloaded mozilla 1.1beta - crashed 15 minutes later - I know its beta
Now if only f7 worked and i could check spelling on this post like i do on outlook I'd be happy. I reely cant spel - Can't be bothered doing the cut and paste to outlook trick anymore:(
Note to slashdot: If I type http://http://216.239.39.100/search?q=cache:MKgyf6 -JQS0C: www.darpa.mil/body/NewsItems/pdf/hyfly.pdf , I want to link to the site, at least warn me it will not be posted as a link. Is there any way I can edit posts I made???
Well then,
To keep things well rounded there are a few other option out there (all with 6gb of hard drive space)
The archos jukebox 6000 which is supposed to have excellent sound quality and pretty similar battery life to the nomad jukebox and 100 dollars cheaper.
The pjb which superior to the nomad jukebox, (longer battery life and comes highly recommended), thinkgeek sell this, very expensive ($690 I think)
And also you should keep an eye out for the treo which is going to be pretty gun, 8 hours of battery life, tiny, the next incarnation of the pjb and only $400 dollars
Also there is the neo-25 which is cheap, but only got mixed reviews, so I would be a bit careful about buying it.
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George Tzanatakis has an open source framework for audio analysis. Amongst the things his framework does is accurate automatic genre detection, mfcc, fft and beat detection.
He also developed the fingerprinting for moodlogic which works.
Philips also have a paper describing a system for fingerprinting, they can detect a song based on any 5 second sample.
I think it is fairly urgent that an open source fingerprinter is released (the music brainz one is by relatable and is closed and fairly inncacurate cause it only uses one feature vector instead of multiples)
Accurate fingerprinting will be useful for:
1. Getting rid of duplicate songs in a collection
2. Correctly tagging songs in an mp3 collection after the fact (ala musicbrainz)
3. P2P - get better quality search results.
4. Sharing metadata (other than id3) such as favourite songs number of times played etc. This info can enable us to find out lists of the most popular songs at the moment - etc.
Fingerprinting should be open, I am very surprised that the people researching this have not released a practical and accurate open engine for identifying songs.
So, instead of downloading 200MB a month of music of Kazza, people will start buying 200GB HDs full of music off local Ha8ors.
...
...
Imagine if you could buy an HD with 200GB of music for say 50USD. (In say 2-3 years)
Heck its not legal, but 20,000 songs is quite a lot of music
And yes I am pretty sure this is already happening in Thailand / Mexico, though its possibly not that cheap
Imagine the market for shipping encrypted drives.
This stuff is in the process of being patented
The abstract of the paper (Reversible Data Hiding) is: "We present a novel reversible (lossless) data hiding (embedding) technique, which enables the exact recovery of the original host signal upon extraction of the embedded information. A generalization of the well-known LSB (least significant bit) modification is proposed as the data embedding method, which introduces additional operating points on the capacity-distortion curve. Lossless recovery of the original is achieved by compressing portions of the signal that are susceptible to embedding distortion, and transmitting these compressed descriptions as a part of the embedded payload. A prediction-based conditional entropy coder which utilizes static portions of the host as side-information improves the compression efficiency, and thus the lossless data embedding capacity"
In case anyone is interested.
Moderators, dont mod +5 unless you know it works
The method described above does not disable netbios over tcp/ip - so it has no chance of stopping the popups.
If you firewall off or disable the netbios traffic you should be fine according to microsoft.
I just tested this at home and was unable to disable the popup messages on my win2k box. however firewalling the messanger port or disabling or messanger is a guranteed method of stopping this nonsense.
Just because you didn't order the USB 2.0 cable when you bought it doesn't make it a valid step 5 complaint. You should have put it before step 1.
Very valid, for me, nero burns a cd faster than usb 1. The latest on the usb 2.0 cable is there is a kit out there that costs $50.
Come on I forked out $440 already on my ajmm and was under the impression I was going to get the usb 2.0 cable bundled in.
What do you mean by step 4? You set the resolution when you make the file. How can you foul this up? Do you mean filesize?
I forget to go to Filters... Add -> Resize -> 352*(I forget what to put here so I have to look it up on the archos site)
My bad - I know - but it keeps on happening - thus a problem for me
I own an archos mm, and about a week ago I gave up on watching movies using the archos. It just involves way too many steps, and the quality is not perfect.
1. First you have to source the movie
2. Then you have to convert it to a divx avi. not any divx will do, it has to have the exact divx format supported by the ajmm. archos recommend using virtualdub. virtualdub does not remember your last settings so you have to reload the settings from a file.
3. occasionally you get audio syncage issues - to get a video right it may take a few encodes.
4. if the picture is too big it will not work
5. transferring a movie into the ajmm over usb 1 takes quite a while, I have still not got the usb 2.0 cable. and have not bothered chasing archos about it, yet.
So what do I do? If there is a movie I want to watch on my tv, I will drag it into nero and burn to vcd. works almost every time on my dvd player.
I use my ajmm to listen to music, sound quality is perfect, provided you throw the headphones archos bundles in the bin, and buy new ones.
I use my ajmm as a file taxi, if i need to take any large files to my friends place. the ajmm requires no driver installation under windows xp. that is fantastic.
I will be using my ajmm to download pictures from my sony memory stick while traveling. Have tested the whole process and it appears to be working (*the dsc-f707 has the option of saving a thumbnail with normal shots - watching large res pictures on the archos is painful cause rendering is too slow - so ill be using that option)
I love my ajmm, with all its quirks. and no other device out there can play mp3s perfectly and copy files from my memory stick directly.
Björn Stenberg & Linus Nielsen Feltzing developed this language called the Shakespeare Programming Language
Check out the The Fibonacci drama
It even compiles !!!
I guess New Scientist have not been listening to Neilsen...
:(
Let users control font size
This guy has created 50 mega pixel images using current digital cameras!
:).
I guess his life will be 4 times easier
Also there is a preview of the cannon on www.dpreview.com
I guess the all forgot to use the Evan's system when they registered there domains :)
reminds me of the old
blowthedotcomoutyourass.com web site
some old links to it
Wired story
some old pictures
They actually registered ijusthadarectalexamonline.com (dead link) got to love the picture
I am a Go player (3kyu) and Computer Programmer.
Some random thoughts
Professional Go players can remember every game they ever played professionaly. I talked to a professional player about that once, and he explained that as a beginner you can see lots of options for every move, but as a master you only see 3-4 options for every move (sure you see a bit more at fuseki). Remembering a game becomes much simpler when there are less options. Keeep in mind there are 19x19 legal positions at the beginning of a Go game.
For quite a while there was a 1 Million dollar award for the first Go program to beat a professional human. Interestingly I can consistently beat the best Go AI out there, and if I played a pro I would probably lose with a 10 stone handicap. (in rough chess analogy that would probably be like playing with no queen, bishop an rook)
As posted earlier I do not think standard minmax search does much good with Go AI. It appears that a whole new set of non traditional techniques are required to solve this problem.
I think that if any AI researchers want to get closer to solving this program they will have to spend lots and lots of time with professional players
try out myie
updated link
embedded ie browser
being actively developed
stable
tabbing
gesture support
content filtering
popup killer
freeware
cut and paste install
(too many features to count
Before the flames start - I have nothing to do with the MyIE project
I just downloaded a nice piece of freeware that does tabbed browsing for IE - uses the ie engine to render
still looks like there is a bit of work in the drag and drop department, but i have a feeling i will not be using vanilla ie anymore - tabbed browsing is just TOO good
downloaded mozilla 1.1beta - crashed 15 minutes later - I know its beta
MyIE homepage
Now if only f7 worked and i could check spelling on this post like i do on outlook I'd be happy. I reely cant spel - Can't be bothered doing the cut and paste to outlook trick anymore
The Americans appear to have beaten the aussies in this race.
6 -JQS0C: www.darpa.mil/body/NewsItems/pdf/hyfly.pdf , I want to link to the site, at least warn me it will not be posted as a link. Is there any way I can edit posts I made???
link to darpa press release
Note to slashdot:
If I type http://http://216.239.39.100/search?q=cache:MKgyf
read all about it on useit.com
* note to the 3l33t ha80r who hacked my account, I have changed my password
http://216.239.39.100/search?q=cache:MKgyf6-JQS0C: www.darpa.mil/body/NewsItems/pdf/hyfly.pdf
Looks like will have faster bombs, way before we have faster airliners ...
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Design:
Gui Bloopers - Jeff Johnson
Design of everyday things - Donald Norman
The inmates are running the asylum - Alan Cooper
Uber Windows Coders (not for begginers)
Programming Applications for Windows - Jeffery Richter
Debugging Applications - John Robbins
Advanced Visual Basic 6 - Matt Curland
Sam
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The archos jukebox 6000 which is supposed to have excellent sound quality and pretty similar battery life to the nomad jukebox and 100 dollars cheaper.
The pjb which superior to the nomad jukebox, (longer battery life and comes highly recommended), thinkgeek sell this, very expensive ($690 I think)
And also you should keep an eye out for the treo which is going to be pretty gun, 8 hours of battery life, tiny, the next incarnation of the pjb and only $400 dollars
Also there is the neo-25 which is cheap, but only got mixed reviews, so I would be a bit careful about buying it.
Cheers
Sam
Obsfucated Visual Basic would be interesting ...
For Each knob in house
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Actually when sharzilla connects to g-net, the gnutella client it connects to has its IP address....