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> What GitHub Gave Us To me one of the clear things that GitHub gave us was a structure around a person rather than a project. To me it felt liberating to quickly create a reposito…

On a similar note Matt Parker recently released a video about Perlin Noise, which won an Oscar (for Technical Achievement) in 1996: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrLSfSh43oA

Another anecdotal description of old staircases that I've heard of before is from Burgos castle in Spain, where (it's said) that the stairs to the bottom of the well change directi…

A similar embeddings model based on Discogs genre/style data is the Effnet-Discogs model made at the Music Technology Group at Universitat Pompeu Fabra: https://replicate.com/mtg/e…

In fact, ListenBrainz (partner project to MusicBrainz) is doing some stuff similar to what you mention about listening histories. We're using the data to generate similarity based …

Hi, Freesound developer here, this is great! We're a small research team at a university[1], and we're also working on auto-captioning tasks that include trying to describe sound e…

I encountered something similar to this last month. I was visiting Canada from Spain, and got an esim from https://www.airalo.com/ . Due to what I guess is airalo obtaining transit…

The tickets are definitely pitched as "for regular commuters", but I'm going to take advantage of them for getting further out of Barcelona to cycle. I've spent 70€ on 4 tickets an…

hi, I'm a freesound developer! We'll reach out to them.

This is actually still a difficult task and still under active research. The name of the phenomenon is "tempo octave error". Typically an algorithm looks for evenly-spaced strong p…

For key and BPM data, the MetaBrainz foundation also has AcousticBrainz: https://acousticbrainz.org/ (I'm a developer on this project). Unfortunately, I would say that the data tha…

Do you mean if the song has a vocalist singing? At the Music Technology Group ( https://www.upf.edu/web/mtg ) we have some classifiers that do something similar there are some demo…

Interesting, thanks for the report. I can't see this behaviour when testing myself. Do you mean that there is a network load of the file every few milliseconds, or that the file di…

I'm a researcher at the Music Technology group who works on freesound ( https://www.upf.edu/web/mtg ) We also maintain Freesound labs, which lists a lot of projects and research ma…

When I first started contributing to open source projects on sourceforge using cvs or svn, it was normal to send patches to the mailing list and for the maintainer to say something…