This is good but it didn't seem to pick up on my constant listening to the Native Tongues group or artists like Del the Funky Homosapien and Queen Lahtifah
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#272I see a lot of comments here (and some in the YouTube recommendation thread currently on the front page) suggesting sometimes a Rube Goldberg-esque series of behaviors to trick the algorithm into performing properly. I see this mentioned as "easy" and "trivial". I consider it "abrasive" and "tedious." The algorithms should work through normal use of the app. I shouldn't have to tell an app "Ignore this one-off piece of content I reached through an external link that is different from all the other content I've enjoyed and especially different than what I've searched." If I get to the point where I have to curate at that level of detail, what's the point?
It's less work to do what I've been doing all along: get recommendations from friends, family, articles, collabs, biographies, etc. (And it's a lot more fun.)
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#273It eviscerated me for listening to a lot of soothing piano songs (mostly from one album). For the last year, we learned that was the best thing to play for our foster kid so she'd sleep. My recommendations will probably never recover. Same for netflix.
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#274Huh, I wonder if this is just a mad lib that is being used to gather information about people? It's sayin stuff like "You know music existed before 2019, right?", but also criticizing me for liking Stan Rogers, who died in 1983, Jay Z, and Trevor Hall, who seemed to peak in the early 2000s. Maybe I just haven't finished my coffee yet, but I was kindof hoping that this would actually use AI to figure out the musical v…
Yeah some of it seemed tailored and accurate, specifically the insults at the end (They pegged my music perfectly with "stoner-frat-bro bad"), but most of it was just pulling most played artists and songs and making vague jokes.
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#275Man that was fun - great project!
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#276A lot of people in this thread have no sense of humor and need to seriously lighten up.
Having only one comment on an account and it being about how other people are ornery is the most curmudgeon thing I’ve seen.
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#277On the last step - empty screen
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#278You've been listening to a lot of Guns N' Roses lately. u okay? Awesome project
Yeah I think this confirms that this is just a madlib.
Mine was:
You've been listening to a lot of Monolink lately.
u okay?
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#279This is hilarious... > You are 26% basic. You're trying to be cool with Kapitan Korsakov, but your favorites are the same as everybody else's.. > Your spotify was please-read-my-manuscript-walmart-hawaiian-shirt-sitting-alone-in-the-cafeteria bad. Ouch. Really interesting project by all means. I hope they release the source - I'm curious about how it was built. Edit: This same link was posted 11 hours ago https://new…
12 hours ago was what, 5am London, Midnight East Coast? Timing is everything. If a tree falls in the forest and 75% of the potential readership are fast asleep, does it make a sound? (Numbers are fictional - and possibly eurocentric - for the purpose of conversation. I think the point stands with or without their veracity, it's just easier for form a sentence with values)
In theory you could account for this, right? HN (and reddit, etc.) could score based on how many typical voters have seen it, or just bias directly based on average active times across a week.
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#280That was funny. However, I'm one of those people with a bona fide, DRM-free MP3 collection[1]
But I only use Spotify a) in the car and b) while riding my bike/bike trainer. I have an actual DRM-free MP3 collection[1] for the important stuff--which has a little overlap with Spotify, but not too much.
[1] Small - only about 20 GB - and has been contiguously curated, over five distinct "generations" in my life, since I was in 7th grade (1998), when I had a 486 DX4/75 that could just about play an MP3, downloaded over dial-up from a shady FTP server, over my SoundBlaster 16 if I wasn't running X or doing anything else.