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Re: Bop Spotter

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Post by 082349872349872 »

twic wrote: post #265
travisjungroth wrote: post #198

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Malmquist bias[0] for neighborhood music! It would be hard to find that correlation because you can’t get a base rate. I don’t think you can measure the distance, so you don’t know if it’s loud or close. Maybe there’s no correlation independent of the music taste of the neighborhood. Lots of Spanish doesn’t surprise me. It’s a neighborhood that’s still largely Mexican, and Latin Pop is really big in the US in general…

Malmsteen bias?

For those who think anything with more than 2 protons must necessarily be metal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo3pfnldlD0

Re: Bop Spotter

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Post by 082349872349872 »

rconti wrote: post #248
a_t48 wrote: post #235

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I'm pretty amused at whoever decided to play KDA at 9:30 last night though.

That's funny because I recognized Annika Wells and had to look up the song without knowing who K/DA was.

1/3 of a century of progress in animation technique and musical style?

(1985) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96mZc82fYGc

(2018) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOxkGD8qRB4

[what if, instead of having eighteenth century style parliament buildings with a bunch of old guys sitting at desks and speaking from time to time, we had political factions settle their disputes in-game on a battle royale level?]

Re: Bop Spotter

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Post by authorfly »

oorza wrote: post #302
simonw wrote: post #250

Some details on how this works: https://twitter.com/rtwlz/status/1840821351055311245 The phone has a Tasker script running on loop (even if the battery dies, it’ll restart when it boots again) Script records 10 min of audio in airplane mode, then comes out of airplane mode and connects to nearby free WiFi. Then uploads the audio file to my server, which splits it into 15 sec chunks that slightly overlap. Passes each…

If 2% of the battery is 2% of 3000mAh (which is probably a generous over-estimate of the phone's capacity), that means the phone pulls ~60mA. You can buy a 60,000 mAh battery (or build one) for about $50, which would buy this device 10,000 hours, or round it down and call it 1 year.

How big are 60k mAh safe batteries?

I know eBikes are a massive step up from laptop batteries (seemingly better for the density too somehow?)

Re: Bop Spotter

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Post by andsens »

Agree with all the positive takes in here. Just wanted to add that the graphic design is chef's kiss. Especially the image transformation of the album art! Some of them are hard to parse and it almost becomes a game, and then there are others where it's clear as day that e.g. the band is posing for a picture. Also just recognizing covers that you know is fun.

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Post by robocat »

bilalq wrote: post #320
tiagod wrote: post #281

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Perfect is the enemy of good. I've found it's much better to get a project up and running as an "MVP" than to chase the perfect until the details suck all the fun out of it.

I don't see what that has to do with what I said. Chasing an MVP doesn't have to involve disrespecting people's privacy and recording without consent. There are many worse violators than this, but it is what it is.

This is just an artistic way of showing surveillance.

Fixing this one installation wouldn't fix all the rest (example: Shot spotter)

Re: Bop Spotter

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Post by robocat »

cypherpunks01 wrote: post #121
xandrius wrote: post #58

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Any volume which makes your music become my music too without my consent is at asshole level.

Have you considered those who are hard of hearing? Should they be made to drive their vehicles in silence?

Background noise makes it difficult for the hard of hearing to listen to conversation.

If we cared more for the hard of hearing we would reduce music volumes and make restaurants quieter. Our society doesn't care even though it pretends to.

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Post by HeatrayEnjoyer »

tiagod wrote: post #281
bilalq wrote: post #278

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A bit disappointing that this sends audio recordings to a server. Even if it's not the intention, that leaves so much possibility for abuse. Why not use a Pixel phone with on-device song matching? It also keeps history on device. Getting that data out of the app might be a little tricky, but should be possible.

Perfect is the enemy of good. I've found it's much better to get a project up and running as an "MVP" than to chase the perfect until the details suck all the fun out of it.

This attitude is one of the worst, most harmful things to come out of Silicon Valley tech culture.

Re: Bop Spotter

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Post by HeatrayEnjoyer »

borski wrote: post #331
waffleiron wrote: post #330

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>they're not legally entitled to much privacy in these places. While I think this is a really cool project, I also agree with the privacy issues. CA is a two party consent state, and recording a conversation (which this is likely to do) like this is likely illegal. While a person might not have a expectation of privacy about someone just hearing the conversation, they are protected by law if they are recorded without…

There is no right to privacy in a public space. It is not illegal to record an area where individuals would not have the expectation of privacy, even without their consent. Therefore, this is not illegal. If this were a restaurant, that would be a different story.

> There is no right to privacy in a public space.

No legally protected right. This doesn't mean it is ethical, and given that it is a protected right in other jurisdictions shows it deserves more consideration and should not be hand waived away.

If "it's legal" is the argument being used to defense a behavior, it's safe to assume it's not actually a good one.

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