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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…
I love everything about this. There is this undercurrent to our technology landscape. A kind of subculture somewhere in the locus of the hackersphere where a kind of punk-rock ethos rules the roost. I can only describe it as a live exploration of concepts _through_ technology, where functional fixedness is a foreign concept, including in the shared experience of social construct; everything becomes parts to be remixe…
I believe the point was for detection of royalty fees for public playback of songs.
I since have heard nothing about this, was that article true, and could you use it for this project?
The undercurrent of my interest was the pernicious tracking aspect, which is hilarious given it preceded the smartphone and it's active monitoring of everything you do
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> both Drake and Swift are very talented Weird way to say "nepo kids." There's 1,000,000+ Taylor Swifts and Drakes out there; connections and money are the true talent brokers.
That's pretty unfair. Drake's writing abilities are questionable, but his ability as an performer is undeniable. Swift is well known for both writing and performing and her popularity speaks to her skill and many years of effort. Were they helped by having wealthy parents and breaking into the industry young? Certainly. Is that the whole story? Definitely not.
Just wanted to point out that everyone has different tastes and your stating as fact that they’re both talented is as valid as me stating as a fact that they’re both untalented.
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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.
This attitude is one of the worst, most harmful things to come out of Silicon Valley tech culture.
I love everything about this. There is this undercurrent to our technology landscape. A kind of subculture somewhere in the locus of the hackersphere where a kind of punk-rock ethos rules the roost. I can only describe it as a live exploration of concepts _through_ technology, where functional fixedness is a foreign concept, including in the shared experience of social construct; everything becomes parts to be remixe…
Funnily enough I've also heard throwies cited as evidence of some kind of cultural decline - "not a real hack" etc.
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That's pretty unfair. Drake's writing abilities are questionable, but his ability as an performer is undeniable. Swift is well known for both writing and performing and her popularity speaks to her skill and many years of effort. Were they helped by having wealthy parents and breaking into the industry young? Certainly. Is that the whole story? Definitely not.
Btw, this is just your opinion because I honestly don’t think either of them are very good. It’s not even the genre of music I prefer to listen to. Just wanted to point out that everyone has different tastes and your stating as fact that they’re both talented is as valid as me stating as a fact that they’re both untalented.
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Btw, this is just your opinion because I honestly don’t think either of them are very good. It’s not even the genre of music I prefer to listen to. Just wanted to point out that everyone has different tastes and your stating as fact that they’re both talented is as valid as me stating as a fact that they’re both untalented.
I don't normally listen to them or like their music either - but I can still recognize objectively that they have talent. It's not a matter of taste, just recognition of the obvious fact that being an extremely popular artist means that you're talented, no matter what pretentious haters say about it.
Think of _every_ popular actor or artist. Do you think every one of them is talented? If so, it sounds like you’re basing your understanding of talent on what other people think.
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I don't normally listen to them or like their music either - but I can still recognize objectively that they have talent. It's not a matter of taste, just recognition of the obvious fact that being an extremely popular artist means that you're talented, no matter what pretentious haters say about it.
Popularity !== talent. Think of _every_ popular actor or artist. Do you think every one of them is talented? If so, it sounds like you’re basing your understanding of talent on what other people think.
I notice that on September 28 (near the top of the list, since it doesn't seem to have anything for today yet) the same Pitbull song was detected separately a little less than an hour apart, and I can't help but wonder if it was the same person listening to it on loop. Several months ago, my fiancee and I overheard someone driving outside blasting Adele's "Someone Like You" from inside our apartment, and every 45 min…
I wonder what the chance of the birthday paradox affecting the music is. Given that y song will make up x% of plays, how likely is it that any song has two consecutive plays, or two plays within an hour?