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The 2002 DMC World Team Champions - 4 DJs from Paris. “Basically, your library of tracks is compared to all the other Genius users’ libraries of tracks. Apple then runs a set of previously secret algorithms, which Goldman described as straightforward recommendation algorithms similar to those used by other services like Netflix when it suggests movies for a user to watch now or add to his quene, to generate statistics for each song. “These statistics are computed globally at regular intervals and stored in a cache,” notes Goldman, because data on the similarity of any two songs changes slowly—it’s assumed the only reason it changes at all is because of the changing tastes of the listening public, and the introduction of new tracks and artists. Goldman jokes that if he told you how Genius works, he’d have to kill you (or at the least, have a squad of police officers raid your brain to retrieve Apple’s rightful property), but he continues to describe how the program works anyway. To uncover part of how iTunes Genius works, says Goldman, “look at information retrieval algorithms, especially those that leverage the vector-space model.” … a factor that occurs pretty often in a given user’s library—for example, an affinity for an obscure indy band—will tend to be a more powerful determinant, unless it also happens to occur quite often in the total set of data—as would be the case if the factor was an affinity for the Beatles.”
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“Adam Ainslie, we’re in love” -Around Eight Recorded through our front door at 10:30pm as Adam was welcomed/sung/danced into Around Eight. “Around Eight was formed in 1992, and originally included eight members—two each of the four basic voice parts—all of whom could rarely be counted on to make any given rehearsal (hence each rehearsal was attended by “around eight” of the group).” (via wikipedia) Props, Adam! 92 plays
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Post-Concert Proposal in Washington Square Park (via salvygolds) May 13th 2010. A seemingly unsuspecting lady is suddenly surrounded by a crowd of fifty dancing couples as her boyfriend proposes. Symphony of Science - The Poetry of Reality (An Anthem for Science) (via melodysheep) Is science really the “best” tool for understanding how the world works? Seems to me like one of many “ways of knowing”. Gravité (by Renaud Hallée)
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Alex AinslieI'm a recent Cornell CS MEng graduate interested in data, computation, design and their intersection. In 2009 I graduated early with an independent BA in Computing, Cognition & Aesthetics and a minor in French. My honors thesis examined the traces our Bluetooth-enabled devices leave behind in public space. I have spent the past three summers as an intern at Google working on mobile maps and gmail, suggest, query refinements, social search, and most recently goggles and mobile local search. I will join Google fulltime in August 2010. This site was born as a personal photo journal during a semester spent abroad in Paris and has evolved into a curated collection of links, text, and images. |
