alastairp

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by alastairp 5mo ago
> 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 repository attached to my name than it was to go through the (wha
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by alastairp 10mo ago
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
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by alastairp 3y ago
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 direction half way down to prevent you from getting too d
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by alastairp 4y ago
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/effnet-discogs
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by alastairp 4y ago
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 on when songs are listened to each other in "liste
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by alastairp 4y ago
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 effects based on the audio content, although we&#x2
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by alastairp 4y ago
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 from the cheapest provider, the data connec
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by alastairp 4y ago
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 and expect that I'll receive refunds
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by alastairp 4y ago
hi, I'm a freesound developer! We'll reach out to them.
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by alastairp 5y ago
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 pulses of energy, and infers the BPM from that. If
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by alastairp 5y ago
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 that we have in AcousticBrainz isn't
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by alastairp 5y ago
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 demos at https://replicate.com&#x
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ListenBrainz Presents: Your Year in Music(blog.metabrainz.org)
6 points by alastairp 5y ago|0 comments
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by alastairp 5y ago
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 disappears and reappears in the DOM? From what I can tell
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by alastairp 5y ago
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 made using content from freesound: h
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by alastairp 6y ago
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 like "thanks, I've applied it with a few small ch
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Musicnn: An open source, deep learning-based music tagger(towardsdatascience.com)
3 points by alastairp 7y ago|0 comments