brianwhitman

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by brianwhitman 15y ago
OK, thanks I think I get what thriftDB is a little better. It's hosted (only) -- so instead of booting a solr on your own boxes, you just hit api.thriftdb.com to create indexes, add data and do queries. So thus my "API" confusion -- I was a
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by brianwhitman 15y ago
One particularly acute problem we had at Octopart was search across a frequently changing schema. We have 15M parts in our database so it was a real pain to change the schema. Solr can be run without a schema quite easily, or use the very
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by brianwhitman 15y ago
Few things -- yes, we have been working on our stuff for a while. I've been doing it since 1999 at various grad schools and research labs, for example. Notice however we do not release things before they are good. I've spent 12 years workin
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by brianwhitman 15y ago
(again, i'm the co-founder, grain of salt time, but check it out yourself) but The Echo Nest makes amazing similarity judgments and playlists without any of the data that you think Google needs to wait for. We crawl the web and analyze the
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by brianwhitman 15y ago
Fair, but a few points: - Genius was much better than this when it launched. It's even better now, but it wasn't as bad back then as Instant Mix is today. - You don't think google has more data about music than Apple did when it launched Ge
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by brianwhitman 15y ago
It is impossible to be objective about music. The point of his "WTF" test (not speaking for paul, but i do work with the guy) was to look at each song by each provider and ask "would most people agree this doesn't belong" erring very far on
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by brianwhitman 15y ago
Sure... but realistically, what kind of quantities is he going to pull off? And is he really going to contract out to a chinese factory? I mean, i'll get a few :) but if this is for education and nothing else.... I'll check back in a year f
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by brianwhitman 15y ago
Very cool, but i'm not sure how he can get it to an actual cost of $25 unless it's heavily supported by donations, grants, "give one get one" etc. For small runs (<10K?) the cost of production has to be a large multiplier on that. Other
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by brianwhitman 15y ago
We are a music data and services company with an API as our main product. I guess there would be many ways to refer to that, and I don't know of many analogs in the space.
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by brianwhitman 15y ago
more color: http://www.fastcompany.com/1751222/echo-nest-rdio-partner-fo... http://mashable.com/2011/05/03/rdio-echo-nest/ and the lovely http://musicmaze.fm/ what this means -- using EN APIs like recommendation, playlisting, search,
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by brianwhitman 16y ago
I searched for your HN mail in our jobs thing and did not find a hit, but nonetheless I'm very sorry if this was our mistake. We love to hire interns, and interns love us. Please write me -- brian@echonest.com -- if you're still interested.
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by brianwhitman 16y ago
Yes, that is a better analogy, but the technical bar for streaming audio is very low -- far lower than understanding the music. You'll be seeing a lot more consumer oriented uses of our data in the near future that stream music. Developers
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by brianwhitman 16y ago
hi chime, if you want, you are free to use our API -- http://developer.echonest.com/ and query for that stuff manually to get the fields if you don't want to process the whole dump. (If you are getting rate limited let me or Paul know and
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by brianwhitman 16y ago
it is my understanding that Wattvision taps the entire electrical system via the meter, not just a single outlet like a $15 "kill-a-watt" style power meter will.
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by brianwhitman 16y ago
Boston (Somerville, MA) - no remote The Echo Nest. Music data platform. We're looking for python people, data people, music people http://the.echonest.com/company/jobs
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The future music platform & music startups’ imminent success(notes.variogr.am)
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