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Site appears to be buckling under the load, here's the Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:JiivGj-...
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Agreed that having fans play your music on mute would be just as - if not more - effective, and would work without creating a prime target for banning. But I think in this case it made for a very effective "statement", even if it
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Vulfpeck is also the band behind Sleepify[1], the album of ten silent 30s songs which fans looped on Spotify while they slept. Vulfpeck earned $20k as a result and used it to organize a tour. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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Why Spotify Pays So Little
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The content of the project aside (which is very exciting but early stage), I'm really impressed with the author's overview for how others can take up the project and move it forward. I've seen too many projects die because wh
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Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation - Seattle, WA The gist: We've been doing cutting edge data science to advance global health for the past 7 years. Official blurb: "The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)
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Governmental health records and survey data. A lot of the really big stuff we use requires academic licenses, but there's still a lot of publicly accessible data. For the U.S. try - CDC's National Center for Health Statistics: ht
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Maybe not in restaurants, but just frying up some string cheese is indeed the easiest way to make your own at home. Tip: freeze them on a cookie sheet after (double-)breading them, that way they won't melt as soon as you throw them in
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Always glad to see these skills put to uses besides selling products and eyeballs! Here's another fellowship using data science towards non-commercial goals (global health research): http://www.healthdata.org/get-involv