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by musesum 10y ago
Followup: found the following comment on a UMG watermark thread: > This watermark is embedded in UMG tracks on Rdio, Spotify, iTunes, Tidal, and others. I would subscribe to a service that allowed me block watermarked files. [edit] remov
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Wow! Just listened to an A/B test: http://www.mattmontag.com/music/universals-audible-watermark Pretty awful. I wonder why Spotify doesn't correct? Have been listening mostly to electronica on Premium accoun
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> "Amber relayed to me that she’s had to suffer through many calls from people who cancelled their Apple Music subscription after the free, three-month trial, only to discover that all of their own music files had been deleted and t
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Last week, I decided to look at the Glassdoor reviews. Lots of positive reviews that sounded eerily similar. Then ran across the first negative review that claimed that the positive reviews were written by PR. Then more negative reviews mak
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My fave parable about craft is the bell maker's apprentice in Andrei Rublev. Either succeed or die.
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There have been burglaries in my neighborhood. The thief does a drive by with one code and sees which door will open. Then waits a few days to revisit the garage to steal bikes. I wonder what would be more profitable: Stealing the bike? Or:
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I wonder how this bodes for paper diagnostics? http://www2.technologyreview.com/news/412187/tr10-paper-diag... Maybe the solution isn't higher one-shot accuracy, as with nanotainers(tm). Maybe it is higher fr
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Final Thoughts > "... Apple is simply adding new products and updating product lines often times without much thought it seems. This can be seen in the horrid pen solution found in the iPad Pro where charging it requires you to have
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All but $81M was recovered.
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Aha, looks like SteadyState accomplishes the same thing. Very cool! I wonder how a Windows Restore Point is defeated? Because it is in the same partition?
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Well, since we're talking about 16 bit software ... In 1991, my company was sandboxing commercial software. This was for try-before-you-buy. Except, instead of recompiling a crippled version, we would take a retail SKU, encipher the ex
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I used to get this effect in the 80's with an Olympus OM-1 by setting exposure to automatic with aperture at F16 with strobe flash. In low light, the shutter would open for (say) 1 second, in the middle of which the strobe would flash
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Many fortunes built on Regression to the Mean: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Regression_to_the_mean
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Thanks! Here is the text: http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/nov/17/steve-albinis-k... I worked at Snocap for a while. Like that Snocap wanted to enable indy artists to self publish. But, the major la
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Either that or proactive lawyers. California is a no-cause state. Only when you state a cause, can it be used against you for bias. [Edit] Don't know about other states.
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Heh: "suped up golf cart". I drove one of those. It was called a Citicar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citicar My dad owned a GM dealership. I was in high school when the 1973 oil embargo happened. Around th
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I'm curious, has Oculus solved the positive parallax problem? A friend was in the VR biz in the 90's. But, the difference of perceived and actual focal plane caused the eyes to corkscrew. The result were headaches.
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The problem with AI are Humans.
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Interesting counterpoint: "60 percent of the people shot by San Francisco police in the preceding nine years were suffering from mental illness." I suspect that if neighborhoods were more static, then the neighbors would know who
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Uhm, I remember hiring one contractor twice. The first time for $50/hour. The second time for $400/hour. He wanted more, but I was able to talk him down to the same rate as the other contractor. They both worked in crypto. As for
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Yah, including tapping RIAA litigators for Justice Department: http://www.wired.com/2009/04/obama-taps-fift/
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I think visual programming would match some problem domains very well, such as games (Unreal Blueprints), music (Reason, Max, PD), Neural Nets (???), UI (Quartz Composer), robotics (???), as well as the already mentioned spreadsheets. Most
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To compare with an iBeacons deployment in a museum: https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/community/blogosphere/2016/02...
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Perhaps reputation should behave like neural nets and have a tanh(x) activation function.
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Was probably a bit of both. Using a LL parser for NLP is an odd fit. The problem was that the n-gram parsers had a fairly large file footprint. So, paging from memory would be slow and consume battery. As for tool, the Antlr3 C runtime was
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Uhm, this sounds a lot like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_v._Diehr Which is essential the beginning of patents, in the US. Basically, the software has to run on a hardware device. How is it different? (IANAL)
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Has anyone done a comparison of memory footprints for parsers? Say, Antlr vs Bison vs ???. I used Antlr3 to create a NLP parser for entering a calendar event. For iOS, the C runtime's parse tree source was many megabytes and difficult
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by musesum 11y ago
Followup: Looks like Herbalife changed BBB link, which now goes to front page. Searching on "Herbalife" on that front page now goes to a list of 205 businesses, which are not "BBB Accredited".
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Senator Feinstein wants with compel Apple to put in a backdoor though legislation: http://www.mercurynews.com/politics-government/ci_29527867/t... Would suggest anyone living in California let her know what you th
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If memory serves: Heidi Roizen had one of the best ROI track records during the Dot Bomb era, having exited most of her portfolio just before. Meanwhile, a friend mentioned that Benchmark had lost a whole fund. I don't have numbers in

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