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furialog
Personal blog · furia.comdataprogramming
furialog is a personal blog at furia.com about data and programming. Since 2007, 25 different Hacker News readers have linked it 42 times, most often “Individual initiative, corporate inertia and good bad advice”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (15) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link furia.com, Glenn McDonald's blog, for posts on music genre maps, how Echo Nest and Spotify analyse music, his book on streaming, and his layoff from Spotify.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 15 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Individual initiative, corporate inertia and good bad advice5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2024-01-24
- Everynoise.com Is Going Away3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-12-06
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-04-02
- Algorithmically-generated non-analytical map of the musical genre-space2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-05-01
- The Opposite of Love Is Love2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-11-17
What Hacker News says?
Author has a blog over on https://www.furia.com/ , I'd suggest spending some time there.
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on “Every Noise at Once”Submitted Bing Vs. Google Comparator as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThere's quite a few entries about it at https://furia.com/
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on “Every Noise at Once”Submitted Algorithmically-generated non-analytical map of the musical genre-space as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI mean, I'm pretty sure it is not just audio spectral features used, though I can't find a citation either way. (I am sure because the language distinctions make clear that we are at least making heavy use of metadata if not actual social patterns in listening, but the latter is explicitly heavily used elsewhere on the site, so...) Also, if we're being exact, it's the work of Glenn McDonald under the auspices the Ec…
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on “Last.fm turns 20”Submitted Data Seeps Out of Us as a story · 2 points
HN discussionOne of the technical people at Echo Nest writes some pretty interesting posts about music and how they analyze it. He mentions the acquisition today: http://www.furia.com/page.cgi?type=log&id=399
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on “Spotify acquires The Echo Nest to build a better music discovery engine”Submitted A Data Knife as a story · 2 points
HN discussionCheck out everynoise: http://everynoise.com/engenremap.html (look at the bottom of the cloud) Some exposition here: http://www.furia.com/page.cgi?type=log&id=392 and in other posts there.
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on “Songza is Joining Google”Submitted My Year in Music and Yours as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThey definitely do both, in the public recommendations API you can see vestiges of the old EchoNest acoustic properties along with some new ones they’ve come up with. It’s fun to play around with. https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/referenc... The guy behind Every Noise at Once (engineer at EchoNest/Spotify until the recent layoffs), has some interesting thoughts about this topic: https://www.furia.…
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on “The lie of music discovery algorithms”Submitted Individual initiative, corporate inertia, good bad advice (on caring about work) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI'm a huge Spotify fan and if you've found Discover weekly useful you might like the following other resources for discovering new music: http://furia.com/newparticles/current.html http://everynoise.com/engenremap.html https://open.spotify.com/user/spotify/playlist/3rgsDhGHZxZ9s... There's more, of course but I agree that many of the curated playlists lean towards popular music. I also follow /r/spotify on reddit an…
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on “SoundCloud launches Go: a subscription service”Submitted Individual initiative, corporate inertia and good bad advice as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThey also wrote a blog post on being laid off here: https://www.furia.com/page.cgi?type=log&id=473
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on “Creator of everynoise.com laid off from Spotify”Submitted Glenn McDonald, founder of Every Noise at Once, gets laid off from Spotify as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSee also http://everynoise.com/ which is a view into how Spotify classifies music. The creator wrote about it here: http://blog.echonest.com/post/52385283599/how-we-understand-... and writes a lot about it on their blog: http://www.furia.com/page.cgi?terms=noise&type=search Of course those are going in the other direction, not generating the classification from the data, but it's probably one of the best data sets a…
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on “Finding the genre of a song with Deep Learning”Submitted Everynoise.com Is Going Away as a story · 2 points
HN discussionOne of the people involved in Echo Nest has put together (roughly speaking) multi dimensional genre maps based on their data: http://www.furia.com/page.cgi?type=log&id=377#id377 http://everynoise.com/engenremap.html
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on “Mapping Your Music Collection”Submitted Music demographics, accountability, and short blasts of finnish metal as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYeah, the top one is the neighborhood, the inverted-color one is the opposite neighborhood ( http://www.furia.com/page.cgi?type=log&id=393 )...
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on “Every Noise at Once – an algorithmically-generated scatter-plot of musical genre”Submitted Missing (from) Links: great idea for the expansion of HTML syntax as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThanks, I'll check them out and play around with jamendo. Here's a nice site for distinguishing subgenres of music: http://www.furia.com/misc/genremaps/engenremap.html
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on “Why (not) pay for music?”Submitted The Lamp and the Genie as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThis is a good article that answers this question: https://www.furia.com/page.cgi?type=log&id=473 > This is problematic, clearly. A company needs to be able to treat its employees as interchangeable and expendable, both individually and collectively. It needs to be able to periodically layoff 17% of its workforce to cut its margin overhead by 1% and temporarily boost its stock price by 5%, without having to endure e…
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on “What Happened To: "In Search of Excellence"?”Submitted The Only Software Metric That Matters Is Love as a story · 1 points
HN discussionOn the other hand, Glenn McDonald wrote a book, out June 2024, called "You Have Not Yet Heard Your Favorite Song: How Streaming Changes Music" - see the announcement at https://www.furia.com/page.cgi?type=log&id=468
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on “Everynoise.com Is Going Away”Submitted Regularer Expressions as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe creator of Every Noise at Once enjoyed the article: http://www.furia.com/page.cgi?type=log&id=415
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on “From charred death to deep filthstep: the genres that make modern music”Submitted Know Yourself (For Free) as a story · 1 points
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