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Finding the genre of a song with Deep Learning — A.I. Odyssey part. 1
Saturday, June 8, 2019
A step-by-step guide to make your computer a music expert. One of the things we, humans, are particularly good at is classifying songs. In just a few seconds we can tell whether we’re listening to Classical music, Rap, Blues or EDM. However, as simple as this task is for us, millions of people still live with unclassifed digital music libraries. The average library is estimated to have about 7,160 songs. If it takes 3 seconds to classify a song (either by listening or because you already know), a quick back-of-the-envelope calculation gives around 6 hours to classify them all.…
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What’s really wrong with node_modules and why this is your fault
Monday, November 27, 2017
Originally published by Mateusz Morszczyznaon November 27th 2017 I was never really concerned about the size of node_modules — my thinking was that you should not care too much about the tools you need to do the job. If you need a 20 kg hammer to drive a nail, you just take it. The same story with the node_modules, it may weight a few kilobytes or a few megabytes because our imaginary hammer comes with a set of heavy nails, right?…
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Choose Boring Technology
Monday, March 30, 2015
Probably the single best thing to happen to me in my career was having had Kellan placed in charge of me. I stuck around long enough to see Kellan’s technical decisionmaking start to bear fruit. I learned a great deal from this, but I also learned a great deal as a result of this. I would not have been free to become the engineer that wrote Data Driven Products Now! if Kellan had not been there to so thoroughly stick the landing on technology choices.…