Pandora Radio from Music Genome Project 200
kramthegram writes "The Music Genome Project, an attempt to define music by it's traits in a way similar to DNA defines traits in humans has led to the development of Pandora. Pandora uses the song choices you make to see what traits appeal to you and present you with custom radio station. While limiting you to thumbs up or thumbs down, the "gene" heuristics allows for a very quick adaptation to your musical tastes." Not sure how deep it goes, and I'm not sure I like that it led me from The Who to Styx and Def Leppard. But this is a neat little tool for discovering new music.
Hurray! (Score:5, Funny)
At least this one took over a month.
Announcing the Slashdot Genome Project (Score:0, Funny)
On November 29, 2005 a group of programmers and tech-loving technologists came together with the idea of creating the most comprehensive analysis of Slashdot stories ever.
Together we set out to capture the essence of stories at the most fundamental level. We ended up assembling literally hundreds of story attributes or "genes" into a very large Slashdot Genome. Taken together these genes capture the unique and magical tech identity of a story - everything from author, source and url, to opinion, bias, trollishness, voice, and of course the rich world of editing and slashvertising. It's not about what a story looks like, or what site they supposedly belong to, or about who reads their stories - it's about what each individual story reads like.
Over the past 5 minutes, we've carefully read the stories of over 10,000 different submitters - ranging from popular to obscure - and analyzed the technical qualities of each story one attribute at a time. This work continues each and every day as we endeavor to include all the great new stuff coming out of basements, offices and garages around the world.
It has been quite an adventure, you could say a little crazy - but now that we've created this extraordinary collection of stoiry analysis, we think we can help be your guide as you explore ways to remove duplicates from Slashdot.
We hope you enjoy the journey.
A.N. Cow-Ard
Founder
The Slashdot Genome Project
It gives music a user may actually want!? (Score:4, Funny)
-- RIAA
(the funny/scary part is that it's not far fetched to me that they actually will, for being too accurate in handing out music a user wants to listen to)
Re:But (Score:4, Funny)
"Based on what you've told us so far, we're playing this track because it features vocals similar to cats being tortured, drum tracks with the subtlety of a wrecking ball, a bare modicum of musical talent, and a complete disregard for human life."
Re:But (Score:4, Funny)
"Based on what you've told us so far, we wont play anything, WTF! Britney Spears? what fucking shitty kind of music do you listen? get the fuck out of here!"
Re:Personalized tastes lead to blinders (Score:3, Funny)
I've had this for years. The tool I primarily use is called Friends(tm) and this amazing tool offers restaurant suggestions, movies, musics - you pretty much name it. You see, Friends(tm), have a number of different algorithms that make selections that are quite different from mine in music, movies or whatever.
There are other tools available too - Advertising(tm), Newspaper Critics(tm), Book Reviewers(tm), Magazines(tm), Festivals(tm) and so forth. People with good taste often use more than one.
Joking aside, why do people make things so much harder than they really are? Every new thing that comes down the pike doesn't mean we have to remake the world.