"one of the most successful and widely used approaches to [Collaborative Filtering] this day also happens to be one of the simplest: SVD, also affectionately referred to in the literature as LSI, dimensionality reduction, or projection."
"Audiobaba is a next generation music search engine that allows you to find songs by acoustic similarity.... Audiobaba lets you tell it what kind of music you like and returns results that sound like it but are in fact different."
"the three popular hash functions these days [are] the Jenkins, FNV, and Hsieh hash functions. They all have very nice randomization values ... Python's hash function for strings was much like the FNV hash function by accident."
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"the algorithm [...] basically amounts to emphasizing the sudden impulses of sound in the song and then finding the fundamental period at which these impulses appear. [...] Our algorithm does not account for the possibility of a varying tempo"
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