Unlike conventional approaches which quantize emotions into classes, [this demo] defines emotions by two continuous variables arousal and valence and employs regression algorithms to predict them. Associated with arousal and valence values (AV values), each music sample becomes a point in the arousal-valence emotion plane, so a user can easily retrieve music samples of certain emotion(s) by specifying a point or a trajectory in the emotion plane.
I’ve always enjoyed sorting iTunes music by mood with Moody.
This is the best thing I’ve seen all week. Keep up the good work, Internet:
SiriProxy is used to intercept the communication with Apple’s servers. Based on your song request, Notorious Siri then sends your choice of Notorious B.I.G.’s Hypnotize and an a-cappella rendition of Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody to the device (the latter requiring 4 iPhones 4S).
Siri’s speech synthesis is synced to the beat using the timestamps obtained from the Echonest API which were then manually tweaked, to smooth out delays in the text-to-speech engine
Nerded out this evening with some stupid Trek videos. This Star Trek sitcom would be even better if the editor had spliced together a montage of slow-mo smiling faces for the title sequence, almost like this dork did.
I can’t communicate to you how awesome this is unless you use it. … carrying around these computers with tons of data in them is byzantine by comparison.
— Steve Jobs, WWDC 1997.
If you want to hear a bit of subject matter that Steve Jobs will reignite tomorrow, listen to his closing remarks at WWDC over fourteen years ago; a boisterous account of his networked life in which personal data is redundant and ubiquitous.
I just wanna focus on something that is very close to my heart, which is living in a high-speed networked world (to get your job done every day).
How many of you manage your own storage on your computers? How many of you backup your computers, as an example? How many of you had a crash in the last three years, four years? Right, okay.
Let me describe the world I live in.
About eight years ago, we had high-speed networking connected to our (now obsolete) Next hardware running NextStep at the time. And because we were using NFS, we were able to take all of our personal data—our home directories we call them—off of our local machines and put them on a server. And the software made that completely transparent. And because the server had a lot of RAM on it, in some cases it was actually faster to get stuff from the server than it was to get stuff off your local hard disk because in some cases it would be cached in the RAM of the server if it was in popular use.
But what was really remarkable was that the organization could hire a professional person to backup that server every night. And could afford to spend a little bit more on that server so maybe it had redundant disk drives, redundant power supplies.
In the last seven years, you know how many times I have lost any personal data?
Zero.
Do you know how many times I’ve backed up my computer?
My latest theme for Pixel Union is now available. This has been a long time coming (I designed it 4 months ago) and it feels so good to finally have it finished and full of such cool features. You can try it out, or buy it for $19.
The theme was developed by Jason Webster, Joshua Jones, and Jay Robinson. And thank you Pixel Union for being patient.
Oh, and I made this video. Pretty pleased with that last flipbook effect at the end.
Helped Will out for a bit on this project. Fluid 2 looks great for hi-res images and video, and looks gorgeous on an iPad. I’m not only a contributer, I’m also a client.
