It's all very nice but if they end up "altering" the results heavily to play you the music they want you to listen for X or Y reason then it's pointless.
I would like to be able to run this model myself and have a pristine and unbiased output of suggestions
It may just be my perception, but I seem to have noticed this steering becoming a lot more heavy handed on Spotify.
If I try to play any music from a historical genre, it's only about 3 or 4 autoplays before it's queued exclusively contemporary artists, usually performing a cheap pastiche of the original style. It's honestly made the algorithm unusable, to the point that I built a CLI tool that lets me get recommendations from Claude conversationally, and adds them to my queue via api. It's limited by Claude's relatively shallow ability to retrieve from the vast library on these streaming services, but it's still better than the alternative.
Hoping someone makes a model specifically for conversational music DJing, it's really pretty magical when it's working well.
No, but it's also biased toward their commercial partners. From this page [0], detailing their recommendation process:
> How do commercial considerations impact recommendations?
> [...] In some cases, commercial considerations, such as the cost of content or whether we can monetize it, may influence our recommendations. For example, Discovery Mode gives artists and labels the opportunity to identify songs that are a priority for them, and our system will add that signal to the algorithms that determine the content of personalized listening sessions. When an artist or label turns on Discovery Mode for a song, Spotify charges a commission on streams of that song in areas of the platform where Discovery Mode is active.
So Spotify's incentivized to coerce listening behavior towards contemporary artists that vaguely match your tastes, so they can collect the commission. This explains why it's essentially impossible to keep the algorithm in a historical era or genre -- even if well defined, and seeded with a playlist full of songs that fit the definition. It also explains why the "shuffle" button now defaults to "smart shuffle" so they can insert "recommended" (read: commission-generating) songs into your playlist.
The link they provided is the disclosure. You'd be surprised to find out this is the business model of the radio for years and why most radio stations that need profits only play recent songs, and usually the same songs over and over until new ones that are pushed by labels come out.
Is there a site that has hand-curated playlists I would love that let's say if I want to listen to Korean pop from the 90s or Minimal Techno from the 00s.
I was thinking about something like this for some time as well... care to elaborate? do you pick up the pen every time you switch from keyboard to "mouse" or do you have some type of ring holder?
The tablet, which has about the same size as a traditional mouse pad, has a concave space at the upper ridge, where you drop the pen when switching to the keyboard.
However, the pen is very light and I can retain it between the fingers without it limiting much the movements of the fingers. Because of that, if I have to type only a few words between some pointing actions I do not bother to drop the pen, but I touch type with the pen still between the fingers of my right hand. If I have to type more than one sentence, I drop the pen on the tablet and I pick it up again after finishing typing.
This actually makes on average the switching of the right hand between typing and pointing less distracting than with a mouse, because the heavier mouse must be released and grabbed after that, even when typing a single letter, which takes more time than moving the hand holding the pen between tablet and keyboard (especially now, after I have recently switched to a narrower ergonomic keyboard, without numeric pad, where the movement of the right hand is minimized).
The left mouse click is done by touching the tablet with the pen. The pen has 2 buttons for the thumb, which can be mapped to various events. I map one button to be the right mouse click and the other to be the double left mouse click.
I just dump my pen in the gap between the function keys and number keys.
I still have a mouse, so for quick stuff I tend to use that. but when I want to give my right hand a rest, or if I am doing precision stuff (ie copy pasting with small fonts, or drawing/CAD) then I use the table in absolute mode( that is the top right of the tablet is always top right of the screen)
I was reading some old engineering textbooks (from the 50s) and they used imperial units. It was actually pretty nice since I think in terms of those units.
Edit: also, if you are designing anything structural in the US your loads are probably going to be in pounds unless you convert them to kilograms first, so if you use metric you're going to be doing a conversion anyways.
The worst part is we understand the concept of meters. A meter is very roughly the size of a yard. When a youtube vide says "100 meters or 328 feet", that really doesn't help.
I can visual 10 meters because I can visualize 10 yards. I understand the rough size of 100 meters because I know how big a football field is. I know how big two meters is because it's (again very roughly) the size of a person.
In the context of these types of videos the 9% difference is size from yard to meter makes absolutely no difference.
> The worst part is we understand the concept of meters. A meter is very roughly the size of a yard. When a youtube vide says "100 meters or 328 feet", that really doesn't help.
> I can visual 10 meters because I can visualize 10 yards. I understand the rough size of 100 meters because I know how big a football field is. I know how big two meters is because it's (again very roughly) the size of a person.
While I think pretty much every American knows what a yard is, as a practical matter I think people almost never use it. IMHO, it totally makes sense for NASA to ignore it in some video, because people have about 1000x more familiarity with feet for estimation and visualization.
And for intermediate lengths (like your 100 meters), it doesn't make a lot of sense for me to use yards to help someone convert into "football fields" when you could just give a comparison to football fields directly.
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