Re:Pandora Is Said to Have Held Talks About Selling Itself
by bphogan on Thursday February 11, 2016 @03:20PM
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One of my dreams is to actually see how all of that works. I'm not in it for the music - I just really am a music nerd and would love to know how all that stuff is stored, pulled together, and queried.
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Re:Pandora Is Said to Have Held Talks About Selling Itself
by livingparadox on Friday February 12, 2016 @01:24PM
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For Pandora, they use a vector distance algorithm (with some other nudges to keep it from being repetitive, I'm sure). They break down a song on a scale of 1-5 across hundreds of "genes" and then pick songs based on how similar or "close" they are in the multidimensional space.