Fear the Unsleep!

I'm awake again. This time, it seems like I'm actually awake and not just one of the walking unsleep. I fell asleep without any problems last night, and awoke with just a bit of grumbling this morning.

Now, I'm reading (and posting) to LJ.

And HURRAY for azrhey who seems to have decided to stop decomposing for the time being!

Collaborative Music Filtering.

So, I've been here sitting and listening to my mp3 files on random shuffle, and hitting next every time one comes up that doesn't match my current mood and desire to listen. Thats about 1 in 3, since I have a pretty eclectic collection.

I started thinking that it would be nice if the program could figure out what mood I was in, and only bring up songs likely to match it. Then it occurred to me that the collaboritive filtering model for NWO is designed for just that kind of filtering. So, if one were to do a winamp clone, or better yet, just write a collaboritive filter for winamp, one could have it keep statistics of what songs you did and did not like to hear with each other. If you then made it capable (if allowed) of trading information with other copies of itself then it could even suggest songs you don't have (but might like to own) that suit your current mood.

This would be a good way to try out and debug a bunch of collaboritive filtering methods and ranking schemes and would let us try various secure knowledge sharing protocols. What's more, it could advertise pooq in its config dialogs.

I think the idea has potential.

And on that note, I think its time I got dressed so that taxlady and I can go get some shopping done.

Done the Shopping.

Did lotso mega shopping. Bought 27*200 gm sausages = 5.4 kg of sausages. YUM. And we bought a chicken, which we scarfed. So, now I'm full and sleepy and happy, and I gots gazillions of yummum saugagies freezing in the freezer.

Paint me happy and call me a smurf!