This season’s most terrifying Christmas song was written by a Canadian robot
A team at the University of Toronto computer science lab have developed a neural network capable of writing melodies and lyrics on the prompting of an image. Their “neural karaoke” program was trained on 100 hours of holiday music (poor thing) and 50 hours of lyrics, then fed a collection of captioned images to make connections between visual data and associated concepts. chartattack.com.
Neil Young to expand digital audio service Pono into streaming
Never say Neil Young isn’t persistent. His Pono audiophile download service may not have captured the public imagination – launching, as it did, just as streaming became a huge force in music consumption – but that hasn’t stopped the veteran Canadian rocker from deciding to take another push at saving our ears from over-compressed music files. TheGuardian.com.
All of this while Edison Research posts their Q-3 2016 study on the share of all audio listening and despite growth in many streaming services, AM/FM dominates with a 50% share of audio time spent. Streaming services are growing at the expense of pre-owned music, not AM/FM radio.
And Finally
How can we let the passing of Alan Thicke, Farther of one Canadas’ most well known musical exports, Robin Sparkles. go without at least a mention.
While I was looking through youtube for an Alan Thicke clip I found this. Could someone else listen to the intro music and let me know what she says before “glow” at the same time Alans’ name is on screen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnOZAbrPcbY
Good morning!
” I need to polish my beaver and glow.”
That’s what I thought she said
How do you polish a beaver?
Beaver Wax?
I hear that can be painful
It could be that her beaver has a Polish accent
I mean, who wouldn’t glow with pride at having a talking beaver, no matter what accent they had.
Good morning!
I heard polish my beaver and glow too. And I think that is all I will comment about that.
Good morning everyone!
Morning all! I’m not always here, but I like to check in once in awhile. I’m still working on that player, it takes time. Sorry.
MW, how dare you be slow on something you’re doing voluntarily! The gall!…
And good morning all.
You just can’t find good free staff these days
I dare, I DARE, ya free staff are hard to come by
The peasants are revolting!
They’re not so bad…
@Wynn… nice man… RE player.
garf, 8:29 They certainly are…
A revolt! And me without my pitchfork! (is that what people use to revolt, clearly I’ve been a part of many of them :))
We need MOAR peasants, and people around here, been quiet lately….
Glowing polished beavers. Interesting…
Hi all!
Dine Alone Records Winter Sampler. Woot!
https://dinealonerecords.bandcamp.com/album/winter-sampler
good day friends.
I was going to share our Christmas playlist on FB. Any objections? Have the duplicate songs been taken out?
I have removed the duplicate tracks
ZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
poke poke
5 more minutes mom
If you went to bed earlier this wouldn’t be a problem.
I was in bed by 7pm last night (your time)
hehe
Next week on Leave It To (Shiny) Beaver…
Mom: Turn that light off and go to sleep
Child: Sorry Mom, I must have polished my beaver too much. Now it won’t stop glowing.
this elf is taking a lunch break! all of this holiday preparations stuff is taking a long time. all of the greenery and lights is making it look and smell good in here but I have made myself bleed a few times already.
perhaps what is missing in the decorations is a glowing beaver?
that robot song is … quite something.
i wonder about what those folks put on their resume from that experiment.
@garfielduk how many cookies are left?
the real ones, not the computer kind.
What cookies *shifty eyes*
https://www.amazon.com/ws1020-tm-Beaver-Personalized-Light-Sensor/dp/B00PZR3HJO
I ate 1 of the cookies as soon as they arrived and kept the rest until the housemate returned so he could have 1, The plan was to have only 1 per day but this fell apart quickly and they were gone before I went to bed. (I feel guilty)
Suki and I just took a walk in the snow. We went to the ski hill office in town to pick up the paperwork for morgana jr to take AABBS. It is an avalanche awareness course.
I am so glad that the cookies were enjoyed! You can just sniff the box on your actually Birthday as a reminder;)
morgana, surely AABBS doesn’t mean Avalanche Awareness Basic Bull Shit! (Maybe?)
Avalanche Awareness Beyond the Boundaries Society
Ah. Thanks.