They dont call it the Web for nothing

Was remembering when the Web first caught on: There have been a lot of changes in system and data architecture since the. One thing I remember back then is people saying “yeah, it is pretty cool, but, you know, it is stateless.” As most of what I heard on this issue was from enterprise software vendors, with all the bias that could entail, I should have taken what I was told with a grain of salt. The first big problem these folks saw with the Web was its statelessness, which made it far different from the synchronously connect clients and servers (at that time, Java servers) they were used to. Wrote this up for a podcast page related to a podcast ...

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https://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/talking-data/web-what-have-you-wrought-on-strata-microservices-and-more/
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Name that tune, Now Playing!

A recent note on the Google AI blog discusses the company’s use of a deep neural network for music recognition on mobile devices. As it brings extreme-scale noodling (convolution) to bandwidth limited devices (smart phones) it could be a breakthrough on par with MPEG and JPEG, which dramatically transformed music distribution beginning in the 1990s. It’s known as Now Playing, and it can use a sequence of embeddings that run your music against its network and recognize the song, while conserving energy on the device. Each embedding has 96 to 128 dimensions. An embedding threshold is raised for obscure songs – which is the town where I live. I guess when you look at what Google has done with Search, it shouldn’t be that surprising – but the idea that so much of the work occurs on the Thing (device), is pretty astounding. I  asked it ‘what’s that song’ and it got it right. Slam dunk. “Ride Your Pony” by Lee Dorsey. Now, Shoot! Shoot! Shoot! Shoot!  Jack Vaughan

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https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/09/googles-next-generation-music.html  - Google AI Blog, Sept 14, 2018

Speaking of Name That Tune – why not a little vignette from the time when Humans Walked the Earth?