Joe Petviashvili

“Just over a month after consumer backlash caused MSN Music to rescind its decision to deactivate the digital rights management ("DRM") servers that allowed MSN Music purchasers to "reauthorize" music files after upgrading operating systems or buying new computers, Yahoo! more...

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"I do know, though, that the TV, movie and record companies' problems have only just begun. Right now, the customers who can't even *see* why file sharing might be wrong are still young. But 10, 20, 30 years from now, more...

We do what we must because we can. For the good of all of us Except the ones who are dead.

MIDI code generators for Ruby

The results for the Music Recommender Turing Test challenge are in! In this challenge, I posed the question - "Can you tell which music recommendation was generated by a human, and which was generated by a machine?".