Year: 2011
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automated screendump creation
i recently had to create jpg thumbs of the first frame from a bunch of videos. doing this manually is not really an option if you have 100 files or more, so commandline to the rescue. i had an ubuntu box, on which i installed ffmpeg: sudo apt-get install ffmpeg then cd into the directory…
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Extracting mood data from music
We have provided data from the Moody database to a group of researchers in the Netherlands, who have been doing some really interesting work. Menno van Zaanen gives us a report: As a researcher working in the fields of computational linguistics and computational musicology, I am interested in the impact of lyrics in music. Recently,…
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hashimage.com
some days ago, my wife attended some kind of social media event, called ssmx. during the event my twitter feed was packed with twitpics, yfrog and instagrams, and i decided to make a quick hack. here it is: http://hashimage.com the idea is simple – you just feed it a hashtag and it will scour the…