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[eric brochu | haiku factory] This article from The New York Times talks about the issues involved in Netflix recent contest announcement, offering a million-dollar bounty to anyone that can improve the company’s movie recommendation system beyond a certain point. And this article in The Guardian talks about the problems inherent in using actual randomness in the iPod’s shuffle function —

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http://www.geekrant.org  Geek Rant dot org: ? MP3 functionality is now available in most mobile phones, and the bulk of people probably don’t particularly want to be carrying a separate music player around. Meanwhile, there are suspicions that iPod shuffle isn’t totally random. Shades of the Tivo that thought its user was gay? (via Cosmos)

The Ape: The masters of the short song are undoubtedly Napalm Death, who have a five second song on iTunes called "Dead" three seconds of which is silence. At 79 pence per song, two seconds of music works out quite expensive, but the iTunes preview is more than enough to capture the full impact of the track. (via Cosmos)

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