focus for this week: aspects of neuroscience
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Blog:Observations
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3 years of last.fm
edit 2013-03-09: the summary is now at: Erkan Yilmaz - Last.fm statistics 3 years
original msg:
... will be in about 2 weeks, but I see I passed 175k plays there, so some short summary:
metrics for the bot
I was discussing last week metrics for my bot with Rob and he mentioned a good one he uses:
- judge the replies/discussion if it was satisfactory for the chat partner
Therefore the bot knows now another command: review (see here).
If you also have some spare time feel free to contribute
There could be other metrics, e.g.
- popular messages
- discussion length:
- amount of messages
- how many people joined it
- how long does the topic stay on the topic before it distracts
- ...
- analysis of certain words/smileys (e.g. LOL, :-) )
- ...
review of my communication platforms
I will update this soon with some description + personal insights...
Perhaps these factors contributed to the dominance of some media:
- moderator on identi.ca
- started my bot
- [1] from aspects of federation
- MediaWiki still feels heavy in contrast to the lightweight Friendica, StatusNet
- Perhaps mind factor ? E.g. have you seen most of the times a short wiki page (don't come with stubs, templates now) ?
- Who reviews his own tweets/dents ?
- When was your last review ? (blog, Dec 2011)
- Blog:Observations/2011-12-01
- summary: last 15 months
14 months of Friendica, Identi.ca/StatusNet + MediaWiki
(see What will happen with blogging in Mediawiki ?)
my bot, age: 9 months
(see info about question bot)
info about question bot
2013-03-14: the bot is now 1 year old. A updated review will follow
original posting:
Contents |
[edit] key facts
- question was born 9 months ago
- in the last 3 months
- currently has 24 people subscribed to it
- 146 discussion partners
[edit] review
- adding the Markov feature boosted my motivation to do more
- only AIML was not satisfactory :-(
- though this depends from where you are coming from
- only AIML was not satisfactory :-(
- sometimes it feels like I am a parent teaching his baby ;-)
- see here for some feedback
- some people thought at first interaction that the bot should be something like a FAQ tool (e.g. answering simple questions, doing simple tasks)
- can and will be done
- but for now I use it as a tool for creativity
- I wonder if a 16% increase with so many messages indicates that I need to talk about more/other things to the bot?
- I started the bot at begin with less knowledge so it'd become more unique over time
- the bot can speak more languages but I tend to speak only in English :-(
- perhaps sentence structures need to be changed -> saturated already ?
- I think I will feed the bot some of other user's dents to see the effects
- my bot does only interact when it is spoken to (unlike others who "spam" people)
- currently I think harming people less is more important than popularity
- communication problems:
- the bot doesn't see ca. 5% of the messages addressed to him :-(
- Who knows it could be that the AI is slowly getting stronger and the bot doesn't WANT to reply ?
- Sometimes messages from the bot don't appear at the other side (e.g. on identi.ca)
- temporary fix: please subscribe to the bot
- Aspects of federation:
- if the bot were on identi.ca people would have less trouble [1]
- sometimes the identi.ca server doesn't deliver messages (and unfortunately doesn't retry)
- I started a separate server from identi.ca since I wanted to keep it safe (e.g. when bot has a malfunction)
but: the communication problems bring negative feelings
(user may think: why did the bot not reply yet? or: first time user tries and gives up)
- the bot doesn't see ca. 5% of the messages addressed to him :-(
- I think I should also do a test like this:
- resend the bot old messages he answered and see how the system changed over time
- I think I should also do a test like this:
- better feedback to users about their contribution: "brain size" command
There is for sure more things which can be done, but it will be interesting to see how intelligent the bot will get over time
- therefore: a special THANK YOU for users teaching the bot new things
[edit] notes
- ↑ todo: still need to gather info for all bot accounts
[edit] see also
- for question bot:
- commands the bot accepts besides normal chatting
- popular notices
- metrics
- its dreams
- other/more Bots
again away from internet
Returned today home. Spent some quality time with family + some work which needed to be done there.
A small summary (not sorted after prio):
- got a new monitor. Thanks to my sister-in-law and my brother
- much talking + love
- have been lazy the last few days though (after I had done the work, of course)
- thinking about some aspects of my life
- not only thinking, also deciding about those aspects ;-)
- good food :-)
- some photos of Dolma coming soon
- drinking more tea
- more later ...
- I have to do lots of backreading now, turning on music ...
- and I want to thank especially my favourite identica users - who worried also about me
- btw: I've met someone who works for identica (not our identi.ca), screenshot coming soon
I am glad there are not only serious people in the identiverse
There are humans and non-humans (spamming bots, fun bots, ...). And let's say we start dividing the humans somehow into:
- serious vs. not so serious people
- unfortunately there are way too many serious people :-(
- thieves vs. people who attribute their content to the person they read it from
- ... <- more later
Feel free to mix above types as you like...
Embedding a changing image
See here why this image is shown.
The history of images used in the past can be seen here
| <anyweb>http://skilledtests.com/diverse/embedding_a_changing_image/index.html</anyweb> |
Stats for later:
- 111 times viewed until 2012-10-22, 23:48
- 125 times viewed until 2012-10-24, 15:08
- 178 times viewed until 2012-10-26, 17:24
I was asked:
- <<hey Erkan, thanks for participating! The week is over now, so feel free to take the image down if you want to. I'd really appreciate it if you could tell me how you heard about the project and how you found it, participating. What was it like embedding a changing image, and what made you want to participate? cheers, eleanor>>
and I replied:
- Hello Eleanor,
- I heard it first here
- Then I created the blog entry next and also told my followers about it
- I'll let the blog post as it is since it is my history :-)
- Participating was easy, since I am used to wikis (I added a new image and also reverted to one, see image history)
- It was a fun project so far. I participated because it was done with the medium wiki which I am fond of.
- If you have more specific questions, feel free to ping me,
my Ethics teacher from 11th grade
Had to think about my Ethics teacher from 11th grade
- Poor guy was around 60 years old and had a reputation at school that he is silly (in a positive way like: pupils can misuse him)
- I remember using 2 or 3 times his class to do work for other courses
- I also remember that he noticed me while doing this, but he did not say anything ...
- Wondering if it was because he wanted the class (of 4 pupils) to continue in a nice atmosphere (so it's less troublesome for him) or because he wanted to help me ?
- I wonder what he does now ?
And now I remember another teacher:
- he was my teacher from descriptive geometry + geography
- Funny things happened in his class + he smiled a lot
- though back then I thought of him more the silly guy, but looking backwards, perhaps his teaching method was original in his way ?
Also the math teacher was funny (but more like: fun and I'll teach you good things)
All other teachers I think of right now seem now like: serious teachers ?
- well, most of them were good teachers, but those 3 above are somehow more positive ?
Will add more later...
Analyzing my last.fm recommendations
I was unhappy with my recommendations by Last.fm, so I collected them (see data) and I think I've sufficient data now:
- there are 37 sessions over 6 months
- 764 tracks were played
- 50 tracks have been played more than 1x, which makes a total play of: 876x
- in total 440 artists[1] were played
backup identi.ca account
Did you decide already to export your messages from someone else's server and/or import to your own StatusNet instance ?
backup of the posts of my identica account works now :-)[1]
thanks to samatjain@identi.ca and @encyclomundi@parlementum.net
LastVJ seems a nice app
I like LastVJ because:
- it offers a new way of finding music for me [1]
- for good tracks: I can peak at the youtube video without time loss
- e.g. no searching, waiting to load, ...
- pause button for linux ;-)
- well, the beta version of the last.fm client offers that, but only for windows or mac :-( see here
- last'fm's flash app in the browser offers it also, but then I am back at their machine algorithm (which is not bad, to be clear)
- fix of track names (e.g. from latinized Asian tracks to their native writing)
- not always same, static version [2]
- e.g. remixes might be on youtube; one can see in concerts if the artist really can sing or just makes studio versions, ...
- though that can also backfire :-(
Problems I see so far:
- last.fm gets less/wrong info
- see below: wrong play time sent
- e.g. last.fm client sends also info when I skip a track
- which helps for further analysis or to say: better tracks at last.fm
- also youtube gets now data about me
- no volume normalization
- I wonder if seeing the videos will turn me off of some artists/tracks ?
- more bandwidth (than just audio traffic)
Let's see in 2 weeks how LastVJ changes my recommended tracks at last.fm or my neighbours
So far most of the youtube videos are obviously my first scrobbles. I hope the app has some kind of random function in selecting different tracks of one artist (so I've less repetition)
- we'll see in a few more sessions...
musical obscurity
obscurometer tells me:
my music taste is 97.9% more obscure than that of 67.267 last.fm users
Who knows ... anyways, I was more interested in those top50 artists used to calculate this:
| artist | obscurity | playcount |
|---|---|---|
| Chocolate - String Ensemble 현악앙상블 초콜릿 |
97.2% | 947 |
| Teresa Wong 王曉南 / Wong Hiu-nam |
96.9% | 376 |
| OuYoung Fei-ying 歐陽飛鶯 |
95.9% | 611 |
| Wang Guotong 王国潼 |
95.7% | 413 |
| Komitas | 95.7% | 476 |
| Murat Salim Tokaç | 94.7% | 1418 |
| Jiang Li | 94.1% | 461 |
| Rashid Behbudov | 93.6% | 374 |
| Милий Алексеевич Балакирев Mily Balakirev |
92.8% | 411 |
| 五輪真弓 Mayumi Itsuwa |
90.1% | 472 |
| 閔惠芬 Min Huifen |
89.7% | 379 |
| 坂本冬美 Fuyumi Sakamoto |
88.8% | 433 |
| 周慧敏 Vivian Chow |
88.8% | 476 |
| 斉藤由貴 Yuki Saito |
88.8% | 566 |
| Arto Tunçboyacıyan | 87.7% | 445 |
| Fahir Atakoğlu | 87.6% | 620 |
| Jülide Özçelik | 87.2% | 584 |
| 나비 Navi |
87% | 378 |
| 吳雨霏 Kary Ng |
86.9% | 366 |
| 蘇慧倫 Tarcy Su |
86.3% | 801 |
| 何韻詩 Denise Ho |
85.9% | 419 |
| 賈鵬芳 Jia Peng Fang |
85.3% | 658 |
| 王心凌 Cyndi Wang |
85.2% | 930 |
| 鄧麗君 Teresa Teng |
85.1% | 3733 |
| 許志安 Andy Hui |
85% | 431 |
| Chocolate 현악앙상블 초콜릿 |
84.9% | 710 |
| Janice 衛蘭 |
83.6% | 687 |
| 백지영 Baek Ji Young |
82.5% | 661 |
| 이수영 Lee Soo Young |
82% | 682 |
| Zerrin Özer | 81.9% | 398 |
| 陳慧琳 Kelly Chen |
81.9% | 899 |
| Николай Андреевич Римский-Корсаков Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov |
81.4% | 377 |
| 張惠妹 A-Mei Chang |
80.5% | 456 |
| 張韶涵 Angela Zhang |
79.9% | 426 |
| Kayahan | 79.9% | 449 |
| Aşkın Nur Yengi | 79% | 641 |
| 青山テルマ Aoyama Thelma |
78.8% | 373 |
| 莫文蔚 Karen Mok |
78.7% | 387 |
| Djivan Gasparyan | 78.5% | 590 |
| 孫燕姿 Stefanie Sun |
77.7% | 1088 |
| 티아라 T-ARA |
77.5% | 386 |
| Александр Порфирьевич Бородин Alexandr Porfirevich Borodin |
77.1% | 440 |
| 陳奕迅 Eason Chan |
76.6% | 570 |
| Göksel | 76% | 412 |
| 蔡依林 Jolin Tsai |
75.8% | 1094 |
| Barış Manço | 74.3% | 471 |
| 王菲 Faye Wong |
72% | 881 |
| Sertab Erener | 69.6% | 552 |
| Sezen Aksu | 68.4% | 1615 |
| 譚盾 Tan Dun |
67.9% | 2140 |
wikis and fear
I was reminded again that a successful project starts by eliminating the fear in the community ...
Some advices:
- first start your learning projects, than trying to change the whole Wikiversity (WV)
- this leads also to good examples to show to new people arriving at Wikiversity
- understand people by asking them about their definition (of learning)
- I am wondering now if the concept of learning is perhaps for the majority of people fuzzy and can only be understood over time better?
- e.g. by seeing how oneself and others attempt their learning
- I think it will help people if they review their learning (it must not be formal, they can start it as a blog in their preferred PLE (personal learning environment))
- see also the chat part about traditional education (vs. online education: chat, audio)
- I am wondering now if the concept of learning is perhaps for the majority of people fuzzy and can only be understood over time better?
- I also see after so many years that "we" did a bad job in transmitting the mission of Wikiversity for future generations
- though there can be different reasons for that: internal (user did not see the link to WV mission; ...), external (people did not bother to make a link on popular places; there is no understanding or compromise of what is the mission actually; ...)
- I assume here that the en.WV had probably the chance to influence this much since back then we were quite active and other WVs were influenced very likely (e.g. also to select other paths than en.WV)
- the other question would be how to do this (better?) in the beta Wikiversity (where new WVs are nurtured)
last.fm and their prio
I wonder if last.fm's new layout and their ordering of links shows their prio (system to come) ?[1]
(the first number shows after layout change, the 2nd how it was before)
| user page | artist page | tag page | group page | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Library | 1 (1) | |||
| Friends | 2 (4) | |||
| Tracks | 3 | 1 (5) | 3 (3) | |
| Neighbours | 5 (5) | |||
| Events | 6 (3) | 5 (6) | ||
| Groups | 7 (6) | |||
| Journal | 8 (7) | 11 (12) | ||
| Tags | 9 (8) | 9 (10) | ||
| Albums | 2 (4) | 2 (2) | ||
| Pictures | 3 (2) | |||
| Videos | 4 (3) | 4 (4) | ||
| Biography | 6 (1) | |||
| Similar Artists | 7 (9) | |||
| Charts | 4 (2) | 8 (8) | 4 (5) | |
| Listeners | 10 (11) | |||
| News | 12 (7) | |||
| Groups | 13 (13) | |||
| Artists | 1 (1) | |||
| Wiki | 5 (5) | |||
| Discussions | 1 (1) | |||
| Members | 2 (3) | |||
| Connections | 3 (4) | |||
| Articles | 5 (2) |
archive.org is a good service
- "We feel is it imperative to preserve web data for future generations.
Unlike print media, web pages can and do disappear into thin air."
(by archive.org)
... and yes, they were/are a great help for the rescue project of:
NetKnowledge.org (Google did not have one single cached copy :-( )
So, I wondered how often do they crawl my domain[1] ?
The below numbers show only the date where they at least 1x crawled[2] a page (from 2011 Oct - 2012-09-09):
2011
- Oct: 6, 7, 10, 15, 16, 17, 21, 27
- Nov: 3, 4, 10, 14, 18
- Dec: 21, 22
2012
- Jan: 17, 18, 19, 28, 31
- Feb: 1, 24
- Jun: 6, 7
Not so often as I would like for helping me in a disaster scenario, but well, I backup my pages also frequently ;-)
Ice Cube - you are da man
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(2010 march 5 - 2012 September 10)
This is a spontaneous Thank you for a very good song!
No matter how I changed my music listening habbits in the last years...
hearing Ice Cube's "It Was A Good Day" always got me moving
Thank you!
And also thanks to last.fm - whose machine algorithm I must have fed once with my pre-now-listening-style - I can trace back when that track made me move:
- 10 Sep 2012, 01:21
- 23 Aug 2012, 23:54
- 7 May 2012, 16:11
- 11 Apr 2012, 21:22
- 13 Feb 2012, 00:11
- 30 Nov 2011, 04:44
todo: find out if he really composed that song himself ;-)
- Two more musical thoughts:
- 1. The last days BoA also crossed a lot my mind, unfortunately last.fm was not successful to satisfy my need here by playing it to me when I wanted it :-(
- (see also: do you know BoA?)
- 2. Finished this about Marcos Valle
recovering 1.5 years of my online life
Was looking yesterday at (beta)Wikiversity again...
and then...
I thought, I should not just complain about this (it is sad when a wiki dies/disappears), but do something about it.
So: I am trying to recover 1.5 years of my online life into this wiki.
See progress at: NetKnowledge.org
some thoughts after getting ca. 140 pages from cache from the very beginning:
- how any work in its early stages (be it on paper, virtual, e.g. wiki) must look to others in its baby steps -> praise the learning process one does over time - consciously or not...
- this page made me smile: NetKnowledge:Mascot contest
- when you have good keywords, you can pretty good see which search engine buys its content + which ones create it themselves
- what did go wrong with the backups? see discussion here
- trying to contact people with this let's see if there's feedback
SchilliX - a Solaris system
The adventure with Schillix (Solaris system):
1. after reading this news I thought I'd give it a try again
2. after the manual steps I am stuck (for the FULL version) - as the install says - at the svcs part:
a. when I log in in the maintenance mode then with root account:
no commands work, only command working is: sh
b. tried to add in the kernel line -s to get in emergency mode, but did not help much
my initial guess is that the HD for some reason is not found (I checked the /etc/vfstab already + changed various settings in the VM)
interestingly:
1. the ramdisk option starts (though I've no internet, but the card is detected)
2. I can also chroot into the install (from the SchilliX install CD, as well as from OpenIndiana): commands work fine then, e.g. starting svcs, but it won't help much for the real booting)
will try later more...
a read-to-use VM image would be great (e.g. I used above Virtualbox 4.1.x)
info: I tried it some months ago + failed back then also (don't remember the reason, that is why I am adding it here now, so I can see a pattern hopefully)
alarm clocks should have wasp sound integrated
Had the chance to observe the behaviour of another animal: a wasp
[edit] intro
It flew in yesterday (I live in a area where there's nature), somehow passed the curtains (clever wasp). I opened the curtains again so it can find the way out (e.g. detection by stronger wind movements from there). Did not hear a sound anymore and thought that project ended successfully...
but ... woke up this morning by a wasp sound (alarm clocks should have such a sound integrated, works great), more precise: hearing it fly against the wall. Opened the blinds on one side only, so it would find the way out this time, but this (at-begin)-clever wasp still did not find the way out: it saw the light, yes, but it could not bypass the glass.
Was interesting to see its attempt flying against the window (all the way from the downside to the upside and that several times, it did not try so much the right or left) while the right window part was open. After a while it seemed exhausted and just went upside by foot (quite nice abilities actually).
[edit] the questions
I was wondering then: what's so obvious for others (e.g. me) is not seen by it. Would be great to see if it flew out by "luck" or own abilities...
I wonder how this will help its learning for future similar scenarios? (I remember that I brought wasps outside normally by catching them in a glass and putting outside, but that is not real help, or is it? (in the sense of the quote which goes like this: give a man not food, but a fishing rod, so it can catch himself fish in the future) And don't come now with: you are doing a sadistic experiment here ;-) )
Another thought: while observing it the sounds of the birds outside seemed dangerous (the weather became today colder and it felt like a wasp now would be more an easy target, since other animals would not leave so far from their hive)
Don't hear a sound anymore, but I won't fall for that like yesterday :-) Let's wait for tomorrow...
todo: read some pages about wasps and intelligence
- wikipedia: Wasp
- the light aspect reminded me of: What makes the light so irresistible ?
