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That's exactly what's going on. Pandora put a bunch of effort into analyzing each song by a bunch of characteristics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_Gen…
by wat10000 · Oct 8, 2026
You're making a few (reasonable) assumptions based on the base rate of engineering interviewing practices in the industry. I'm not using Leetcode though a coding problem is part…
by linkregister · Oct 8, 2026
biomethane aka methane from rotting plants? extremely inefficient and requires intensive agriculture
by tcfhgj · Oct 8, 2026
> I created a prompt and dataset containing everything I knew - cover art, audio files, metadata and URLs for everything I had found, and gave it to one model. I instructed it t…
by slfnflctd · Oct 8, 2026
Ask HN: Learning practical system design
by rcdmrl · Oct 8, 2026 · 4 points
The obvious difference between then and now is intensive agriculture. In modern times, we don't need as much farmland per capita. I hate seeing productive farmland developed int…
by throwaway093020 · Oct 8, 2026
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In grammar, an intensive word form is one which denotes stronger, more forceful, or more concentrated action relative to the root on which the intensive is built. Intensives are usually lexical formations, but there may be a regular process for forming intensives from a root. Intensive formations, for example, existed in Proto-Indo-European, and in many of the Semitic languages. Read more on Wikipedia