Comments on: Random Walks http://www.nonalignmentpact.com/2009/10/random-walks.html Music in Seven Days from Seven Writers Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:21:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Justin http://www.nonalignmentpact.com/2009/10/random-walks.html/comment-page-1#comment-12522 Justin Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:24:32 +0000 http://www.nonalignmentpact.com/2009/10/random-walks.html#comment-12522 <a href="http://blogs.wnyc.org/radiolab/2009/06/15/stochasticity/" rel="nofollow">This</a> may interest you. This may interest you.

]]> By: mrshl http://www.nonalignmentpact.com/2009/10/random-walks.html/comment-page-1#comment-12496 mrshl Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:40:31 +0000 http://www.nonalignmentpact.com/2009/10/random-walks.html#comment-12496 The Sansa mp3 players are cheap enough that it's easy to have an extra MP3 player around the house. I bought mine for $34.95 two years ago from <a href="http://www.woot.com/" rel="nofollow">woot.com</a>. Woot sells them even more cheaply now on a somewhat regular basis. Last deal I saw, they had a 4 GB version for $30. It features FM radio, video, and a voice memo recorder. Pretty bad ass for $30. The Sansa mp3 players are cheap enough that it’s easy to have an extra MP3 player around the house. I bought mine for $34.95 two years ago from woot.com.

Woot sells them even more cheaply now on a somewhat regular basis. Last deal I saw, they had a 4 GB version for $30. It features FM radio, video, and a voice memo recorder. Pretty bad ass for $30.

]]> By: roberto http://www.nonalignmentpact.com/2009/10/random-walks.html/comment-page-1#comment-12495 roberto Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:33:12 +0000 http://www.nonalignmentpact.com/2009/10/random-walks.html#comment-12495 first of all, thank you, that was very helpful (again), 2nd I can't believe 1, that you have 27000 on your hard drive and 2, that you have multiple mp3 players to choose from, what are you a lawyer? ;) just kidding. the subject of random is interesting, I have a friend, who, with a slight amount of tongue-in-cheekness, insists that random players respond to electromagnetic impulses given out by the people listening to them or some such psychic theory that accounts to how random players sometimes seem to stack songs in often very appropriate order. Then i have a vague memory of a guy in Nevada spent his life cheating slot machines and although he did a lot of cheating by messing with the machinery of the slot, he went for a while about how the real joy was cracking the random number generators patterns, which were not really all that random. anyway, i'm gonna check through that Smartlists doc you linked cause i dont want to buy another mp3 player just to get better random, but i have had the ipod long enough to know that it's not really all that random and that i'm missing a lot of songs. great post, thanks. first of all, thank you, that was very helpful (again), 2nd I can’t believe 1, that you have 27000 on your hard drive and 2, that you have multiple mp3 players to choose from, what are you a lawyer? ;) just kidding.

the subject of random is interesting, I have a friend, who, with a slight amount of tongue-in-cheekness, insists that random players respond to electromagnetic impulses given out by the people listening to them or some such psychic theory that accounts to how random players sometimes seem to stack songs in often very appropriate order.

Then i have a vague memory of a guy in Nevada spent his life cheating slot machines and although he did a lot of cheating by messing with the machinery of the slot, he went for a while about how the real joy was cracking the random number generators patterns, which were not really all that random.

anyway, i’m gonna check through that Smartlists doc you linked cause i dont want to buy another mp3 player just to get better random, but i have had the ipod long enough to know that it’s not really all that random and that i’m missing a lot of songs. great post, thanks.

]]> By: Ramon "LP4" Medina http://www.nonalignmentpact.com/2009/10/random-walks.html/comment-page-1#comment-12480 Ramon "LP4" Medina Sun, 01 Nov 2009 14:46:40 +0000 http://www.nonalignmentpact.com/2009/10/random-walks.html#comment-12480 I have to say that was an epic geek-out post there...and I mean that in the best possible way. I have to say that was an epic geek-out post there…and I mean that in the best possible way.

]]> By: Mr. Lost His Way http://www.nonalignmentpact.com/2009/10/random-walks.html/comment-page-1#comment-12478 Mr. Lost His Way Sun, 01 Nov 2009 02:08:57 +0000 http://www.nonalignmentpact.com/2009/10/random-walks.html#comment-12478 mrshl - you are an amazing importer/exporter of consumption. Dig the the Dog Walk Jam<sup>™</sup>s. I'll listen through them. mrshl – you are an amazing importer/exporter of consumption. Dig the the Dog Walk Jam™s. I’ll listen through them.

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