Here’s a fun list of the top 20 cover songs that ended up being bigger than their original. Jimi Hendrix & Elvis Presley are top of the list but the one that always comes to mind for me is Smooth Criminal by Alien Ant Farm being bigger on the radio than Michael Jacksons version.
Here’es the list:
https://loudwire.com/biggest-hit-cover-song/
I remember when Matt Cutts used to discuss how Google searches are becoming more personalized. If you were typing in Pizza in 1998 Google you would find information about Pizza but in 2013 Google you would receive localized results based on your location. These results would show the restaurants and ratings along with their location on a map.
What Matt mentioned that Google doesnt have the capability to do at the time however was that if you typed in “Tomorrow” it wouldn’t know if you wanted to learn about the day after the current date, the song by Silverchair, or the song by Chris Young made in 2011.
Well now the personalization is getting to a whole new level thanks to a team at UCLA with their EDAM. It will see what searches you’ve done previously but also integrate viewings on Youtube and other clues to personalize the search so if you listen to Nirvana and Alice in Chains you probably are looking for Silverchairs song Tomorrow vs. Chris Young.
Special thanks to this team who will be the Amit Singhals of the engineering and search team of the future:
From the piece: Personalized item retrieval for online content-sharing platforms without any descriptive information based on the query-aware attention mechanism with external key memory and locality preservation. Experimental results and analysis on the large-scale dataset from areal-world commercial online content-sharing platform also demonstrate the effectiveness and the robustness of EDAM. The insights can be concluded as follows: (1) user history is helpful for personalized item retrieval; (2) learning external key item embeddings for estimating attention weights is beneficial, especially for the users with shorter item history; (3) sequential information in user history is sensitive for item retrieval so that EDAM with locality preservation outperforms baselines of sequence models such as ARNN.
White Paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3366423.3380051
With all the hype surrounding the Tiger King documentary where they focus on the power humans feel when they own exotic and big cats. When I was doing research about different exotic cats I came across this article that talked about his Ocelot that he brought with him to a restaurant and the waiter questioned him and the cat to which he said it was just a normal cat painted over in an “op art design”. This happened at an upscale Manhattan restaurant when Babou was tethering on the table and the diner next to him wasn’t sure what the heck was going on (she probably didnt know or appreciate that Dali one of the biggest artist was next to her….)
He bought Babou in the 1960s and brought him almost everywhere. He wore a stone studded collar and here is a photo of the beautiful cat below. a fellow diner.
