Dandelion Break Sometimes algorithms are a force for good

[Jonny]

Earlier this morning I was sitting at my desk, lost somewhere down the YouTube warren, when the video below pops up on my sidebar as a suggestion.

"What the heck is this?" I ask myself.

But as soon as I press play, immediately, I'm drawn in by the beautiful acoustic guitar and the fact the guy playing it is clearly blind. I recognise this because he's playing in the same way the brilliant, but sadly no longer with us, Jeff Healey did.

Six minutes later I am sobbing uncontrollably. The song, the imagery evoking so many childhood memories and the genius of musicianship are gobsmackingly brilliant.

I have since delved a little deeper and I am totally in awe of this man.

 

[Barbara]

Your algorithms are clearly better than my algorithms: ...

Thanks to a certain someone (cough cough), I'm getting stuff from Tripadvisor, like the suggestion for a curry house in Belfast (I see it had a good review. If ever I go to Belfast, I'll know where to eat) .... Having said that, it seems to have stopped. I haven't had any suggestions for a few days. The last one was a list of the "best local taxis".

 

[Sedayne]

Sometimes the algorithm just hits it right.
I lament the demise of the long defunct Nokia Mix Radio which I had on my phone a decade ago, introducing me to a whole heap of new music which hit the spot long after I thought there was nothing new out there for me.
It doesn't always work, but when it does, it's magic.
As yer man from Gorillaz says, 'Algorithm is a Dancer.'

 

[Jonny]

Your algorithms are clearly better than my algorithms: ...

Thanks to a certain someone (cough cough), I'm getting stuff from Tripadvisor, like the suggestion for a curry house in Belfast (I see it had a good review. If ever I go to Belfast, I'll know where to eat) .... Having said that, it seems to have stopped. I haven't had any suggestions for a few days. The last one was a list of the "best local taxis".

I expect they stopped spamming you as they somehow got wind of just exactly who they'd been messing with.

Sometimes the algorithm just hits it right.
I lament the demise of the long defunct Nokia Mix Radio which I had on my phone a decade ago, introducing me to a whole heap of new music which hit the spot long after I thought there was nothing new out there for me.
It doesn't always work, but when it does, it's magic.
As yer man from Gorillaz says, 'Algorithm is a Dancer.'

Yeah, I thought Prog Rock could've been my specialist subject on Mastermind, but this had slipped past me.

Turns out he's now a fulltime member of Camel. But There's one of his albums on Spotify (as T M Ts) and I'm now looking forward to listening to it.

Quite made my day, this has.

 

[E G Logan]

Your algorithms are clearly better than my algorithms: ...

Thanks to a certain someone (cough cough), I'm getting stuff from Tripadvisor, like the suggestion for a curry house in Belfast (I see it had a good review. If ever I go to Belfast, I'll know where to eat) .... Having said that, it seems to have stopped. I haven't had any suggestions for a few days. The last one was a list of the "best local taxis".

That would be for when you fall out of the curry house, drunk and incapable!