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@xbenji.bsky.social
Data nerd at Deezer - ML Recsys Engineer - LLM enthousiast
c’est comme quand on relance son code une 2e fois en cliquant plus fort en espérant que ça marche
October 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.
April 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Je sais toujours pas comment effacer l’album de U2 dans mon iPhone
March 12, 2025 at 7:24 PM
10% de l’ensemble des pistes livrées ces dernières semaines sur Deezer sont générées par IA 🤖
newsroom-deezer.com/fr/2025/01/d...
Deezer déploie un outil de pointe dans la détection de musique générée par IA pour le streaming musical - Deezer Newsroom
Paris, le 24 janvier 2025 – Deezer (Euronext Paris : DEEZR), la plateforme mondiale d’expériences musicales, a déployé un outil de pointe dans la détection de musique générée par IA, révélant qu’envir...
newsroom-deezer.com
January 24, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...
January 15, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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La Sacem et Deezer paieront « plus équitablement » les artistes
La Sacem et Deezer paieront « plus équitablement » les artistes
La plateforme et la société de droits d’auteur adoptent un système de rémunération des créateurs qui garantit une meilleure prise en compte de la diversité d’écoute des abonnés, tout en luttant contre la fraude.
www.lemonde.fr
January 15, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Happy Monday! 🎶 Pleased to share a new paper on Generating Personalized Playlists from Text, authored by my former colleagues and friends at Deezer.

📄 Read it here: arxiv.org/abs/2501.05894

The paper is set for an industry presentation at #ECIR2025.

#GenAI #Music #RecSys #MIR
January 13, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Pictures of the moon over the last few days!
Using an iPhone mounted on a Matsukov 127/1500
January 12, 2025 at 10:46 AM
C’est très bien si les IA codent à notre place c’est quoi le souci
December 21, 2024 at 7:59 PM
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Depuis des années, des articles ont montré comment Spotify bourre ses playlists de mood de faux artistes soumis à ses commandes. Dans son livre à paraître, @lizpelly.bsky.social révèle que c'est un plan interne bien réfléchi.
harpers.org/archive/2025...
The Ghosts in the Machine, by Liz Pelly
Spotify’s plot against musicians
harpers.org
December 18, 2024 at 6:18 PM
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finally finished downloading my limewire wrapped after 20 years
December 4, 2024 at 9:11 PM
Adding “don’t use React” to the system prompt because apparently HTML is a forgotten art
November 30, 2024 at 10:14 AM
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If you're interested in embedding models for retrieval (search), clustering, classification, paraphrase mining, etc., then there's now 10,000 fully free and open source options on @hf.co via Sentence Transformers.

Check out the most popular ones here: huggingface.co/models?libra...
November 29, 2024 at 4:40 PM
We're hiring a ML Research intern @Deezer to help build the next generation of music recommendation systems! 🎵 If you're passionate about Multimodal ML RecSys and want to shape how millions discover music, we'd love to hear from you👋 jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Deezer/74400...
Research Internship - Music Recommendation
Company Description: LIVE THE MUSIC WITH US From a pioneer tech start-up created in 2007, Deezer has become one of the first French unicorns and the second largest independent music streaming pla...
jobs.smartrecruiters.com
November 29, 2024 at 11:05 AM
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Sad news, friends: I’m being sued by Drake for falsely claiming that he named himself after the Drake Lake course from Wave Race 64
November 26, 2024 at 1:12 AM
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Drake suing about Spotify "artifically inflating" anyone's metrics is PRETTY FUCKING RICH.

Remember The Drakeover of 2018? It was a pretty fun week to be working on the Spotify homepage personalization, when marketing put Drake on the cover of every single playlist. techcrunch.com/2018/07/03/s...
Spotify users push back at the over-the-top Drake promotion | TechCrunch
Some Spotify users were so annoyed by the recent Drake promotion that they asked for and were granted refunds, according to a report from Billboard. The
techcrunch.com
November 26, 2024 at 3:27 PM
L'icone du chatbot du site Orange c'est un délire quand même 😬
November 25, 2024 at 9:09 AM
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4chan website in 2008
vs.
4chan website in 2024

#WebDesignHistory
November 21, 2024 at 1:07 PM
currently trying to teach a LLM what a brass band is 🎺
November 21, 2024 at 10:25 AM
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recsys is easy just recommend me new music that i will like that is like the old music that i used to like but that isnt like new music i dont like even though i dont like new music and only like the old music that i like
November 4, 2024 at 10:51 PM
D’ailleurs vous faite comment, y’a un truc pour poster en double sur les 2 apps?
November 16, 2024 at 3:03 PM
Alors je tweetais déjà pas beaucoup et ça va pas s’arranger ici!
November 16, 2024 at 2:59 PM