Author Archives: mim

MESSL code online

Posted on September 14, 2011 by mim

After getting a number of queries, I’ve realized that I should just put the matlab code for MESSL online, so everyone can use it. Note, however, that this is for noncommercial use only. If you would like to use it … Continue reading →

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Blogging is hard

Posted on August 21, 2011 by mim

Let’s go tumblr-ing.

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ISMIR 2010

Posted on August 17, 2010 by mim

I just got back from ISMIR 2010 in Utrecht, which was lots of fun. I had one paper there on which I was first author and it was the first talk I’ve given at a conference. Well, I had a … Continue reading →

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Dissertation done

Posted on January 1, 2010 by mim

I’ve put the finishing touches on my dissertation. My defense was at the beginning of September, and my committee didn’t ask for (m)any changes, but there were a few things I wanted to fix up. The official “publication” date will … Continue reading →

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Sidebar updates

Posted on August 1, 2009 by mim

I finally cleared my photo backlog, which went back to December, and uploaded them to flickr. There are more than will fit in the sidebar, so check out the rest of my concert photos and random phone photos there. I … Continue reading →

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Reading papers

Posted on July 9, 2009 by mim

I’m working on the literature review chapter of the dissertation and it’s gotten me thinking. It’s a real pain to put together a good survey. It’s hard to know what papers are out there, what they say, and what’s notable … Continue reading →

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Off to Montreal

Posted on May 15, 2009 by mim

Just when you thought I’d given up on this blog…big news! The grant I wrote to the Quebec government came through. I’m going to do a postdoc with Doug Eck at the Universite de Montreal. It should be very cool, … Continue reading →

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Outliers

Posted on January 11, 2009 by mim

As I’ve said many times, I’m a big fan of Malcolm Gladwell’s essays, so when Uncle Wayne and Aunt Jane got me a gift certificate to Barnes and Noble for Hanukkah, I bought a copy of his new book, Outliers. … Continue reading →

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Ground truth

Posted on December 1, 2008 by mim

The funny thing about my research, whether it’s music classification, source separation, or any other sort of machine learning task I can think of, is the difference between developing an algorithm and deploying it. It’s actually harder to develop an … Continue reading →

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ISMIR 2008

Posted on October 3, 2008 by mim

ISMIR was fun this year. I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the papers, there were many solid experiments. I added a lot of them to my to-read list. I enjoyed hanging out with the ISMIR crowd, people I … Continue reading →

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