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Hit Predictor

Yesterday I was talking to my friend and colleague Pau Rausell-Köster, from the Research Unit in Cultural Economics (Universitat de València), about the Netflix Prize. We were discussing about the foundations of taste and preferences, and how it was quite difficult to, by means of a devil reductionism, create a …

Just listened to "Iron Butterfly"

I’ve just been listening to “In a Gadda da Vida” from “Iron Butterfly”, you know, the guys from the sixties that performed one of those wonderful more-than-seventeen-minutes song (yeah you’ll know!). Well, when I was near to the end I decided to write this post. I remembered some articles I …

Dark Music for the Dark Side

Do you want to know what sort of music listens to a dark OR’er?. Not just dark music!!!: Madonna, Reggaeton (sorry!), Techno-pop, Metallica… But a little bit of darkness as well: Rammstein, Cradle of Filth, Rob Zombie, Hipocrisy, and the rest. Just for the record: do you know of any …