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Film: "Patent absurdity"

Posted Apr 17, 2010 22:48 UTC (Sat) by jordanb (subscriber, #45668)
In reply to: Film: "Patent absurdity" by Wout
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I don't understand musical structures, but I found the bit at the end really powerful. You don't have to understand the words on the screen to understand that they're eliminating techniques that Beethoven borrowed from other people.

The mathematical example could have been better. He should have spent a lot more time explaining that singular value decomposition is an old technique that everyone uses, and the only "unique" thing eHarmony did was stick personality-related labels on the vectors.


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Film: "Patent absurdity"

Posted Apr 17, 2010 23:26 UTC (Sat) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link]

If current rules were in effect, almost all of Shakespeare's work would have been ordered destroyed. He copied extensively from current works, just as everyone else did in his day.

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