My take on the Catalan elections of last Sunday, mostly for my non-Catalan friends.
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Well, what the fuck happened?! Extreme police brutality, climate change yielding apocalyptic skies, hottest year on record, US strikes in Iraq killing the second-most important leader in Iran, a US president denying the results of the US general election, and… yeah, a global pandemic.
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Very happy to announce that, after almost a period of 3 years (!
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Eighth time attending ISMIR and first time attending virtually –some may say we were in Montvirtual instead of MontrĂ©al (sorry, not sorry).
![ISMIR 2020 Logo](https://www.urinieto.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/ismir2020-logo.png)
For my paper of this year’s ISMIR I’ve had the real pleasure to join forces with a titanic set of humans from Pandora, MTG-UPF, and Netflix to bring up this work to life: Mood Classification Using Listening Data.
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It was long overdue, but I have finally been to RecSys for the first time.
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It only took 10 years and a pandemic to finally upgrade my personal website.
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Another year in review. Seriously though, time is moving way too fast.
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