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Music that inspired these works

The essays of this collection certainly weren’t created in a vacuum. A significant source of the inspiration has been the music that has served as a soundtrack. Just as I have done previously with the books that have been sources for this material, I will collect here a selection of those albums which have been a significant source of inspirations (as an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases). Presented here in chronological order of appearance. If one were so inclined you could perhaps use this list as an index to browse the linked essays based on musical mood. Again this will only be a selection, for a more comprehensive source you can also checkout the Spotify playlist which last I checked is free of charge pretty cool (note that vinyl is Lindy though). Cheers.
Abbey Road — The Beatles
essays: Would you rather drive? / Love / On Poetry / A Sight for Obscured Eyes / Automunge / Postscript / An Open Source Platform for Feature Engineering / Automunge Complete / An intro to Automunge

The Animal Years — Josh Ritter
essays: Life as the Medium / Information Theory

Moondance — Van Morrison
essays: Triumph and the Chorus / An Imperfect Christian / An Optimal Trade / A Toddler Learns to Speak / Differential Privacy / Machine Learning and Miscellanea / No Silver Bullet

Give Up — The Postal Service
essays: Fools Rush In

Everybody’s Talkin’ — Tedeshi Trucks Band
essays: A Foolish Start / The Privatization of Space / Aphorisms / Faster Data Pre-Processing for Machine Learning / Machine Learning and Miscellanea / Munging in the Real World

Glassworks — Phillip Glass
essays: On Fasting / From the Diaries of John Henry / Making the Complex Coherent / Munging Supremacy / Specification of Derivations with Automunge / The Perceptions of the Blind

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music — Ray Charles
essays: On Unrequited Love / Open Source Automated Data-Wrangling

Preservation — Preservation Hall Jazz Band
essays: A Musical Interlude / Immersive Writing / The Choices of a New Generation / Automated Data Wrangling

Ella and Louis — Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong
essays: A Musical Interlude / An Imperfect Christian / A Toddler Learns to Speak / King Arthur’s Quest / The Choices of a New Generation / An intro to Automunge

The Essentials — Postmodern Jukebox
essays: On Sleep / Automunge Inc

Buckwheat’s Zydeco Party (CD) — Buckwheat Zydeco
essays: A Letter to the Editor / Long Distance Runner / Government Reform / A Family for Data

Bolero — Ravel
essays: Idea Makers / On Lemons and Their Progeny / On Mornings

Kind of Blue — Miles Davis
essays: It’s Actually Pretty Simple / On Sleep

Otis Blue — Otis Redding
essays: Otis Redding and the Crescendo / Open Source Automated Data Wrangling

Aquemini — Outkast
essays: A Betting Man’s Game / A Game of Convexity / An Open Source Platform for Feature Engineering

40 Oz. To Freedom — Sublime
essays: Mallrats

Every Open Eye — Chvrches
essays: How to Twitter

Jar of Flies — Alice in Chains
essays: A Theory of Everything

Graceland — Paul Simon
essays: A Theory of Everything / Information Theory / Machine Learning and Miscellanea

Waiting For Columbus — Little Feat
essays: Long Distance Runner / My First Kaggle

License to Chill — Jimmy Buffett
essays: Wind Power in America / Parenting Through the Looking Glass / A Tool for Data

Highway 61 Revisited — Bob Dylan
essays: An Optimal Trade / Differential Privacy / Information Theory

Jagged Little Pill — Alanis Morissette
essays: A Toddler Learns to Speak

Head Hunters — Herbie Hancock
essays: The Quantum Computer Revolution / A New Kind of Physics

The Concert for Bangledesh (CD) — George Harrison and friends
essays: A Sight for Obscured Eyes

The Last Waltz — The Band and friends (or Blue-ray)
essays: Differential Privacy

Pet Sounds — The Beach Boys
essays: Subtractive Adversarial Networks

Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots — The Flaming Lips
essays: On On The Shortness of Life / Hashed Categoric Encodings with Automunge

Woodstock (Blue-ray) — The 60's
essays: On On The Shortness of Life

Volume 1 — The Traveling Wilburies
essays: Out of the Box Feature Engineering

Stop Making Sense (Blue-ray) — The Talking Heads
essays: Long Distance Runner / On Outsiders / Dropping Out for Fun and Profit

Green Balloon — Tank and the Bangas
essays: Diverse Feature Engineering with Automunge / Composing Features with Automunge

Exile on Main Street — The Rolling Stones
essays: #SPIconvention 2016 / Learning to Learn with Automunge

That’s It — Preservation Hall Jazz Band
essays: isFraud?

Harvest — Neil Young
essays: Quantum Supremacy

The Joshua Tree — U2
essays: On On The Shortness of Life / A Disclosure of Sorts

Let It Be — The Beatles
essays: Getting Creative With Constraints

The White Album — The Beatles
essays: READ ME

A Rush of Blood to the Head — Coldplay
essays: The Ladder of Whys

Songs You Don’t Know By Heart — Jimmy Buffett
essays: On the Radio

Cornell 5/8/77 — Grateful Dead
essays: Invest With Your Gut / Long Distance Runner / On Writing / A Theory of Everything / Quantum Machine Learning / An Optimal Trade / It’s Only a Munger of Time / Weather Report / A Table of Contents / Aphorisms and Etc

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