lauren reed

vp of hr @schellgames, home of @ieytd @untilyoufallvr 🎮 supporter of people. enneagram 2w3✨thoughts are my own, unless retweeting🙃🌺 f1stan🏎️

[Nora @nora_jooe]

Genuinely the funniest thing Ferrari has ever done. Double the salary of whichever admin came up with this idea 😭

[Scuderia Ferrari HP @ScuderiaFerrari]

@SolanaSwaggy

[lauren reed @skook87]

@wndrstruckblush I love this song! In my top 5! I mean, “the sun burns my heart and the sand hurts my feelings”… Along with You’re Losing Me

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Shazam could name any song back in 2002, on flip phones, with zero AI. You dialed the number 2580, held your phone up to the speaker, and hung up. 15 seconds later, a text came back with the song name. That same core trick still runs the app today.

The inventor was Avery Wang, a Stanford PhD in audio signal processing. His problem was brutal. Match a short clip recorded on a 2002 cell phone mic, in a noisy bar, against a database of a million songs, in seconds, over a phone call.

His solution treated music as geometry instead of sound.

The algorithm converts audio into a spectrogram, a picture of the song, then throws almost all of it away. It keeps only the peaks, the loudest frequency points at each moment in time. Bar chatter and blown-out speakers can wreck most of a recording. The peaks survive. Shazam only ever needed the peaks.

Those surviving points form what Wang called a constellation map, because it looks like a star field. Pairs of peaks get converted into hash numbers, and identifying a song becomes a dictionary lookup rather than an audio comparison. That made it fast enough to search a million tracks on 2002 hardware.

Wang published the full method openly in 2003 in a paper called "An Industrial-Strength Audio Search Algorithm." Anyone could read exactly how the magic worked. The moat was the database and the deals with carriers, never the secret.

Apple bought the company in 2018 for a reported $400 million. People have tagged over 100 billion songs since the very first one, Jeepster by T. Rex, during the beta in April 2002.

One deterministic signal-processing trick, written before most people had heard the phrase machine learning, and it's still so good that in 2026 everyone assumes it must be AI.

[dana @thesedici]

takım çok kötü: p3-p4
takım çok iyi: p3-p4
hava yağmurlu: p3-p4
hava güneşli: p3-p4
birbirleriyle yarışıyolar: p3-p4
birbirleriyle yarışmıyolar: p3-p4

[steff 🍷 @thickolekidman]

crediting a woman for a man’s achievements is the type of everyday feminism i wanna SEE

[Sabre | PHM arc @sabre_tv]

OMG this is great. LOOK AT PUMPKIN ROCKYYY

[zoe ⋆.˚⭑.ᐟ @antxpia]

i knew inters were the right tyre when i saw mclaren and ferrari weren’t on them

[Charley Louise @charleylouisef1]

absolutely no coincidence that F1’s two greatest drivers are on the front row at a proper drivers’ circuit we haven’t visited in almost a decade

[John Brown's Beard🇺🇦 @johnbrownsbeard]

Losing a saint's relics to the enemy as you escape their advance is a very 10th century problem

[singELLpore🌝 @cantverstopim]

Max best starting position this season: POLEEEE

Max worst starting position this season: 101st

[🇮🇪 Lola ³⁰²³²² @alouderll30]

nobody is more tickled by this top 3 than isack hadjar btw

[(INSERT BLACK CHARACTER) Deserves Better @GL2814_3]

It's gonna be called Maxamount and that's exactly what you're gonna pay

[Daniel Valente 🏎️ @F1GuyDan]

🚨 The last time F1 started a race week in Malaysia:

• Max Verstappen had 1 career win
• Lewis Hamilton had 3 drivers’ titles
• Drive to Survive was still 5 months away from even being announced
• Charles Leclerc was about to win F2 title
• Lando Norris was about to win Euro F3 title
• George Russell was about to win GP3 title
• Oscar Piastri was in British F4
• Pierre Gasly was about to make his F1 debut
• Fernando Alonso was only 36 years old

[ph☆e @popplioikawa]

it's a shame that we've moved so far away from radio because i think "long-time listener, first-time caller" is such a cute phrase and i wanted it to be in the common social parlance for longer

[shir @artfuldakota]

If they pull the divorced legacy sequel card on rick and evie for the mummy 4 i’ll be so mad, no separation, no learning to love each other again bs their bond is too strong for that lazy writing. Let them be the ultimate power couple they've always been,keep them happily married

[lauren reed @skook87]

@cornerrihaunt This is very funny

[theo ⚢ crw grey's s17 𖦹 @cornerrihaunt]

she looks like she's in the fortnite lobby

[Doe @sourerdoe]

“I’ve been there, felt the reeling, done the healing, said the curses and prayers, when the fever turns the dreamer into a pathetic ghost.” If you think about it, this is lover folkmore midnights and ttpd condensed into one sentence.