Machine-learning engineers from the University of Bristol think they might have the master equation to predicting the popularity of a song. Simple, right? The "w"s are "weights," or musical features ...

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Machine learning engineers from the University of Bristol think they might have the master equation to predicting the popularity of a song. The so-called Hit Potential Equation looks a little ...