To produce GPCR coupling annotations, this script uses a custom heuristic to identify the G-protein alpha protein sub-type (Gαi, Gαq, Gαs, Gα11, Gα12, Gα13, Gα olf, Gα taste), based on the UniProt curated description field (script available upon request).
So typing in a suggestion like "Chinese food," for example, will turn up recommendations prioritized by what Foursquare's algorithms have calculated to be popular or likely to fit your tastes, based on the places you and your friends have previously visited.
If you prefer simply hitting the play button and sitting back, Deezer's Flow feature is welcome: a mix tuned to your tastes based on the songs and artists that you've favourited, which learns from the tracks you mark as liked or unliked while it plays.
PERHAPS I shouldn't draw sweeping conclusions about my kids' cultural tastes based on the fact that they seemed distinctly more captivated by Shrek and Fiona's brazen flatulence face-off in "Shrek" than by Tony and Maria's clandestine fire-escape clutch in "West Side Story".
It aggressively foregrounds the discovery services and auto-generated playlists, however, and that seems like a weakness based on its estimation of my own tastes based on the imperfect initial survey.
The first two sections were for use in commercial or design schools to teach the principles of good taste based on classical form, the better to turn out competitive goods for commerce and industry.
In the late 1900s, umami was internationally recognized as the fifth basic taste based on psychophysical, electrophysiological, and biochemical studies.
A listener handicapping the award jury's tastes, based on this sampling, might conclude that composers who write in an accessible, traditional style — not aggressively dissonant but not facile either — have a distinct edge.
The Sony service uses Gracenote's Discover technology to analyse musical taste, based on a user's existing collection.
So although critics issue judgments of taste based on their own sentiments, a judgment of taste must involve something more than a pleasing or displeasing sentiment.
If their friends are also Sift users, those recommendations come from Sift's understanding of a user's taste, based on its analysis of their shopping patterns.
