Software Benchmarks: hall of fame

I love these types of things. 

Classics:

Tom's Diner

By Suzanne Vega. Due to this song, she has been called "The mother of the MP3".  It was used by the engineers that worked on mp3 compression the perfect  "I was ready to fine-tune my compression algorithm...somewhere down the corridor, a radio was playing 'Tom's Diner.' I was electrified. I knew it would be nearly impossible to compress this warm a cappella voice."^[9]  It is also a nice short length, which is ideal when engineers wanted to test it

I am sitting in the morning at the diner on the corner

I am waiting at the counter for the man to pour the coffee

And he fills it only halfway, and before I even argue

He is looking out the window at somebody coming in

`curl -o suzanne_vega.mp3 https://museumofportablesound.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/mopswaxcylindersuzannevega.mp3`

Here is a video that I like, because it is 2 and a half minutes long, and because it has no words. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-ISLpKhQJI 

Lena Forsen 

Image of a model which appeared in tens of thousands of publications and conference proceedings on imaging research from its first use in the 1970s until being retired in the 2010s due to objectifying women. It had become popular in the imaging community because it contains several features – such as light and dark illumination regions, sharp edges, flat regions, smoothly varying regions and textured regions intertwined with each other – which made it useful when testing the behaviour of image-processing or reconstruction algorithms. 

AI Specific:

Pelican on a Bicycle

Will Smith Pasta Video

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I have a few of my own: