LeonardoTolstoy

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by LeonardoTolstoy 3y ago
Genuinely curious whether there were films you found on the DVD service that were inaccessible via your local library loan system (if you are in the US that is, did Netflix ever do the DVD service outside the US though?) Good library system
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by LeonardoTolstoy 3y ago
I feel the need to point out that the issue is usually the opposite. Looking at 2023 only three wide release films have had a discrepancy where the critics were more than 20% higher than the verified audience score (Infinity Pool, You Hurt
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by LeonardoTolstoy 3y ago
There is another half of the "overly political" bit and well but where the audience is at fault for the discrepancy. Basically: an out group decides to make a point with bad reviews. Doesn't happen as much anymore since they
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by LeonardoTolstoy 3y ago
For about a year I've been going through the process of gathering all of the television listing pages from the New York Times, processing them to extract the films that played each day, matched the films to their IMDB links, and parsin
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by LeonardoTolstoy 3y ago
Badminton is a bit too far from tennis for my liking (as is ping pong), so I never got into it. As for the others, padel is far far far more athletic than pickleball (and paddle tennis for that matter), and I would argue even more so than t
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by LeonardoTolstoy 3y ago
Great game. Wish it would catch on more quickly in the US, there are basically no courts in the northeast.
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by LeonardoTolstoy 3y ago
I find it interesting that the study asked about being athletic (positive), attractive (positive), and unpopular (negative). Anecdotally the people I knew (at the time) who were drinking in middle school didn't fit into any of those bo
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by LeonardoTolstoy 3y ago
Actually I had a bit of a brain fart, it is actually 21K, not 26K so a bit less. There is at least 100 different films from every year from 1931 to 1999 it looks like (obviously many more from the 80s and 90s). But even just considering tha
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by LeonardoTolstoy 3y ago
Sure. I don't know how best to go about that though. I have my email associated with this account, but since I lurk I don't know if that is public or anything. Does HN have a PM system at all?
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by LeonardoTolstoy 3y ago
I've been working on it for about a year. At the moment it exists as a git repo (as you say), but for it to be of use you need at the very least the corresponding SqliteDB (~70MB) and to be really fun (and work with the frontend) you n
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by LeonardoTolstoy 3y ago
I have a bit of this information. I can get into the specifics if you like but I've parsed the entire 90s tv listings from the New York times. It is pretty comprehensive and obviously it keeps the same market (NY). On your last point y
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by LeonardoTolstoy 3y ago
When/if you get around to it I'm basically already in the process of doing this (although just for the fascinating dataset of knowing all the movies that played on television in the 90s, when, and how often). TV guide is tough. Th
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by LeonardoTolstoy 3y ago
It might be apocryphal but I vaguely remember reading an article from the late-90s or early-00s where television executives were shocked that people wanted TV box sets. The logic was ... Why would people want to watch reruns? Whole swaths o
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by LeonardoTolstoy 3y ago
Seems a tad bit disingenuous, only because the Ivy leagues are probably not competing for the top 100 QBs or top 100 point guards or top 100 pitchers either. To me being the best quarterback at your school and playing varsity football for f
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by LeonardoTolstoy 3y ago
I know you said on general but I think it is worth pointing out that MIT doesn't specifically mark any athletes for admission like most schools can and do. At least when I applied. I knew a varsity crew and varsity sailing athlete and
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by LeonardoTolstoy 3y ago
I find the image results to be rather impressive. Or to be more precise, I feel like Bard is much much closer to changing "search" than chatGPT or Bing given the results I'm looking at. To give an example. I gave it an image
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by LeonardoTolstoy 3y ago
Funny. I just started a side personal project and decided, since I didn't use types much at work to just try out a bunch of the newer python features. My code came out pretty much exactly like the blog. But I've never coded in Rus
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by LeonardoTolstoy 3y ago
Yeah the switch was like '08 that MIT went to Python.
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by LeonardoTolstoy 4y ago
According to their admissions website they have strict GPA minimums but there is no guarantee (which is how I interpreted the statement "Got top scores, you are in!") Additionally they don't require the SATs at although prior
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by LeonardoTolstoy 4y ago
I use wikidata a lot for movie stuff. Ideally I imagine the wiki foundation itself will be looking into using LLMs to help parse their own data and convert it into wikidata content (or confirm it, or keep it up to date, etc.) Wikidata is in
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by LeonardoTolstoy 4y ago
I know it isn't strictly what they are designed for, but I always go for movie questions which is what I tend to search for a lot. Impressions: was very underwhelmed previously with charGPTs ability to tell be plot summaries for obscur
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by LeonardoTolstoy 4y ago
Yeah for searching movies, for example, it is terrible. I also don't really see how it is going to get much better than it is since it inevitably seems to try and steer its way to non-obscure stuff even when you are explicitly asking f
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by LeonardoTolstoy 4y ago
If you read the explanation I do think that makes sense in that they are very clear that it is specifically the _math_ portion of the SAT/ACT where they see the value. And generally I agree with that, especially as a threshold (as oppo
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by LeonardoTolstoy 4y ago
First thing the understand is that isn't really a quote by "Stephen Colbert" the person it is a joke made via "Stephen Colbert" the character from the Colbert Report which was a caricature poking fun at Bill O'
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by LeonardoTolstoy 4y ago
(1) You are correct in that placing both of those questions into Google doesn't quite get you anywhere near the answer that I imagine ChatGPT gives you (as you point out). Although, Google does "infer" which Bush you are talk
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by LeonardoTolstoy 4y ago
Interesting because a friend of mine is a transplant hepatologist and has told me that the number of young people needing liver transplants due to alcohol abuse is abnormally high. I suppose both "young people are generally drinking le
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by LeonardoTolstoy 4y ago
Linda McCartney I assume is what you are referring to. Oddly easy to remember for me once I found out that it is, indeed, made by Paul McCartney's wife.
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by LeonardoTolstoy 5y ago
The main acting credits order in films is an interesting question as well which I guess could maybe be answered in a similar manner. Some films order actors alphabetically. Some by appearance. And some order the first N by some contractuall
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by LeonardoTolstoy 5y ago
Honestly, I think you could do worse than the Wikipedia summary. That is maybe a bit too long (I can't remember the Wikipedia guidelines for books) it looks longer than 700 words. But from there I think you could fashion a solid 700 wo