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by _m_p 1y ago
In this vein, people might be interested in reading about the Dawson City Film Find! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawson_Film_Find > In 1929, Clifford Thomson, then employed by the Canadian Bank of Commerce and als
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by _m_p 1y ago
Literate enough to insinuate that the report is worth critiquing; not literate enough to do the critique.
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by _m_p 1y ago
English lit as a discipline has pretty strongly repudiated the discipline of "close reading" (and the "New Criticism" that buttressed it; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Criticism ) in favor of wha
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by _m_p 1y ago
Those interested may also really like this article about the cinematography of _Days of Heaven_: https://theasc.com/articles/photographing-days-of-heaven > My work became "de-illuminating," that is, removi
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by _m_p 1y ago
This book is particularly great about discussing the process of filmmaking, which in Malick's case often seems to involve a ton of experimentation through editing in order to shape a film after photography had finished. (Some of this e
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by _m_p 1y ago
Every film cited in this article is meant to cater to the existing tastes of the audience and people like having their existing tastes reaffirmed. One can watch other films. For example: https://www.bfi.org.uk/lists/cha
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by _m_p 1y ago
Which elements of this book haven't been totally debunked?
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by _m_p 1y ago
If economists are so smart, why aren't they rich?
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by _m_p 1y ago
Faculty and administrators were already stealing millions of dollars in financial aid by making tuition so exorbitant.
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by _m_p 1y ago
> Ulysses has a massive user experience problem Seems this book is not intended for you then!
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by _m_p 1y ago
Rereading this it sounds like you're defining "person" as "capable of generating usable training output for LLMs." Even if LLMs do become capable of generating usable training output for themselves, they will still
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by _m_p 1y ago
Scholarly works ideally have references that are not hallucinated.
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by _m_p 1y ago
For these purposes it doesn't matter if they are persons and they don't need to be anthropomorphized: it only matters that the LLMs can incorporate the data from person-generated works into their output, either to weight things or
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by _m_p 1y ago
(If anything, it will now make more sense for scholars to write these books because LLMs will actually read them!)
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by _m_p 1y ago
Quote from the article: > Within five years, it will make little sense for scholars of history to keep producing monographs in the traditional mold—nobody will read them, and systems such as these will be able to generate them, endlessly
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by _m_p 2y ago
In the book _In the Blink of an Eye_ by Walter Murch (which is generally about film editing), there's a section that speculates that 24 frames per second somehow resonates with some innate constant of how human vision works, which is w
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by _m_p 2y ago
I was reading about the cinematography of _Collateral_, possibly the first large budget feature film to be shot digitally, and one of the issues back in 2004 when it was made was the amount of storage required for digital video and the risk
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by _m_p 2y ago
https://www.phoenixframework.org/
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by _m_p 2y ago
What percentage of college students attend Ivies?
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by _m_p 2y ago
The government should levy an 80% tax on this and use it to pay for student loan forgiveness.
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by _m_p 2y ago
This will not be a Lynch movie.
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by _m_p 2y ago
The agencies pass it on to the taxpayers.
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by _m_p 2y ago
_Until the End of the World_ _The Seventh Seal_ _The Sacrifice_ _La Jetee_
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by _m_p 2y ago
Enough of this and you get a Wagner reinventing the medium altogether.
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by _m_p 2y ago
In case people are interested, the Wells novel referenced in the piece, _Boon_, is available on Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/34962/34962-h/34962-h.htm#fo... It includes a pretty amusing
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by _m_p 2y ago
Interestingly, in the very first iteration of home video cassette rentals, the tapes could not be rewound at home: > These rental cassettes were red, approximately 7 inches (180 mm) high by 6.5 inches (170 mm) wide by 1.5 inches (38 mm
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by _m_p 2y ago
Michael Hartl's Rails Tutorial is still among the best https://www.railstutorial.org/ Rails is opinionated but its opinions are often correct!
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by _m_p 2y ago
There's an entire genre of literature called "Electronic literature" of which interactive fictions are probably a subset https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_literature That said: it's a bit ask
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by _m_p 2y ago
Same author wrote a really incredible article about, in part, ice core libraries: https://placesjournal.org/article/the-big-data-of-ice-rocks-...
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by _m_p 2y ago
I have really enjoyed seeing the Low record example in Django REST Framework documentation: https://www.django-rest-framework.org/api-guide/relations/#s...

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