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by wrp 3y ago
My summary of the case: Someone did statistical analysis of a bunch of texts and created a tool that evaluates your text according to the developed model. Writers accused him of plagiarizing/using the content of their works.
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by wrp 3y ago
Fair criticism. I should have been more clear.
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by wrp 3y ago
I did editorialize on #9 because I wanted to draw attention to it and get some discussion. My feeling is that her take is not entirely healthy.
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by wrp 3y ago
Summary of her rules for defensive posting: 1. Talk about facts 2. Tell stories 3. Ask technical questions 4. Fix mistakes 5. Ask for examples, not opinions 6. Start with a little context 7. Avoid flamebait triggers 8. Pre
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by wrp 3y ago
> ...that just makes it hard sci-fi. As I understand the term, hard sci-fi is based on careful use of current scientific knowledge to propose plausible future technologies. Verne tried to use only technologies that had actually been impl
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by wrp 3y ago
TFA uses 20 000 Leagues Under the Sea as a prototypical example of science fiction. I'm not sure that's a good example, because Jules Verne took his science and technology very seriously. As I recall, he didn't put fictiona
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by wrp 3y ago
My thought was it looks bred to deal with household pests.
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Also, the museum store was not just a gift shop but a real science supply center. You could buy lab supplies and chemicals. I recall it was a lot cheaper than buying from Fisher or Sigma-Aldrich. They even had a branch store down in Eugene.
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by wrp 3y ago
I remember the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry being an incredible place in the 1970s. I think it was in the 1990s I was there for some reason and it was pretty much gutted. Maybe the decline in American museums has been going on quit
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by wrp 3y ago
> ...there was a brief period where actresses pretended that their thinness was natural...no one looks like that without calorie restriction. I've known three women who were naturally thin because of their metabolism. They actually
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by wrp 3y ago
I've read that for many years, it was considered a truism in Hollywood that any movie needed a romance element in order to keep the females in the audience interested. Hence, many war and science fiction movies had a lone woman with ro
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by wrp 3y ago
While antique books are beautiful, they sometimes contain toxic materials, particularly in the covers. Rare-book libraries will have some of their volumes kept sealed and only available under controlled conditions. I think the latter half o
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by wrp 3y ago
My grandfather grew up on a farm and would eat without complaint practically anything digestible, but not squash. I guess it's the texture that gets to people. Maybe try coarse blending it and adding some salt, cinnamon, and butter. In
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by wrp 3y ago
This rumor may be inspired by the recent Korean movie Secret Zoo (2020).
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by wrp 3y ago
Under current usage of the term, I think the bimetallic switch in my office thermostat qualifies as an AI.
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by wrp 3y ago
This is a funny comment, not because it's so wrong, but because of the irony. Statisticians used to complain that neural net research was just badly reproducing statistics. As late as the early 2000s, I had a stats professor actually g
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by wrp 3y ago
The relation between ANNs and statistics is a topic over which much ink was spilled in the 1990s. This is the most concise discussion I can think of: Sarle, Warren S. (1994). Neural Networks and Statistical Models. Proceedings of the Ninete
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by wrp 3y ago
Writers and readers of literature trend as either character-oriented or plot-oriented. Literary critics, showing a traditional prejudice, call stories of the first type "literary fiction" and the second type "genre fiction&qu
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by wrp 3y ago
I've also noticed a problem understanding speech when watching a big flat-screen TV that is using its built-in speakers. I don't have any problem when watching the same content on my old CRT sets with their better audio range.
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by wrp 3y ago
The pre-Internet library situation in the USA was better than most of the world, so needs to be considered separately. American state university libraries were open to the public and (usually?) had open stacks. The accessibility of these fa
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by wrp 3y ago
Leibniz was envisioning something like Douglas Lenat's Cyc project. In his grant proposal to the French court, his first intended stage was to reduce all of human knowledge to propositional form. He estimated it would take about 5 year
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by wrp 3y ago
My dad was an Organiker and he used to go on about the huge amount of lab-craft knowledge you needed beyond what is communicated in reports. One of his favorite movies was It Happens Every Spring (1949), about a chemist who produces a non
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by wrp 3y ago
There has naturally been a lot of research on the effectiveness of political advertising. From what I've read in the academic literature, it's recognized that no one's opinion gets changed, but exposure to a narrative will ch
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by wrp 3y ago
For cultural context to this from the American side, as I recall, in the US military, if an American flag has become desecrated by allowing it to touch the ground, tradition was for it to be disposed of by burning. If this rule is still fol
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by wrp 3y ago
OK, and what would the Imam advise?
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by wrp 3y ago
I remember hearing about the case (in Afghanistan?) where US prison guards found that inmates were writing in Qurans to pass messages. They burned the involved books, which caused outrage in the community. I've wondered how they could
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by wrp 3y ago
I had one a long time ago. It was scratchier than my worst fountain pen, very unpleasant. Ink delivery was uneven, very heavy right after dipping and then tapering off quickly.
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by wrp 3y ago
Wyrm = dragon. Wyrmwall/fence would actually be a cool name.
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by wrp 3y ago
How about Slash/Back (2022), where aliens land in northern Canada and attack an Inuit town?
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by wrp 3y ago
I took some trips on Greyhound through the West and Midwest in the 1980s. Stations and buses were clean, quiet, and orderly. No homeless or people with obvious issues. It was pretty much like the experience of taking a commuter flight today

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