Rolando

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Rolando ,

Then check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ran_(film)

Rolando ,

I've used the Pimsleur language programs for a couple languages. It's audio based: you hear a recording, and you say it out loud. A great way to get started.

Rolando ,

They are 30-minute sessions. I did them in my car during work commute. Many public libraries have them. Here's the first session: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eguDJPkjPwQ

Rolando ,

100M view from normies or 10 upvotes from chads. You decide.

Rolando ,

There are a couple things we can do:

  • decline to review for the big journals. why give them free labor? Do academic service in other ways.
  • if you're organizing a workshop or conference, put the papers online for free. If you're just participating and not organizing, then suggest they put the papers online for free. Here's an example: https://aclanthology.org/ If that's too time-consuming, use: https://arxiv.org/
Rolando ,

most high profile labs have all had to deal with this nonsense.

It's even worse for low profile labs because those publication fees eat up a greater proportion of our budget.

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https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scientific-method/

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visiting a neat-sounding community and realizing all the posts are by the single moderator (and are getting less and less frequent).

This will be a key moment towards Lemmy's growth or decline. Especially in non-tech/meme/politics communities, it's so easy for the only poster be a single person who is posting daily, and who then simply runs out of content. Maybe the solution is for each frequent poster to post non-daily on several different communities. Anyway, check out !fedigrow, @Blaze has started posting a weekly thread on "How is your niche community doing?"

Rolando ,

But what is missing is a more generalized infrastructure for detecting content ownership and providing compensation in a general purpose way. This is one of the great business opportunities of the next few years, awaiting the kind of breakthrough that pay-per-click search advertising brought to the World Wide Web.

There are people out there who looked at the World Wide Web and immediately thought: "how can I use this for advertising?" From that type of perspective, this is a well-thought-out summary of AI-related copyright issues.

Rolando ,

Finally, wave comes to lemmy.

!synthwave has been here a while and there was waveform.social before that, but it's good to see a community with an active mod. I think I'm a switch to this one.

Rolando ,

If they don't give the Always Sunny people a role - at least cameos if nothing else - then they're missing out on a great marketing opportunity.

Rolando ,

So if someone says "I Love LA" you want them to mean that they love every single neighborhood in LA? That seems like too high a bar for any city. Agreed about walkability and traffic, though.

Rolando ,

A lot of them moved to LA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Iranian_Americans_in_Los_Angeles

Rolando ,

Insane Clown Posse: Ringmaster (full album)

Rolando ,

An ok story. A neat idea but I wonder if the author really did enough with it, for its length.

Rolando ,

if you took the world and seperated its humans by intelligence, the “idiot” group is going to be much bigger than the “PhD” group. Like…by a lot.

No.... you'd have a bell curve. But even that assumes you have a single good measure of intelligence.

I kind of agree with the rest of your post, but I would have worded it a bit differently, emphasizing that people who found it difficult to start using Lemmy might still be worth having around. Also, I don't think "as large as Reddit" or "small niche unknown" are our only options.

Rolando ,

"It's dangerous to go alone. Take this "

Rolando ,

My favorite live video clip is their performance of Cosmic Slop in Houston 1976. It's pretty much as you describe:

At one point they realize the sound on one of the guitars is out, and they just switch player mid-solo. That's professionalism.

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Agreed, if you didn't publish parts of your dissertation before or after completion, then your advisor wasn't really doing their job.

Rolando ,

Paywall-free: https://archive.is/QTKgR

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His writing style kind of annoyed me, but I liked the ending (even though it was gimmicky.) Reluctant thumbs up.

Rolando ,

Ellison was trolling. He did that a lot.

Rolando ,

It's !linkedinlunatics here, fyi.

A Famous Motive- Honoré Daumier, oil on canvas (1862-65) ( lemmy.world )

Honoré-Victorin Daumier was a French painter, sculptor, and printmaker, whose many works offer commentary on the social and political life in France, from the Revolution of 1830 to the fall of the second Napoleonic Empire in 1870. He earned a living producing caricatures and cartoons in newspapers and periodicals such as La...

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I love how he's gesturing so wildly that his eye-jowls are flapping.

Rolando ,

Party Bus will live out the rest of his life on a ranch in Eastern Washington, where he will breed future generations of rodeo bulls.

Happy ending for Party Bus!

Rolando ,

Fake news. In truth, Sir Stewart Wallace's schedule was filled with escapades, adventures, and tomfoolery, which prevented him from committing.

Rolando ,

A couple weeks ago I started occasionally posting to !cyberpunk when the main daily poster said they were taking a week off. That worked out nicely. They were offline for a week again recently and I "filled in the gap" again with daily posting.

I was posting music links daily to !gothindustrial last August but ran through my main playlist by March. I've been trying to post at least once a week since then.

!synthwave only gets sporadic posting. I'm trying to post once a week.

On !fullmoviesonyoutube the regular poster said they were out of content. A couple of us said we'd post, but personally I only have like 4-5 more posts worth of content.

Rolando ,

Well, that's ass-tautological.

Rolando ,

Form a line

Shield wall

Flank attack

Refuse the line

Form testudo

Form a square

Man this would have been so much fun as a kid.

Rolando ,

"You said... Detention, right? Draw straws for detention. Right?"

Rolando ,

I was also thinking AI-generated. Look at the swirly patterns at the bottom of the woman's dress, the patterns surrounding the disk, and the "leaves" in the plant design in the lower left-hand corner. That all looks uncanny-valley-ish.

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See, kids? You don't need A.I. to be creepy af.

Rolando ,

You're right. We gotta do something.

Absolutely.

You know what we gotta do?

Toga party.

Rolando OP ,

tbh the story's not that great, I just wanted to post it to !cyberpunk and figured I'd post it here first and then crosspost, to advertise this community. (I don't think it worked, though, I only got one upvote and one downvote there. out of 512 subscribers!) But the story's kinda interesting as an early depiction of hackers in the cyberpunk subgenre.

Rolando ,

She's like: "I need a new agent..."

Rolando ,

ikr that was my first thought: "I hope they survive."

Rolando ,

FYI she died in 2018.

Rolando ,

I think the idea is: OP wakes up, spends an hour in traffic, sits at a desk for 8 hours, spends another hour in traffic, and then sits in front of the TV until they pass out. And they're amazed that not everyone lives that way.

Rolando ,

Plot twist: OP can communicate with the afterlife.

Rolando ,

Yeah but you're right.

Rolando ,

Related: the mod of !movies recently posted a request for an additional mod/poster. This is the sort of the thing that community "drivers" should do rather than just walking away, but I think sometimes they just walk away.

Furiosa's Box Office Opening Explained: What The Hell Happened With The Mad Max Prequel?! ( screenrant.com )

Furiosa's opening weekend numbers have been a point of discourse for many trades after its release. As reported by The Hollywood Reporter, Furiosa slumped to a $26 million gross between Friday, May 24, and Sunday, May 26. However, Furiosa was released over the Memorial Day weekend, taking its estimated domestic total to between...

Rolando ,

A story absolutely is objectively measurable in a structural sense.

Hey, I'm a bit late to this discussion, but...

When I was in grad school I looked over the literature on discourse analysis. Basically, you get a bunch of people, you show them a text, then you ask them questions about how they perceive the narrative structure of the story. Usually you have a theory based on something like Rhetorical Structure Theory. You do statistics on their responses and measure agreement. You're trying to find out if people will reliably agree on the structure of a text when they read it.

When people are reading certain types of highly-structured texts, people will generally agree on where the boundaries of the various components are. But that's not the case for fiction. It's hard to get people to objectively agree on the structure of a story.

However, you mention other features like number of shots and scene length, and those are very likely to have a high degree of agreement in human observers. It's just important to keep in mind the difference between what we as an individual observer identify, and what a population of human observers identify.

(btw I agree that Fury Road is a killer movie, I totally need to see it again.)

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