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  1. Jun 2025
    1. currently

      Classic Disney films: Lady & The Tramp, Peter Pan, The Jungle Book, Tarzan, The Lion King, Snow White, Chicken Little, Dinosaur, Aladdin, Beauty & The Beast, The Hunchback Of Notre Dame, Hercules, Toy Story

    2. SAB TV

      Favourite TV channels from English speaking countries: CBBC, CBeebies, BBC 2, Talking Pictures TV, Jetix, Fox Kids, BBC Kids, ABC Kids, Treehouse TV, YTV, KidsClick, Toonami, Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, Disney Channel, Toon Disney

    3. roles

      TV action heroes: Scott Tracy, Optimus Prime, Action Man, He Man, the Thundercats, Troy Tempest, Captain Scarlet, Steve Zodiac, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the Power Rangers, Luke Skywalker, the SWAT Kats

    4. films

      Childhood VHS tapes: Kipper, Teletubbies, Tweenies, BBC Toybox, Bob The Builder, Percy The Park Keeper, Thunderbirds, Noddy, Postman Pat, Fireman Sam, Pingu, Disney, Winnie The Pooh, The Animal Shelf, Sesame Street

    5. Although

      Fast cartoon characters: Harry (Harry & Toto), Sonic The Hedgehog, Road Runner, Mr Rush, Skid-Z, Spencer, Aerobic Al, Rainbow Dash, Spitfire, Gilda The Griffon

    6. 2001

      365 days of: ice cream, cartwheels, going to the sweet shop, dancing, playing games, standing on your head, making funny faces, blowing bubbles, pretending to be dragons, drawing pictures, writing stories

    7. debut

      2001 - Power Rangers Time Force 2005 - Transformers Cybertron and My Little Pony: A Very Minty Christmas 2002 - He Man 2006 - My Little Pony: Princess Promenade

    8. president

      Famous action and drama show leaders: Optimus Prime, Duke, Lion-O, He Man, Tai, Ash Ketchum, Jason (the Red Power Ranger), Scott Tracy, Troy Tempest, Captain Scarlet, Fox, Vector The Crocodile, Superman, Robin (Teen Titans)

    9. comedy

      British animation: Roobarb, Clangers, Ivor The Engine, Postman Pat, Bagpuss, Bod, Jamie & His Magic Torch, Danger Mouse, The Wind In The Willows, Chorlton & The Wheelies, Wallace & Gromit, Creature Comforts, Little Wolf

    10. Indian

      British places in London: The English Rose, Whiskers & Cream, Pooh Corner, Hamley's, Bridget's Bakery Afternoon Tea Buses, Gambado, Madame Taussand's, Brown's Hotel, The Ritz, Hansel & Gretel Sweets

    11. in

      Shows by Factory Create: Strange Hill High, Clangers, Scream Street, the Club Penguin specials, Fifi & The Flowertots, Roary The Racing Car, Slumberkins, Undead Pets, Little Ewe, the Children In Need 2009 Charity Single Video

    12. roles

      Favourite characters: Lady Penelope, Parker, Marina, Alan, Tin Tin Kyrano, Brains, Oink the seal, Titan, Venus, Zoonie, Robert the robot, Slomo, Isambard, Roger, Sproggle, Joe, Captain Scarlet, Captain Blue, Captain Magenta, Destiny Angel

    13. best

      Funny cartoon characters: Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Sonny The Cuckoo Bird, Sylvester & Tweety, Wile E Coyote, Road Runner, Tom & Jerry, The Powerpuff Girls, Shnookums & Meat, Timon & Pumbaa, Sonic & Tails (1991), Mr Bumpy & Squishington

    14. Indian

      Low stimulating British television: Postman Pat, Mr Benn, Bagpuss, Teletubbies, Noddy, Fireman Sam, Pingu, Come Outside, Tots TV, Rosie & Jim, In The Night Garden, Kipper, Maisy, Thunderbirds, Bob The Builder, Sali Mali, Thomas & Friends

    1. Google has become nearly unusable for me because of those AI-generated summaries, and I'd hate to see Wikipedia head in the same direction.

      I'm not 100% sure but I think the way how Google and Wikipedia would use it is different.

      The proposed use here in Wikipedia directly summarizes the content of the article where you are reading the summary.

      Whereas in the Google case it may be using knowledge embedded in the model itself, plus summarizing some choice among the search results.

    2. Wikipedia has in some ways become a byword for sober boringness, which is excellent. Let's not insult our readers' intelligence and join the stampede to roll out flashy AI summaries. Which is what these are, although here the word "machine-generated" is used instead

      The contributor says it's OK that Wikipedia has "become a byword for sober boringness".

      They also take the (in my opinion) correct decision of calling it "machine-generated" as a way to hide what they think should be called "AI-generated" (which is an ambiguous term that doesn't help with discussing the topic).

    1. Connectionism has had many "waves" since its beginnings. The first wave appeared 1943 with Warren Sturgis McCulloch and Walter Pitts both focusing on comprehending neural circuitry through a formal and mathematical approach,[2] and Frank Rosenblatt who published the 1958 paper "The Perceptron: A Probabilistic Model For Information Storage and Organization in the Brain" in Psychological Review, while working at the Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory.[3] The first wave ended with the 1969 book about the limitations of the original perceptron idea, written by Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert, which contributed to discouraging major funding agencies in the US from investing in connectionist research.[4] With a few noteworthy deviations, most connectionist research entered a period of inactivity until the mid-1980s. The term connectionist model was reintroduced in a 1982 paper in the journal Cognitive Science by Jerome Feldman and Dana Ballard

      why would it be discouraged

    1. Not to be confused with Bud Light. An artist's impression of one of the Bude Lights installed at Trafalgar Square, London, in 1845. A Bude-Light was a very bright oil lamp (later, in its modified form, a gas lamp)

      I wish Seattle went harder with public lighting.

    1. A Lesbian rule was historically a flexible mason's rule made of lead that could be bent to the curves of a molding, and used to measure or reproduce irregular curves.

      There's a sort of dopamine-harvesting video content that shows the use of this kind of thing and my God, if I had only known it was a lesbian rule

    1. The promptuary, also known as the card abacus is a calculating machine invented by the 16th-century Scottish mathematician John Napier and described in his book Rabdologiae[1] in which he also described Napier's bones. It is an extension of Napier's Bones, using two sets of rods to achieve multi-digit multiplication without the need to write down intermediate results, although some mental addition is still needed to calculate the result.

      I'll be so mad if someone uses this name for something LLM-ish without it being an art project, thoughtful and caveated and ineffectually but with-a-good-spirit carbon-credited

    1. In part the phrase refers to Eichmann's deportment at the trial as the man displayed neither guilt for his actions nor hatred for those trying him, claiming he bore no responsibility because he was simply "doing his job." ("He did his 'duty'...; he not only obeyed 'orders,' he also obeyed the 'law.'")

      Perhaps, it is the system itself that is evil. This evokes thoughts of Mandella treating those guilty of corruption in his new South Africa not as perpetrators, but as victims, of a system that allowed corruption to prevail. See Dave Chapelle's "The Bird Revelation", around the 22nd minute, for the only time I've heard this information mentioned.

    1. okapi, African forest elephant, pygmy hippopotamus, bongo (antelope), chimpanzee, bonobo and the Congo peafowl. Its apex predator is the Leopard, which are larger than their savannah counterparts due to lack of competition from other large predators

      species

    1. Eric Zencey wrote that the free market economy Hayek advocated is designed for an infinite planet, and when it runs into physical limits (as any growing system must), the result is a need for centralized planning to mediate the problematic interface of economy and nature. "Planning is planning, whether it's done to minimize poverty and injustice, as socialists were advocating then, or to preserve the minimum flow of ecosystem services that civilization requires, as we are finding increasingly necessary today."[70]
  2. May 2025
    1. anything that helps the researcher generate concepts for the emerging theory. According to Ralph, Birks, and Chapman field notes can come from informal interviews, lectures, seminars, expert group meetings, newspaper articles, Internet mail lists, even television shows, conversations with friends etc.[21]

      Reminds me of how Luhmann wasn't just reading empiric publications for his theory — he also read some fiction

    1. we obtain the expression for terminal speed of a spherical object moving under creeping flow conditions

      what is d in this equation? characteristic length scale or diameter of object

      • creeping flow = stokes flow ; low reynold's number / high viscousity conditions
    1. Plants are the eukaryotes that form the kingdom Plantae; they are predominantly photosynthetic. This means that they obtain their energy from sunlight, using chloroplasts derived from endosymbiosis with cyanobacteria to produce sugars from carbon dioxide and water, using the green pigment chlorophyll. Exceptions are parasitic plants that have lost the genes for chlorophyll and photosynthesis, and obtain their energy from other plants or fungi. Most plants are multicellular, except for some green algae.

      wiki

    1. integrating new information with their existing knowledge.

      This makes sense as students are more interested in learning when they can connect the material to their own lives, which then allows the knowledge to become more long term than short term in their memory.

    1. BSD-derived OS's have defined an extensive set of preferred interpretations: Meanings for 15 status codes 64 through 78 are defined in sysexits.h.[15] These historically derive from sendmail and other message transfer agents, but they have since found use in many other programs.[16] It has been deprecated and its use is discouraged.

      [duplicate of https://hyp.is/12j9KjELEfCQc79IbTwQnQ/man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sysexits&sektion=3 ]

      Why is this deprecated and what should be used instead?? Standardizing this stuff would be good, and this de facto standard seems as good as any!!

    1. In the mathematical theory of knots, the unknot, not knot, or trivial knot, is the least knotted of all knots. Intuitively, the unknot is a closed loop of rope without a knot tied into it, unknotted.

      Recognizing the non-problem is hard!.

    1. against punishing Sudabeh due to his love for her, nor does he want to risk angering her father

      Ethics and Integrity Lessons from The Life of Siavash

      Disregarding Siavash of Shahnameh, Ferdowsi puts him in a position of self-virtue of morals grappling with ethics. Siavash as a character chooses to ward off Sudabeh affections known as his step-mum proving to be of austere moral high ground. He does not kill her. He is put in a trial were tested by fire comes out unscathed yet unproven right. Instead of being praised for his virtue, Siavash has to put up with wrong against him, so much that he must choose neither way, send himself away from conflict. His tale critiques the fragile nature of moral goodness in his story within the framework of a self-serving political system and accentuates the strength of personal goodness in the absence of God. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siyâvash

      Divine retribution and the character tragedy of Hippolytus is centered on the themes of chastity and honor and the retaliation of God. A devotee of Artemis, Hippolytus spurns Aphrodite and Phaedra, his stepmother, who makes not-so-discreet attempts at seducing him. Offended by such blasphemy, Aphrodite engineers the tragic event which results in Phaedra’s lying accusation Hippo- lytius’ death. The play deals with and reconciles the dilemma of free will as opposed to divinity control. This tale is from ancient Greece as reflected in the Wiki link above.

      “Women in the Shahnameh: A Paragon of Strength.” Medium, sbehrouz.medium.com/women-in-the-shahnameh-a-paragon-of-strength-12634ab43da5. Accessed 10 May 2025.<br /> CC BY-NC-ND

    1. "a man who understands Chinese is not a man who has a firm grasp of the statistical probabilities for the occurrence of the various words in the Chinese language" (p. 108).

      cf./viz. classical statistical machine learning and language models

    2. Gottfried Leibniz made a similar argument in 1714 against mechanism (the idea that everything that makes up a human being could, in principle, be explained in mechanical terms. In other words, that a person, including their mind, is merely a very complex machine).

      anatomy of a landscape / atrocity exhibition

  3. Apr 2025
    1. Welcome to Wikipedia,

      Wikipedia exhibits a clear liberal bias that affects its content. This bias arises from the editorial practices that reinforce them. As a result, conservative or even mildly right-leaning viewpoints are often disallowed, and many topics are framed in a way that leans excessively (if not solely) towards liberal perspectives, despite the platform's claim to be open.

      The reliance on specific sources with inherent biases further amplifies this issue, as those sources are often chosen to support particular ideological viewpoints on Wikipedia.

      Overall, users should be cautious and critical of the information on Wikipedia, as certain topics may not present a fair representation of all viewpoints. do not represent factuality, and do reflect bias and steering.

    1. I greet her from afar, for I am pure.

      In the tragedy of Euripides, Hippolytus is our hero in the story who rejects the concept of woman entirely, he devotes himself entirely to the goddess Artemis and is chastised. Phaedra, his stepmother, is manipulated by Aphrodite and is made to fatally fall in love with Hippolytus. She accuses him after he refuses sheer. The gender roles in this Greek tragedy, while following a similar theme of the heroic and virtues man rejecting the tempting woman, there is a much heavier and thought-provoking concept of Hippolytus and his masculinity being defined negatively due to his anti-woman and sheer arrogance towards them entirely.

      Linguistically, the dialogue shows the fragility of humans and the unyielding power of impulsive gods, Greek langue is full of tragic diction and figurative langue that shows the male virtue and one female's guilt and shame that on both ends of the spectrum can either be heroic or destructive. The tragedy critiques patriarchal norms with Hippolytus’ downfall being his hubris and rejection in something such as feminine human nature, and in comparison, to all four stories, Hippolytus has the most critical views of gender among them all.