Mob Psycho 100 - My Favourite Anime - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-DyIWF0h-8
THEY LIVE who is more enslaved? - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wdVpenKsto
A lot of people are going to start watching Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka, and then say ‘this looks like trash’ and stop watching it. They’re right, and it’s a shame. Higurashi had the same problem.
I really like the concept of Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka: a mahou shoujou show where the focus is firmly on the combat PTSD of child soldiers. It’s a shame that the production Quality was melting from frame 1.
Happy Death Day 2: You Must Imagine Sisyphus Happy
Has anybody digitized the tapes used in first-generation melotrons?
SCREENHOLE! https://screenhole.net/
GitHub - JoYoungjoo/SC-FEGAN: SC-FEGAN : Face Editing Generative Adversarial Network with User’s Sketch and Color https://github.com/JoYoungjoo/SC-FEGAN
GarDen House in Paddington Weekend - Guest suites for Rent http://www.thisairbnbdoesnotexist.com/
WOKE BRANDS - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06yy88tLWlg
What the #$@!% are these? - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9ottUEiIm8
ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL (Escape to the Movies) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PNDmUO760w
GPT-2 As Step Toward General Intelligence | Slate Star Codex https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/19/gpt-2-as-step-toward-general-intelligence/
Do Neural Nets Dream Of Electric Hobbits? | Slate Star Codex https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/18/do-neural-nets-dream-of-electric-hobbits/
Scott Alexander is clearly not a neo-nazi. The fact that he considers democratic socialists to be as far to the left as neoreactionaries are to the right, however, indicates he’s in a right-wing bubble.
RIP Culture War Thread | Slate Star Codex https://web.archive.org/web/20190222094427/https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/22/rip-culture-war-thread/
Inhabit: Instructions for Autonomy https://inhabit.global/
Exploring Languages with Interpreters and Functional Programming 2018 Version https://john.cs.olemiss.edu/~hcc/csci450/ELIFP/ExploringLanguages.html
Biography of Hiroyuki Nishimura: The Father of 2channel | 256 Kilobytes https://www.256kilobytes.com/content/show/4438/biography-of-hiroyuki-nishimura-the-father-of-2channel
Lemurs are like catfoxmonkeys
Jenny Owen’s website - Gosper’s Algorithm Explained https://jennyhasahat.github.io/hashlife.html
Watch Sesame Street’s long-lost “Cracks,” resurfaced by internet sleuths (VIDEO). https://slate.com/culture/2019/02/sesame-streets-cracks-video-watch.html
It got even better: http://www.thiswaifudoesnotexist.net/index.html (from @gwern apparently?)
Ong’s Hat: The Early Internet Conspiracy Game That Got Too Real https://gizmodo.com/ongs-hat-the-early-internet-conspiracy-game-that-got-t-1832229488
Band name of the day: becoming symmetrical
Band name of the day: quasi-deified victims of collective violence
The Scapegoating Machine – The New Inquiry https://thenewinquiry.com/the-scapegoating-machine/
Band name of the day: creative misunderstandings of the source material
Band name of the day: pan-diatonic clusters
Band name of the day: extruding the universe
Band name of the day: the surreal humanism of the future
Three Decades of Cross-Cultural Utopianism in British Music Writing https://longreads.com/2019/02/19/three-decades-of-cross-cultural-utopianism-in-british-music-writing/
The “Intellectual Dark Web” is just a bunch of whiny rich people | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/4459/the-intellectual-dark-web-is-just-a-bunch-of-whiny-rich-people
GPT-2: only slightly worse than tracery ™
Re: GPT-2 – sure, this has neural nets and all, but you get higher quality output with less CPU time writing a template for a spinner.
Periodic reminder: submissions for the No Budget Film Contest open April 20th https://medium.com/@/announcing-the-2019-no-budget-film-contest-d7eb339a3ed5
4 lessons from a post-graduate course in omelettes https://thetakeout.com/4-lessons-tips-in-how-to-make-omelettes-1832765134
Band name of the day: solar monopoly
A Modern History of Satanic Panic in South Carolina | Features | Charleston City Paper https://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/charleston/a-modern-history-of-satanic-panic-in-south-carolina/Content?oid=26695975
Band name of the day: data void
Band name of the day: persistent metabolic youth
The Big Data Revolution Will Be Sampled: How ‘Big Data’ Has Come To Mean ‘Small Sampled Data’ https://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2019/02/17/the-big-data-revolution-will-be-sampled-how-big-data-has-come-to-mean-small-sampled-data/
Gender-swapped and race-flipped remakes aren’t living up to their potential - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/12/18220797/what-men-want-ghostbusters-the-hustle-remakes-gender-race-flipped?curator=MediaREDEF
Emotional burnout is fueled by envy | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/7065/emotional-burnout-is-fueled-by-envy
A lot of large software projects are so bad that liking them should automatically disqualify someone from working on them, unless you like them in a masochistic semi-sexual way.
BEYOND HIGH WEIRDNESS: AN APPROACH TO THE LIMINAL – Liminal Seattle http://www.liminalseattle.com/2019/02/20/beyond-high-weirdness/
Who the fuck decided to call it The Moon is a Harsh Mistress instead of Fourth Generation Warfare With Fourth Generation Languages
The magical thinking of guys who love logic | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/7083/the-magical-thinking-of-guys-who-love-logic
The ‘paradox of tolerance’ is not a paradox, any moreso than “my car requires gas to run but if I drive too much I run out of gas” is a paradox. Abstract machines are still machines. Society is a machine for living in, & if you break it living gets harder.
A lot of ‘paradoxes’ are just the result of substituting a conditional for an absolute or treating a heuristic as axiomatic.