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Re:Why is there a "small house" in IBM's Code page 437? on Saturday April 12, 2025 @08:17PM (#43668994)
It's a reference to Murnau's "Nosferatu" where a letter from Orlok is written in a strange ideographic language that includes a picture of a house, evidently relating Orlok's request to buy a house.
how did this garbage wind up here?
Re:Yggdrasil Network on Sunday November 17, 2024 @11:17AM (#42164960)
I thought this was going to be about Yggdrasil. Why must every name in the world be destroyed by software labellers?
Re:Category Theory Illustrated: Logic(2021) on Friday October 25, 2024 @02:03PM (#41947840)
> Leibniz's monads [...]have nothing in common with category theory monads except the name.[0]

The monad is something about which you can reason but you cannot look inside because it is windowless. No quibbling, please.

Re:Films About Virtual Reality on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @09:52AM (#39441976)
>somehow turn an intellectually handicapped gardener into a psychic genius

waddya mean somehow? They got him to understand the Sacred Geometry. I saw it in San Francisco when it came out and the guy next to me said "oh shit! it's the SACRED GEOMETRY!"

Re:The Rise and Fall of Gofai on Tuesday February 13, 2024 @04:13AM (#39355927)
sure it did, the stuff around SOAR and John Anderson, production systems that aimed to model cognitive load, Case-based reasoning, etc.
He is remembered for laffs, but he was a very very compelling composer.
> Emotions are basically very fast predictions by the brain

This predicts that basically ChatGPT has emotions.

>Capitalization Of Boilerplate Oriented Language

this is not only true of COBOL, my friend.

Queinnec's attitude was that ALL forms of scoping are useful. In the 80s there was a class struggle between Lexical scoping, which prevailed, and everything else, which Q. detailed.
Re:Artists must be allowed to make bad work on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @04:02AM (#35958875)
> trial and error

There's a clip of John Cleese showing how Beethoven in fact composed the 5th symphony by trial and error.

Re:Freud as Talmudist on Thursday April 27, 2023 @12:58PM (#35731086)
Reading Freud, Wittgenstein said "now here is something new."
Re:Detect ChatGPT Generated Content on Saturday January 28, 2023 @09:10AM (#34557658)
It would seem to be checking sentence structure, and if "too complex" -- embedded clauses and such -- it follows a hard-wired rule to report AI.
Re:News Music Search Archive on Saturday October 22, 2022 @09:27PM (#33303713)
If it all sounds the same to you it's because it is.
Re:The container orchestrator landscape on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @09:54PM (#32588455)
So it's not about canned orchestration?
"Pick the right tool for the job" --- exit
The left hand fingering of the example puts the thumb on a black key and trills fingers 4 and 5: not good.
Re:Facebook plans to change its name as part of company rebrand on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @09:28AM (#28930394)
"Snakehead"
Harmonically and formally not as adventurous as the scherzo of Symphony #1.
Re:Vivaldi 4.0 on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @07:36AM (#27446720)
Vivaldi was a great musical genius.