The Long, Storied Controversy Over Cheese on Apple Pie
Wait, what?! Why?! #link
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Tag: offbeat
Wait, what?! Why?! #link
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“One was just bouncing around on the windowsill and I was kind of losing my temper at this point, so I took off one of my shoes and I threw it in the direction of the seagull, and both the seagull and the shoe went out the window.” [c/o The Takeout] #link
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Machine learning, unconstrained from the memes or tropes or expectations of human empirical understanding, produces what can best be appreciated as accidental art as it strives to compute a formula for the human mind. If you want to put it in a philosophical way, like. This also reminds me of something I read last year on the phenomenon of Afghan war rugs, and how the iconography divorced from context results in a similar semiotic clash — yet one produced by human beings, not computers. (I couldn’t find the source for that, but Phil Gyford just blogged about it. Serendipity!) #link
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Fortean goings-on beneath the surface of London; a ghost story for the modern age, and creepier than any of your creepypasta. #link
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Insanely geeky best-of-the-web stuff, here. And as an aside, proof positive that you can’t automate everything and need humans for discrete knowledge. [c/o Pinboard/fakeisthenewreal] #link
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A review blog with a singular obsession: movies in which a helicopter explodes. I can get behind that. Then walk away while ignoring the explosion behind me. #link
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Because why not? #link
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