#Semiotics

can't wait for an AI to go completely insane because researchers try to get it to understand memes My most low-effort but strongly held take on memes is that they
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The BBC has announced that dancers in its hugely popular show “ Strictly Come Dancing” will no longer be allowed to do any left turns. Any dancer who does do
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Gibson came up with the word affordance. It's derived from the verb 'afford'. I've always liked the term since it implies the recognition of possibilities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affordance  There's a problem
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Speaking of Alex Jones, here’s a video of him at DC’s pre-insurrection MAGA rally: grievance, rage, incitement of violence. IMO, it’s this stuff, not the wokeness of Professors of Semiotics
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“covers” for digital books are a skeuomorph. the function of a book cover was formerly to protect soft pages inside. digital books have no pages, yet the need to curate
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The Yorùbá àrokò (semiotics) messaging system... The photo below is a message in the Yorùbá àrokò messaging system. Arokò was created for long-distance communication and maily to keep information secret.
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Second, this isn’t just Lectern and Viking Guy and a deranged President. This letter was sent by a parent in New Canaan whose child’s teacher had offered suggestions on how
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This is an evolving conversation that is finally getting wider recognition as trans people are actually listened to and direct these decisions. This means that changes and mistakes happen publicly,
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a lot of (leftist) ppl seem to have this overriding impulse to fix things into rigid categories, and then moralise about them. which is ofc such an *easy* way to
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im just some painter but, feel like its hard to exaggerate the speed at which usonian politics has been accelerating. i remember when normal people wouldnt even use the terms
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So, if I'm understanding Left Twitter today, there are people out there arguing because the Black Panthers, Young Lords, and Young Patriots allied together, that means that the Boogaloos should
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Catching my breath after the attack on the Capitol, I’m reflecting on all that we have to do. First, everyone involved in the insurrection, from the President to Josh Hawley
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it’s very funny to me that there’s been all these attempts to put trans side characters into superhero comics to validate our existence/be teaching tools when post-genosha emma frost has
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A deeply interesting tutorial by @fchollet @MelMitchell1 @ChrSzegedy at #NeurIPS2020 "#Abstraction & #Reasoning in #AI systems: Modern Perspectives "or "What are abstraction, generalization and analogic reasoning?"1/
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HUGE thread coming up. Here is a list of all the books our research community have written, edited or contributed to in 2020. We are immensely proud to celebrate the
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From Red to Green....The yellow and red was very specifically chosen to connote warning, hazard, emergency around the “stay home” message... Red & Green have v different meaning in safety
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