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psychology/neuroscience student -- Canadian -- Proudly Jewish This is stuff I feel like posting. Quality varies widely. Everything varies widely. Cis. Bisexual, probably. TAG ME AS #planetaryelastic , hyphens suck

[scientific-women]

I thought we were past this.

[alriviera]

Pride and Prejudice Go

An app that shows you where there’s a young man in possession of a good fortune who must be in want of a wife

[socialismoffools]

Elie Wiesel

“Night” was published in 1960. I think a lot of people don’t understand how hard it was for people to talk about the Holocaust because now we’re inundated with Holocaust narratives in everything from Hollywood movies to children’s books and video games. But the cultural trauma and the collective silence surrounding the Holocaust was very, very real. My dad was born in the Bronx in the 50s and he remembers the weird status of the Shoah: everyone had been touched by it but no one really felt like they “owned” it. People whispered about it but no one talked about it. You would sometimes walk into a shop or laundromat and everyone working there had a number tattoo.

Wiesel was sneered at by a certain type of academic for being a conventional writer and by portions of the left for being a Zionist. In either case, we were to understand that he was a “bad” survivor unlike the “interesting” survivors who wrote more avant-garde prose (Paul Celan, etc) or the “righteous” survivors who did not advocate for the state of Israel. We were to understand that Wiesel was “bad” because he paved the way for insipid Holocaust romances like Schindler’s List and contributed to a general cultural sense that Jews were aggrieved victims (which like…..they were).

It’s true that Wiesel believed he was a victim, that he was willing to tell and retell the story of what happened to him, and that he understood “Never again” not only as a generic slogan of humanitarian goodwill but as a promise to the Jewish people. I think that was extremely important for Jews like my grandfather, who fled Europe, to hear, although it may be hard for us to have the historical perspective to understand why that is. It’s also hard to imagine that we’d have the language and reference points to talk about genocides in Rwanda, Bosnia, etc, without his work and the work of other survivors.

Anyway, rest in piece, Elie. Your memory will be a blessing.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Analyzing all known Metal lyrics with natural language processing

Iain (“an ex-physicist currently working as a data scientist”) scraped Dark Lyrics and built a dataset of lyrics to 222,623 songs by 7,364 metal bands, then used traditional natural language processing techniques to analyze them.

Iain’s post is a good tour through the natural language processor’s toolkit – Bag of Words Bayesian filtering, log-likelihood ratio, term frequency -Inverse document frequency, cosine distance, etc. The output of the analysis is sometimes fun and interesting, but the value here is mostly as a good primer on how the different techniques work and when you might use them.

Most Metal Words

Rank Word Metalness 1 burn 3.81 2 cries 3.63 3 veins 3.59 4 eternity 3.56 5 breathe 3.54 6 beast 3.54 7 gonna 3.53 8 demons 3.53 9 ashes 3.51 10 soul 3.40 11 sorrow 3.40 12 sword 3.38 13 goodbye 3.28 14 dreams 3.28 15 gods 3.24 16 pray 3.22 17 reign 3.15 18 tear 3.12 19 flames 3.12 20 scream 3.11

Least Metal Words

Rank Word Metalness 1 particularly -6.47 2 indicated -6.32 3 secretary -6.29 4 committee -6.16 5 university -6.09 6 relatively -6.08 7 noted -5.85 8 approximately -5.75 9 chairman -5.69 10 employees -5.67 11 attorney -5.66 12 membership -5.64 13 administrative -5.61 14 considerable -5.60 15 academic -5.51 16 literary -5.49 17 agencies -5.48 18 measurements -5.47 19 fiscal -5.45 20 residential -5.45

https://boingboing.net/2016/07/03/analyzing-all-known-metal-lyri.html

[lannamichaels]

I’M SORRY, FROM YOUR YEARS OF CONDESCENDING TOWARD THE ‘SQUISHY SCIENCES’, I ASSUMED YOU’D BE A LITTLE HARDER.

[planetary-elastic]

in case youve been wondering what ive been up to

[resperplexum]

Care to share your findings.

[planetary-elastic]

idk who you are because i havent been keeping track of url changes but we seem to be mutuals

which ones interest you? avocados are 70% water. 

[planetary-elastic]

in case youve been wondering what ive been up to

[did-you-know]

The busiest and widest highway in the world is in Ontario, Canada

Source

[renegade-lemon]

Is that the fucking 401

[officialqueer]

That is the fucking 401

[melancholytimes]

Of course it’s the fucking 401

[maddiebiscuits]

The god damn

motherfucking

401

You got somewhere to be?

Too bad you’re not getting there.

The 401 is where they weed out the weak. You don’t drive on the 401 to get somewhere. You do it for the challenge. You do it to test your abilities like some Uchiha clan shit. Rush hour 401 is the breaking point between heaven and earth. Are you going to descend into a Lovecraftian hell or reach Nirvana? You will double the size of your biceps death-gripping your steering wheel. There is no time for rest or pulling off over into an exit. Bodily functions shut down. Cars on the side of the road and crashes closing lanes are a constant reminder that you are driving the razor’s edge. Death is mere seconds away at any given moment. They’re always doing construction but nothing is ever finished. It’s a constant roadblock for the hell of it. This is the Dark Souls 2 of Canadian driving. git good or get out

And that’s just normal mode. Have fun in the six-month long Ontario winter and enter some top-tier level of highway driving.

EVO2015. EVO2018.

[boss-hoody]

I heard that babies are born on the 401, grow up on the 401, and take over for their parents as driver of the family car on the 401

[batter-sempai]

What the fuck.

[wizardmoon-deactivated20190222]

I live right by the 401 i never knew it was so weird i just thought all highways were like that

[bushidocaps]

Toronto rep.

[micdotcom]

Conservative Rabbis pass resolution supporting trans rights

The Rabbinical Assembly, made up of 1,700 rabbis, stated that all those who identify as transgender will be identified with the name, gender and pronoun of their choosing, and those will be used when they are called to recite the Torah and the denomination will implement full recognition and accommodation for transgender people within the religious institution. Three Christian denominations have also spoken out in support of trans rights.

[planetary-elastic]

netflix is the best thing for breakups since pint tubs of ice cream

[brwnpaperbag]

Embroidered and needle-felted veggies by Little Herb Bouquet

[scienceshenanigans]

[x]

[misbehavedscientist]

This is why I can’t ever be a parent

[mostlysignssomeportents]

How to buy secret cookies baked by cloistered Spanish nuns #1yrago

When we heard about the semi-secret cookies baked by secluded nuns in Madrid, Spain, naturally we had to seek out these mythical treats. Here’s what we found.

There’s a legend about cookies that you can hear spoken of in hushed tones on the streets of Madrid. These aren’t your normal store-bought cookies. No, these highly sought-after treats are baked from ancient recipes dating back to the time of the Romans (so they say), and they’re made exclusively by nuns who avoid being seen by the general public. This last fact makes them somewhat difficult to track down. But since we love a good challenge (and good cookies), we couldn’t resist undertaking the search to find out how to score some of these secret cookies baked by cloistered Spanish nuns.

It all started during a Sandeman’s New Madrid free walking tour. Early on in the tour, our guide, Naomi (who was quite excellent), stopped at a narrow street near Botín (the oldest restaurant in the world, dating back to 1725) and told us that just down this very road, one could buy cookies from nuns who remained hidden safely behind the walls of a Spanish monastery. There was a collective gasp from our fellow attendees as we all realized she was talking about the nun cookies. We quickly logged the latitude and longitude so we could find this starting point again and continued on our tour.

http://boingboing.net/2015/05/13/how-to-buy-secret-cookies-bake.html

[s-barreto-deactivated20180328]

Interesting.

[linguisten]

No. 

27 correspondences out of 48 (without diacritics) or roughly 80 Kana (including diacritics and broken syllables etc.) is not really proving anything. It is methodologically unsound (and unhelpful) to mix Katakana and Hiragana in this compilation, because that only cuts the percentage of correspondences in half (27 out of 160). 

There is no systematic correspondence, neither with consonants nor with syllables. Why are some syllables “vocalized” with /a/, others with /u/ others with /o/, why are some “derived” from plain consonant letters and others from consonant letters with vocalic marks? Is there any even remotely consistent system to it? 

[maelace]

Also like half of those ‘Hebrew’ letters are either straight up wrong or are only right in cursive, not block, and I’m pretty sure Hebrew cursive developed in like the 7th-8th centuries. 

[beauafrique]

I remember being teased relentlessly throughout my childhood and my teenage life where people would say that because of my skin I’ll never be beautiful enough, they would even recommend skin bleaching products. So as a child I quickly realised that as a dark skinned girl I was not considered beautiful enough… At that time I didn’t know that it was the negativity from the people around me that was causing me to hate my skin and myself for that matter. I remember a time during school photos where a girl shouted “she’s too dark! You won’t see anything on her ID but her teeth!”, of course everyone laughed it out… And so did I…. Because I didn’t want to make it seem like I was offended… Their feelings felt more important than mine… After all growing up I was always reminded of how unlikely I was of ever being beautiful or finding someone that found my darkness beautiful….. As a 19 year old today I sit here and say “I never gave in to skin bleaching”, “I was constantly reminded of how ugly I was but that only made me love myself even more….. I began considering myself as someone different, someone beautiful and out of the ordinary.” Your skin no matter how dark it is that when you smile you can only see the glow of your teeth is worthy of love, your skin is that of a goddess and you should never feel anything about your skin but self love. I write this to all of the people that have gone through similar and worse, you don’t need to learn to Love your skin, the love is already there… You just gotta unleash it.

I would like to hear some stories of yours if you’ve ever gone through the same thing…. Message me on Instagram. IG: YoungNubiie

[dragonjewels]

I was playing some nice melodious melodies on my flute and I see this out of the corner of my eye. I laughed so hard I cried. Sousaphone-sloth.

[planetary-elastic]

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