Okay, just one more thing on this. This look at an excerpt from a romance novel that had been "cleaned up" by the app made me laugh. (Possibly NSFW, depending on your W.)
That was definitely NSFW where I'm at, but I went ahead and clicked it anyway. I laughed too.
As someone who has some experience working with machine translation algorithms, I can tell you that this "effort" was woefully inadequate. Word for word replacements! Ha! That's hilarious.
I wrote a "translation" program back in the early 90's as an exercise to help translate the Christmas letters from Germany each year, and you definitely can't live with word swaps -- you have to deal with phrases and word combinations long before considering simple word swaps.
I still don't understand why the whole world isn't speaking Esperanto right now.
I was going to make a quip about it being because Esperanto doesn't have words that need bleeping, but a quick search revealed I'm wrong about that.
I wonder if there are any clbuttic examples.
I had forgotten that the reason the Astros had lowballed overall No. 1 pick Brady Aiken last year was because of concerns with his elbow. The Astros sounded cheap at the time when Aiken refused to sign but Aiken is going to have TJ surgery after throwing just 12 pitches in his first start this spring for some postgraduate academy team. Not sure about signability issues, but he could very well be available when the Twins pick in June (he's still considered a likely Top 10 pick). There's always risk with taking pitchers, especially out of high school, but I wonder if the Twins would take the risk of Aiken's stuff returning following surgery being offset by the reduced risk of anymore TJ surgery (multiple TJ surgery is not unheard of but is rare).
I kind of figured those SAE bros from Oklahoma weren't the only ones chanting the chant.
Before I clicked, I was trying to figure out what "Self-Addressed Envelope bros" meant. Some sort of mail fraud?
"Chanting the chant"? Does this have to do with the NCAA tourney?
As a fraternity man, I did, too. My own granfalloon was founded in New York in 1899. There were Christian fraternities and Jewish fraternities. Mine was specifically founded to integrate the two and spread the principle of brotherhood "without respect to race or creed." I know how valuable a good fraternity experience can be, and I'm going to push back against broad brush criticism of fraternities in general because of the behavior of a few. But I have no truck with bigots, and I support how OU's president has handled the situation.
I went to a fancy-pants school with no fraternities, and we didn't miss 'em.
But many institutions lack adequate infrastructure to provide housing and food services to the entire student body. Fraternities/sororities, as (in-principle) infinitely-lived corporate bodies, can provide effective and cost-effective solutions to those needs. Unfortunately, where the institutions lack strong leadership and connection to their elder brothers/sisters, they can become venal and persistent avenues for all sorts of perversities of racism, sexism, etc.
And as a UW-Stout alum, I'll probably be one that Twayn would push back against because I'm in favor of abolishing the whole system. (No offense to Twayn, of course.)
None taken. I respect your right to hold an extreme position against free association. I just prefer structural reform, from within or without, as a first option whenever possible. I don't usually deem it prudent to throw out babies with the bathwater, and I'm a fixer by nature.
Heh, well played. I was referring to university sanctioned, though. I'm also in favor of all university sports only existing at the club level.
Are you ok with others enjoying ice cream?
Unfortunately, where the institutions lack strong leadership and connection to their elder brothers/sisters, they can become venal and persistent avenues for all sorts of perversities of racism, sexism, etc.
That's pretty much true of any organization, don't you think? Country clubs, churches, political parties, corporations large and small, governments and their agencies all come quickly to mind.
yup. But I think there is a special burden (one might say "testosterone poisoning") carried by fraternities. At least with the other institutions you mentioned, there are alleged adults in charge locally.
My fraternity chapter had a local faculty advisor and voluntary oversight by the Greek Council and mandatory oversight by the Dean of Students. The structures for proper governance exist, they just have to be prioritized by the schools and the national organizations. While tempted, I won't venture into potentially offensive ripostes regarding other organizations also structurally challenged by on overabundance of the male hormone and debatable levels of maturity.
We have Pepper to keep us in line.
And a chaplain!
*checks my contributions to this CoC*
*casts a dubious glance in bS's direction*
I love that my online home is a place where a person might use the word "granfalloon."
Well, it does suck! 🙂
Following up on the Clean Reader app conversation from a few days ago--they've now removed all books from their catalog.
Okay, just one more thing on this. This look at an excerpt from a romance novel that had been "cleaned up" by the app made me laugh. (Possibly NSFW, depending on your W.)
That was definitely NSFW where I'm at, but I went ahead and clicked it anyway. I laughed too.
As someone who has some experience working with machine translation algorithms, I can tell you that this "effort" was woefully inadequate. Word for word replacements! Ha! That's hilarious.
I wrote a "translation" program back in the early 90's as an exercise to help translate the Christmas letters from Germany each year, and you definitely can't live with word swaps -- you have to deal with phrases and word combinations long before considering simple word swaps.
I still don't understand why the whole world isn't speaking Esperanto right now.
I was going to make a quip about it being because Esperanto doesn't have words that need bleeping, but a quick search revealed I'm wrong about that.
I wonder if there are any clbuttic examples.
I had forgotten that the reason the Astros had lowballed overall No. 1 pick Brady Aiken last year was because of concerns with his elbow. The Astros sounded cheap at the time when Aiken refused to sign but Aiken is going to have TJ surgery after throwing just 12 pitches in his first start this spring for some postgraduate academy team. Not sure about signability issues, but he could very well be available when the Twins pick in June (he's still considered a likely Top 10 pick). There's always risk with taking pitchers, especially out of high school, but I wonder if the Twins would take the risk of Aiken's stuff returning following surgery being offset by the reduced risk of anymore TJ surgery (multiple TJ surgery is not unheard of but is rare).
Important news everyone; Coach might be back: http://ftw.usatoday.com/2015/03/craig-t-nelson-and-coach-are-coming-back-to-television
I kind of figured those SAE bros from Oklahoma weren't the only ones chanting the chant.
Before I clicked, I was trying to figure out what "Self-Addressed Envelope bros" meant. Some sort of mail fraud?
"Chanting the chant"? Does this have to do with the NCAA tourney?
As a fraternity man, I did, too. My own granfalloon was founded in New York in 1899. There were Christian fraternities and Jewish fraternities. Mine was specifically founded to integrate the two and spread the principle of brotherhood "without respect to race or creed." I know how valuable a good fraternity experience can be, and I'm going to push back against broad brush criticism of fraternities in general because of the behavior of a few. But I have no truck with bigots, and I support how OU's president has handled the situation.
I went to a fancy-pants school with no fraternities, and we didn't miss 'em.
But many institutions lack adequate infrastructure to provide housing and food services to the entire student body. Fraternities/sororities, as (in-principle) infinitely-lived corporate bodies, can provide effective and cost-effective solutions to those needs. Unfortunately, where the institutions lack strong leadership and connection to their elder brothers/sisters, they can become venal and persistent avenues for all sorts of perversities of racism, sexism, etc.
And as a UW-Stout alum, I'll probably be one that Twayn would push back against because I'm in favor of abolishing the whole system. (No offense to Twayn, of course.)
None taken. I respect your right to hold an extreme position against free association. I just prefer structural reform, from within or without, as a first option whenever possible. I don't usually deem it prudent to throw out babies with the bathwater, and I'm a fixer by nature.
Heh, well played. I was referring to university sanctioned, though. I'm also in favor of all university sports only existing at the club level.
Are you ok with others enjoying ice cream?
That's pretty much true of any organization, don't you think? Country clubs, churches, political parties, corporations large and small, governments and their agencies all come quickly to mind.
yup. But I think there is a special burden (one might say "testosterone poisoning") carried by fraternities. At least with the other institutions you mentioned, there are alleged adults in charge locally.
My fraternity chapter had a local faculty advisor and voluntary oversight by the Greek Council and mandatory oversight by the Dean of Students. The structures for proper governance exist, they just have to be prioritized by the schools and the national organizations. While tempted, I won't venture into potentially offensive ripostes regarding other organizations also structurally challenged by on overabundance of the male hormone and debatable levels of maturity.
We have Pepper to keep us in line.
And a chaplain!
*checks my contributions to this CoC*
*casts a dubious glance in bS's direction*
I love that my online home is a place where a person might use the word "granfalloon."
Now that's some good stuff.
I decided to treat myself early for my upcoming product launch on Tuesday.
Wolfson says the Twins have inquired about Rafael Soriano.
Wild win - within a point of the Blackhawks for third place in the Central!
I think the Blackhawks have a game in hand
But the Wild are must watch right now.
The Wild play the Hawks once more this season, and have the tiebreak over Chicago.
aw crap, totally forgot there was a game tonight.