Wakao Ayako and Mizutani Yutaka in Izakaya Moheji 2, a TV special aired in 2013 on TBS. Wakao would appear again in the 4th installment of the series in 2015, to this day, her last role on the small/big screen. She was 80 years old at the time, but she had lost none of her charm or aura...
No. It’s not. Full public support for higher ed would solve all the problems in public higher education. An educated public is essential for the survival of the republic, and the republic is priceless.
NPR@npr.org · 3mo agoIf an undergraduate program's graduates don't earn more than workers who never went to college, that program could be cut off from federal student loans. But is a degree just about making more money?
There is something in here for everyone: Marxists, logistics obsessives, obsolete-software enthusiasts, and those are all the kinds of people I know about. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
Seeing Like a Supply Chain
A history of the technology of supply-chain management from punch cards to neural nets, and how the ambiguity built into that technology helps companies and ...
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Introduce yourself with 10 bands you’ve seen live: - Era (イーラ, Kido Natsuki + Tsuboy Akihisa) - Kudo Tori - autechre - Shang Shang Typhoon - Umezu Kazutoki - Ivo Pogorelich - Stephan Micus - Jan Garbarek - Helmut Schäfer (RIP) - Keith Jarrett
Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛♂️🧟♀️🎃@comicsinthega.bsky.social · 5mo agoIntroduce yourself with 10 bands you've seen live: *The Rolling Stones *Buddy Guy *Soundgarden *U2 *REM *Living Colour *TLC *Red Hot Chili Peppers *Steve Windwood *Ice Cube
Monthly ebook releases on Amazon were basically flat before the release of ChatGPT and other LLMs. Now around 2/3 of all ebooks released on Amazon are fake.
Magic Leap hired Neal Stephenson, Apple hired Jimmy Iovine, now OpenAI is going to hire Rick Rubin. Tech companies seem to believe taste can be, well, acquired. They fail to understand that it can only be acquired with time, not money. LLM is anti-taste by definition; it aims to compress time.
books.bunshun.jp/ud/book/num/... 「教師をしながら一人親で息子を育て、欲しがる雑誌は全て定期購読し、ラジオを与えて「大滝詠一」の礎を築いた母。新婚時代、ラジオ局が激安で放出した大量の中古レコードを「全部買えば」と鼓舞した妻……ふたりの女性の格好良さにも痺れ、朝ドラのような展開に心が熱くなるノンフィクション！」 What I wouldn't give for an asadora about Otaki/Niagara! Maybe this book is a start?
『幸せな結末 大滝詠一ができるまで』萩原健太 | 単行本 - 文藝春秋
30年以上封印されていた音声、初の書籍化 死後公開を約束に、三日三晩著者に語り尽くした91年のインタビューをもとに描く、POPの頂点を極めた大滝詠一の知られざる素顔。『幸せな結末 大滝詠一ができるまで』萩原健太
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Publication day! This was one of the hardest stories I’ve ever translated, both for the language and content. It’s also one of the most important stories I’ve translated. I hope as many people as possible will read it and reflect on the reality of war. #booksky #translation #literarytranslation
No matter how many times I look at this code, it just can’t be anything but a misprint. But is it possible? Seymour Papert’s Mindstorms is such an influential book published in 1980 by Basic Books, and it’s still not fixed in my 2020 copy (p. 123).
In the age of smartphones and AI zombification, increasingly only the wealthy can afford to provide their kids with the luxury good of critical thinking skills
An urgent message from The Wire magazine Running an independent music magazine is becoming increasingly difficult. We need your support www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...
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Sadly, this question reminds me of Elaine’s answer after Kramer asks her ‘how many sperms should I have?’: A lot.
AVÜ@avue.bsky.social · last yr."Machine-translated subtitles processed by post-editors also have almost 7 times as many errors as human-translated subs." + "While the technology has the potential to save time & resources, an important question remains: How much loss of quality are we willing to accept?" #loveyourhumansubtitler
"Machine-translated subtitles processed by post-editors also have almost 7 times as many errors as human-translated subs." + "While the technology has the potential to save time & resources, an important question remains: How much loss of quality are we willing to accept?" #loveyourhumansubtitler
AI and subtitling: How machine translation affects the viewing experience - Stockholm University
Subtitling has long been a central part of the Swedish television experience, but with the rapid development of AI and machine translation, the subtitling industry has undergone a significant change. ...
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Japanese singer Nancy Umeki got her name because someone thought she looks like Ernie Bushmiller’s Nancy.
ヘンじゃない！Who wouldn’t love the title 淫力魔人 (Iggy and the Stooges’s Raw Power), which sounds good in both Japanese (inryoku majin) and Cantonese (jamlik mojan).
www.dommune.com/streamings/2... Unreleased materials from Jean-Claude Eloy's Gaku-no-Michi will be released on 5 CDs, and there will be a six-hour, multi-channel diffusion of it in Tokyo on Feb 15.
NHK電子音楽スタジオ70周年 ｢音の始源を求めて」｢NHK電子音楽スタジオ全史12」Season3 Chapter1ジャン=クロード・エロア 電子音楽マラソン｜電子音と具体音のための「楽の道」
NHK電子音楽スタジオ70周年 ｢音の始源を求めて」｢NHK電子音楽スタジオ全史12」Season3 Chapter1ジャン=クロード・エロア 電子音楽マラソン｜電子音と具体音のための「楽の道」●出演：日永田広、べんいせい ●MC：宇川直宏、西耕一
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Surprising to no one except naive tech evangelists, it seems that increasing reliance on AI tools is strongly correlated with a decline in critical thinking ability. Children should be kept away from this poison as long as possible while their brains are still forming.
music.apple.com/us/album/liv... Again and again, Apple Music shows that it doesn't really care about meta data. This is a new reissue from 2024 and the actual recording date is nowhere to be seen on the page. (It's 1953)
Live at the Blue Note Chicago by Nat
Album · 2024 · 27 Songs
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15-minute summary of our presentation "Improvising cellular playgrounds in Realtalk". www.youtube.com/watch?v=Osn3...
Introduction to cellular playgrounds in Realtalk, Aug 2023
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