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[Aklyon]

We need a pathos joke bot so the process is automated whenever the opportunity presents itself. Until then.

*obligatory pathos joke*

*pathos joke response*

[TD1]

What's black and white and black and white and black and white?

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A nun rolling down a hill

Given the topic discussed before said joke, I assumed the answer would have been something to do with Barack Obama running back and forth in front of the White House

[Avis-Mergulus]

What's black and white and black and white and black and white?

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A nun rolling down a hill

Given the topic discussed before said joke, I assumed the answer would have been something to do with Barack Obama running back and forth in front of the White House

Hey, that one's... actually not that bad. Huh.

[Jopax]

This weeks Jimquisition.

Now, the whole video itself is not the funny part, it's how Jim Fucking Sterling, Son got around the content ID bullshit that hits his videos when they contain footage from some of the twatty companies out there (like Nitendo). He basically piled on several copyrighted things into the video, and now, when all of the different companies file their claim to monetize it and leech money off off stuff that's supposed to be free they'll be deadlocked in their claims and nobody will get anything. Fucking brilliant.

Plus the little middle finger dance he does to Erasure at the end is funny

[Orange Wizard]

Auckland’s housing market is so under-supplied that there aren’t even enough houses to go round the journalists wanting to report on them.

[i2amroy]

This picture:

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I can never look at philosoraptor the same again.

[EnigmaticHat]

Auckland’s housing market is so under-supplied that there aren’t even enough houses to go round the journalists wanting to report on them.

We should ship all the empty mortgaged homes from the US there.

[Flying Dice]

Didn't start looking for sources until ~two hours ago. 2k words into this term paper, 2.5k maximum left to go. I wish I could get paid a reasonable wage to do this.

[Frumple]

I think you actually can, it's just... not really legal

[Flying Dice]

Does writing essays for sale really pay that well?

Besides, this is shit I know inside and out. 4kish words on developing a model for integrating traditional ontological hierarchical structure with the user-based term generation of a folksonomy combined with individualized term-authorizing search profiles is easy as pie when I'm only working on theory and not actually trying to write the code or draw up a timetable for development.

[Orange Wizard]

I understood some of those words

[Flying Dice]

Finished that sucker, pounded out a self-evaluation, all I've got left now are a peer review and a pile of short essays for a pair of exams. ^^

[Calidovi]

folksonomy

yeah ok

[Flying Dice]

folksonomy

yeah ok

It's just a portmanteau of "folks" and "taxonomy". The gist is that it's a taxonomy that's the product of free collaboration between individuals rather than intentional design by a single professional or small group. Generally they're more responsive to the needs of the community that developed them, more flexible, and better able to react to changes in technology, linguistics, &c., but lack hierarchical structuring and only have soft preferred terms rather than hard ones, which means that they can be more difficult to search with a high degree of precision, especially when they're contributed to by large communities.

Hence the need to hybridize them with elements of traditional vocabulary control-if you can retain most of the flexibility and responsiveness while allowing for precision searching and individualized authority control, you've got the makings of an information retrieval system that beats out pretty much anything previously developed. There's already been some work on the subject, but only in the past decade or so, and only a handful of field trials.

[Calidovi]

folksonomy

yeah ok

It's just a portmanteau of "folks" and "taxonomy". The gist is that it's a taxonomy that's the product of free collaboration between individuals rather than intentional design by a single professional or small group. Generally they're more responsive to the needs of the community that developed them, more flexible, and better able to react to changes in technology, linguistics, &c., but lack hierarchical structuring and only have soft preferred terms rather than hard ones, which means that they can be more difficult to search with a high degree of precision, especially when they're contributed to by large communities.

Hence the need to hybridize them with elements of traditional vocabulary control-if you can retain most of the flexibility and responsiveness while allowing for precision searching and individualized authority control, you've got the makings of an information retrieval system that beats out pretty much anything previously developed. There's already been some work on the subject, but only in the past decade or so, and only a handful of field trials.

You know, I'm pretty proud that I vaguely understand all of that.